Listen to a new track from the upcoming LP by The Greatest Hoax on Serein
New signing to Welsh ambient and modern classical label Serein, The Greatest Hoax, releases his…
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Seb Chan
Seb Chan founded Cyclic Defrost Magazine in 1998 with Dale Harrison. He handed over the reins at the end of 2010 but still contributes the occasional article and review.
Listen to Kirribilli from Pheek’s new ambient opus
Sandwiched between the ‘big ambient releases’ this month – the return of Wolgang Voigt’s Gas…
Listen to Max Cooper’s Distant Lights remixed by Rival Consoles
Late last year Max Cooper released the fantastic LP, Emergence. Cinematic, spatial, epic and accompanied…
Cruel Optimism: In conversation with Lawrence English
Lawrence English has been a one of the most prolific Australian sound artists and musicians…
Preview a track from Arnaldo & Monoak’s autumnal split EP for Greta Cottage Workshop
In the northern hemisphere the autumn leaves have begun to fall, and with them the…
Label Profile : 130701 – interview with Dave Howell by Seb Chan
130701 is a subsidiary of the legendary UK label Fat Cat Records. Formed out of…
Listen to the Seven Years of Home Normal sampler
Six weeks ago we published an interview with Ian Hawgood of Home Normal. Ian made…
Label profile: 1631 Recordings – interview with David Wenngren by Seb Chan
David Wenngren from Library Tapes and Mattias Nilsson from Kning Disk formed 1631 Recordings just…
Label Profile: Home Normal – interview with Ian Hawgood by Seb Chan
Ian Hawgood has been making quiet, ambient recordings for over a decade with releases initially…
Black Cube SP at Shapeshifter Lab, Brookyln – April 14, 2015
It had been almost ten years since I’d seen Rob Mazurek and Mauricio Takara. Back…
Der Klang Der Familie: Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall
Der Klang Der Familie is a book length oral history that went on to inform…
Rival Consoles – Sonne EP (Erased Tapes)
It should be no surprise that Ryan Lees West (Rival Consoles) supported Luke Abbott on…
Deadbeat & Paul St Hillaire – Infinity Dub Sessions (Blkrtz)
Well this was quite a surprise. After a set of more techno-inflected cuts on the…
Leyland Kirby – Breaks My Heart Each Time (Apollo)
It makes sense that Kirby would end up releasing something on R&S especially given his…
Royal Dust – Remixes (Haunt)
Royal Dust’s self-titled debut is one of my favourite releases of 2013 – almost like…