Single Of The Week: 1700 Monkey Ninjas – Ahb Seshun
On “Ahb Seshun”, our favorite evil primate assassins fuse sparkling house & sparking techno, stomping martial industrialism & whacked-out sound design. Ed Purchla has a lot of ideas. He’s a … Continue reading
The Melancholic Meditative Minimalism of Alessandro Cortini’s Risveglio
There is a particular kind of machine trance that comes from listening to sequencer-based music. It’s a hypnotic psychedelia in the arthouse minimalist tradition – a lead solder vein … Continue reading
Daniel Ruane – Arrhythmia (The Silent Howl)
emerge from the dust and gloom into a landscape of scintillating, living light on Daniel Ruane‘s Arrythmia. Technology is usually perceived as cold, sterile, while its acolytes are stereotyped as … Continue reading
Singles Roundup: Aoleon the Martian Girl, 1700 Monkey Ninjas, John Carpenter, and The Kuhls
We’ve survived the massive build-up of spookiness that is October, striving to bring you as much horrificness as possible. We’re finally getting a chance to get back to some new … Continue reading
CHXFX – Guided Busways/Undercroft (Polytechnic Youth)
Electronic music seems to inherently conjure images of the speculative and the sci-fi. Whether it’s because classic sci-fi filmmakers took to the electronic instruments early, as a way to evoke … Continue reading
Ras Mix – Adventures In Clown Town (SDM-005)
Adventures In Clown Town, by Portland’s noisy techno technician Ras Mix, is what it might sound like if Ralph Bakshi were to direct a movie about a young b-girl, escaping … Continue reading
Nochexxx – Thrusters
Thrusters, the debut LP from Ramp Recordings’ Nochexxx, is an analogue soundworld of neon lasers and phosphorescent manowars in Zero G. It’s a world of Mexican ghettos and Trap Clubs … Continue reading
Gyratory System – Utility Music
Gyratory System, the experimental London 3 piece of Dr. Andrew Blick, his father Robin Blick & James Weaver, exist in a liminal state, breaking down binaries: improvised/composition, old/new, acoustic/electric. They … Continue reading
