Music has always been valued for its ability to convey genuine human emotions such as sorrow, joy, or love. The question is whether an algorithm can truly feel what it creates. The debate over whether art requires an author's consciousness and lived experience may be called into question, yet in some cases, the result is...
The European electronic scene celebrates an exceptional collaboration as Stefan Netschio, iconic voice of synth-pop pioneers Beborn Beton, joins forces with the enigmatic collective A State of Flux to reinterpret Dislocation, a classic by Ultravox originally featured on their seminal 1978 album Systems of Romance (co-produced by the visionary Conny Plank)....
Some albums transcend music to become personal documents. This is not a new Three Broken Tapes album by Juanlu Barlow, released under the label Love-Fi Recordings, is precisely that: the organic conclusion of an artistic conversation that began in 2013. That year, the second Three Broken Tapes album, Bye Bye Borrasca, captivated choreographer
More than seven years after her last album Holding On, Sally Dige returns with the new output Holding The Sun, an 8-track full-length collecting previous singles from the last five years, plus new tracks. A Berlin-based Canadian artist, Sally is a multi-instrumentalist musician with a DIY approach to the composition and production of her music,...
At Sea Compilations once again captivates lovers of the somber with the eighteenth volume of its iconic La Danse Macabre series, an anthology featuring the finest selections of contemporary darkwave, post-punk, and gothic rock. Meticulously curated like its predecessors, this edition stands as a testament to the vitality of the global underground scene, blending...
El próximo 5 de julio regresa Emergencia Sonora, el festival dedicado a la cultura old school, dark e industrial, creado por y para artistas originarios o residentes en la Comunidad Valenciana. Esta nueva edición llega con más participantes, disciplinas artísticas y espacios que acogerán las diversas actividades programadas. Al igual que en su anterior edición, el...
Since their inception in 2006, Staatseinde has been a band igniting everything from the darkest underground club circuits to massive open-air festivals. Always a nomadic project, it’s a shapeshifting entity that adapts and devours every stage with lineups as fluid as their sound, drawing influences from Neue Deutsche Welle, EBM, new wave, punk, and...
Contre Soirée (the alias of French musician and producer Olivier Decodts) returns to the Italian label Veyl with Psychiatry, a four-track EP that transcends mere music to become an intimate and harrowing testimony. Shaped by profound personal experiences and unfiltered emotional intensity, this work cements Olivier as an artist capable of transforming pain...
4AD is a household name for lovers of post-punk, ethereal darkwave/dream-pop, and indie/alternative rock. Born in 1980 as Axis Records, an imprint of Beggars Banquet Records, the record label was founded by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, but it soon became an independent entity owned by Watts-Russell after just one year of activity and...
British producer and composer James Brook had already left his mark on the electronic scene of the past decade with Pardon Moi, the duo he formed with German artist Thomas Freudenthal. Their sound, a sophisticated reinvention of disco with a retro elegance, acted as a sonic laboratory that foreshadowed his next project: Sex Kino,...
