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
Production Unit Xero – Nexus Points (Mirror Zone) album review
On Nexus Points, his first for Dutch label Mirror Zone, Portland’s Production Unit Xero finds the sweet spot between ambient, dark ambient, and minimal techno. Electronic music can be a … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow vs Nordvargr – Partikel III (Cold Spring) album review
Two masters of noise, experimental electronics, and dark ambiance come together for a third collaboration, a highlight of both of their monolithic discographies. Merzbow is often at his best when … Continue reading
Plague Week: Paul D. Miller – Viral Sonata album review
Paul D. Miller – aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid – pushes the sampler to its ultimate musique concrete potential on Viral Sonata, the first post-Human “hardcore hip-hop album with … Continue reading
Lovecraftian Futurism: New Leaders Of The Eldritch Noise – The Art Of Eldritch Noise
“There in the narrow hall, outside the bolted door with the covered keyhole, I often heard sounds which filled me with an indefinable dread—the dread of vague wonder and brooding … Continue reading
Dark Ambient Classics: :zoviet*France: – Eostre (Red Rhino, 1984)
:zoviet*France’s 5th Lp is like a hymn to the rising sun, from some alien dimension. Atonal feedback, unintelligible chanting, scraping static and dismembered zithers form a strange ritual that is … Continue reading
Music For Dark Skies & Ominous Portents: April Larson – Undergrounding In A Storm (Arell)
Louisiana’s April Larson delivers 20 minutes of graceful, sparking anti-gravity drones for the mail art imprint Arell. I. Storm Tower I wasn’t sure if I’d done it intentionally, not even … Continue reading