Vinyl Of The Week: I Am A Vowel – IO 12″ review
Technoid trance meets dubby dread on IO from Belgium’s I AM A VOWEL Writing in 1975 on the then-contemporary resurgence of interest in traditional trance music, the New York Times … Continue reading
Happy Solstice! Hermione Harvestman – SOLIS : A Sonic Solstice Ritual for Winter Witches & Third Speaker in the Locus Tempus (1979)
Warm Synths For A Long, Cold, Dark Night When you think of midwinter rites and rituals, you likely think of yule logs, ancient hymns, spiced eggnog, holly, ivy, fairy lights. … Continue reading
Meditate & Destroy: 3 Moons – 3WordSword (Sonic Meditations)
Energy follow attention. This may be the simplest, most direct axiom in occult philosophy. We are masters of our own destinies, defining our paradigms and our reality tunnels with countless … 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
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
Brokenkites – Days Of Distant Stars
Music For Light Travelers While soundtracks for movies that have never existed is not entirely an unprecedented position in the annals of electronic music, Days Of Distant Stars, from the … Continue reading
Rapoon – Cultural Forgeries (Alrealon Musique)
Cultural Forgeries is a pagan festival, held in Miles Davis’ Sanctuary. Cultural Forgeries is an ethnographic trawl through the vision inducing music of the world. Cultural Forgeries is an unplugged … Continue reading
Cut Hands – Festival Of The Dead (Blackest Ever Black)
glimpses from the land of the dead visions of serene and timeless joy Festival Of The Dead is the 3rd long-player from William Bennett’s afronoise project, Cut Hands. Festival finds … 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
A Heightened Sensitivity Towards Beauty – An Interview with Derek Piotr, with an exclusive mix.
A polish-born musician, who lives in New England, and makes lush, tropical soundscapes and inadvertently sings in Indonesian? Such are the confusing, and wondrous, times we live in. Derek Piotr … Continue reading
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