Panoramic Colorsound
The venerable Dark Entries celebrates it’s 300th release with Panoramic Coloursound, a triple LP from the Creative Technology Consortium. Traxx, Andrew Bisenius, and Jason Letkiewicz forged the CtC during the depths of pandemic isolation. Drawing from film and television music of the 80’s/90’s and armed with a mighty array of vintage analog and digital synthesizers, they set out to explore heists, vices, and catastrophe. Panoramic Coloursound collapses sound and image into a neon blur throughout…
Minus 30°C
The music of Zima Stulecia is difficult to label in terms of genre. It oscillates towards melancholic electronic music. For some it will be techno, others will hear elements of house, all accompanied by improvised synth and percussion music.
The Painter's Family
*300 copies limited edition* Recorded 2008-2016 and originally released on cassette in 2018. The Painter’s Family is the first duo release from Andrew Chalk and Francis Plagne, recorded intermittently, both together and apart, over eight years, in Hull, Melbourne and various places in Japan. Eight pages from the sketchbook, sequenced into two languorous side-long suites.
“He tried by every means to come close to nature, lying in the fields before daybreak and until nightfall in order to learn t…
Dreams
*300 copies limited edition* Dreams, subtitled Scenes I-XV, captures imaginary scenes and sequenced into a full album of 52 minutes length at Impression Lointaine. Dreams being archaic and unpredictable in its composition, such as dreams themselves that make little sense upon waking and assembled using time limited constraints. And while immersed, and in privacy, form a thread of personal communication like a nostalgic memory-a painting of which we inhabit ourselves.
Many things of the past
Are…
Issue 100
This month's Electronic Sound put together a spectacular double CD to accompany Electronic Sound 100, with 23 tracks inspired by visions of the future, from cyber worlds and life on other planets to AI excursions and madcap B-movies.
Contagion Vapors
Tip! “Contagion Vapors” was recorded between May 2020 and March 2021, in tandem with “Transgressive Transmissions”. Both albums have been released by Castles in Space, however they feature completely different sonic energies. Caught up in the first wave of pandemic doom/gloom which resulted in a bizarre creative bloom for Patrick, both albums have unique sounds anchored in the immense Patrick R Pärk/Kösmonaut discographies. This one is definitely a Kösmonaut record, however. Patrick’s ”Contagion…
Nifbin Circle
*112 copies limited edition on transparent violet vinyl* Nifbin Circle is the fourth release by Detlef Funder, aka Konrad Kraft, on the Cologne label Aufabwegen. Sounds generated with two apps on the iPad,provided the basic structures and the sound space. The strangely enraptured textures created in this way, with a subtle percussive touch, were partly combined with supporting beats in the course of further processing. Thus, after more than 30 years, tracks with rudimentary melodies and rhythms …
Emak Bakia
Limited Edition Picture Disc We have repeatedly surprised you with unusual releases that sound uncharacteristic for wellknown artists. Remember Merzbow with guitars, synth (almost said synth-pop) and drum machine? Well, Muslimgauze's turn came up. Emak Bakia – long out of print masterpieces from 1994. Even in the huge Bryn Jones' discography Emak Bakia really stands out of albums from the period due its rather unique (house-music related) sound and short, by the standards of Bryn Jones, tracks. …
Broken to Echoes
*100 copies limited edition* Across 8 concise vignettes, Chantal Michelle alchemizes acoustic instrumentation with a spectrum of layered feedback and field sounds, depicting fractured beauty amongst a precarious reality. Chantal’s work is characterized by intoxicating juxtaposition and enriched with an array of source material to construct immersive narrative. Much of the work here was recorded during her time in New York City, perhaps a pre-requisite to the heightened tension at play. Opening w…
A Bot And His Dog
Tanzprocesz presents A Bot And His Dog, Fuc Lerrari's latest tape release.
FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy
“Pacific Blue” on translucent blue vinyl. Expanded LP, containing the previously CD and digital only bonus track "Retrograde"
Otto Lindholm
*220 copies limited edition* Double bass player and electronic producer Otto Lindholm comes to light with his project and debut LP simply called 'Otto Lindholm' is released on Icarus Records | Vynilla Vinyls.
In the mood of bands and projects as Mohammad (Pan) or James Ginzburg & Yair Elazar Glotman' Nimbes for Subtext, Otto Lindholm debut LP proposes an intense and noir three track LP, comprised by stand-alone experiments coming from a unique producing process elaborated by the artist where eac…
These Are Dreams
Founded in 1992 after Robin Storey left Zoviet France, Rapoon soon became an outstanding ethno-dark ambient project that has gained a cult following all over the world. More than 80 albums have been released over those nearly 30 years, some more beat driven, others more playful and with ambient sounds and ethnic influences. Rapoon has never stopped evolving - think of Cultural Forgeries, an album full of unplugged acoustic music. Or Downgliding, full of compositions on the piano. Recent Klanggal…
From Solstice To Equinox
Nocturnal Emissions was founded in 1980 by Nigel Ayers together with collaborators Daniel Ayers and Caroline K. They have released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrete, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music, ambient and noise music. The sound art has been part of an ongoing multimedia campaign of guerrilla sign ontology utilising video art, film, hypertext and other documents. Early albums on the band's own Sterile Records were…
Normal
Sutcliffe No More is the follow-up name for the band known as Sutcliffe Jugend. It was founded by Kevin Tomkins in 1982. It started as a Power Electronics act, quickly gaining a name for itself, before branching out stylistically, creating a distinctive style that drew influence from all manner of genres while keeping true to their roots as a noise act. In its original form Sutcliffe Jugend existed for less than a year before Tomkins stopped the project to join Whitehouse. He reformed the group …
Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering
Polish composer Martyna Basta follows up her well-received label debut Making Eye Contact With Solitude, with her first vinyl release Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering on Warm Winters Ltd. It's a multi-instrumental ambient album conjuring scenes from the blurry edge of memory. Martyna Basta uses guitar, zither, processed field recordings and voice to render abstract, compelling images, finding beauty in uncertainty.
Dante Trilogy: Tremor. Spore. Legacy
An almost his 25 year existency as Vidna Ombana (Dirk Serries) never shied away from challenges, sometimes to the regret of many of his fans, but it’s when he was offered a record deal with the renowned metal label Relapse Records/Release Entertainment Vidna Obmana took his boldest step ever. With his Dante Trilogy he created his most ambitious, daring and unique set of albums which, for good, made him to be one of the most unique voices in the ambient and experimental scene.
Not only brought …
The Fluctuation Of Being
“Cycles of tonal phrases, washes of guitar drowned in a vast sea of sustain to create a surreal sonic mood to dwell in on repeat.” - Dirk Serries
Temporal In-Betweens
Tip! *300 copies limited edition* Andrew Hargreaves’ Tape Loop Orchestra makes his first mark of the year with a post-rock deep dive that continues the themes of his ‘Liminal Live’ (2020) tape.
’Temporal In-Between’ is presented as a conceptual soundtrack to a metaphysical road trip, ajourney through infinitely open space imbued with phantomatic energies”. Hand-in-hand with thecover art by collaborator Keith Ashcroft, the two-part record evokes its subject with a lesser-heard (as in, have we hea…
Last Index Of…
*123 copies limited edition!!* *cassette edition of sold out vinyl* Properly absorbing electronic enigmas from Zaheer Gulamhusein (Xvarr, Waswaas) and JustinTripp (Georgia), following their noses down the rabbit hole into aether-chamber interzonesadjacent to Coil, Conrad Schnitzler, Werkbund, and Jeff Mills’ deep space missions. A strong case of two artists transcending the sum of their parts, String present an immersiveexploration of the unknown, realising a “virtual vacation” from which they n…