July 22, 2013Had this on heavy-rotation over the last week or so, and it’s still blowing my mind like the first time I listened to it. As if running Raster-Noton wasn’t keeping Frank Bretschneider busy enough (not to mention on our favourite list of people), but he’s gone and dropped some electronic wizardry in the form of the Super.Trigger full-length. Despite an extensive catalogue…
July 17, 2013Almost a year on since the release of The Call From Below LP on Digitalis and we’re still none the wiser to the faces behind the name Seekersinternational. Not that it particularly matters at the end of the day, but with such an incredible sound behind them it’d certainly be interesting to dig a bit deeper, if only to find…
July 10, 2013Now over twenty releases deep (counting remixes, a limited 7″ and a collection compilation), the Workshop label have a perfect track record for doing a quality plate. Offerings from Move D, Kassem Mosse and Madteo are some of the favourites in my collection, with the Berlin based label somehow coaxing out consistently deep sounds from already top-shelf producers. Something about releasing on…
July 4, 2013Music from Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze has become the Star Trek of underground electronic music. It’s almost guaranteed that at any hour of the day, someone worldwide is playing a track from his 100+ LP catalogue of music. Having passed at just 37 years of age, can’t help but continually wonder where he would have taken things had his life…
June 24, 2013Amazing record this, from an incredible producer who’s yet to faulter. Powell releases have been “buy-on-sight” since he christened his own Diagonal imprint with The Ongoing Significance Of Steel and Flesh EP back in 2011. Complete with a Karl O’Connor remix, that record was the start of Powell’s punk-rock attitude towards machine music. The Body Music EP that followed was a further exploration down…
June 20, 2013As the Godfather of Grime it’s been a long time since Wiley first made that barrier-jump from underground London to the worldwide audience territory. The one known as Eskiboy is definitely of the rare breed that brings heads together over his craft. Through years spent developing natural rhymes, flow and production with an on point ear for selecting instrumentals, Wiley transcended…
June 16, 2013As the most widely acknowledged part of an amazing catalogue, Sensate Focus has given Mark Fell a whole new fan base outside of the eclectic Wire reading folk we call friends. While house music newcomers seem to be going more and more experimental, the multiplatform artist Mark Fell originally earned his stripes through sonic explorations as one-half of SND with…
June 11, 2013Just seen the pre-order for this over at Sounds Of The Universe and looking forward to picking up the physical. Manuel Gonzales aka MGUN dropped not one but a handful of top plates in 2012, across Wild Oats, Don’t Be Afraid and The Trilogy Tapes. Way back in 2010 we had an even doper introduction to him however, when he appeared…
June 7, 2013Out of people and things that need greater recognition, Pali Meursault’s Offset LP is in my current top ten. The sound artist / theorist is a comparatively young authority in the modern world of musique concrete, known as much for his sonic offerings and collaborative video project as his installations, solo work and published written pieces. Offset perfectly captures the sounds…
June 4, 2013Damn – some proper raw techno arriving on this 12″, right up our alley. Keeping it all anonymous, only giving us ‘Blacknecks‘ to go on, the wax only release and launch of an imprint is a new project from two UK garage producers; yet unnamed, but assuming it’s not Shanks & Bigfoot. Always got room for floor destroy techno, and…