Techno
New Music: Jeff Mills & Zanza 21 EP – When The Time Is Right
Jeff Mills and the Zanza 21 project is a new forthcoming creation that’s been self-constructing for quite some time. Not out in the open and easy to see, but it’s been evolving more in recent months through the imprint “Millsart” album releases and as an accumulation of ideas that are influences of Mills’ affection for Jazz …
See: Chris Liebing propels you into the quietly epic, dancefloor mantra of ‘Something Half Way’ – he’s also playing a string of dates across Europe
ONE OF the founding fathers of the techno scene in financial hub of Frankfurt, Chris Liebing, is blazing a trail towards the release of his first album in more than three years for Mute this November with a second single drop, “Something Half Way”, which we’ve got for you below. A chattering, clicking, supremely textural …
Album Review: Jeff Mills – Clairvoyant
Jeff Mills rarely needs an introduction but for those of you new to the name, Jeff Mills (aka “The Wizard”) is a pioneer and well respected artist in the genre of techno music, Clairvoyant (his latest solo work) demonstrates the reason why. Jeff Mills_The Clairvoyant “There are many ways to imagine the future. One might …
From The Vaults: Mark Archer – Arch-ives
Mark Archer (Altern 8, Nexus 21, Slo Moshun) brings together a collection of tracks released over the past twelve years on various labels. A superb collection of House/Acid/Techno quality, that only a oldskool veteran DJ/Producer could create. You know the deal, your either in the know, or your not. Over the last couple of decades, …
Track: Paranoid London – ‘The State Of That’: delectably dark dancefloor banger tees up their new EP
PARANOID LONDON, the shadowy two-piece of Quinn Whalley and Gerardo Delgado, who understand all the right things about what makes dancefloor culture so righteous and necessary and addictive – it should be perfumed with sweat and shadows and melody and mantric thrum and hell, you can’t beat a little acid, and it should have space …
News: Squarepusher’s thrilling, insane ‘Feed Me Weird Things’ gets a silver jubilee reissue; revel in the deep acid of ‘Theme From Ernest Borgnine’
NOW THIS … this is sexy news for the lover of the weird and the wired and the warped (and, serendipitously, the Warp). Squarepusher’s hyperactive, insane, thrilling debut album for Warp, Feed Me Weird Things, is to get a 25th (what now?) anniversary reissue on June 4th. Stand back, light the touchpaper. Not only will …
See: A live studio take on Matt Robertson’s ‘Bees’: a retrotronic acid techno sweep to spiral around a forest clearing to
GROWING up listening to a mixture of Jean-Michel Jarre and Jimmy Smith, Matt Robertson certainly had a good early primer in the weirder beauties of music; big-screen synthesiser worlds, the grooviest, cinematic organ jazz (you mean you haven’ heard Jimmy Smith’s The Cat?) Matt studied at the University of Surrey and matriculated into the arcane world …
Track: Matt Robertson – ‘Kalimba’: a grand, chattering, acid sweep
GROWING up listening to a mixture of Jean-Michel Jarre and Jimmy Smith, Matt Robertson certainly had a good early primer in the weirder beauties of music; big-screen synthesiser worlds, the grooviest, cinematic organ jazz (you mean you haven’ heard Jimmy Smith’s The Cat?) After university, Matt matriculated into the world of the recording studio. He’s worked …
Interview: we talk to Jean-Phi Dary & Jeff Mills about their collaboration ‘The Paradox’ and discuss the new album: Counter Active
Paradox: a doubtful statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. When a spark ignites between two musicians, the state of flow can be achieved. Usually, a fleeting sensation, but when captured, it is an unstoppable force. The coming together of Jeff Mills and Jean-Phi Dary came …
SEE: Sébastien Guérive – ‘Omega II’: off-world, glitchy soundscapes
FRENCH composer and producer Sébastien Guérive has a really skin-shiveringly delightful way with an icy, glitchy techno landscape – as shown by his new single, “Omega II”, which has a beautiful monochrome video accompanying – watch below. Let’s meet Sébastien: he’s based in Nantes. After studying the cello, he turned to musical creation using the …