Electronica
Track: Elsa Hewitt’s ‘Inhaler’ gives electronica a good, hard shove into the future; she’s an album out in April
ELSA HEWITT is an artist weaving away at the experimental cutting edges of what you can do with electronica; blending the avant-garde, lo-fi, musics of the dancefloor, hip-hop, dreampop more, marrying it and blending it and, like loose fellow travellers such as Jockstrap and HAAi, taking electronica and giving it a good hard shove into …
Track: Lisel + Booker Stardrum – ‘In The Dome’: fractured, space-age experimental pop
ELIZA BEGG, the vocalist and composer who guises as Lisel musically, and electronica creator and percussionist Booker Stardrum, have been friends a long time, circulating in each other’s musical orbit. What with the absolutely bloody everything of it out there, they’ve elected to spend recent time wisely with a six-week, remote collaboration eliciting an album, …
NEWS: GoGo Penguin announce Blue Note remix album with a stellar cast; hear the MachineDrum remix of ‘Atomised’
THE LEFTFIELD, inventive Mancunian piano trio GoGo Penguin, who work out in the truly creative zones where dancefloor and intelligence and a jazzy feel bump into each other, decided they could be lifelong friends, have announced a remix album for Blue Note, to be entitled GGP/RMX; and boy have they lined up a mighty cast …
Track: Ueda Takasayu – ‘Every Clouds Calls My Name’: Phantom Limb debutante’s impressionistic, psychotropic odyssey
BORN in Hiroshima and raised partly in Germany and Austria, debuting Phantom Limb artist Ueda Takayasu says he spent his childhood feeling stateless, distant from his own cultural identity and curiously “un-Japanese”. Even now, in adulthood, having returned to Japan, he speaks English, German and Japanese at home. His internal response to this deep-rooted search for meaning …
Track: UNKNOWN ME’s ‘Open The Sense’ is a rainbow ambient bonbon
YOU QUITE possibly haven’t come across UNKNOWN ME, a Japanese collective with a very particularly glimmering, space-age approach to the the business of ambience; in fact, if their moniker is anything to go by, maybe even they haven’t. But if trippy electronic sound is your bag, and it oughta be, then perhaps now is an …
See: The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer – ‘Forever Fool (Post-Apocalipstick)’: a late-night stoner chillout reimagining
A VANCOUVER duo who met by chance at a jobbing jingle recording session some decade and a half ago, the curiously named The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer soon discovered a mutual wish to explore the folk and the blues; a business they’ve been about over five albums in the time since. They’ve taken the …
Track: Brisbane’s Syrup pour out a tasty disco treat ‘Catch Your Flow’
Funking along at a frenetic pace with a bubbling bass and chunky guitars, ‘Catch Your Flow’ is a sparkling and bright piece of electronic disco from Brisbane duo Syrup. Mixing an indie sensibility with something that traipses along with an electronic hum and catchy refrain, this is energising stuff. And it’s not all superficial hedonistic …
Penelope Trappes announces final album in her trilogy; hear the sultry electronic noir of ‘Nervous’
BRIGHTON-based, Australian-born mistress of noir electronica, Penelope Trappes, has announced that the concluding album of her Penelope trilogy will be out on her home of the past few years, Houndstooth, at the end of May; and she’s dropped the lush, draping velvet of “Nervous” to curl you like incense smoke into her world. There’s also …
News: Secrets of Elements announces April album; hear the grand electronic sweep of ‘Cassini’
THE GERMAN composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Johann Pätzold, who records as Secret of Elements, has announced the release of his first album since 2011’s Minds. It’s to be entitled Chronos, and it’ll be with us come the back end of April; but today he’s dropped as a welcome the track “Cassini”, which you can hear below. It fuses …
Throwing Snow – ‘Lithics’: an organic, midtempo call to euphoric IDM prayer
ROSS TONES, the Northern Englishman who’s made his way to a rural retreat in the South West via the capital, is regarded as something of a mainstay over at Houndstooth, the label that’s spiralled out of London’s fabric club. He’s just followed up last year’s The Folly of Pangloss EP, which he released under the …