“Constants Are Changing”: 20 years of Boards Of Canada’s ‘The Campfire Headphase’

20 years ago today on October 17th, 2005 Boards of Canada dropped their third full-length album The Campfire Headphase. It would take me another three years before Boards Of Canada got on my radar and would inevitably completely rewire my brain. Scottish brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin became an obsession for me, and still […]

Camp of Wolves : Bear Creek

David Salisbury, aka Camp of Wolves, works in memories both bittersweet and melancholy. Tender, subtle tomes that reflect on time and childhood and those complicated building blocks of experience that go to shape the adult we become, once we’ve sadly left those formative years. Humming, ghostly tomes that come at you like ghosts of the […]

Nine Inch Nails : TRON: Ares Soundtrack

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have made themselves one hell of a post-NIN career in film scoring. That’s not to say that Nine Inch Nails is retired, as Reznor’s industrial rock band is still very much among the living. But since Reznor and Ross began their film scoring career back in 2010 with David Fincher’s […]

Alone 1980 : Portal

I’m always excited when there’s new Alone 1980 music to get lost in. The Sweden-based electronic artist has taken the world of imagined soundtracks and elevated it. What started out as a genre influenced and inspired by the sleazy synth world that scored so many b-movie exploitation horror films from the 70s and 80s(many of […]

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 […]