The Voyage Select booking agency releases the first volume of an album that compiles 14 tracks from different artists linked to this project. The album can only be purchased in digital from the agency's bandcamp account and has a very diverse and quite daring musical line. Organized alphabetically, the compilation spans over 90 minutes...
Second Language gives us a widescreen view of a musical world previously glimpsed through the Minor Science’s series of 12" releases. A kaleidoscope of tempos and intensities, the record is often fast but rarely heavy, fizzing with detail but full of space, euphoric in places but frequently blue in mood. As the title suggests,...
From its creation in the late 90s until its closure in 2009, the Toytronic label witnessed a digital revolution that transformed the record industry, turning glitch into a production tool for a whole generation heir to the of bleep ‘n’ bass sound. Thanks to their impeccable A&R credentials, its head honchos, Martin Haidinger and Chris Cunningham, created an incredible...
Fera is Andrea De Franco, electronic composer from Southern Italy now residing in Bologna, best known for his work as visual/comic artist and for running his own publishing house De Press. Just like with his drawings, Andrea De Franco, has been slowly building an expansive body of work collecting tracks, audio snippets and...
Traces is a new Spanish label that unites two concepts as different as electronic music and mining, an economic sector that was the livelihood of many Asturians during the 19th and 20th centuries. As the name of the project itself indicates, it describes the current situation of the mining regions where practically only...
Infinite evolution Throughout history we always tend to remember those polymathic scholars who have managed to expand their ingenuity into diverse artistic manifestations but, we can also coin the term polymath to someone who within the same discipline dominates a high number of genres and styles. The Danish musician and composer Lars Graugaard (1957) is a paradigm of polymathy in the art...
Canadian guitarist Aidan Baker and Belgian clarinetist Gareth Davis form a rather original and unique musical duo, they combine both instruments, in Davis's case the bass clarinet, to create atmospheres and explore a quieter and more peaceful musical sense that mixes jazz and ambient or drone. Both have been previously involved in...
NXT recordings is a label with a musical line clearly directed to techno and other subgenres that coincide with this philosophy, but this project currently divides its catalog into two series to discriminate its more primitive orientation with a new more experimental concept. Cortexiphan is a parallel series open to less conventional styles...
Industrial Complexx was born in February as a medium linked to dark, transgressive, experimental, eclectic and dissonant electronic music. It first emerges as a digital platform but, its activity expands as a record company, and also, as a printed medium. On 28th September the first volume of Industrial Complexx goes on sale, the magazine deals with different musical themes with interviews,...
The Scottish label Firecracker Recordings recovers Unthank, sub-label that was released in 2013 with an EP by Bakey Ustl and that since 2017, with the release of the Australian album Rings Around Saturn, until today, has been inactive. Lindsay Todd has been directing this Edinburgh-based label for 15 years, but...
