Electronica
New Track: Akusmi previews ‘Fleeting Future’, title track from his forthcoming album of intricate minimalism and vibrant electro-acoustic conversations.
London based composer/producer Pascal Bideau aka Akusmi doesn’t do music that simply grows on you. Want proof then tune into those digi-platforms and catch his new track ‘Fleeting Future’ from his soon-come album of the same name. It’s a piece that draws you into a world of sound which flourishes as you listen, from the …
EP: Grids/Units/Planes unveil the heady and mesmerising electronica of ‘Diverge And Coalesce’
The sounds of Brisbane project Grids/Units/Planes (GUP) are that of a cloudy, diffuse space that glitches and hums in a languorous rich texture: awe-inspiring and transfixing. I have always thought that the magic in effective instrumental music is the ability to tell stories and create images without words, and in ‘Diverge and Coalesce’, GUP have …
Album Review: Tapani Rinne & Juha Maki-Patola – Open: exquisite jazz electronica that restores and inspires.
Some records arrive that make you wonder if there is much value to writing about music. ‘Open’ by the Finnish ambient jazz partnership of reedist Tapani Rinne and composer/producer Juha Maki-Patola is one of those albums. Elusive, shivering with atmosphere, the immersive soundscape that the pair have crafted elevates listening beyond the incidental and reduces …
Album Review: Overland Inn’s ‘Proxima’ is a sensual, liquid melange of bubbling electronic delights.
The liquidity of movement and sensual overload in French Czech-based duo Overland Inn‘s new album ‘Proxima’ is nothing short of magnificent. Heralded by a series of delectable amuse-bouches over the last 12 months following their signing to the brilliant Brisbane label False Peak Records, Overland Inn have perfected an electronic based dream pop oeuvre that has …
Track: Norway’s Sea Change shares the solitary longing of ‘Is There Anybody There’ with new album ‘Mutual Dreaming’ out 11 Feb
With new album ‘Mutual Dreaming’ set for release next month via Shapes Recordings, Norwegian producer and singer Sea Change shares the latest single from the record, the hallucinogenic electronica of Is There Anybody There. Of the track, Sea Change says it “came from a very lonely place – it was in the middle of the …
Exclusive: Rome DJ/Producer Leone510 records Backseat Mafia takeover mix ahead of his It’s Our Time EP
Ahead of the release of his new EP, It’s Our Time, which drops on Lorenzo Dada’s Electronic Music Division on February 7th next year, we’re delighted to have a Takeover Mix from Rome based DJ / Producer Leone510, aka Giordano Leone. Full of jazzy chords, sweeping bass tones and sprawling breakbeats mark out the EP …
News: Bitchin Bajas bring their Sun Ra moogfest out on the road Stateside and in Europe
COOPER CRAIN’S side-alley Moog buccaneers Bitchin Bajas are taking their their latest album, a re-exploration of the works of Sun Ra purely for synth and keyboard, out on the road in the new year. That album, Switched On Ra, their seventeenth, sees them apply the concepts of one avant-garde legend to that of another: Cooper …
See: French duo Overland Inn unveil brilliant partially animated video for the sparkling and ambulant track ‘Les Loups’.
French duo Overland Inn, based in the Czech Republic, are building up anticipation for the release of their album ‘Proxima’, through Brisbane’s amazing False Peak Records, with the release of a brilliant and very clever animation video for the tack ‘Les Loups’. This is the fourth release since signing to False Peaks, and the quality …
Back for Seconds: The “Other Side” of French Funk Outfit Who Parked The Car
There’s a large focus among musicians on creating a fantastic debut single. It makes sense – everyone wants their first offering to be the best representation of who they are as artists. However, there isn’t nearly as much attention given to sophomore singles, but they serve a vital function. If the first song introduces the …
News: Sylph releases a new EP, ‘Ancient Hole’, featuring Regis, Terence Fixmer and others; watch a short film of three tracks
SYLPH, the new iteration and solo project of the former singer with South London post-punks S.C.U.M., Thomas Cohen, is rounding off his year with a final, four-track EP, Ancient Hole, to which he invited the musical aesthetics of big, cast-iron techno names such as Regis, Terence Fixmer and Nicolas Bougaïeff and composer and singer Anni Hogan. And as well as being …