Electronic

  • Sonae – Wearing Black Remixes

    Cologne-based Sonae’s second album I Started Wearing Black landed this past spring like a spray of birdshot. Sonia Güttler’s powerful style filled headphones with meticulously detailed, anti-minimalist electronics. Every pull of the trigger hit multiple marks. It’s hard to imagine more formidable material from which to assemble a remix disc. The four artists invited to…

  • R.A.N. – Şeb-i Yelda

    Like a lot of the world’s most interesting electronic music artists, Istanbul’s Hüma Utku has a classical music background. She started playing piano at 14. By 20, she was a full-fledged recording artist. In time, her music took on more modern techniques. By 2015, Utku’s debut as R.A.N. (Roads at Night) Her Trembling Ceased combined…

  • Jeff Snyder/Federico Ughi – Duo

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    Jeff Snyder and Federico Ughi have been performing together for the better part of a decade. They’re both members of the Federico Ughi Quartet, Life Station  and the Listening Group. This new recording is their first as a two-piece. The suitably titled Duo showcases both talents in a setting that deserves repeat performances. Snyder plays…

  • Nick Sutton, Matthew Faulkner – PRELUDES/RENDERS

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    Electronic music producer Nick Sutton has partnered with Matthew Faulkner and Scott Darby on an ambitious project that occupies the extremes of both electronic and new classical music. Preludes/Renders offers seven preludes by Sutton and six renders – which is to say compositions featuring samples from Sutton’s preludes – by Faulkner. Darby’s video work accompanies…

  • precocious mouse – Virginia Creeper

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    London-based Caleb Wood is quick to point out that while he calls the big city home now, his roots run north to Yorkshire. Once home to Celtic tribes, the county more recently played a significant role in the post-industrial revolution economy. It is home, as Wood describes it, “with both a long history of sonic…

  • Christopher Coe – MNTNSofSLNC

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    MNTNSofSLNC represents a pair of firsts. It is Christopher Coe’s first release under his own name. It’s also the premier title for the electronic label Awesome Soundwave. The mountains of silence referred to in the album’s title have inspired eight sumptuously conceived tracks. So it is a personal project, in a genre more often know…