Electronic
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Forty-five seconds into the first track of Oberlin’s new Hidden Thorns disc, you may wonder if you’ve stumbled into a prog-rock opus. We’re offered a short synth line that has all the hallmarks of an Iron Butterfly side. Thankfully, this is a false alarm. These seven new electronic pieces are entirely improvised, recorded and mixed…
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Sonia Güttler has turned heartbreak into a striking new collection of gritty, textured electronic tracks. The music isn’t so much sad as it is severe. There is a lot going on over the course of this 44-minute recording, much of it bleakly emotional. Hence her decision to start wearing black. Güttler writes in the album’s…
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Ahead of tomorrow’s podcast, check out this gorgeous two-hour mix from Belfast-born producer Max Cooper. Featuring new and old favourites from his record shelf, Cooper writes “I wanted to try and approach making a DJ mix as I would an album production project. “I chopped the tracks up and augmented them with layers of binaural…
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Nhung Nguyen has assembled a collection of Vietnamese avant-garde artists to document her country’s remarkable music scene. But unlike a lot of compilations focused on a particular geography, Emergence is less a travel showcase than it is a polished and enjoyable 67 minutes of new music. The 10 artists showcased here are at various stages…
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Whenever I bring home a new piece of audio tech, I search for the right recording to road test it with. As excited as I am to own the latest whatever, I’m almost always let down by the first thing I press play on. The music doesn’t so much disappoint as fail to really push…
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Poetry fans will recognize At The Still Point Of The Turning World from T. S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton. The first of his Four Quartets, the poem is about time and redemption. Eliot’s big idea was that getting our heads around the nature of time and the universe will draw us closer to God. By focusing…
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