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
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
Noyouyesme – Talanus 3: Legends Of Yosuga (HTX102) album review
Fire up your Spelljammer modules! Break out your Cyberpunk supplements – Portland’s Noyouyesme returns with 5 tracks of sci-fi electronics for building worlds or escaping this one. When you think … 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
Arca – Madre album review
Arca ditches the dread, leans into the digital sublime on Madre. Arca’s earliest music is the soundtrack of digital anxiety – sounds converted to shrapnel, endlessly whizzing past yr ears … Continue reading
Like A Lazy River: Mark Pritchard – Under The Sun (Warp)
On his newest LP for Warp Records, Mark Pritchard gently drifts through every electronic music genre of the last 2 decades like a lazy river. At his height, prolific Australian … Continue reading
Soundtracks Of Our Lifestyles: Heathered Pearl – Body Complex (Ghostly International) review
Featureless white plastic columns in an Ionic style; “a stunningly bleak, uncharted landscape of man-made cement and artificial foliage.” the air smells of soap and perfume. A soundtrack for architectural … Continue reading
Plaid – Reachy Prints (Warp Records)
endless beaches. flying on the back of an eagle. subterranean caverns. blurry TVs. When it seems like every era, artist and genre is getting a reassessment and a second life, … Continue reading
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