Electronic
Album Review: Spiral Deluxe – The Love Pretender
Demonstrating the poignant power of experience + human connection + innate musicality + operating in the present moment, Jeff Mills’ Spiral Deluxe collective unveil their second album – The Love Pretender. Driven by the free expression and creativity of improvised performance, Spiral Deluxe is an electronic jazz fusion project comprised electronic music visionary Jeff, along …
Track: Max Sinàl & KingCrowney Feat. Liv East – “Intentions”: deep jazz/house out on Soul Quest
Soul Quest Records hits a milestone with its 10th release, and it’s a special one. “Intentions,” the new single from Max Sinàl and KingCrowney featuring Liv East, is a glorious fusion of deep house, jazz, and soul—effortlessly capturing the label’s ethos of groove-driven, live-infused house music. From the first beat, the track radiates warmth. A …
Album Review: Fluxion – Haze
Since his early days at Chain Reaction, K. Soublis (Fluxion) has carved his own unique style, combining elements of dub, ambient, techno, score, textural, and even jazz elements, all glued together with his distinct production aesthetic. Haze is a broad selection of pieces that was recorded between 2023-2024. The music is moving from more slow …
Album Review: Various Artists – Krautrock Eruption: An Introduction to German Electronic Music 1970-1980
The very idea of an introductory Krautrock compilation is a tricky one. As the liner notes themselves acknowledge, the genre (if you can even call it that) has been sliced, debated, and redefined in countless ways over the years, with the likes of Julian Cope’s Krautrocksampler and Crack in the Cosmic Egg both mythologizing and …
EP Review: The WAEVE – Eternal; Dark, cinematic, and beautifully unsettling.
The WAEVE’s new EP, Eternal, out this Friday via Transgressive, sees Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall continue their journey into the shadowy corners of modern life, crafting a sound that’s as cinematic as it is unsettling. Across its three tracks, Eternal shifts between pulsing synth-pop, jagged post-punk, and lush orchestration, capturing a sense of …
Track: Black Moth Super Rainbow – Open the fucking fantasy; A woozy synth-pop dream
Black Moth Super Rainbow’s latest single, Open the Fucking Fantasy, is a mesmerizing mix of whispered synth pop and warped experimentalism, walking a fine line between the uncanny and the irresistibly melodic. The track’s layered synths buzz, soar, and weave their gluey way through the misty, vocoder-drenched vocals, sometimes taking the lead, sometimes lurking in …
Live Gallery: Rock, Rave & Rap: How Yours & Owls Is Australia’s Most Eclectic Festival Day 1
Is Yours & Owls Australia’s Most Beautiful Festival? All Signs Point To Yes!
Album Review: Cluster Lizard – Herts
The pulse of the path. In a massive heartbeat, daring waves rise one after another. The unbreakable tide of the lightning dance, where life and death collide in the eternal vibration of consciousness. In previous centuries, Ukrainian warriors invented an audacious macabre ritual called Herts, a courageous death dance. Before the battle, a few ruthless …
Live Review & Gallery: The Prodigy Ignite Sydney: A Rave Resurrection at Hordern Pavilion 13.02.2025
Maximum Chaos at the Hordern Pavilion with the Prodigy
Album Review: Lawrence English – ‘Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds’: evocative electronic music which engulfs and surrounds.
Considering theorist, writer, artist, curator and composer Lawrence English’s creative output over the last two decades, the phrase ‘a body of work’ inevitably looms. It’s a descriptor that generally feels over-used, with its own pretentions and hint of fawning respect, but for this singular experimental, electronic musician the image does ring true. The ever- evolving …