Sola Rosa – Moves On (Way Up / Inertia)
After first emerging back in 2000 with his debut album Entrance To Skyway, Auckland-based downbeat…
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Ova Looven – Gravity Has Expired (Artikal)
Upon the demise of US-based new wave/shoegazer band Antarctica back in 1999, four members -…
Yea Big & Kid Static – The Heavy 7″ (Metal Postcard)
Chicago based MC Kid Static and producer Yea Big (real name Stefan Robinson) both already…
Suguru Kusumi – Equaller (Inzec)
Tokyo-based techno producer Suguru Kusumi first surfaced back in 1999 with his debut Ustkot 12″…
Fast Lady & Scorpio Scorpio – Love Dictator / United In Rock (V/VM Test)
Doncaster, UK-based “laprock’ trio Fast Lady apparently first formed in 2000 after “a night of…
Arrow!!! – D.O.E.S. EP (Lobe)
24 year old Shoreditch, UK-based producer Roscoe Williamson has previously toured both Japan and Taiwan…
Underlapper interview by Chris Downton
Interview with Underlapper by Chris Downton Sydney-based six-piece Underlapper first coalesced around the central core…
Lietterschpich – I Cum Blood In The Think Tank (Topheth Prophet / HCB)
Israeli eight-piece noise ensemble Lietterschpich certainly don’t do things by halves. If the deliberately confrontational…
Proem – A Permanent Solution (n5MD)
Since his earliest releases back at the start of the decade on labels such as…
SJ Esau – Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse (Anticon)
Like fellow West Country-born signees Bracken, Bristolian songwriter / producer Sam Wisternoff (aka SJ Esau)…
Back Ted N Ted – Pop Animal (Abandon Building Records)
Phoenix, Arizona-based electronic producer / multi-instrumentalist Ryan Breen has already accumulated a substantial reputation as…
Filmic – Peacock People: Music Laid By Borrowed Branch (Filmic)
Filmic is an audiovisual collaboration of two comprised of New Zealand-based duo Gareth Fletcher and…
Mr. Percival – Out Of The Loop (Pelican Dreaming / Vitamin)
With a background as both an accomplished jazz singer and vocal teacher, Bondi-based vocalist Darren…
Kids On TV – Mixing Business With Pleasure (Chicks On Speed / Inertia)
Noisy electro / rave / booty-house trio Kids On TV have already amassed a fair…
Ascanio Borga – Inner Geometry (Independent)
Rome-based ambient electronic composer Ascanio Borga apparently spent his childhood pursuing classical piano lessons, before…