Review: Derailleur – Hydraulic Performer (Decade Box)
For a producer, 10 years accumulates to an awful lot of plugging sequences into drum machines, twisting knobs and flicking…
Reviews
Review: Walton – ‘Murdah’ (Kaizen)
Walton returns to Madam X’s Kaizen with a no-nonsense showcase of moody, bass-laden club cuts. With an indisputable body of…
Label focus: Melody As Truth
2014 was a big year for Jonny Nash, he recorded the album Clouds over two days with fellow ambient producers…
Review: Randomer – ‘Headstrong 002’ (Headstrong)
The North London talisman delivers four tracks of furious techno. Rohan Walder’s output is consistent in a number of ways….
Get to know: Spiritflesh
Fleeting from the roaring speed of death metal to the creak of nervous utterances that peep through the fog to…
Review: Vield – Invineti EP (Mechatronica)
Mechatronica is quickly establishing itself as one of the premiere labels promoting modern electro, gaining a buy-on-sight reputation amongst DJs…
Afterthoughts: Gottwood 2018
Gottwood Festival is very much a festival of two halves. By day the mystical woods of the Carreglwyd estate fill…
Review: Skee Mask – Compro (Ilian Tape)
Bryan Müller belongs to a rare cult of producers who were excelling before they could legally enter a nightclub. As…
Review: Rival Consoles – Persona (Erased Tapes)
The opening scene to Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film, Persona, shows a series of unrelated and fragmented images: a running filmstrip,…
Record of The Week: Björk – Arisen My Senses (Remixes)
Björk’s “Utopia” was a sweeping and beatific vision, a rapturous excursion into her own inner utopia, a sensuous world replete…
An Intro To Clubstrophobia
The best bands to discover are usually the new ones that are just getting off the ground, or at least…