Electronic
Album Review: Neil Cowley – ‘Battery Life’: music with momentum and magic for piano and electronics.
Neil Cowley has never been a musician to tread water unnecessarily. Filling the prime keyboard seat in the Brand New Heavies and Zero 7 he was there at the centre of that soul dance/acid jazz nineties prime time. Then came the jazz informed Neil Cowley Trio, a band that fore-fronted the first wave of UK …
Track/Video: Electronic musician Colloboh introduces second EP ‘Saana Sahel’ with the gliding high of ‘Mystic You’.
Since joining the Leaving Records community in 2021 after a move from his Baltimore home, Collins Oboh (aka Colloboh) has become significant contributor to the ever fluid LA experimental scene. Able to focus on his music full-time the Nigerian born, self-taught synthesising soundscaper took the freefall of tunes he had shared with the world online …
Track: Electronic Nu-Soul Beauties Dragonfruit Share Title Track From Upcoming EP ‘Honeymoon Phase’
Dutch Neo-Soul-come-Electronic-Pop quartet Dragonfruit shine on their elegant, grooving new single ‘Honeymoon Phase’. Employing a swing heavy, lo-fi beat, swelling synths and a beautifully rounded bass surrounded by a gentle wash of vinyl crackle, the track captures a vibrant electronic euphoria in it’s pulsing sound soundscape. Topped with infectiously catchy vocal lines and silky smooth …
Album Review: Lionmilk – Intergalactic Warp Terminal 222 : ambient jazz sketches with lo-fi soul that goes deeper.
There can be moments as you are listening to ‘Intergalactic Warp Terminal 222’, Lionmilk’s absorbing new album on Leaving Records, when you feel like an intruder, sneaking into the musician’s back room in LA as he sketches and explores. After all Moki Kawaguchi (aka Lionmilk) admits that his music is a singular pursuit, an investigation …
Gallery: Orbital – The National Stadium, Dublin 17.03.2023
Wow! well it was Saint Patricks day in Ireland and a full National Stadium were dancing, but not to your traditional Irish music as you would expect on such a day. They were dancing hard and heavy to the electronic sounds of the mighty Orbital.
News: RISING 2023 program is unveiled
Melbourne’s RISING 2023 program invites audiences to reflect, reckon, rave, and revel in night time culture as it is revealed today. A festival that you do in the city that does it best — art, culture, food and music under moonlight:RISING today unveils its expansive 2023 program of 185 events featuring more than 400 artists …
EP Review: Worg – Il Piano Di Medea
With this release the label celebrates the return to the ranks of the founder Worg. A triumphant homecoming comparable to that of Jason, the main character of the Argonautica, who travelled in search of the Golden Fleece (Il Vello d’Oro) aboard the ship Argo. After many vicissitudes, the hero returned to Iolco, his homeland, to …
EP REVIEW: NICLAS ERLANDSSON – VÄSEN
Niclas Erlandsson delivers a decent and serious musical work with his new release “Väsen EP” on ANTIMODUS. Niclas Erlandsson is a live performing techno artist, producer and mastering engineer. His live sets and productions are characterized by electronic experimentation and hours of meticulous preparation. With this release, the Scandinavian brings a mystical sound reminiscent of …
Album Review: Loren Chasse & Juho Toivonen – ACLOD : Experimental music, cinematic and stunning.
The vinylist in me hates to admit it but some music just needs to be preserved on CD and this piece adds weight to that proposal. Flowing through a continuous thirty minutes ACLOD, the anticipated collaborative project from Loren Chasse and Juho Toivonen (available now from the venerable Hivemind) declines any interruption from and A …