Minimal techno has had a fair bashing recently. The backlash against the genre has been wide ranging, and hard hitting. Now, very few wish to associate themselves with that particular sound, even those that are still effectively making it. Format...
OK, let me get this of my chest straight away. I LOVE Matthew Dear. No, not like that, but I love his music. Asa Breed is one of my favourite albums from a contemporary electronic producer, in recent times and his labels Spectral Sound and Ghostl...
If you are not a computer geek, I will enlighten you. A ‘SCSI-9’ is a 9-pin computer interface, used in the connection of high performance hard disk drives. SCSI-9 the artist(s) make music with machines and computers, and have been around for a w...
Somehow this nearly, almost, passed by. Thank god it didn’t. I have picked up a few Skatebard 12”s before, and although they sounded OK, I didn’t end up buying them. Not enough going on, and no real connection to the music. So I wasn’t overly exc...
As you can probably guess, Akiko Kiyama hails from the land of the rising sun. Appropriately she makes techno that’s perfect the rising sun, that is if you could see it from your windowless basement club as you danced yourself into a frenzy. Akik...
Flying Lotus is a name becoming synonymous with a new breed of sonic experimentation. Taking his reference points musically from hip hop, cutting edge techno and an obvious love of dubstep, Flying Lotus has weaved a rich, sometimes unsettling fab...
Housemeister, the Berlin based Techno B-Boy delivers his second album on his own imprint All You Can Beat. On "Who Is That Noize", Housemeister has borrowed more that just the ‘z’ from his contemporary Boys Noize, as he delivers an album of fuzzy...
The Black Dog is a euphemism for depression, but there is not so much to be depressed about if you are held in as high esteem as these 3 guys. The Black Dog are considered by some to be the godfathers of British Techno, taking the Detroit formula...
Though they seem to have been around forever, this is only the second label compilation from Seed, the left-field label dealing in the far-flung outposts of electronic music (the first is changing hands for silly money on the web). Seed have been...
I was surprised to learn that this is Roland Appels first full production working completely alone. Leaving behind the comfort of his 3 successful groups (Voom:Voom, Fauna Flash & Truby Trio) in which he was one third of the picture, must hav...
One man and his music: Matthew Dear’s album ‘2007’ for M_nus is essentially a special one-off live set. It’s a hypnotic trip! Starting with the atmospheric intro ‘Indy 3000’ that unfurls gradually, sounding like an ominous wind, and drifts into t...
In 2001 I bought their outstanding ‘Volcano Waves 1-8’ album, but somehow lost track of this intriguing electronica act from Italy. ‘Semeion’ now offers a fine collection of rare, previously released original works, as well as exclusive, unreleas...
When I think of Jimi Tenor, I can’t refuse to recall his mid-nineties Techno monster ‘Take me Baby’. But he has never been simply an abstract electronic music artist with an addiction to freakiness. No, he’s more than that. Jimi is a musical geni...
Andy Vaz is in a Detroit mood: raw and deep analogue-sounding techno. ‘Your mix’ of the title track bangs with a heavy bassdrum blended with a warm soundscape, leading into a flashy main theme: odd-sounding varying synth-keys. Surrounded by sharp...
The man once known as DJ Naughty has shrugged off his alias, ditched the electro-disco shenanigans he was known for, and produced something distinctly more mature. Having put the naughty boy to bed, Filippo Moscatello turned his focus to the rich...
The tragic death of Charlie Cooper certainly made listening to this album an event tinged with sadness, which scuppered my objectivity. However, I had already formed an opinion prior to the news that Charlie had sadly taken his own life and I can...
French producer Erwan Castax, is comparatively young but gives the impression that he’s been crafting electronica forever. Deftly skipping between abstract worlds of melody and beats for the feet, it sometimes seems Castax is reigning in his crea...
Made up of one member from Tokyo and another from New York, Tokyo Black Star is the new techno group to watch on Dixon’s Innervisions label. Although most techno shies away from the album format, this one shines in those constraints. No need to s...
Prior to the release of “Fabric 45”, Omar-S managed to cause a small hurricane of chatter on the internet by stating that he wasn’t even sure who Ricardo Villalobos was and that (like Villalobos) only his own productions would be making it onto h...
EB MOBILE
RSS FEEDS
EB WIDGETS
EB NEWSLETTER
AUSTRIA
CZECH REPUBLIC
GERMANY