Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Aqua Necromancer (Alien8, 1998)
Disruptive Rhythm Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. – Yehudi … Continue reading
Into The Anti-Matter: The Blasted Bass Music Of Roly Porter – Third Star (Tri Angle)
Electronic music has always been linked to modes of transportation. From Kraftwerk’s evocations of the futuristic Audobahn, to their just as fastidious take on the Tour De France on Tour … Continue reading
Magickal Gunslingers On The Edge Of Infinity: Teeth Of The Sea – Highly Deadly Black Tarantula
Highly Deadly Black Tarantula is a stripped down, monolithic behemoth of a technoid dystopian ritual psychedelia record, that sounds brave in this Brave New World. Teeth Of The Seas‘ breakthrough … Continue reading
Various Artists – My Goddess Has A Crazy Bush (ArteTetra Collective)
Noise Is An Attitude There was a time, maybe ten to fifteen years ago, when you got an album with the cryptic noise moniker affixed to it, you knew what … Continue reading
The Children Of The Stones – The Stars And The Silence (Saint Marie Records)
We return to the back catalog of Mark Van Hoen, to consider The Children Of The Stones, who draw an unlikely connection from folk horror to space rock to shoegaze … Continue reading
The Poetics Of Space: Alessandro Cortini – Sonno (Hospital Productions)
A sense of place is becoming increasingly important in these disassociated times, as is lovingly illustrated in Boomkat‘s exceptional 14tracks compilation Psychoacoustic Cartography. These seems to be true of every … Continue reading
Laica – ID Situation (Phatic Musk)
If Burial‘s Untrue was the psychic ghost life of London, circa 1994 through 2001, ID Situation could be seen as the soundtrack to everything that has happened since. Untrue was … 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
Violet Poison – Voices From The Hell
Ever wondered what Wolf Eyes would sound like, if produced by Loscil? Welcome to yr daily white noise binaural baptism. Voices From The Hell was the first LP from anonymous … Continue reading
Kangding Ray – Solens Arc (Raster-Noton)
On Solens Arc, Kangding Ray stops the river of time, takes an axe to the frozen ocean of fashion, breaks with tradition, and creates 4 sound worlds to mesmerize and … Continue reading
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