Electronic
News: Bureau B to release Box-Set “Cluster 1971-1981” in April
Influential German label Bureau B are to release a 9-album box set on both vinyl and Cd charting the career of groundbreaking electronic band Cluster. Originally called Kluster, the trio – Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius released two albums, before Roedelius and Moebius continued as a duo, replacing the K with a C. …
Track: Cavern of Anti-Matter – Void Beats / Invocation
Cavern of Anti-Matter (CAM) are Stereolab mainman Tim Gane, original Stereolab drummer Joe Dilworth and synth meister Holger Zapf. This is their second album and is a collection of mainly instrumentals, bar two of the twelve tracks which feature guest vocals from Bradford Cox (Deerhunter) and Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) also as a bit of a bonus we get …
Live review: Rosie Lowe at Headrow House
Sometimes you turn up a small venue like the intimate upstairs space in hipster mecca Headrow House and leave thinking that’s the last time you’ll see the headline act this up close and personal. Rosie Lowe is one of those performers out plugging her debut album Control, but she has the full package – a …
Track: Karl Bartos – I’m the message (Matthew Herbert remix)
Karl Bartos knew his place and so did everyone else it seemed. Second from the left in the most influential band in the world, Kraftwerk. And there he remained, from 1975 till 1990, co-writing some of their iconic hits – The Model, Computer Love. You might have thought that would set him up for a …
Track: We Are Temporary – Who’s going to love me now?
“I feel left out by all of the love around. / What absorbs me, holds me in?” questions Brooklyn’s Mark Roberts, aka We Are Temporary in his new single, Who’s going to love me now? Written while separated from his wife, it’s a raw and almost desperate song. Taken from his debut album Crossing Over, …
Track: Essaie Pas – Retox, plus album news
What happens when you arrive back off a years worth of touring. Well, if your Montreal duo Essaie Pas, aka Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau, it coincided with eviction from their home and, separately, rehearsal space. Moving to a desolate industrial complex in the height of winter, they pair ran around corridors playing old acid …
Album Review: Turbo Kid – Hard Times In The Wasteland
So last Friday night I watched one of the best low budget sci fi epics I’ve seen in a very long time. I think had I seen this movie when I was 10 years old I’d probably still look at it as a classic now. As it stands, this movie didn’t exist when I was 10. …
Track: TEEN – Tokyo
Ahead of the release of their third album, Love Yes, out on Carpark Records on February 19th, TEEN evoke the spirit of The Human League, drag it into 2016, and sprinkle it with ideas of sexuality and spirituality with a new single, Tokyo. Described lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Teeny Lieberson as being about “ a …
Album Review: Alex Smoke – Love Over Will
Mendelssohn just wanted to be Mendelssohn. So said my essays at University. All of them. Admittedly in a music degree where performance and composition were given (at least by me) more credence, there wasn’t an abundance of them to do, but after discovering the line in my first essay and liking how it made me …
Track: Three Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling
It might have taken a while, five years to be exact, but London trio Three Trapped Tigers are back with a follow up to their debut album ‘Route one or die’. Titled ‘Silent Earthling’, the bands new album is due out on April 1st via Superball Music. Talking of the bands evolution, guitarist/keyboard player Matt …