Damian Valles – Skeleton Taxa (Drifting Falling)
Canada’s Damian Valles comes to drone with a wide musical experience, and postrock, folk/country and…
Author Peter Hollo
Peter Hollo
Radio broadcaster - Utility Fog on FBi. Cellist - FourPlay String Quartet. Web administrator, editor, reviewer, sporadic blogger, science fiction fan, bicycle rider...
Plaid – Scintilli (Warp)
It’s been an incredible 8 years since the last “real” Plaid album. In the meantime…
Himuro – 7th Shapeshifting (Bedroom Research)
Himuro Yoshiteru has been a mainstay of the electronic music scene since the late ’90s,…
Pop Will Eat Itself – New Noise Designed By A Sadist (Cooking Vinyl/Shock)
There was a time when Pop Will Eat Itself were the most important band in…
The Books: “This language we have is the snake eating its own tail.” Interview by Peter Hollo
I first came across Nick Zammuto on the infamous idm-list in the late 1990s. We…
Inch-time – The Floating World + remixes (Mystery Plays Records)
Originally from Adelaide, Stefan Panczak made waves in 2004 with an EP of warm folktronica,…
Gentleforce by Peter Hollo
Eli Murray seems bemused at the buzz around his work at the moment. He is…
Autechre – Move of Ten (Warp/Inertia)
It’s a mystery that so many commentators seem to be claiming that this, the second…
Anodyne – Corrosion: The Remixes EP (Psychonavigation)
Dublin-based producer Anodyne has a pedigree that goes back to the last of SKAM’s ultra-limited…
Icarus: “We don’t want to be dictated to by an industry that won’t accommodate a new way of looking at musical creativity.” Interview by Peter Hollo
In the last years of the 1990s, Icarus – aka English cousins Oliver Bown and…
emptyset – emptyset (Caravan/Multiverse)
There’s a bad habit among writers of press releases to situate albums in whatever latest…
Fieldhead – They Shook Hands For Hours (Home Assembly Music)
In 2008 I was lucky enough to be put up for a night at the…
Marmite Pop: Tim Exile interview by Peter Hollo
Tim Shaw (aka Tim Exile) started making drum’n’bass tunes in 2000, for labels such as…
Jon Hopkins interview by Peter Hollo
(Photo by Steve Gullick) Every so often you discover an artist a few albums into…
Autechre – Quaristice (Warp/Inertia)
In 1994, my 20-years-young self was sat on a plane at Heathrow on a stop-over…