About 4 years ago, a certain rabid and dedicated blogger compiled 7 volumes of a very excellent bootleg series called Synthesizers Rules 1978-1983 ( cough! ) collating a diaspora of proto …
STRANGE PASSION – Explorations in Irish post punk, DIY and electronic music 1980-83 (CacheCache / Finders Keepers Records 2012) Read More
Iron sky – Laibach’s release pattern over the last decade has been increasingly erratic and with the long-term core of the group down to Ivan Novak and Milan Fras, along …
LAIBACH – Iron Sky: The Original Film Soundtrack (MUTE RECORDS 2012) Read More
Hawkwind seem to be going through a renaissance of late (no doubt due to namedropping from the right places) and given that so much of the band’s recent history has …
HAWKWIND – Onward (Plastic Head 2012) album review Read More
Public Image Limited is an entity that has been with me since that beautifully skewed performance of FLOWERS OF ROMANCE on Top Of The Pops several centuries ago. The unlikelihood …
PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED – One Drop EP (PiL Official Ltd label 2012) Read More
Strong tides bring the deathship back into dock with another cargo of throbbing electronic doom, mournful phantasmal melodica and nautical soliloquy. With great strides of confidence, Melodica Deathship have expanded …
MELODICA DEATHSHIP – The Sunken Path EP (Cooler than Cucumbers Records 2012) Read More
Carter Tutti Void is a much-anticipated return to the Carter Tutti field of work for Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti. It has been somewhat neglected since the wonderful FERAL VAPOURS OF …
CARTER TUTTI VOID – Transverse (Mute Records 2012) Read More
Scattered throughout the minefield of modern music, albums of covers have been recorded by musicians and non musicians for infinite reasons – influence (Ramones), homage (Bowie), lack of ideas (Metallica), …
The RADIATORS From Space – SOUND CITY BEAT ( Chiswick Records 2012 ) Read More
Amebix is one of a small number of noisy bands from the punk realms that seem to have this strange chokehold on those who have felt inspired by them. Undoubtedly …
AMEBIX – Sonic Mass (Easy Action Records 2011) Read More
I first came across the work of Peter Sís in an exhibition of children’s illustration at the Imperial Stables of Prague Castle in 1998. This show was split over two …
THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS (Peter Sís / The Penguin Press 2011) Read More
The Solar Fields output over 10 albums has been eclectic, amorphous and impressive, shifting vehicle every couple of albums and facilitating a pick’n’mix outflow of high grade downbeat and ambient …
SOLAR FIELDS – Until We Meet The Sky (Ultimae Records 2011) Read More
With a stubbornly stereotyped path of military insignia, rabid samples of mid-20th century dictators and the same tone of brooding pomp over and over, the world of Martial/neo-classical music deserves greater …
CAFÉ DE L’ENFER – Marchant A Quatre Pattes Au Devant de la Redemption ( Steinklang Industries ) Read More
It’s been 5 years since any manner of recorded noise has seeped from the Mortal Records orifice. The interim has seen the REPLICAS anniversary tour in all its nostalgic recapitalisation …
GARY NUMAN – Dead Son Rising ( Mortal Records ) Album Review Read More
Caution was taken in approaching this item as I have unerring faith in this man. What he has injected into the cultural climate of the last 30 years is surrealistic …
DAVID LYNCH – Crazy Clown Time ( Play It Again Sam ) Read More
There’s an instinctive symbiosis that comes with a rare few synth-based duos… something vaguely detectable in the quality that’s difficult to put in words… like a digital genetic compatibility… whatever …
XENO AND OAKLANDER – SET AND LIGHTS ( Wierd Records ) Read More
Crazy Glue – An exploding bauble of luck once cast its shrapnel about the ranks of a certain generation of loud west coast American bands… shards of it struck those …
FISHBONE – CRAZY GLUE ( DC-Jam Records ) Read More
This is the densest that Gothenburg’s Carbon Based Lifeforms have ever sounded. Their previous output all the way back to the Notch incarnation traded on electronic sound with a very …
CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS – TwentyThree ( Ultimae Records 2011 ) Read More
Issued back in March of this year, the economically titled CONSTRUCTION is the debut from one of the more interesting electronic entities currently operating in Dublin. Rough mixes posted on …
CATSCARS – Construction ( White Plague Records 2011 ) Read More
A few years back, Geir Jenssen planted a diatribe on his webspace stating that Biosphere was no longer touring due to the general unhealthy lifestyle that comes with the trappings …
BIOSPHERE – N-Plants ( Touch 2011 ) Read More
Dublin is by no means exclusive in it’s ability to be a harsh environment to that which sticks around for longer than the ever decreasing attention span of it’s troglodyte …
ESTEL – A Massive, Glorious, Uphill, Shit-Fight ( Little Plastic Tapes/Headwrecker 2011) Read More
When I first saw the promo for Mother a couple of weeks back I was impressed at how Blondie had managed to pull something fresh and contemporary out of the …
BLONDIE – Panic of Girls ( ElevenSeven 2011 ) Read More