Dorobantu & Petrescu’s Live Ambient Set
This 40-minute live peformance by Daniel Dorobantu & Felix Petrescu entitled “As Far As We Remember” was performed at the Simultan Festival 2011 — an annual celebration of video, media […]
Subbase vs. Egg Nebula’s Dark DNB Split Single
Subbase and Egg Nebula are dark androids making foreboding machine music that lives up to the drum & bass classification. Listening to this split single from the Pavillon36 Recordings netlabel, […]
Tom Morello’s Rocking Occupy Theme
When guitarist and rockstar activist Tom Morello teams up with Rise Against singer Tim McIlrath and System of a Down singer Serj Tankian to compose a theme song for the […]
Data Rebel’s Dreamy Downtempo Abstractions
Data Rebel (aka Danny Howe) is a UK-based musician whose haunting synth melodies and downtempo beats create a soothing chillout experience. Dreams for an Abstrakt Mind features eight tracks of […]
NAPO’s grimy grooves on Megan Fxx
NAPO (aka Leonas from Lithuania) makes bass-heavy funky electronica that reminds me of UK dubstep mixed with the glitchy, screwed effects common in a lot of so-called Witch House. On […]
MAS & Travis McAlister’s Vintage Melancholia
What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a sonic photograph of ages past. M A S (aka Makram Abu-Shakra) and Travis McAlister, both talented multi-instrumentalists, have come together to […]
Bauhaus Cloud’s Film Music for Philistines
If there’s one thing Manila-based musician Bauhaus Cloud (aka Noel “Chox” Queja) is not, it’s boring. What he does is create soundtrack music for films that have yet to be […]
Audiophil’s sinister songs of modern isolation
On “Call Myself” [Phoke72], Berlin-based musician Audiophil (aka Nico Steckhan) and singer Pollyx create fragile, glitchy, IDM-laced synthpop with ghostly vocal melodies and minimal electronic arrangements that suggest rather than […]
Amniotic’s Abstract Liquid Guitar with Vocal Textures
More sound art than commercial audio product, this album which Amniotic describes as “lo-fi sounds from the Seaford Underground” combines liquid guitars and bass with improvisational vocals that are often […]
Electronic Encounters – a New Soundtrack to Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
The album’s name says it all: Electronic Encounters – Music inspired by Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K). A group of various musicians came together and wrote music inspired […]
