Electronica
PREMIERE: Babe, Terror – ‘Salina Lumen’: Caretaker-style eerieness from a locked-down São Paulo
BABE, TERROR, the nom-de-musique of São Paulo’s Claudio Szynkier, is a serious sort of name. That juxtaposition: your babe, your loved one, terror. Oh. … but then these are serious times, and if you think we’ve got it bad in the UK currently, then try the Brazil of the Brazil of an emergent populist, Covid-denying …
TRACK: hear the synth disco of Mort Garson’s ‘Dragonfly’ ahead of Sacred Bones’ reissues
MORT GARSON is a name that’s intoned with due gravity by those who know. Hailing from Canada with an interest of the sounds of early circuitry-based music and a penchant for conceptual albums – concerning witchcraft, the zodiac, even music to help plants grow: to the sort of people you find in the kitchen bathtub …
EP REVIEW: Max Cooper – ‘Earth’: cutting-edge IDM for our life on it
IN FORMER times, he’s what you would call a renaissance man, a polymath, Max Cooper: active and proficient in so many fields of creativity and science; jack of all trades, oh; master of them, too. A childhood dalliance with the violin proved a false dawn; instead he pursued biology and was awarded a PhD in …
PREMIERE: Demsky – ‘Cold Coffee’: a chilled drink and loose-limbed, ambient downbeat
IT’S BEEN a proper learning curve: I mean, we’ve all had to find our own ways of dealing with … this, haven’t we? Whatever gets you through. Personally I’ve got friends who’ve deep-dived into utter vinyl addiction; who’ve really got into 5k running, or taken up painting for the very first time; who’ve planted out …
TRACK: Pole – ‘Röschen’: Berlin textural ‘tronica legend is back; new album in November
BERLIN’S Stefan Betke, digidub mastering legend and masterful glitchtronica/deep groove recording artist in his own right as Pole, has announced details of his new album for Mute, and has also shared the first teaser for it in the shape of “Röschen”: listen with us, it’s embedded below. His eighth straight studio set – leaving aside …
SEE: HAAi – ‘Rotating In Unison’: expansive future tech for Mute
LONDON-based Teneil Throssell, who records for Mute as HAAi, has certainly undertaken a deep geographical and musical journey to where she is today: poised to release her second EP for Mute, one full of future techno experimentation. Born in Western Australia, she was a teen guitarist who moved uptown to Sydney for a dive into …
TRACK: Kelly Lee Owens feat John Cale – ‘Corner Of My Sky’: Welsh wizardry combined in genre-blurring techno
TAKE one absolute legend of experimental pop music, Carmarthenshire-born John Cale, who needs no introduction in these pages, a career of absolute wonder and collaboration under his belt, never content to rest on his admittedly fine laurels; then add his creative perceptivity to that of Flintshire’s Kelly Lee Owens who, like no one else with …
PREMIERE: The Galaxy Electric – ‘Tomorrow Was Better Than Yesterday’: retrotronics to watch Earthrise
THE GALAXY ELECTRIC is American husband and wife duo Augustus and Jacqueline, who adore the music of the past of the future: that sweet, groovy as hell, jetpack-sporting and pristine white polo-necked spot where Broadcast, The Soundcarriers and others converge to fulfil the prophecy of the music we should be listening to today, in the …
SEE: John Monkman – ‘Spectrum’: a grandiose and atmospheric tronica sweep
JOHN MONKMAN, the London-based tech-electronica producer who’s put intelligent grooves out on labels such as Crosstown Rebels and Kompakt, has unveiled the bewitching monochrome grids of the video for his latest track on his own Beesemyer Music imprint, “Spectrum”. It’s a deeply affecting two minutes-odd; there’s a lot built in to this track. As grid …
TRACKS: hear the Deadenz and MICROCORPS remixes of Wrangler’s ‘Rhizomatic’: bleak and off-kilter retro-synth funk
WRANGLER, the leftfield tronica supergroup comprised of Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder, Cornish-based Moog explorer Benge and Tuung’s Phil Winter, have released a brace of remixes of tracks taken from their latest for Bella Union, A Situation. Wrangler formed with a simple aim. They had a select collection of vintage analogue synths from which they tasked …