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...
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...
Iron Sight debuted on Strange Therapy in January 2019 with an album that anticipated more than one participation in this label. Chapter One, Decade began a sonic adventure that ended in just a few days, as he released a second chapter later that year and hinted at a new instalment in...
FØREST FIRES, Pedro Barceló's solo project, released a few days ago The Fire, The Light, The Sun, an EP that differs from anything he has released before, as they were created to add vocals, in particular female vocals and each track with a different voice. Nancy Knox is featured on The...
The Italian label 99CHANTS released last summer Helicon Sessions, an album created from a temporary outdoor recording studio, 1130 metres above sea level, on the slopes of Mount Helicon in Greece. This release was published by Equations Collective, a multidisciplinary project of artists, who besides working with experimental sounds are also active in...
Jim Kimchi's Space Container feels almost post transhumanist in its rejection of any sort of "instrument" sounds, anything remotely human in this album feels foreign, it's as if we are discovering music from an ai's perspective. First comes noise, then refinement, sculpting, shaping; everything feels like it's been carved out of a solid...
Supersimmetria returns to praise the glory of life: Literally taking up the thread of its predecessor “Abiogenesis”, his 2022 album “Double Helix” explores the structure formed by double-stranded nucleic acid molecules, DNA, the core of our very existence. Considerate and gentle, yet profound and demanding electronica of the highest order take the listener...
Teorema is a festival that was born as a concept where creativity is broken down to show the public an elaboration process based on research and the externalisation of an idea, a presentation that reveals the development of a work, from experimentation to its conclusion, separating each ingredient and explaining to the audience...
Dame Area ended 2021 and has started 2022 acclaimed in the European stages with a live show praised for its power and darkness, made up of many new tracks. Some of those have been gathered in this EP. Industrial music with a touch of EBM without ortodoxy nor cobwebs, with metallic percussions performing some atypical rhythms and...
With Perpetual Skip Kevin Hendrick aka Middex devises a bricolage of oblique minimal synth and dislocated industrial electronics. Across a ten-track sprawl of crude, serrated tones, convulsive signals, pneumatic drum machines, and granular environmental noise, Middex adds reverberant sprechgesang and spoken word soliloquies that contend with the prosaic minutiae and contorted resonances of...
