zakè(ft. various artists) : Silentium

Zach Frizzell, aka zakè, has done a lot to build a musical community within the ambient/new age/drone worlds. Between his label Past Inside The Present(which he co-runs with a collective of like-minded artists), as well as his own zakè drone recordings, Zach has gone a long way to build a vibrant, engaging, and forward-thinking musical community. […]

Rival Consoles : Landscape from Memory

In terms of electronic music, Ryan Lee West and Rival Consoles stands alone. Rival Consoles is its own genre of electronic music, the kind that feels alive and ever-expansive. The rhythms and percussive nature has an organic quality to it; the clicks and clacks and dance-centric nature doesn’t come across processed and boxed in. It’s […]

Kuma : It Depends Which Wolf You Feed

The music of Kuma has always entranced me. Canadian producer/musician/DJ James Graham makes the kind of electronic music that engages both the visceral and intellectual. Be it through the world of dance and techno; or through the floating haze of ambient via field recordings and woozy synth, Graham works in mysterious patterns and moods. I […]

Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer : Different Rooms

There’s something sort of magical about the new album Different Rooms by Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer. Both have established themselves as progressive, forward-thinking musicians and composers within the growing world of experimental and electronic music. Either working together on their International Anthem Records debut Recordings from the Åland Islands(2022), or last year’s The […]

Black Moth Super Rainbow : Soft New Magic Dream

Black Moth Super Rainbow has been making off-kilter electronic music for over 20 years now, with their debut dropping in 2003. For the uninitiated, imagine late 70s/early 80s electronic toys becoming sentient and forming a band. A Simon Says, Lite Brite, a clunky old Casio keyboard, and a random battery-powered lazer gun that buzzes indiscriminately. […]

Correlations : Andromeda Workshop

There’s something striking about Correlations new record Andromeda Workshop. The name alone elicits visions of some Moebius-drawn world; futuristic yet somehow feeling ancient in its simplicity and almost melancholy storytelling. “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” comes to mind(please don’t sue me Disney!) The retro-futuristic sounds Correlations(aka Neil Hale) creates build […]

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke : Tall Tales

Thom Yorke is not afraid to get out of his comfort zone, as well as his fans’ comfort zones. There’s still that small group of folks that never got over Radiohead getting into proggy, concept album territory with the masterpiece OK Computer. The fans disappointed when their favorite band from 30 years ago doesn’t trot […]

Pye Corner Audio : Lake Deep Memory

The musical world of Martin Jenkins’ Pye Corner Audio is a vast and mysterious one. The music is low key, sparse, and filled with shadowy twists and turns. Dark ambient hung on skeletal beats like flesh to bone, as if building a creature from things unknown and thoughts unspoken. Eerie, melancholy, and oddly groovy; a […]

Keith Canisius Returns To The Worlds of Shortwave Broadcaster & Morph Stereo

Musician Keith Canisius has put out a steady run of guitar and Eurorack-based ambient/shoegaze/dream pop instrumental music over the last several years. Starting in 2020 with the drone/ambient/experimental world of Shortwave Broadcaster. Plugging in and playing, improvising and then swirling guitars, bass, synth, Eurorack and field recordings into ethereal tracks that seem to emanate from […]

Le Matos : Turbo Kid Original Game Soundtrack

10 years ago the French-Canadian filmmaking trio RKSS released their film, Turbo Kid. An ode to 80s post-apocalyptic B-movies, it was a fun nod to movies like Metalstorm, Steel Dawn, and Mad Max but with the light-heartedness of BMX Bandits, Explorers, and E.T. Over the top gore that was more ridiculous than offensive, and a […]