Various – SEMANTICA 10.I / 10.II (2016)
Hard to believe that Semantica Records has been in business for a decade and even the previous milestone with the “Five Years Compilation” series feels like a recent event. Over the time, the label...
View ArticleDUST OFF: Gemini – The Beginning (Relief Records RR 703 – 1994)
It’s time to correct a major shortcoming in this blog, namely the missing coverage about the artist who deserves superlatives – Spencer Kincy aka Gemini. A member of the mid-nineties guild of Chicago...
View ArticlePeacefrog turns 25, plans re-pressing early vinyl
The 25th anniversary of Peacefrog will not be a quiet one, when the seminal UK label admitted it plans to ‘re-press some early catalogue and favourites’. In 2011, the 20-year celebrations were marked...
View ArticleDUST OFF: Fred Giannelli – 1st Premonition (Superstition 2068 – 1996)
By 12th August of 1996, when Superstition Records issued “1st Premonition”, Fred Giannelli didn’t need any introduction anymore. After touring with the proto-industrial group Psychic TV in the 1980s,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Shifted – Drifting Over (Drifting Over DRFT001 – 2016)
Previously I have covered a few Avian releases but surprisingly this is my first review of Shifted’s solo work. Long overdue for sure, because the label founder Guy Brewer, whose real identity was...
View ArticleNews: Fylkingen unearths text-sound series from the 1970s
Der Schaumreiter scheitert in einem Raum voll Scheiter. Vapeurs en fleurs vous lêtes tourbillons de gaz amoreux. These are two extracts from the poems of the Estonian-born multi-talent Ilmar Laaban who...
View ArticleREVIEW: Jack Murphy – Knowing Something 1 (KS 1 – 2016)
After only three solo EPs – on Frozen Border sublabel Reference and Don’t Be Afraid’s Special Editions series – San Francisco resident Jack Murphy has decided to become a music publisher and launches...
View ArticleSven Grünberg – Hingus (Bureau B BB 241LP – 1981/2016)
Sven Grünberg is real name of a real person and he is not a fictional Lufthansa engineer who secretly became electronic musician in the 1970s and appeared from the obscurity later. Grünberg, who turns...
View ArticleMetroplex triplets in 2016: Terrence Dixon, Arnold Steiner, Kimyon
With three much-awaited Model 500 reissues, Metroplex’s year 2016 would not have been wasted anyway, but the futurist label from Detroit decided to live not only in the past and has...
View ArticleDUST OFF: Top 15 electronic tracks from 1997 (Part 1)
It is becoming a tradition: After listing my favourites from 2005 and from 1996, the time is ripe for another end of the year selection from the archives. The second part can be found here. Bizz O.D. –...
View ArticleREVIEW: Biosphere – The Hilvarenbeek Recordings (Biophon Records BIO 25 LP –...
The Hilvarenbeek Recordings [Remastered and expanded version] by Biosphere Buy music from Bandcamp Buy music from Juno (UK) Buy music from Kudos (UK) Organically certified agroambient In 2016,...
View ArticleREVIEW: DJ Di’jital – ElectroHop1 (TRUST 34 – 2019)
Buy vinyl from Juno (UK) Buy vinyl from Clone (NL) Buy vinyl from HHV (DE) Electrohop don’t stop Since the end of 2017, techno bass stronghold Direct Beat has been transmitting signs of life...
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DUST OFF: Tracks from 1999
The last days of December 20 years ago were spent in great anticipation of the Millennium Bug. The darkest plots saw the future of the (wo)mankind endangered, if the computers would have flipped out....
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***** Lauri-Dag Tüür – Polar Night Jet (self-released 2020)
Appearances could be deceptive. A Bandcamp release with three long tracks of about 45 minutes in total and abstract photo artwork by Hannes Unt, “Polar Night Jet” looks like another journey in the...
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AMBIENT BITS: Christopher Bissonnette, Joachim Spieth, Morgen Wurde,...
Not sure if there’s any empirical evidence that during the pandemic people’s preferences turned to ambient music. Might be, because of its mostly relaxing nature and I have to admit that a number of...
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***** Unknown Artists – STAUB 006 (Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound...
Various unknown artists and various sounds of techno on this five-tracker, clocking almost 30 minutes of playtime. A good reason to return to the label, after covering the fifth release in the STAUB...
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***** Lauri-Dag Tüür – Waves Of Silent Whispers (Self-released – 2022)
“Waves Of Silent Whispers” is Lauri-Dag Tüür’s second ambient and IDM album, after “Polar Night Jet” in 2020. The new one landed in my inbox already in June 2022. Though not forgotten, it spent most of...
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**** Joachim Spieth – Reshape (Affin LP06 LTD – 2022)
For a festive occasion – fifteen years of Affin – the label founder Joachim Spieth invited eight artists to create new versions of his archive tracks. For the beginning, Alva Noto follows minimalistic...
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***** Maxime Denuc – Nachthorn (VLEK 36 – 2022)
With determination and courage, Maxime Denuc set up a challenge between computer and organ. More exactly, in May 2021 the musician from Belgium steered electronically the organ in the St....
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***** Serti – Extrovert From Outside, Introvert Inside (Fied FIED001 – 2023)
‘Create something, steal nothing’ is a slogan of Stef Geerlings aka Serti, and he really means it. Techno producer from Amsterdam, who describes his style ‘weird soundscapes and clumsy kicks and...
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