Atsushi Izumi is an artist skilled in advanced electronic music and sound design, his style has been modified to achieve a more experimental sound. The Osaka native's use of long drawn out hallow synths is like an ominous cemetery at night before these powerful percussions detonate in. He uses heavy spaced out bass drums,...
Berlin label Impartial Waves opens its catalogue with a first album in which it compiles 13 tracks by artists who work with sounds from all angles of the noise spectrum (Industrial/EBM/Experimental). The tracks they chose represent the vision of what they feel Noise embodies as well as its non conforming philosophy: drawing on harsh,...
Opal Tapes is performing at a dizzying pace. This same 26th of April, the British label adds 3 new references to its catalogue very typical of the style of this project, with an approach in which diversity is allied with the most risky genres. Katsunori Sawa proves once again with 'An Enlightenment Manual, Your...
The Austrian artist Zosima assumes with criteria his role of maximum responsible of Noiztank, this record label with headquarters in Vienna is his best showcase, since most of the releases that he treasures belong to Noiztank's catalogue. With Live Cuts I, Noiztank already has 14 releases in its 5-year history. Once again, Zosima...
Boris Bunnik is a producer with an innate ability to create multiple musical personalities, I would personally define him as restless and hoarder of new identities, as an inquiring and versatile soul who likes to be completely immersed in everything he does, whether creating music or playing live, and because he is such a creative soul and publishes so much...
Rhod Records inaugurates a new series oriented to experimental releases with the album and CD as format. LTD will only host long duration releases with which the artists will be able to enjoy a total freedom to experiment. "The natural state of everything" is the first album and the beginning of the singularity of K7hz. It gives...
When Giampaolo Scapigliati was a kid he liked to explore the hidden abandoned places in the outskirts of his hometown, Viterbo. Especially those natural pools in the middle of nowhere that attract tourists for their sulfurous healing water, not welcoming smell and obscure plants. What he cherished the most, though, was its fascinating aura, one that can only emanate...
Feel Anything is Marina Rosenfeld & Ben Vida's new EP for the Swedish label iDEAL Recordings, electro-acoustic improv conjuring a steeply layered investigation of proprioception and dreamtime psyches. Marking Marina’s first appearance since the resoundingly unusual electro-dub of her ‘P.A. / Hard Love’ [Room 40, 2013] recordings with Warrior Queen, and also Ben Vida’s...
Any musical field needs artists who make a difference from the beginning and who establish some basic rules for a genre, this happens rarely, or almost better said what had to happen has already happened, because creating a style from scratch today is a practically impossible task, at least in electronic music, which in the beginning could be inspired by...
On his 3rd album for Karl, painter, musician, photographer and video artist Hans Castrup continues his explorations of analogue and digital sound sources, creating a dystopian soundtrack that melts dark ambience with electro-acoustic means. After “Shadowplay” (2013) and “Lizenzfreie Restwärme” (2016), “Heterogeneous Cell Information” is the 3rd album (and first LP) by Hans Castrup...
