As a Christmas gift, continuing its annual tradition, the Malta-based label Music Analysis Discussions Records released the sixth volume of its M.A.D. series on December 26th. This is a massive album, featuring over one hundred tracks at a very enticing price, and includes a PDF booklet with information on each of the 107 collaborating artists. This...
Charlène Dannancier, previously known under aliases such as UNN in the experimental scene, signs her first work under her given name. The French composer, performer, and artist embarks here on an incisive exploration of the emotional vertigo generated by ambiguous relationships, those destabilizing gray areas where desire and unease intertwine. The album meticulously traces the...
The multimedia project, and collective, La Furnasetta is an important part of Italian post-industrial underground scene. Active since 2018, they have worked during their career with names as She Spread Sorrow, Silvia Cignoli, Mademoiselle Bistouri, Paolo Bandera, Viviankrist, Luca Sigurtá, Andrea Prevignano, Gian Maria Aprile, Attila Folklor, Leather Parisi, Petrolio, Daniele Brusaschetto. After the collaborative...
Samuel Kerridge emerged onto the music scene with remarkable force during the past decade, propelled by a meteoric rise that, from his very first releases, demonstrated significant artistic maturity. From the outset, his work conveyed solidity and depth; his feat, perhaps, lay in his ability to transfigure the codes of techno and adapt them...
Leiche (the German word for 'corpse') is the new solo project from Marco Donnarumma, one-half of Dadub alongside Daniele Antezza, and a Berlin-based sound artist. The project retains the visceral intensity and spatial depth characteristic of his work, but with a distinct approach, as it deliberately explores the threshold between harmony and distortion,...
We can speak of two revolutions separated by a century and a half, yet united by a common spirit of transformation, conflict, and the creation of a new landscape. The 1873 Oil Revolution in Alcoi was a social eruption at the heart of the textile industrialization—a world of steam engines, mechanical looms, smoky factories, and...
American Requiem is a new episode in the double -album series of releases from Gianluca Becuzzi for the label St.an.da. The Italian composer, an important name in the world of experimental music since his exploits in Limbo and Pankow in the '80s, explores here themes of life and death in the symbol of...
algorhythms charts an inhospitable sonic territory. Their new four-track work, wreccage, is the auditory testimony of an extreme physical feat—a deep immersion into the rawest landscapes of nature and the human psyche; a sonic journey through dark ambient, the relentless rhythms of industrial, doom, and abstract electronics. The genesis of wreccage is a legend in...
Joey Gonzalez aka Blush Response is one of the top producers and artists in the modern techno-industrial/electro-industrial scene. American-born and Berlin-based, his career sees a plethora of releases that have left a deep mark on the genre, prompting sci-fi/cyberpunk-inspired sounds and aesthetics. Recently, he started a new phase of his pursuit under the Canadian label...
Blush Response, the alias of Berlin-based producer Joey Gonzalez, is an excellent example for observing the evolution of a genre like industrial over the last 15 years. His beginnings date back to 2010 (at least, that's when his first release under this project is dated), a time when the fusion of techno and industrial,...
