honest words on honest music
Interview with Max Richter
I finally catch up with one of my all-time favourite contemporary classical composers to talk about his latest record, VOICES and touch a little on SLEEP.
Lawrence English
A Young Person’s Guide To Hustling
(In Music and The Arts)
An introduction to the revised three-part series and an updated foreword, One tale of hustling.
The guide is divided into three sections – for the work, for others, for you.
In the studio with
Atom™
“… too much gear usually leads to boring ideas, while many good ideas reduce the amount of equipment…”
In the studio with
Yann Tiersen
… I like to be submerged in sounds and the inspiration comes from that…
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto
In anticipation of the upcoming new album, we celebrate one of our favourite releases from the duo, in this RECITAL of their 2009 album, featuring Ensemble Modern
“… my whole aim is to try and work as quickly as I can before my critical brain can catch up and force me to overanalyze…”
Jasmine Guffond & Erik K Skodvin
The Burrow
“…[T]he most beautiful thing about my burrow is the stillness. Of course, that is deceptive. At any moment it may be shattered and then all will be over. For the time being, however, the silence is with me.”
— Franz Kafka
Simeon Walker
Captive
“… the threads unravel and unwrap to finally release the past that binds us…”
“… I find that ideas need time to mature, or perhaps it’s my perception and experiencing the ideas that need time…”
A companion mix to “Micro Record Label: A love letter for music fans; a how-to for the hopeless; a light-hearted, humorous, self-deprecating detour for the uninterested.”
ASC
Pattern Recognition
“… a type of ‘grey area techno’ that falls somewhere between atmospheric wonderings, intergalactic space travel, and post-apocalyptical crawl…”
In this mysterious and deliciously dark space, your mind meets face to face with angst and anger. Endorphins fire. Dopamine’s released. And you relax among the cradling rhythm that carries you in peace into the void.
Martyn Heyne
Neuwerk
“… touching on loud and soft, brutal and tender, subjective and universal…”
Tukico
Carnim Aiso
“… a callback to 80’s kosmiche musik, early ambient, and modular synth explorations…”
“Some ideas slip away, like beautiful shooting stars. Others, by dint of playing them, begin to structure themselves. But there are no rules…”
Quiet Places
Volume 1
“There’s many things about this place that I find unusual. One of the things I find fascinating is how quiet it gets. It’s the quietest place…”
A brand new project from Dennis White, Charlie May, and Dave Gardner that will take you on a journey to the early days of electronica and chill out…
“… we like to try to make acoustic instruments sound like they are electronic and electronic instruments sound like they are acoustic…”
Flica
White Woods
“… our journey to the north was where we became oneness…”
Leah Kardos
Bigo & Twigetti Mix
“… a sampler of the label’s offerings to showcase the catalog and introduce you to new acts…”
I catch up with Uwe Zahn and chat about his sound design, advanced synthesis, and favorite software.
Goldmund, Richard Luke and Fossil Hunting Collective
A trio of beautiful records, full of lush ambience, a touch of melancholy, and a breath of hope.
Frank Bretschneider, Bunita Marcus, Av3ry, and Hecker
“… one sound can give birth to thousands of tones through self-fertilization…”
Cécile Seraud
Life
“… a contemplative journey that leads with a delicate touch to the deepest part of the heart…”
Amirali & Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
Dystopia
“… expressing the current chaotic state the world is facing…”
Echo Collective
The See Within
“… achingly beautiful and mournfully devastating…”
The Echo Collective breaks out with their debut release of all original material, echoing not just the past encounters and moments, but in its very essence, the present moment which goes on.
Luke Howard + Tilman Robinson
Dark Angels
“… exploring the shadow and darkness that exists in all of us…”
Pat Jaffe
Grandma’s Song
“… step into an ancient Australian forest and take a deep breath…”
“My pianos will always be my favorite piece of hardware. They are the most complex, honest, and imaginative gear in my wheel barrel.”
Christopher Tignor
Ode to Joy
“… of yearning and nostalgia better suited for these troubled times…”
Roel Funcken
A Dyad In The Force
“… an elaborate sound design in the freedom from the digital structures…”
Limpet Space Race & Orchestra of St John’s
Earth Flow
“… exploring themes of erosion, landslides and climate change…”
Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti
I Can’t Even See Myself
“… a brilliant exploration of mediated modern communication…”
Aukai
Game Trails
“… the sense of nature is in every piece, and from that comes a sense of calm…”
Markus Sieber takes us on a journey through his inner world, inspired by traversing pathways left by animals in their nomadic quest.
Thoughts on sound design in textural, spectral and functional phases; on metric modulations and polytemporal ideas; and on dance music tribalism.
Henrik Lindstrand
Stora Huset
“… melancholy storytelling that rides the waves of sorrow and joy, mystery and honesty, minor and major chords…”
Gyda Valtysdottir
Mikros (by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir)
A collection of neo-classical compositions featuring music by Iceland’s leading contemporary composers.
Today we visit with Moe Espinosa, who records as Drumcell, Hypoxia, and one half of Belief Defect.
Phil Tomsett
The Sound of Someone Leaving (with Aaron Martin)
“… absence is powerful…”
Disassembler
A Wave From A Shore
“… a tension of charting troubled waters at sea…”
Luke Vibert
Luke Vibert presents Amen Andrews
“… I suppose you could call it futuristic retro…”
Luke Vibert dusts off his collection of samples, chops up the famous Amen break, and turns up the bass for a trip down the memory lane, in an upgraded, massive album.
Built Upon A Fearful Void
Claire Deak & Tony Dupé, Arrowounds, and Vieo Abiungo
An overview of a brand new subscription series by Lost Tribe Sound.
An introduction to the revised three-part series and an updated foreword, One tale of hustling.
Alva Noto
Xerrox Vol.4
… a kind of a journey… perhaps an inner exploration…
After five years, Carsten Nicolai returns with the fourth volume in the Xerrox series, released on his very own Noton imprint.
David Toop is an English musician, author, and professor of audio culture and improvisation.
Gastón Arévalo
Terrain
“… a rich soundtrack set amongst nature… “
Gastón Arévalo debuts on A Strangely Isolated Place with an exploratory themed album told through the lens of an expedition diary.
Peter van Cooten and Dave Michuda create a cooperative voyage each taking their turns to conduct and manoeuvre this ship in complex sonic waters.
The updated version of this guide is appearing nine years since its original publication. While you …
Robin Schlochtermeier
Foghorn
“… capturing the experiences the world can produce in our minds when we are open, receptive and boundary-less…”
bvdub, Shortwave Research Group, and Kaboom Karavan
“… turn down the light, put on these albums, and travel to a place within yourself you did not know existed…”
Christine Ott
Chimères (pour ondes Martenot)
“… a cosmic journey with cinematographic colours…”
A unique album, entirely composed for and performed on an early electronic instrument, Ondes Martenot, by one of its renown virtuoso players.
Mercury KX Special
Sophie Hutchings, Luke Howard and Lambert
Three must-have releases from Mercury KX outstanding catalogue of modern classical pianists
The Flashbulb
Our Simulacra
“… incredibly emotional, while at the same time playful, and most importantly intelligent flavour of electronic music…”
A new album from Benn Jordan to keep your neurons excited and your soul reminded that all of the world is a simulation!
Mathieu Karsenti, Ben Crosland, and Hamed Mafakheri
Three sonic discoveries from the past, present and the future…
Exploring Erik Satie’s Système sur-atonal with Rudi Arapahoe
“The Système consists of a series of 4 scales creating seven four-note chords…”
Lawrence English, worriedaboutsatan, and Christopher Bissonnette
“… an acute meditation on wave fluctuations, restraint on dynamics and textural space…”
BOW feat. Aidan Baker
Bryanbaum Variation
“… a tranquil dance between the sound and image…”
“…the freedom of expression and thought within the modular system is very appealing, where it’s very much about the moment, the response in real-time…”
Orangewarrior
Retro 97 Mix
A fun journey down the memory lane of mid-90s electronic music
Bruno Bavota
Apartment Loop #3
“… a suite of celestial, transcendent songs for synthesizer… “
Joshua Van Tassel
Eternal Turtle
“… like the instrument that inspired it […] the music is elegant and expressive, the score to a movie inside your head…”
VA
Gap In Time
A benefit compilation raising funds for the World Health Organization to help with the COVID-19 relief
“… I just wanted to come back to hear my own heartbeat. Calm. Quiet…
Nazar, Gábor Lázár, and Grischa Lichtenberger
“… best understood as a crooked ballad…“
Robot Koch, ABADIR, and n-So
A trio of beautiful electronic, modern classical, and ambient music to start off your week…
Join Gavin Miller on his musical journey through his favourite selections.
Winterdagen
Phase In
“… a serene meditation on sound and space, capturing the quiet noises of the piano, bathing in the warm tones from the analogue machines…”
Hior Chronik
Pay No Attention To The Boundaries
“… brooding over the boundaries set forth by the conditioned mind, and reminding us not to heed them…”