Vaellus 00F

“a skittery instrumental that truly evokes the early rave era, both in its hard breakbeats and its zonked-out astral tone. Mozgawa and Boom Bip first bonded over their shared love of early-90s techno, and their organizing principle was the question of what would Mark Bell do.”

“In one sense the album is quite cinematic. Not in the sense that it is big or epic, but in the way it is structured. At times the music literally cuts like a camera - moving the listener from one acoustic environment to another. It indulges a fascination with the hyper-real world of Foley and film sound effects, natural ambiences, and Spielbergian film music.”

“Full of dreamy textures and languid melodies, XOOMIN is a soundtrack for drifting off into the abyss, but in the hands of Alloy Sea, that journey feels downright playful. ”

“a considered approach to strip the music back more in line with the Samurai Music sound was taken but the album retains the Mako flavour - deft, subtle hooks, beds of sub and ethereal ambience, pinned down by total rhythmic potency.”

“Response and Pliskin return with an epic release that showcases their fine style in all its sublime glory. A-side gem 'Metal Coffins' is 13 minutes of blissed-out drum and synth work that is smooth, serene and soulful. It goes deep into the cosmos.”

“A synth wave rises up to the horizon of our ears with fine repetitive loops that have broken off. They form an ambient rhythm structure where another synth line perches with a tone closer to a mix between an organ and an accordion. A rubbery pulsing bass line is grafted onto this sonic bloom, amplifying this resonant but also very musical, if not melodic, ambient rhythm. ”

“Rødhåd’s signature dystopian despair backwashed into a healthy touch of melancholy, enough to keep the feelings powerfully real yet superseded to the aesthetics of JakoJako’s modular synthesis and let her lead the way. ”

“I have a deep love for those early Warp albums, particularly the Artificial Intelligence compilations. It was a wonderful time for UK electronic music. That beautiful, warm machine sound, with an optimistic (if somewhat naive) vision for the future. I found the whole thing incredibly inspiring and wanted to revisit those memories, albeit with a twist”

“Introspective, engaging, electronic music exploring the concept of “unfinished” in relation to oneself, art, architecture and surroundings ”

“flows into the frame as gently as waves frothing onto sand. A deep mysterious groove evolves, white clouds turn to grey as the sequence swells, grows and breathes. world-building, story-telling electronica.”

“recorded in the living room of an old flat in Lisbon during the first lockdown. Using only a microphone, computer, Korg MS20, hang drum and a field recorder, ISOR29 channels Tomas’ musical vocabulary via electronics to reflect an immersive and self-reflective story bound to a uniquely powerful time and space.”

“threads the needle between hope and hopelessness - daydreaming whilst watching the world go mad in the blink of an eye, keeping one hand near the record bin of comforting nostalgia.”

“Long used the extra time afforded by the first wave of lockdowns in New York to patiently sculpt a variety of sounds and textures, the end result being the recently released Ghost Poems, an album that will hold your attention by diverting it to another place, hopefully one of comfort and peace.”

“Taking inspiration from a trip to Iceland, where he rode horses “across a snowy landscape at dawn”, and factored by emotions felt at the loss of his father, the tracks manifest something of a definitive opus in his catalogue, ripe with the style he’s developed over the course of 30 years.”

“Melodies remain Barbieri’s great passion and obsession — she thinks of them as knots she’s trying to untangle, existential metaphors formed through tensely spiraling arpeggios — and on Spirit Exit they grow as large as planets before cracking into atoms.”