‘Experimental’ music often fails to relate to any tangible experience. Compositions are marvelled at for their imagination, academic brilliance or technical wizardry, but fail to connect beyond that. With Olympic Mess, Younger has succeeded in capturing a time and a place, using murky intensity to document modern London.
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Premiere: S Olbricht ‘Lacertid (feat. Imre Kiss)’
Fitting somewhere between Autechre ambient works and Tim Hecker’s Harmony In Ultraviolet, the dark-shaded, droning convolutions of the track promise to haunt your days and nights.
Atom TM announces ‘Riding The Void’ EP for raster-noton featuring Scuba
Atom TM’s next instalment for raster-noton will hit the record stores on July 25th.
Top Tracks: May 2015
Summer’s here, so come take a listen to our pick of May’s finest tracks. On the menu is a high vitamin cocktail of warm grooves and ethereal melodies, deep scapes and scalding-hot synth radiations. Drop off your shoes and get your feet to the nearest beach.
Jack Featherstone & Kit Grill explore geometry in ‘Signal’
We caught up with London based designer Jack Featherstone and producer Kit Grill to discover more about their recent collaboration ‘Signal’, a meditative exploration into geometric form and colour.
Dial: All
After over a decade of frantic explorations, tirelessly shedding barks and shaping new sound perspectives via pared down canons, Dial is now up to celebrate its 15th birthday with a high-flying anniversary compilation soberly titled All.
Herbert: The Shakes
The Shakes is evidence that Herbert’s creative juices are still flowing at a great pace and the twilight of his career could be some way away. Some may disregard it for it’s zealous flirtations with mainstream pop, but this would be foolish as his sonic vitality will always overpower and turn this supposed weakness into a strength.
Premiere: U returns with ‘We Decide Who Comes In’ – Watch ‘Our Place’
Today we’re premiering the video for U’s new track ‘Our Place’, an elusive slice of muffled, dub techno abseiling in melancholic gorges and wistful crevasses.
Geena: Pure Ground Research
In the wake of three well-rounded releases dropped on the ever faultless Antinote imprint, Nicolas Molina aka Geena returns this spring with a fourth episode of his spaced-out ventures on the Parisian outlet.
Vaghe Stelle announces ‘Abstract Speed + Sound’ for Other People
Other People is back with Abstract Speed + Sound, the new effort from Turin-based producer Daniele Mana aka Vaghe Stelle.
Anton Zap returns to Apollo Records with Subculture EP – Stream ‘Pauspapier’
We’re streaming Anton Zap’s new track ‘Pauspapier’ taken from his upcoming Subculture EP on Apollo Records – a convolution of echoed drumming and ephemeral synths rolling into parallel territories.
Max Loderbauer and Jacek Sienkiewicz: Ridges
If you were to feed Klaus Kinski potent acid then plonk him wild eyed and battered in a deep alpine ravine whilst Herzog filmed the consequences – ‘Ridges’ would aptly soundtrack the unfolding scenes.
Make Me Loft Party with Pearson Sound all night
This all-night event in East London is by far the most intimate opportunity you will get to experience the music that makes David Kennedy tick.
Sidney & Suleiman
Ahead of the Workshop x Latency show in Paris on Friday with Kassem Mosse, Madteo and Even Tuell we caught up with label owners Sidney and Suleiman to discuss label operations and the highlights of Paris.
Top Tracks: March + April 2015
This monthly delivery of our Top Tracks selection is a double March-April special. Time to lounge about.
Watch Jaroslav Moravec’s documentary ‘Lee Gamble: Earworm’ for FACT TV
PAN producer Lee Gamble talks about trying to recreate the sounds in his head, his complicated relationship with London, and much more.