Well, this is a surprise — and, on reflection, a pretty awesome one. I’ve been a fan of Ellen Allien’s since 2005’s Thrills, and enjoyed hearing her evolution as she combined the accessible and the experimental on 2008’s Sool and especially 2010’s Dust — and even to some extent on 2013’s modern dance soundtrack LIsm although I do have mixed feels […]
Author: dogrando
This is jaw-dropping stuff. It’s a kind of deconstruction of a sound clash, with dub and reggae and dancehall stripped down to the bare metal and refined and processed and expanded and transmogrified into something totally awesome. The result is a big, splendid, monster, all bass-bin-bothering round the bottom and glitches on top. Some of […]
What a superbly accomplished, refreshing, and generally delightful debut album. This floats effortlessly between lush minimal-ish tech house and dream pop, all swooning synths and aethereal vocals, underpinned by a clicky beat and delicately enhanced by little blips and bloops which I feel the need to describe as “graceful”. It’s the little details that really make this […]
It has to be said: if you don’t like listening to someone opening and closing some kind of flangey filtery thing (n.b. perhaps not the correct technical vocab there) then you probably won’t like this record. But then, it also has to be said: if you don’t like listening to someone opening and closing some […]
Confession of ignorance time: Marc Barreca has apparently been a big noise (as it were) in electronic ambient music since the late seventies, but I’d never encountered him until now. I’m happy to correct that, though, because this is a beguiling piece of work: twelve tracks that hover tantalizingly between ambient (but they’re too structured […]
“A reaction to the human race consuming itself from Benjamin John Power (Fuck Buttons)” says a sticker on my copy of this (which is a rather fetching red and black marbled vinyl — although not quite as beautiful as the similarly visceral “cherry pie” vinyl reissue of the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me soundtrack that […]
Here’s one to file under “strange but strangely wonderful”. The first 11 minutes of the A-side is Reluctant Swimmer, an ambient experimental thing which seems to be done on a prepared guitar, all scrapes and bloops and rattles: it sounds oddly like you’re inside some kind of arcane machine but in a much softer, more […]
Like many folks, I guess, I got into Bing & Ruth when RVNG released Tomorrow Was The Golden Day in 2014, and only caught their self-published debut City Lakes when RVNG reissued it in 2015. Like many folks, I guess, I gushed unashamedly about TWTGD for its lush, twinkling, warmth — but I also like the slight element of (relative) raucousness […]
We last encountered Eraldo Bernocchi in these pages collaborating with Harold Budd on the wonderful Music For Fragments From The Inside. Here he’s playing with Dr Prakash Sontakke, who I’m sure you already know is India’s and classical Hindustani music’s foremost exponent of the Hawaiian lap steel guitar. Sontakke seems to take the lion’s share of the […]
As I’ve mentioned before, you don’t expect a new William Basinski album to be a radical departure: almost imperceptible evolution is more his thing. But this does feel like a little bit of a step forward. The self-titled A-side is 17 minutes of tape loops supplemented by a Voyetra 8 synth and other electronics, apparently […]
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