Jerrilynn Patton may have started out as one of RP Boo’s most promising disciples, you only need to glance at the list of collaborators on Akoma to guess that this isn’t your standard issue footwork LP: Björk, the Kronos Quartet, and Philip Glass. Bang, bang, and banger. A lesser record could easily be overwhelmed by […]
This record from North Carolina duo Courtney Werner and Evan Morgan defies expectations, in a rather wonderful way. The opening track, A Dance On A Sunday Night, is pretty much straight-up hoedown-ready Appalachian folk. The next track, Days Of Longing, starts off in similar mode, but then it seems to start kind of looping in […]
Korean–Canadian Jessica Cho packs a lot into her 28 minutes here, incorporating elements of jungle, footwork, techno, jazz, glitch, hip-hop, and who know what else into nine thrilling blasts of straight-up ravey fun. If I say that the opening track reminded me at various times of everything from S’Express to Octo Octa, that might give […]
My first thought when I heard this was ‘my, this is strange’. My second thought was ‘my, this is good!’. It’s a hard one to categorize, so let us deal in specifics. We start with a simple phrase played on a guitar: kind of lo-fi, kind of echoey. Then we get two of Toral’s home-made […]
Gerardo Delgado and Quinn Whalley are on a self-proclaimed mission to “save” acid house from “smiley faces, rave, and sugary excess”. I don’t know how I feel about that: I like rave, I’m happy to indulge the odd smiley face, and I’ve been known to be sucked in by sugary excess. Well, let us leave […]
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My albums of 2023
It’s that annual round-up post… I listened to quite a lot of dance music in 2022, and that seems to have continued last year. I’m not sure whether that’s down to my mood moving towards the bosh, or the trends in bosh moving towards my preferences. Anyway, I very much enjoyed records by Terr, NIGELTHREETIMES, […]
For a long time, the tag “drum’n’bass” had negative associations for me. It felt like the more polite and polished cousin of jungle, and who wants that? In the late nineties, in particular, there were a bunch of dinner-party-friendly albums in the genre, and my youthful spirit rebelled against such things. Well, that was a […]
When this came out in the summer, the first proper new Aphex material in five years, I had a weird mix of emotions: excitement, nervousness (in case it was shit), and an oddly conflicted feeling because I identify as an Aphex fan, but to be honest have been kind of ambivalent about everything since Syro, […]
I loved Solas when it came out seven years ago. I think it was a small milepost in the evolution of my listening habits. I still love it. I’m pleased to report that this album is differently but equally great. We’re still basically in the territory of church-organ-forward classical drone. But where much (though by […]
This work is based around samples of a Giuseppi Verdi opera called La Forza Del Destino (The Force Of Destiny). I’ve never heard of it, although I’ve heard enough Verdi opera to be pretty sure it wouldn’t be my cup of tea, even though there is apparently a superstition that it’s cursed. (My father likes […]
dogrando writes about some records 