Electronica
See: The smeary dessert action painting of Blurry the Explorer’s ‘Limited By Jelly’
BLURRY THE EXPLORER is a quirkily beguiling new art-rock project oozing outta Brooklyn with experimental composer, drummer, and photographer Jeremy Gustin, aka The Ah, at the helm. They’ve just released their second shortform missive, the Brothers Grimm-meets-Broadcast hallucination of “Limited By Jelly”, the video for which you can be wholly intrigued by below. It sees …
See: Loraine James – ‘Running Like That’ feat. Eden Samara: future beats, inner turmoil and a forest fire
GROWING up on the North London-Hertfordshire borders of Enfield, producer Loraine James was up on the escarpment, able to gaze down across London in the bowl of the Thames valley below. That skyline, the city so near, silhouetted, morphing as new towers grew from reinforced steel skeletons, informed and continues to inform her enthralling future …
News: Fused releases the four-track ‘Passion and Control Remixes’
HOT ON the heels of Fusion’s The Exhibition EP comes the second in a planned trilogy, the Passion And Control Remixes, out on Fusion Records today, June 4th. The recently released, initial four-track The Exhibition EP is a gateway into the electro-pop world of Fused, the award-winning UK electronic music artist, remixer and producer, which takes …
See: c / a’s ‘THE PRIMER’: South London duo lead us further astray into generative audiovisual AI
LONDON audiovisual merry pranksters c / a aren’t quite like anyone you’ve encountered before. Nor me, for that matter. They’re operating in a highly conceptual sphere where AI, generative algorithms and light-touch flesh intervention are making music; there’s others creating out at this mind-bending edge, loosening the reins of human control – witness the video …
See: The astonishing audio-visual experience that is Llyr’s ‘Winged Chamber Music’: jaw-dropping creativity from what’s looking to be IDM album of the year
YOU KNOW that if no less a renaissance man than Max Cooper is taking enough of an interest in what you’re sculpting in sound to sign you up for his label, Mesh, then you must be doing something not only very right, but also very interesting; Max really these days being at the forefront of …
See: LARRY THE PINK THE HUMAN drop a video for the wistful skitter of ‘NO WRONG NO RIGHT’ and announce a brace of UK dates
THE self-styled and fully capitalised music, art and video project LARRY PINK THE HUMAN have dropped a new single ahead of a brace of upcoming live dates. “No Wrong No Right” is a spacious skitter of psych-lite guitar, spoken word stream, bass thrum and chanted, wistful yearn to a significant other to recognise what they …
Remixed – Yelfris Valdés: For The Ones
Cuban artist, composer and trumpet player Yelfris Valdés once again joins forces with Jazz FM Resident TimGarcia’s label Música Macondo, inviting an impressive roster of producers to remix and reinterpret a selection ofthe LP’s standout tracks. His 2019 debut LP ‘For The One’s’ saw Yelfris delving deep into his Yoruba religion and its shamanic chants, …
Track: Kevin Richard Martin shares the title track from his deeply eerie, forthcoming rescoring of the sci-fi classic, ‘Solaris’
KNOWN in the hallowed halls of dark electronica for his work as The Bug, King Midas Sound and others, when Kevin Richard Martin was offered a commission to write, record and perform a new score for a film of his choice by the Vooruit Arts Centre in Ghent, it’s perhaps not altogether a surprise that …
News: Max Cooper to bring his stunning audio-visual experience to the Acropolis, and drops ‘Leaving This Place’ from his forthcoming ‘Maps’ EP
WITH what looks to be another absolutely essential, cartographically-inclined Maps EP out at midsummer, Max Cooper has today dropped a typically jaw-dropping short film – to call it a video is somehow to demean the scale and art of the piece, I feel – for one of that EP’s most outstanding tracks, “Leaving The Place” …
See: Bruno Bavota – ‘Apartment Loop #6’: a personal experience of lockdown captured in modular electronics
WE LOCKED the door; we waited. We waited, we combed the airwaves; we counted the days some more. The experience is nigh on universal, save those of you lucky enough to be reading in Taiwan, Christchurch, Auckland and elsewhere. Italy was caught by the pandemic earlier than many, and as it swept across the country, …