Various Artists – Music Of The Russian Avant-garde 1905-1926 (Celestial Harmonies)
The Russian Revolution sparked an avalanche of boundless creativity from Russian artists of all disciplines,…
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Minamo – Documental (Room 40)
Minamo’s Documental presents a further distillation of the Tokyo quartet’s lowercase electroacoustic folk improvisations, edited…
Various – Myths and Masks Of Karol Szymanowski Music By Ukrainian Sound Artists (Kvitnu)
I’ve a fascination with contemporary remixes of classical music, particularly by electronic artists, but given…
Taylor Deupree – Focux (Lantern)
Listening to these mid-90s 4/4 workouts by 12k label boss Taylor Deupree I was first…
Vitor Joaquim – Filament (Kvitnu)
Vitor Joaquim has been a prolific and esteemed producer since the nineties and is considered…
Peter Knight and Dung Nguyen – Residual (Parentheses Records)
Peter Knight and Dung Nguyen are members of Way Out West, the cross-cultural jazz ensemble,…
Suboko & Hübsch & Spieth – K-horns (Schraum)
French outfit Suboko is an electronics-percussion trio of the rattly-squeaky free-improv variety comprising Pascal Gully…
Reinhold Friedl – Inside Piano (Zeitkratzer)
‘Pianist’s is a somewhat misleading, belittling even, title for Reinhold Friedl, much as ‘new music…
Reinhold Friedl – Eight Equidistant Pure Wave Oscillators, While Slipping Very Slowly To A Unison, Textually Spatialised On Eight Speakers, Concret, 60 Minutes (Room 40)
Reinhold Friedl is the maestro behind Zeitkratzer and responsible for some of that group’ most…
Peon – Intercourse Suite (Bandcamp)
Peon describe themselves as ‘Melbourne’s premier double-drummer festival of exploratory sound’, and who’s to disagree?…
Machinefabriek – Sol Sketches (Machinefabriek)
Machinefabriek’s Rutger Zuydervelt is almost dismissive of these sublime piano miniatures when describing them as…
Wolfgang Voigt – Kafkatrax (Profan)
On paper Wolfgang Voigt’s Kafkatrax seems an obvious and predictable proposition. The Cologne Techno pioneer,…
Benedict Moleta: “I’m not into cultivating an atmosphere of phoney reverence.” Interview by Joshua Meggitt
Perth is a funny old place. The most isolated city in the world. This fact…
Chihei Hatakeyama – Mirror (Room 40)
Given ambient dronemeister Chihei Hatakeyama’s dedication to a particularly restricted tonal palette he’s relatively prolific,…
The Machinist – Of What Once Was (Moving Furniture Records)
The Machinist is the guitar-drone project of Dutch musician Zeno van den Broek, Of What…