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Penguin Cafe
Handfuls of Night
…even in the most remote silent places, music can still be a huge part of one’s internal world…
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
In the studio with Jogging House
Today we visit with the Frankfurt-based artist whose latest record, When, is out on Dauw as of September 23rd
Plaid – Polymer
… an essential album from the veterans of electronic music…
Immolate Yourself
A RECITAL for Telefon Tel Aviv’s monumental album from 2009.
… hyper-modern sound design and smoky nocturnal emotion…
In the studio with Resina
A Warsaw-based cellist talks about how she started her career, her studio set up, favourite gear and compositional process
“… referencing the patterns and repetitions that exist in nature [which are] often mirrored in human creations…”
James Murray
In Your Head
“… calm music for chaotic times…“
Kangding Ray, Skee Mask, Quench
Three glitchy micro-crafted treats presented by the chefs who’ve earned five stars in HC’s guide for sonic dining
Grischa Lichtenberger
re: phgrp (Raster)
… electronic no longer cares to be separate from all-acoustic…
Grischa Lichtenberger’s music stands for broken rhythms, for high-density manipulations that emphasize the digital and fractal nature of its working process. A mindset that grew closer to contemporary jazz in recent years.
“… like a suppressed or unconscious trace of invisible relations…”
Lambert
True (Mercury KX)
… the only real truth is the listener’s perspective…
A brand new record from an enigmatic pianist which is playful and sombre, often composed of both, humour and drama, with a deep-focused emphasis on execution and sense…
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Headphone Commute Mix
“… music by contemporary composers […] with a very intemporal quality in its simplicity and harmonic language…”
In the studio with Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
“I tend to become quite obsessed with the piece, it just keeps on playing and shifting in my head until I feel I have understood its shape and where I want it to go…”
Comit
Remote Viewing (A Strangely Isolated Place)
…broken, glitchy breakbeats weave amongst emotive and often melodic chord progressions
A refreshing take on a genre that has seemed to slowly fade away from the scene…
“… I intentionally don’t make too many notes of things that sound good together…”
Slow Meadow
Happy Occident (Hammock Music)
… a soundtrack to life’s contemplative moments…
A gorgeous new release on Hammock‘s very own curated imprint
Vanessa Wagner
Inland + Inland Versions (InFiné)
… in which the unexpected becomes the new normal…
Alessandro Cortini
VOLUME MASSIMO (Mute)
… a defiant, resounding, and cerebral record that demands to be played at full volume…
An impeccable addition to the ever-growing family of the inspirations behind electronic music
Tambour, Christopher Willits, and Jane Antonia Cornish
… few soundtracks to embrace the day…
The Volume Settings Folder, Josh Mason, and zakè (扎克)
“… it’s a new day, in the same circuit…”
The Caretaker
Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stages 1-6 (History Always Favours The Winners)
… an eventual process where all memories begin to become more fluid through entanglements, repetition and rupture…
Leyland Kirby‘s farewell, compiling all six stages of the decline, and the very last entry of his final, empty bliss…
Loscil
Equivalents (Kranky)
… abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay…
Scott Morgan‘s 12th LP, inspired by a series of early 20th century photographs by Alfred Stieglitz
Marcus Fjellström
Schattenspieler (Miasmah)
Dark and moody, sad and beautiful, organic and ghostly Schattenspieler, is an incredible achievement, that grows on you with every listen.
A RECITAL for Marcus Fjellström’s record, celebrating a re-issue of his first three albums
Following up on their latest release for Warp we catch up with Ed and Andy with some thoughts on Polymer
Hugar
Varða (Sony Music Masterworks)
“… it’s not about the destination though, but rather this never-ending journey…”
The next Icelandic export for your sonic needs…
A mix celebrating Home Normal’s 10th anniversary
Ben Frost
By The Throat (Bedroom Community)
Ben Frost represents one of today’s new breed of composers who conjures an aural broth that inhabits an amorphous cross-section of genres
A RECITAL of a monumental album from 2009
Home Normal Special : Tomoyoshi Date and Stijn Hüwels, Silent Vigils, and anthéne
… the greatest of ambient often appears so simple in essence…
Gescom
ISS:SA (Skam)
Incorrectly perceived as simply an Autechre side-project, Gescom exists as a platform for a number of aligned artists to work in various combinations whilst remaining anonymous…
Take a look inside Simon P. Castonguay’s, aka Tambour studio, read up on his composition process and his latest release for Moderna Records
Arovane & Mike Lazarev
Aeon (Eilean)
… an ever-so-slightly melancholic album…
Electronic music veteran Uwe Zahn and pianist Mike Lazarev team up to compose a delicately crafted deconstructive journey
Whitelabrecs Special : Glåsbird, Anthéne and Sven Laux
A trio of releases from a limited edition label
A mix, originally compiled in 2002, of the late Susumu Yokota’s favourite pieces of the time…
S S S S, Sana Obruent, and Ebauche
Some very fresh and much eclectic sounds for your ears in this ⟪ REW | FF ⟫ entry
Afenginn
‘Ivin’ (The Doubt)
“… like the gears in a clock the parallel themes intersect at points, creating contracted dissonance or lifting consonance…”
Stavros Gasparatos
Rage Park (Inner Ear)
What would happen if you let yourself lose control, break out, without any repercussions?
This imaginary soundtrack from a Greek composer and sound artist attempts to let out all the rage…