Dadub – You Are Eternity

The Italian duo Daniele Antezza and Giovanni Conti, aka Dadub, hail from a corner of the techno genre that shares more in common with late industrial music than with the Continue reading →

Ryoji Ikeda – Superposition ::: The Barbican, 27/03/13

While listening to Ryoji Ikeda‘s discography in the days preceding Wednesday’s performance in the Barbican Theater, I was made aware – in a way that I have never truly been Continue reading →

Aoki Takamasa – Constant Flow

Aoki Takamasa has always struck me as a producer who is less well known that he deserves to be, though this likely has something to do with the relatively large Continue reading →

Urpf Lanze – Procession of Talking Mirrors

While he is recognised as one of history’s great Romantic poets, it is less well known that in the later stages of his life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe turned his Continue reading →

Tomonari Nozaki – North Palace

Right from the very beginning there is a palpable sense of inward bleakness that shrouds North Palace. Echoes of musical shapes swirl behind clouds of white noise, stark and slippery, Continue reading →

Masayoshi Fujita – Stories

It is described by its press release as a solo vibraphone album, but Masayoshi Fujita’s Stories, out recently on the Japanese label Flau, is a little bit more than that. Continue reading →

Locust of the Dead Earth – Mithridate

The two guitars that open Mithridate – one picking away at a minor arpeggio, the other slicing out long held chords pushed through a toothy distortion – seem to make Continue reading →

Krill.Minima – Sekundenschlaf

The last time I encountered Krill.Minima (real name: Martin Juhls) was way back in 2007 when he released Nautica on Native State. This label, now defunct, was an American West Continue reading →