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Since emerging back in 2015, DIY-ers Pater Noster Ltd. have steadily grown into a sureshot supplier of off-road sonics and explosive club-focused ordnance; keeping an all-out borderline and noise-friendly attitude in the scope whilst moving with
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Gathered under the enigmatic name of De-Bons-En-Pierre with an exciting off-axis debut for Josh Cheon’s Dark Entries, L.I.E.S. very own analogue fiddler Beau Wanzer and French techno experimentalist Maoupa Mazzocchetti unite in a twopronged attack towards senseless standards and calibrated boredom on the weirdly mouth-watering ‘Crepes’.
Needless to say George Thompson has been on fire as of late. If you check in on a regular basis at your local record store you’ll have noticed his omnipresence both on the shelves and in a flurry of DJ bags altogether. After a host of compelling transmissions on Island Of The Gods, Berceuse Heroique and Jealous God, Black Merlin takes back his magic wand for a two-track brain melter on Rotterdam’s finest Pinkman.
Seeing Aussie producer Leo James land on the rising Vienna-based, Bauhaus-friendly label Neubau, is far from a coincidence and certainly a good occasion to see what he is up to once taken out of his antipodean comfort zone. Promises kept, the tantalising joint venture has confirmed to be a matter of heart and mind in equal amount.
Mind Records honcho MOYO takes the helm with a rough and rugged mix of gloomy industrial, off-kilter electronics and dystopian proto-tech blends. Since good things often come in twos, you can also check our quick fire Q&A with Abraham where we discuss the label’s neatly thought-out audiovisual designs and aspirations.
Part of the exciting new wave of talents that’s been unfurling over Montreal as of late and more notably the up-and-coming Temple label which they set up alongside Adam Feingold and R. Wong, Variant step up to deliver a ferocious mix of hard-nosed techno, industrial rhythms and dubby flexions.
Since they broke through in 2014, Jaures have been astutely navigating in the folds between industrial, no wave and techno, carefully polishing their craft whilst stacking up choice
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Following on from a killer founding release by Aufgang B – the alias of Berlin pair Alexander Arpeggio and Cid Hohner, shortly followed by another grade A delivery
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Benedikt Frey pays tribute to the past, present and future of dance music in this weeks mix through an enticing mosaic of 90s-infused breakbeat, industrial, acid and grim techno. We also had a chat to discuss production methods, influences and releases.
Here we find Karamika continuing their chaotic exploration of raw, obsessive kraut and industrial motifs. Like walking the last corridor to the big boss’ dungeon in a vintage platform game, it’ll leave you both excited to outdo your own egotistic self and afraid at getting back to the real world. Get strange.
If C. R. Stecyk, III once contributed the Dogtown legend by sanctifying the now concrete-cast ‘Skate and destroy’ phrase in his famous article for Thrasher magazine, Glaswegian talent Thomas Lea Clarke aka Mr TC opted for aquatic obliteration with his second instalment for JD Twitch’s Optimo Music.
Released last year on Ascetic House, Oliver Vereker’s ‘Grace’ tape is getting a reissue via Shifted and Ventress Avian label on March 21st.
Opal Tapes’ murky sub label Black Opal present their next 12″, ‘This Is For Sore Is Just There’, a burly and uncompromising 6-tracker courtesy of Brighton-based techno producer Metrist.
‘A Song and a Photo Novella’ is way more than your umpteenth arty variation on a dogmatic, ultra-codified genre such as techno.
The combination of obscure venue locations, sophisticated lighting design and diverse programming carved out a strong aesthetic for the festival – Unsound impressed. Big time.
Hyperspace envoy Xosar is now set to inaugurate her own imprint Gyrocyre with a debut EP courtesy of herself.