Merzbow Monday: Merzbow & Lawrence English – Eternal Stalker (Dais Records) album review
Two titans of noise music take us on a guided tour through a postindustrial purgatory on this essential collaboration for Los Angeles’ Dais Records Imagine finding yourself wandering through some … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow & Arcane Device – Merzbow & Arcane Device (Important Records) abum review
Two titans of ambient noise come together to show what’s possible with the genre on this new collab for Important Records Remix albums offer an opportunity to both showcase the … Continue reading
Production Unit Xero – Combat Decker’s Handbook (React:21)
Production Unit Xero’s first for Portland’s Reactionary is a perfect pleasure – it is exquisite and it leaves you wanting more. What more could you want? So much of electronic … Continue reading
enereph/Production Unit Xero – Premoniss | Bukimi no Tani Genshō [HTX099] album review
Seattle’s enereph and Portland’s Production Unit Xero explore modern classic, ambient, and streamlined beats for this evocatively poetic split for Heterodox Records! Recalling a time when I was quite young, … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Rainbow Electronics II (Dexter’s Cigar, 1996) album review
Merzbow returns to his Dada roots on Rainbow Electronics II from 1996. The idea of making definitive noise albums seems a bit nonsensical. After all, this is a genre that … Continue reading
Techno Tuesday: occurian – live ep [HTX096]
On HTX096, Portland’s occurian reminds us how inspired live electronic music can be. Electronic music has a tendency to bring to mind the cold, calculated, nearly-clinical clean room hermeticism, especially … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Red 2 Eyes album review
Red 2 Eyes is an early exploration with the EMS Synthi but its as noisy as you please. When you hear the phrase “modular synth,” you might think of clean, … Continue reading
Markus Guentner – Extropy (A Strangely Isolated Place) album review
Markus Guentner rounds out his ambient science fiction trilogy for A Strangely Isolated Place with a dose of much-needed optimism on Extropy. Imagine, if you will… you are in a … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow/Hyrrokkin – Faltered Pursuit album review
Merzbow meets metal on this excellent new collaboration with ou·tré rockers Hyrrokkin. Masami Akita is no stranger to metal. The much-celebrated Venereology is Merzbow doing extreme metal like death metal … Continue reading
Winter Nights – Sky Burial album review
NYC death metalheads Winter Nights hit their stride on Sky Burial, their bleakest and most brutal offering to date. New York City death metal quartet Winter Nights have been a … Continue reading
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