There’s a metallic sheen to almost every sound, a crystalline clarity and high-frequency resonance that sounds decidedly 4K – this may be ambient music, but there’s no nebulous clouds of fuzzed-out synthesis fogging up the stereo field.
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Oneohtrix Point Never: Age Of
Daniel Lopatin has been exploring our technological wasteland for years as Oneohtrix Point Never, but Age Of is definitely where it all comes into focus–this time with a pop slant.
Premiere: Muziekkamer – Around The Clock
Since establishing in 2014, Glasgow’s Contort Yourself successfully devoted themselves to closing the gap between raw, contemporary techno and pioneering industrial, EBM and off-kilter sonics from the ’80s
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Structures + Codes: Zodiac Free Arts Club talks up Xenakis’ influence, Kraut and music as a language
After seven years of radio silence, Zodiac Free Arts Club awakens from its slumber with ‘Structures + Codes’, out today on Hivern Discs’ offshoot HVNX. We caught up with Argy to discuss his love for the art of Xenakis, creative process and the Argy/ZFAC dichotomy. Stream the mesmerising ‘Metachimie’ inside.
Introducing NAHAL Recordings: An in-depth look into In Paradisum’s mystique-imbued sister label
With just a couple days to go until the release of Good Luck In Death’s debut instalment, we caught up with NAHAL Recordings co-founders Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf) and Frédéric D. Oberland (half of Oiseaux-Tempête) to find out more about the roots and shoots of their new baby. Stream ‘Mystery Malaise And Eternal Spleen’ within.
Premiere: Violent Quand On Aime – Of Course I’m A Liar
When one of today’s most intriguing and consistent labels meets one of the most promising artistic crews out there, it gives something like Violent Quand On
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GAS: Rausch
If new album Rausch is music of the forest, it’s a forest existing in the laws of time, physics and narrative found in a Christopher Nolan movie. Where earlier GAS records tethered beats and orchestral samples to a dub techno groove, here the instrumentation often feels like it has been cut away from gravity to orbit erratically through and over the beat.
Premiere: Shy Layers – 15 and 4
From modular improvisation to vocalists recruited through Craigslist, Shy Layers ‘Midnight Marker‘, released May 25th on Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space, had an unusual creation. The record is
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Premiere: SSTROM – Tornet
Swedish DJ/producer Hannes Stenstrom, aka SSTROM, one half of duo Shxcxchcxsh, is set to release his first full-length this May. ‘Otider’ loosely translated as “un-times” or “non-times”
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Onyx: Complete Works 1981-1983
With the defunct Boston-based duo’s originals trading at indecent prices on the second-hand market, the long-overdue publication of Onyx ‘Complete Works 1981-1983’ fills a gaping hole as much as it unlatches a comprehensive view into Judd Stone and Beveur’s definitely unique mutant punk-wave universe. Stream ‘SOS’ within.
Premiere: LB aka Labat – 5 (feat. Josephin Bovien)
Omnivorous DJ and deft MPC knob-twiddler, Strasbourg-born, Lyon-based DJ and producer LB aka Labat first emerged in 2015 with his debut tape album ‘People Of Anoubiz Vol. 1‘
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Low Jack: Riddims Du Lieu-Dit
While Low Jack’s sound globally remains entrenched in a certain rhythmic vein, his game-changing abilities need no further test, and neither does the motion-setting eminence of his work – widely recognised as a dependable locomotive and first-rate creative matrix by fellow artists out there. Low Jack is a catalyst and his newest full-length delivery on Editions Gravats acts accordingly.
Jan Jelinek: Zwischen
Made by and featuring none other than strictly human sounds, warped and deconstructed until it falls in that uncanny valley of dissociative humanism. Jan Jelinek’s latest album ‘Zwischen’ can be considered an exercise in learning to find enjoyment and/or contentment in the intellectual and physical limitations of the human mind and body.
Pablo’s Eye: Spring Break
The 8 tracks here feel assembled as much as arranged, designed as much as composed. Sounds have undoubtedly been picked for their audio quality, but they’ve been layered on the canvass in the way a painter uses colours.
Martyn lines up ‘Voids’ LP for Ostgut Ton
Martyn has announced the release of a new album, marking his first for legendary imprint Ostgut Ton. Due out in June, ‘Voids’ is a nine-track effort inspired
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After The Flash Flood: Prairie talks up his latest album on Denovali
With just a few hours to go before prairie’s new album ‘After The Flash Flood’ on Denovali hits the streets, we caught up with Marc Jacobs to discuss his recording process and unique vision. Meanwhile, get a taster with ‘Elephants Will Rise Again’ down below.