CLOSE\STARE Compilation is one of those actions that aims to generate community; to discover, listen, share and give back. Its ultimate aim is to give back. It has been shaped through the votes of our partners, listening and selecting from the 36 proposals that came in with the Open Call launched in December. This selection could well be a summary...
Hedonic Reversal introduces us to an author with an award-winning musical career in a different field to the electronic music scene. Víctor García is a Spanish producer with a successful career focused on the composition of soundtracks for videogames and also of celebrated film works, awarded with two Goyas and many other awards. Victor...
"Brief Chronicle about Bauhaus" is a book that Industrial Complexx publishes together with Honoris III Tribute to Bauhaus, an album created by Unknown Pleasures Records to pay tribute to Bauhaus, the band that conditioned post-punk to take a sonic trajectory based on what they later called gothic rock. Industrial Complexx...
Let's start with it's name: the right pronunciation is "Vanguélis". He started composing piano music on his early 4, and declining musical tutition gave it's first piano concert when he was just 6 years old. Some sources point that he didn't know how to read or write music. On his own words: "Going to school doesn't make you a musician. Most...
It's amazing how easy it is for Veyl to diversify his style, however, in this case the label has not had a hard time discovering this marvel for us, as the project he presents with this album is partly the work of one of the artists linked to this platform. Jerome Tcherneyan, a...
Mauro Nakimi is one of the akas of Cádiz producer Jesús Gómez, an artist who has spent more than 30 years dedicated exclusively to composition, sound engineering and feeding the Spanish electronic music scene with breaks and futuristic sounds. It has caught our attention that he has just rescued his alias as Mauro Nakimi...
Italian duo Costume (Claudia Placanica and MauSS) return with their newest album The Best Cure. The work consists of 9 original tracks moving between lounge ambiances, house music influences, almost tribal rhythms with a 90s jungle feeling and even somber recalls of music from the mid of the last century. The Heart Of...
Standards & Practices return with their second release this year, following the release of Krohn / Mjolsness's superb "Drummer" EP. The first proper Stave release since 2021's collaboration with Karim Maas on UVB-76, "Godless", "Saints No Drum" is a concise and definitive artistic statement from Jonathan Krohn that encompasses everything that made...
ABSENT IN BODY is a supergroup hosting members and ex-members of AMENRA, NEUROSIS, and SEPULTURA, namely Mathieu J. Vandekerckhove, Scott Kelly, Colin H. Van Eeckhout, Igor Cavelera. Their sound is best described as subscribing to the now almost three-decades long school of post-metal - in this case with a strong sludge influence...
The founding fathers of American goth rock, Christian Death took a relentlessly confrontational stand against organized religion and conventional morality, with an appetite for provocation that made Marilyn Manson look like Stryper. Regardless of who was leading or performing in the group, Christian Death set themselves up to shock, both in their cover...
