M-Tronic is a Parisian label founded in 2001 with the aim of being an innovative platform for all kinds of electronic experiments and styles that are outside the mainstream, a platform that rewards the feeling with its followers eventually offering bandcamp releases for free or with a voluntary contribution from the buyer. Last year, American...
For Haven’s sixth release in their main series co-head Keepsakes returns to the label with his first EP of 2019 and a new, slower direction for his sound. Following on from a busy touring schedule in the previous year and well received EPs on Haven, ‘Modern Anxious Vernacular’ takes a different approach to...
Sonic Groove remains true to its style with the new launch of two projects that are already part of the history of the early history and contemporary history of American EBM. Veteran producer and industrial luminary Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly, Delerium, Conjure One) teams up with industrial techno upstart Blush Response...
Ombra International reaches its ninth release with an EP that respects very positively the line of the Berlin label with 4 tracks that show diversity, while cohesion in their style. On the A side, the Parisian darkwave live band, Order89 (FLVN & Jordisorder fame) kick off the vinyl followed by Berlin strong holds
Infection Focus is the fourth EP of the spanish label Biological Techno Records, release with original tracks by Efren, Masso, Alf, Spanset, Pablo Valls, Cøma and Hermann. In the EP we discover industrial sounds, powerful melodies, very dense synthesizers and hypnotic acid melodies. Always with a hard percussion,...
Amish Boy signs 'Nice Try Done' on Power Vacuum and follows-through with another payload of inventive, grinding techno. Indeed sat next to some high-profile artists, his music brutally exposes rigid parameters that some will never venture beyond. Still, simple functionality is a beloved corner-stone of dance music and rightly so. Pointless assertions aside,...
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...
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...
The fifth release of Mosaique Records returns us to the first compilation Universe. This time in orbit you can hear (as in the first release) the French producer Umwelt with the apocalyptic doom core track "Fallen Empire". Also a collaboration of the Mosaique label owner Moralez and the legendary American EBM/ Hard...
