Electronic
Album Review: Thug Entrancer – Arcology
I think I’ve always liked electronic music in some form or another. From intros to 80s cartoons to being enamored by Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” at the age of 9, there’s always been a connection for me to that buzzing and humming musical world. Unfortunately properly articulating that fondness has always eluded me. “I really like the …
Track: Ideomotor – Away from here (ILARI remix)
There’s a distinct Finnish flavour to ‘Away from here’, the new track from Ideomotor. The pair, Erkka Wennonen and Kimmo Myllviita, hail from Helsinki and have been mixing up the intoxicating mix of pop, indie and synth/electro since 2014. They in turn have allowed fellow countryman, producer and one half of White Balance, ILARI, to …
Track: Protoje – Who Knows ft Chronixx (shy fx remix)
Legendary London drum and bass producer/DJ Shy FX has got hold of the Who Knows from Jamaican artist Protoje. Already no stranger to radio play, the track comes from his breakthrough 2015 album Ancient Future, and features fellow Jamaican Chronixx on the vocals. Originally a straight up reggae belter (do people outside Wigan refer to …
Track: Beyond the Wizards Sleeve – Diagram Girl
It was always going to be brilliant, the collaboration of Erol Alkan and former Grid member Richard Norris, under the moniker of Beyond the Wizards Sleeve, and their many reanimations (as they refer to their remixes) as well as a 2012 single ‘Black Noise’/’Door To Tomorrow’ proved the assumption to be correct. Now there’s a …
News: Bureau B to release Box-Set “Cluster 1971-1981” in April
Influential German label Bureau B are to release a 9-album box set on both vinyl and Cd charting the career of groundbreaking electronic band Cluster. Originally called Kluster, the trio – Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius released two albums, before Roedelius and Moebius continued as a duo, replacing the K with a C. …
Track: Cavern of Anti-Matter – Void Beats / Invocation
Cavern of Anti-Matter (CAM) are Stereolab mainman Tim Gane, original Stereolab drummer Joe Dilworth and synth meister Holger Zapf. This is their second album and is a collection of mainly instrumentals, bar two of the twelve tracks which feature guest vocals from Bradford Cox (Deerhunter) and Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) also as a bit of a bonus we get …
Live review: Rosie Lowe at Headrow House
Sometimes you turn up a small venue like the intimate upstairs space in hipster mecca Headrow House and leave thinking that’s the last time you’ll see the headline act this up close and personal. Rosie Lowe is one of those performers out plugging her debut album Control, but she has the full package – a …
Track: Karl Bartos – I’m the message (Matthew Herbert remix)
Karl Bartos knew his place and so did everyone else it seemed. Second from the left in the most influential band in the world, Kraftwerk. And there he remained, from 1975 till 1990, co-writing some of their iconic hits – The Model, Computer Love. You might have thought that would set him up for a …
Track: We Are Temporary – Who’s going to love me now?
“I feel left out by all of the love around. / What absorbs me, holds me in?” questions Brooklyn’s Mark Roberts, aka We Are Temporary in his new single, Who’s going to love me now? Written while separated from his wife, it’s a raw and almost desperate song. Taken from his debut album Crossing Over, …
Track: Essaie Pas – Retox, plus album news
What happens when you arrive back off a years worth of touring. Well, if your Montreal duo Essaie Pas, aka Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau, it coincided with eviction from their home and, separately, rehearsal space. Moving to a desolate industrial complex in the height of winter, they pair ran around corridors playing old acid …