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 + Oren Ambarchi – Cat’s Squirrel (2013) album review
Two titans of noise come together to find the sweet spot between noise, ambient, and drone on Cat’s Squirrel. As we so often say here on Merzbow Monday, the act … 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
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
Tape Tuesday: The Voice of Saturn – Gratitude (WF35)
It’s all about the little things on Travis Thatcher’s most recent synth-driven odyssey for Woodford Halse! Let’s be real… for the most part the last almost 2 years have been … Continue reading
Shortwave Symphonies: Rupert Lally – Hidden Transmissions Vol. 1 (Woodford Halse) cassette review
On his first release for Woodford Halse, Swiss composer/electronic musician/multi-instrumentalist Rupert Hally recreates a lost radio transmission. It’s a reminder of the thrill of curiosity and musical discovery. The internet … Continue reading
Ryan Garbes – Tabbed View (Moon Glyph) album review
On his first solo album in 7 years, Wet Hair/Raccoo-oo -oon noisemonger Ryan Garbes returns with his most immediate, vibrant album to date. As part of some of the most … Continue reading
Electroacoustic Alchemy: Charlotte Law – Ice Since Fire tape review (Linear Obsessional)
Electric guitars become tidal pools, walls of fog, delicate latticeworks of frost and ice on Ice Since Fire, Charlotte Law’s debut album for the lovely Linear Obsessional cassette label. Electricity … Continue reading
Cosmic Jazz For The Age Of Spiritual Machines: Cloud Diameter – Cloud Diameter 2 tape review
Getachew Mekuria + John Coltrane + Count Zero = Cloud Diameters 2 “The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.” RAY KURZWEIL, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human … Continue reading
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