After three years of experiments and learning spent polishing bold and boundless lineups, 2018 marked the fourth edition of Intonal and with it, further confirmed the Swedish festival as a much needed beacon of light for the Nordic experimental music scene. Inverted Audio editor-in-chief Tom Durston shares his personal experience of his time spent at Intonal.
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Results1116After ‘Dust’, Laurel Halo returns with ‘Raw Silk Uncut Wood’ mini-album on Latency
After kicking off the New Year with an immersive full-length delivery courtesy of Belgian techno experimentalist Yves De Mey, French label Latency Recordings announced their return
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Jon Hassell : Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)
Few at the age of 81 can lay claim to Hassell’s extraordinary career and music, let alone release an album as unique and contemporary sounding as this. We can’t wait for more.
Casino Versus Japan announces ‘Suicide By Sun’ LP – 73 minutes of emotive electric immersion
Casino Versus Japan is the production alias of Milwaukee-based musician Erik Kowalski, a discreet artist who’s been tracing his path away from the limelight. To those not familiar with his
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Pariah announces debut album for Houndstooth ‘Here From Where We Are’
Producer, DJ, and long-time friend of Inverted Audio Arthur Cayzer has announced the release of his debut album. Better known under the name Pariah, and as
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From The Ground Up: Orbits unravel the intricacies of establishing a new festival in Portugal
Ahead of the debut edition of Orbits, we caught up with the team behind the festival in order to find out the intricacies of establishing a brand new festival in Portugal and to discover exactly what will go down at Orbits 2018.
Tourist Kid: Crude Tracer
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.
Paral·lel Festival complete 2018 lineup with Tobias, TM404, Patric Russell, Grand River
Following their second wave announcement back in March, today Paral·lel Festival unveil the final four artists to join them between 31 August – 2 September in the pre-Pyrenees
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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.
Music Video: mara – leaving me
After over three years of intense work and absolute dedication with Cultivated Sound, mara eventually steps up with her highly anticipated debut release on Ryan Wurst’s imprint, Always Human Tapes.
Music Video: Diamont Dancer – Circle
With less than a month to go until the release of Diamont Dancer’s new album, we caught up with the Spanish duo to discuss the making of ‘Shapes’. We’re also glad to premiere the music video for ‘Circle’, directed by live visual artist Sergi Palau.
Jenus
Ahead of HER DAMIT and the debut edition of 7001 Festival this summer in Germany, we caught up with former Ostgut Ton label manager Jenus Baumecker-Kahmke to learn more about his musical heritage, love of vinyl and his involvement with the music and art world in London and Berlin. Jenus’ mix is a deep sonic journey into the realms of ambient and electro-acoustic music.
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.
Listen to a three hour mix from DJ Healer containing 35 unheard tracks
Traumprinz stays busy! Just yesterday, a new mix entitled Planet Lonely appeared from his alias DJ Healer on Soundcloud. The mix contains 35 brand new songs spread
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Ryan Fall aka uon up next on Huerco S.’ imprint, West Mineral Ltd.
Earlier this year, Brian Leeds – more widely known as Huerco S. – inaugurated his own imprint West Mineral Ltd. with his debut full-length as Pendant,
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Still Life / Moving Sounds: A look into Michael Vallera’s sense-awakening music and photography
Draped in ominous atmospheres and rumbling echoes, the work of multi-talented musician Michael Vallera is one of subtle detailing and slow-drip obsessiveness. We caught up with Mike to talk his new full-length on Denovali, living in Chicago and his approach to music and photography.