Exploring Different Angles : Jakob Skøtt Talks Videodrones’ New Album ‘After The Fall, Bringing The Beat, And Exploring New Sonic Avenues

If you’re a regular here, or even just an occasional reader then you are probably aware of the massive love I have for record label El Paraiso Records. In my opinion they’re as important a label as giants like Blue Note, ECM, Sub Pop, Verve!, and SST when it comes to offering up brain re-wiring […]

Astral TV : Travelling The Circuits

Astral TV lock into the universe when they create. Their music feels centered on some deeper understanding. A deeper understanding of what? Our connectivity to currents and how they effect us emotionally and psychically. It’s a visceral sound that goes from hazy, circuital beauty to more darker realms of tone and feel. Rasmus Rasmussen and […]

Craig Aalders : Oceanography

Typically I think of the expanse of the Pacific Ocean and I start to feel a little insignificant. Don’t get me wrong, there is an absolute and awe-inspiring beauty in a large body of water like the Pacific, or for even my neck of the woods Lake Michigan. Standing on the shore line at the […]

Revisited : Night Flights ‘Night Flights Vol. 1’

2014 was a very strange year for me. It began with one of my best friends losing his oldest daughter in a car accident in January. In May my mother-in-law died suddenly. Two days later we flew to Colorado for an amazing four days in the Rocky Mountains to go to a wedding and contemplate […]

Jakob Skott Unleashes ‘Instrumentality’ in November; Check Out “The Dura Plane”

I’ve made no secret of my love for the amazing drummer and synth experimentalist Jakob Skott. As well as being the drummer of Causa Sui, co-owner of El Paraiso Records, and graphic design/album cover art guru for nearly all of El Paraiso’s album releases, Skott has been quietly releasing incredible synth/drum records under his own […]

New Wormhole…Same As The Old Wormhole

So let’s say you had a time machine and you could go back to any point in your life, where would you go? Would you go back and right some wrongs? Would you change some choices you made in your life that might have a profound effect on your future? Would you buy up some […]

Stenzel’s Dune

So I’m sitting in my recliner in my pajamas feeling a few steps above chopped liver and I’m listening to the soundtrack Jodorowsky’s Dune by Kurt Stenzel. How did I get to this record? What possessed me to order such a thing? Well first let me go down some Nyquil and I’ll explain. Be right […]

Ether Drifts And Android Sex

I’m not sure what it is about robot music that appeals to me. Robot music? You know, that stuff you’d hear in those early 80s sci-fi flicks that would be on at 1 am on a Saturday morning, usually on USA Up All Night. Or if you were lucky enough to have movie channels you […]

Headache City

Of all those horror soundtracks I’ve got in my collection, one of my favorites has to be Rob’s Maniac Soundtrack. It’s filled with all that 80s synth goodness, slick production, eerie moments, and mournful bouts of melancholy. You know, all those things that get the girls all hot and bothered. Am I right? Huh? Okay, […]

Aerosol : Leave

Rasmus Rasmussen, keyboardist for the Danish music titans Causa Sui, likes to put out lush, synth-driven compositions when he’s not melting minds with his psych-rock brethren. Those songs are released under the name Aerosol. These songs are understated, quietly mesmerizing, and as engulfing as a tidal wave of analog circuitry and simple electronic beats. Each […]