In the great abstraction of reality we’ve been living through, I always hoped that the upside would be frustrated musicians and non-musicians turning inward. While collaborative and band situations are …
SISTER ODD – Bruise/Reuse (self released 2021) Read More
For your auricular displeasure, Irish electronic entity ROGUE SPORE presents a new release celebrating 10 years of noise, esoteric and amphibious electronic experiments. A DECADE OF IRONING BOARD ELECTRONICS 2010-2020 …
ROGUE SPORE – A Decade of Ironing Board Electronics 2010-2020 (RS9-2020) Read More
In a world of independent oddities, this is exactly how the humble 7” deserves to be delivered – high-concept, low-frill, electronic punk from the wonderfully named German duo I AM …
I AM THE FLY – I AM THE FLY 7” EP (not on label 2020) Read More
TRIUMVIRATE lands after an exceptionally busy couple of years overhauling and reconstituting the back catalogues of Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Throbbing Gristle, and the high-grade reissues keep coming, …
CARTER TUTTI VOID – TRIUMVIRATE (Conspiracy International 2019) Read More
When you are willfully divergent and askew to the point that logic dictates your bandname as ¡NO!, its ungooglability is going to bite you sooner or later. In my clunky …
ZEROPUNKT (formerly ¡NO!) – Bitch Nails – digital single (self-released 2019) Read More
Strange is the world of Laibach that it has taken 3 years for an audio document of this project to emerge. Given the publicity surrounding Laibach’s high adventures in the …
LAIBACH – The Sound Of Music (2018 MUTE RECORDS) Read More
To get an idea how much of an anomaly Stano’s 1983 debut album Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft really was, simply compare it to pretty much any other …
STANO – Content To Write In I Dine Weathercraft – vinyl reissue (Allchival 2018) Read More
Let us get pastoral for a minute – I have always had a love for the bright weak sunshine and shards of long shadow that break the lethargy of a …
THROBBING GRISTLE – Journey Through A Body – Vinyl Reissue (MUTE 2018) Read More
Although theoretically anyone with a laptop, a couple of externals, and a genuine ability to self-edit can build some worthy ambient electronic fodder, high quality seams of creativity appear to …
LIGHTS A.M. – Lightworker – digital single (self-released 2018) Read More
This is a collaboration that looks cautiously promising on paper. I occasionally stumble across Nik Turner’s musical endeavours, and while I cannot confess to being much interested in anything jazzy …
NIK TURNER AND YOUTH – PHARAOHS FROM OUTER SPACE (Painted Word Music 2018) Read More
Until I read the announcement of this release in late March, I honestly didn’t think there would be another Klaus Schulze studio album. Official but vague statements about serious health …
KLAUS SCHULZE – Silhouettes (SPV/Oblivion 2018) Read More
The world of recorded noise is a divisive one – deeply personal to those who construct it and abhorred by those who, often for very logical reasons, have no taste …
LUXURY MOLLUSC – Osseous Labyrinth Vestibule (Cursed Monk Records 2018) Read More
This was never going to be anything but intriguing. Although Chris Carter’s legacy as a synthesist is clear to anyone with an ounce of lateral thought, the wider scourge of …
CHRIS CARTER – Chemistry Lessons Volume One (Mute Records 2018) Read More
As a long-term enthusiast of what could be loosely termed Berlin school electronics, my ears are constantly peeled for contemporary material observing the original gene pool as a reference point, …
HAWKSMOOR – HAWKSMOOR (Negative Drive Records 2018) Read More
This is an exciting prospect. Kronos Quartet was always one of those entities that just kept popping up on my radar, not because (at least initially) I went looking for …
LAURIE ANDERSON & KRONOS QUARTET – Landfall (Nonesuch Records 2018) Read More
2017 has been a busy year for Cosey Fanni Tutti. In February, Hull 2017 UK City Of Culture mounted the first major retrospective of Coum Transmissions, the pre-Throbbing Gristle performance …
COSEY FANNI TUTTI – Time To Tell (vinyl reissue 2017 Conspiracy International) Read More
At a young and innocent age, I owned a copy of Gary Numan’s DANCE album. This was purchased for 99p in the bargain bin of Golden Discs, North Earl Street …
GARY NUMAN – SAVAGE – Songs from a Broken World (BMG 2017) Read More
It has been 6 long years since the last studio album by Gothenburg’s Carbon Based Lifeforms. In 2011, the curious TWENTYTHREE stepped away from the beats and accessibility of their …
CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS – DERELICTS (Blood Music/Leftfield Records 2017) Read More
Last time we encountered Laibach in its full glory, the group had shape-shifted yet again, switching to subversively accessible mode with 2014’s wonderful SPECTRE. Technically, Mina Špiler has been part …
LAIBACH – Also Sprach Zarathustra (Mute 2017) Read More
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
