Experimental Frequencies

*SKURA ~ Complete Works

*SKURA ~ Complete Wo...

Skura is Proto-Germanic for "mark," or "tally," cousin to the English word score. In turn, a score is a soundtrack, or a group of ...

Petrels – Haeligewielle

Petrels – Haeligew...

The one sheet for Petrels – Haeligewielle says the album is comprised of ‘songs of water, songs of stone’. It sounds vague, but in truth ...

Bengalfuel – Edgemere

Bengalfuel – E...

What's in a name? Grab a few letters, rearrange, receive a new impulse, collage your meaning, glue words so they represent duality sprite. With Bengalfuel, ...

Never Ever Ever Ever Again

Never Ever Ever Ever...

Following the release of their self titled album last Autumn, Vancouver outfit Siskiyou have just dropped a video for album track "Never Ever Ever Ever ...

Jannick Schou – The Act Of Shimmering

Jannick Schou –...

I'll ask of the berserks, you tasters of blood, Those intrepid heroes, how are they treated, Those who wade out into battle? Wolf-skinned they are called. In battle They ...

Barrow Hospital Pt. 2

Barrow Hospital Pt. ...

Over the weekend I decided to pay a second visit to Barrow's abandoned Mental Asylum to check out the remaining buildings that were missed on ...

Billy Gomberg – Quiet Barrier

Billy Gomberg –...

With several solo releases and collaborations under his belt, sound artist Billy Gomberg follows on from 2009's Flyover Sound collaboration with Offthesky with Quiet Barrier, ...

Richard Ginns – Sea Change

Richard Ginns –...

Nostalgia is a curious and dangerous thing. Its essential condition - memorialising past events, beautifying them into an idealised rendition of the original - is ...

Diamond Catalog: Magnified Palette

Diamond Catalog: Mag...

Minimal and Industrial Techno developing a skin allergy with Ambient drone; perplexing the root hairs' braindance operatics; structural cutting technology taken to extremes, whistling in ...

Bee Mask – Elegy for Beach Friday

Bee Mask – Elegy f...

Mysterious American musician and director of the cassette label Deception Island, Chris Madak aka Bee Mask, mines his own substantial back catalogue of limited edition ...

Fisherman’s Trail

Fisherman’s Tr...

Ocean’s current provides a cascade of movement, as pages turning in lazy swirls, the magnificence of high tide, salty mist against the wharf...

Marcus Fjellström: In Between

Marcus Fjellström: ...

I realised quite early on that I'm not really interested in genre music, but rather music that seems to lie between genres. That which ...

The A. Lords – S/T

The A. Lords –...

What does it mean to use the sounds of birds and of weather as part of nearly every track of an album of music? In ...

History Of Electronic Music: Week Two

History Of Electroni...

Update on History of Electronic Music co-curation programme at the Science Museum, when week two at Blythe House involved us looking more in-depth at the ...

Stephan Mathieu – To Describe George Washington Bridge

Stephan Mathieu – ...

“To Describe George Washington Bridge” is Stephan Mathieu’s second Dekorder release in the 10" format (reflecting his interest in old 78rpm ...

Keith Fullerton Whitman / Alien Radio – S/T

Keith Fullerton Whit...

Dekorder return to the release schedule with this Deutsch-Amerikanische meeting of two Meisters of the Modular Electronic Music System (originally invented by Don ...

Offthesky – Appalachia & The Beautiful Nowhere: Interview

Offthesky – Ap...

“Every summer, traveling through the mountains photographing, I am somehow able to renew and relive my childhood. I regain my southern, mountain accent and approach ...

Sacred Harp – Apparitions At The Kenmore Plantation

Sacred Harp – ...

What is Americana? Though a dictionary may define the term as objects, art or music which are seen as typically American, a number of artists have ...

Vinyl Of The Week: Kreng – Grimoire

Vinyl Of The Week: K...

Limited vinyl edition now available: Many are perhaps familiar with the concept of dark restaurants. The concept is simple: you walk in utter darkness, wait ...

The Long White Cloud – Part One: Alicia Merz – Birds Of Passage

The Long White Cloud...

“From their distant flight Through realms of light It falls into our world of night, With the murmuring sound of rhyme.”

Joint Venture – Humanity, Integrity, Sincerity (And The Mass Avant-Garde)

Joint Venture –...

Enigmatic French label Joint Venture and sister imprint Twin Daisies have recently impressed with a stream of intriguing releases from several acts, including Charles Eric ...

Later Than You Think

Later Than You Think...

Ok so before I get an onslaught of emails giving me grief with comments like 'This is not ambient' or 'Why are you posting heavy ...

Michel Chion…

Michel Chion…...

Michel Chion (1947 Creil, France). Composer of "Musique Concrète" from INA-GRM, video and film maker, creator of "audio visual theatre" (La Messe de Terre), writer ...

Looking Back: Bleeding Heart Narrative – Tongue Tangled Hair

Looking Back: Bleedi...

Bleeding Heart Narrative's debut album “all that was missing we never had in the world” was also the first release for London-based label Tartaruga Records ...

Bon Iver – Bon Iver

Bon Iver – Bon Ive...

The first thing that stands out about Bon Iver's self titled new album is the lushness of the production....

Bitchin Bajas – Water Wrackets

Bitchin Bajas – Wa...

"As Greenaway pans across a river and its surrounding foliage, a narrator recounts mythical times of conquering armies and their relations to the stream, telling ...

History of Electronic Music: Week One

History of Electroni...

Weekly update on History of Electronic Music co-curation programme at the Science Museum…

Secret Explorers

Secret Explorers...

The world of the Urban Explorer has always resonated with me in a deep way. Disused underground stations, abandoned asylums, military sites, industrial complexes, etc, ...

Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite

Hoping for the Invis...

Well worth getting in your early bird pre-orders for what is going to be one seriously good album from the FareWell Poetry guys...

Matiné

Matiné...

Loving this short film for Erik K. Skodvin's track 'Matine', taken from last years sublime (made our top 10 for 2010) album 'Flare'.