Electronica
News: Max Cooper to bring his stunning audio-visual experience to the Acropolis, and drops ‘Leaving This Place’ from his forthcoming ‘Maps’ EP
WITH what looks to be another absolutely essential, cartographically-inclined Maps EP out at midsummer, Max Cooper has today dropped a typically jaw-dropping short film – to call it a video is somehow to demean the scale and art of the piece, I feel – for one of that EP’s most outstanding tracks, “Leaving The Place” …
See: Bruno Bavota – ‘Apartment Loop #6’: a personal experience of lockdown captured in modular electronics
WE LOCKED the door; we waited. We waited, we combed the airwaves; we counted the days some more. The experience is nigh on universal, save those of you lucky enough to be reading in Taiwan, Christchurch, Auckland and elsewhere. Italy was caught by the pandemic earlier than many, and as it swept across the country, …
See: Mattia Cupelli – ‘EGERIA’: propulsive ambient darkwave goes down to the water
MATTIA CUPELLI, the Italian darkwave ambient composer, the cyclical, shadowy prayer call of whose “MONOLITH” we covered in these pages just over a week ago, has dropped another track, this time showcasing a more propulsive dark aesthetic. It’s called “EGERIA” and you can watch the video for it below. Built on the hard rock of …
See: Album – ‘New And Annoying’: Québécois punk-funkers set out on a Squarepusheresque glide of glitch
QUESTION. Do you love yourself a bit of itchy, broken, nay, fractured and exploded, electronic beat? If someone says words like Aphex and Squarepusher to you, do your eyes light up at the thought of the polyrhythmically torn and juddering, throwing your limbs into new twists? Reckon you’re gonna have room in your life for …
Album review: Sedibus – ‘The Heavens’: The Orb’s good Doctor administers a heady and blissful ambient potion
HE MAY have entered his sixth decade on this particular rock spinning in space – and don’t even get me started on the passage of time, I mean how can this have happened? – but the good Doctor, Alex Paterson, ambient dub techno genius behind The Orb, is ready to roll with a whole clutch …
See: The Spanish lyric video for the otherly beauty of Oneohtrix Point Never & ROSALÍA’s drifting ‘Nothing’s Special’
IT ALL began with a few casually posted photos on socials, showing Barcelonian cantante ROSALÍA in the studio with first posted casual studio photos with Daniel Lopatin, better known as Oneohtrix Point Never. That cranked the rumour mill into action, even Rolling Stone getting involved in what might be coming from the pair in fusion. …
Premiere: Jack Prest – ‘Test Tone IV’ and ‘Test Tone VII’: deliciously amniotic ambient electronica from Sydney
JACK PREST, the Australian soundscaper, is perhaps best known for his work on the other side of the plexiglass as an engineer and producer at Sydney’s Studios 301, nine decades of recording absolutely according it legendary status. Best known, for now. That looks like it really could be about to change; lovers of the blissful, …
Track: Loraine James – ‘Let’s Go’: Enfield producer’s latest drop skitters with Ballardian futurism
GROWING up on the North London-Hertfordshire borders of Enfield, producer Loraine James was up on the escarpment, able to gaze down across London in the bowl of the Thames valley below. That skyline, the city so near, silhouetted, morphing as new towers grew from reinforced steel skeletons, informed and continues to inform her enthralling future …
Track: Mattia Cupelli reveals a dark ambient aesthetic with the eerie prayer call of ‘MONOLITH’
ROMAN composer Mattia Cupelli likes to play on the borders of modern classical, electronica, ambient and soundtrack elements, which has stood him in good stead over nearly a decade of composing scores for more than a dozen films. He’s now embarking on a non-filmic exploration of dark ambient, with an album, RUINS, coming out in …
See: Throwing Snow – Halos: generative, organic visuals and chattering electronica connect
ROSS TONES, the electronic voyager who records for Houndstooth as Throwing Snow, has dropped a video for new single “Halos”, the latest intelligent bodymover to be lifted from his forthcoming album Dragons. Dragons will be Throwing Snow’s fourth album and seeks to explore the space between science and ancestral wisdom, connecting modern electronica back to …