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Loitered Lens: New Order (2015)

24/11/2015

New Order. Photos of Bernard Sumner and Co. at Brixton, November 16 2015 ...

I wouldn’t say that people should play it at their weddings (Senking)

11/11/2015

Known for his intricately-produced and powerful electronic soundscapes, Senking talks to Trebuchet...

Rave Nostalgia in it’s Entire Spectrum (Colorhythm)

23/10/2015

A nostalgic net cast wide to capture the beats, breaks and bombs of the rave era....

Talk Talk Live Night and Book Launch

06/10/2015

The Spirit of Talk Talk book launch, bands, album playback, animations and afterparty brings the chills to the Clapham Grand....

A muscular form of ambient: Near Dark (Gideon Wolf)

01/10/2015

Emotional complexity and implied narrative - Gideon Wolf's ambient electronica has heart...

Many beats, no Spreadsheets. Pattern of Excel (Lee Bannon)

07/09/2015

Pattern of Excel must qualify as Bannon’s most experimental venture yet....

Explora: Morose Dynamism for a Renewed Euphoria (Florian Kupfer)

04/09/2015

In Explora, Florian Kupfer's stated influence from the bleak Berlin winter seems evident...

I Dream of Wires: A history of modular synthesis (Film)

25/08/2015

Robert Fantinatto and Jason Amm's I Dream of Wires draws out the turning points in the history of modular synthesis and the music it continues to generate...

Deep vulnerability and paranoia. Salt (Roseau)

17/08/2015

Salt's sound palette mixes electronic pop with more organic, natural sounds - the record's sonics were apparently inspired by a walk around a giant abandoned warehouse nearby ...

Industrial, metallic and alienating, Melk En Honing (Author & Punisher)

16/08/2015

Similar in both subject matter and delivery to Godflesh, Ministry and Killing Joke, you'd expect this to be neither an immediate nor an uplifting experience. However.... ...

Nordic Techno goes IKEA. Laiva T#16

04/08/2015

A moment of head-down eyes-closed dancefloor reverie is captured perfectly....

The Homely Path through Chaotic Woods (Nostos)

31/07/2015

A collection of musical pieces which disturb, wrongfoot, disorient and occasionally attack the listener, whilst still being peppered with the ghost of expected song structures ...

Bass, Beats, Bumps and Bees. (Peru Boom)

14/07/2015

Bass, bleeps, beats and bumps from Peru's underground dance scene. What's that doing here, and can it revive a flagging bee found comotose in the reviewer's garden? Peru Boom 2015...

No Ruinporn Here. Altstadt Echo Modern Cathedrals pt. 1 & 2

07/07/2015

Modern Cathedrals label founder Altstadt Echo steers between these two seductive poles, resisting the temptation to sonically contribute to the proliferation of Detroitian ruinporn ...

Rills, fills and dirty drum machines. Unravel (Bendejo)

05/07/2015

Owes as much to the mechanics of dub as to the sequencing of techno, with dub's technique of using a looped passage to overwrite the 4/4 time structure driving the low-end beats....

Sex, fireflies and audiotape: ‘Anima’ purrs (Francesca Belmonte)

25/06/2015

The moon is apparently moving away from us by four centimetres every year, Francesca Belmonte may just have thrown a lasso and dragged it back towards us a fraction...

Just Laibach and Think of Korea [Laibach]

12/06/2015

Laibach’s Liberation Day Tour will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula’s liberation from Japanese colonization and subsequent division into two enemy states...

Sonically cosmic, if not slightly kosmische [Amon Tobin]

05/06/2015

Tobin modestly describes the release as a “small personal project”, but conceptually at least, it's a major release....

Defiantly and Successfully Indulgent : Xerrox vol.3 [ALVA NOTO]

30/05/2015

If the previous volumes were more concerned with technique and texture, this volume's emphasis on emotion is clear from the start....

Dark moods and Militaristic Airs : Мир [Bedlam]

26/05/2015

There's a residual warmth in the superbly-produced bass but this can only be the prelude to or aftermath of some bleak scenario....

Autechre live, Ticket Presale

11/05/2015

SOUNDCRASH PRESENTS AUTECHRE LIVE + SPECIAL GUESTS - OBJEKT, POWELL, RUSELL_HOWELL + ROB_HALL...

Describing Das Unheimliche. Interview: Davide Carbone/Honzo [Honzo]

03/05/2015

There is plenty of temporary music out there right now. The format does not matter but the intentions of the producers do. ...

The Radiophonic Workshop. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2015

25/04/2015

Although they're still going strong these are in a way end-of-an-era shows carrying a huge and fascinating weight of history....

Big bangs, pulsars, black holes and supernovas [Fujako]

16/04/2015

Off-key gamelan clangs, swarming keyboards and pitch-slowed kickdrums hammer that recurring distopian atmosphere home...

A battle between nature and technology [Clark]

04/04/2015

Clark's music expresses a world precariously balanced, sounding equally on the brink of triumph and disaster; the two often intertwining...

Misanthropic roots record for the rootless savage [Thomas Koner]

31/03/2015

As a leading musician within forward-thinking electronic music circles Koner's work around his theme presupposes an exploration into the primitive nomadic elements of being human. ...