The legendary Andrew Weatherall opens up about his incredible career path, and exciting plans for the future.
Robert Barry
Introducing: Maria Minerva
The Estonian singer-producer talks about her roots, the Singing Revolution and travel induced weariness.
Journey Into Sounds: Best Fit speaks to Michael Mayer
Kompakt co-founder and legendary DJ Michael Mayer reveals the unlikely inspiration behind his first studio album in eight years, Mantasy.
Pollyn – Living in Patterns
Pollyn’s smooth, burnished vocals, emminently hummable hooks and percussive funk all bode well, but the ghost of trip-hop past still hasn’t been – quite – exorcised.
DoseOne – G is for Deep
Like spending time with a hyperactive child, Drucker’s new release can be joyous, funny, apt to fill you with a certain sense of wonder – and ultimately somewhat exhausting.
Yuri Landman Ensemble – That’s Right, Go Cats
Buzzing and resonating wildly, like the hysterical thought processes of an overactive blast furnace, this is a Ballet Mécanique for a post-nuclear age.
Lee Hazlewood – The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes and Backsides, 1968-1971
A new compilation of freshly re-mastered cuts from Light in the Attic Records charts what happened for what you might call middle-period Hazlewood: after the big hits but before settling into the status of cult hero.
THEESatisfaction – awE naturalE
awE naturalE is thoroughly imbued with these technologies of the sacred: the rich harmonies of gospel and rattling, clattering percussive polyrhtyhms overlaid on the bleeps and bips of Sputnik and IBM; digital samplers become time machines; pitch-shifted vocals erupt in techno-pentecostalism.
Mark Stewart – The Politics of Envy
Once a pioneer of the genre-mashing soundclash, Stewart now brings us a disappointing rock/electro hybrid that somehow manages to sound both hopelessly juvenile and wretchedly senescent at the same time.
David Sylvian – A Victim of Stars, 1982 – 2012
Since leaving Japan in 1981, Sylvian has spent his time collaborating with a roll call of avant-gardists and producing some of the most beguiling music of the era. This collection showcases one of the most innovative British artists working in song today.
Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
It offers a utopian glimpse of yesterday’s visions of the future, a time when the cutting edge of experimental electronic music still had a relationship to the everyday that was both estranging, de-territorialising, and curiously warm.