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This time around, Chris Power's fortnightly round-up of the electronic scene flits with elephantine grace between Dutch dubstep, Belgian horrorcore, Lithuanian ambient techno and plain old laptop blissfulness from the Home Counties.»
Just because an indie band is a quarter of a century old doesn't mean it can't still be setting standards their descendants might find it hard to match. Farm offers ample proof of that.»
This month sees the release Farm by Dinosaur Jr, and we tracked down the band's infamously laconic frontman and general indie rock deity J Mascis to a west London hotel lobby in an attempt to ask some questions that might garner more than a shrug in response. We were partially successful. »
Welcome to Chris Power's regular wander around the world of all kinds of pixelated sounds.»
Chicago's Speck Mountain deliver a hazy space-rock blissout just in time for what might actually turn out to be a less than rubbish summer. »
Chris Power's fortnightly column about all things electronic.»
The main problems with The Shimmering Hour are twofold. Firstly, when Reid isn't crafting subtle, eddying tunes – ones that whip past and melt away like traces of ocean spray – he's forging big, melodramatic ones that, in the case of 'Kultus Klawata' and the overblown 'Summoner's Hollow', suggest his stated debt to video games might be recognition of a serious Final Fantasy habit.»
From the first lady of UK funky to Italian turntablist manoeuvres, Twin Peak-time house, skeletal techno and pirates of the Barbary Coast, number five is well and truly alive.»
Aside from No Protection, Mad Professor's magnificent future-dub reconstruction of Massive Attack's Protection, remix albums tend »
For all the darkness of Actor's concerns, it remains an exceptionally pleasurable album to listen to. But that isn't to say that its songs, which cluster around the themes of dishonesty, unhappiness, hurt and doomed dreams of rekindling past loves, are ultimately unsuccessful in conveying what they're about. It's more the case that, like any truly engaging artwork, they satisfy even as they perturb.»
Ahead of the highly anticipated release of Scintilli, the first studio album from Warp stalwarts Plaid since 2003’s Spokes, comes their collaboration with Javanese gamelan musician Rahayu Supanggah as part of the Ether 09 festival. »
There's a palpable sense of excitement on London's Southbank this evening, as the time for more-than-a-record-label Touch's contribution to the Ether 09 festival approaches. With a line-up tonight of Sweden's CM von Hausswolff, New Zealander Rosy Parlane and Austria's Fennesz, it doesn’t matter in the least that we have to quit the crowds drinking on a sun-drenched Festival Hall terrace overlooking the Thames and file into a dark auditorium. They can keep their beer in the sun: we're here to get droned into the middle of next week.»
There's plenty on the band's debut and only album (thus far, at least – they’ve recently reformed and new material has already been written) that has clearly stood the test of time. »
Röyksopp's Svein Berge talks about the two sides to the band's music, guest vocalists, Spotify, and why having 3000 mp3s on your hard drive is the same as an attic full of crap. »
DiS talk to Swedend's The Field ahead of the release of Yesterday and Today, his highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's From Here We Go Sublime. »
Metric have lived and spent a lot of time in some of the hippest cities in the world, in fact, they're one of the most city-shifting, transient bands we've ever met. Each day this week they're going to share their favourite things about each city they've lived in or visited. We kick things off with the band's bassist Joshua Winstead telling us all about the big apple... »
From an 11-year-old tech-house classic to mutoid electro, E-generation dad dancing and keep-fit for disco-loving smackheads, help yourelf to a large go on April's best electronic gear. »
The Royal Festival Hall is perhaps just half full when two white lasers lance through the darkness, a two-note metallic drone thrums into life and, fully two minutes later, Fever Ray (aka Karin Dreijer Andersson) takes to the lampshade-strewn stage in a ceremonial headdress that would keep her face obscured even if there was light to see by.»
A-Trak's eclectic contribution to Fabric's mix series sees the turntablist tread a skilful line between awesome technique and the demands of the dancefloor.»
Details of the full line-up for Peaches' Ether 09 gig and the free aftershow party have been released.»
All the best new electronic music that's fit to put in your ears, exploding skateboarders, and why the best things in life are sometimes occasionally free. »
Despite some inspired moments the Parisian math rockers' fourth album doesn't quite add up. »
Get Physical's ingenious compilation breaks the predictable mould by asking DJs and producers to soundtrack their own funerals.»
Comprised of tracks that didn't make it onto last year's Ferndorf album, the Snowflakes and Car Wrecks EP is more than just reheated leftovers and hangs together far better than a collection of offcuts might be expected to.»
Mark 'Global Communications' Pritchard is in fitfully brilliant form with his debut release as Harmonic 313.»
All the latest electronic music that's worth hunting down, plus why it's time for fresh air and acid techno.»
Brazilian producer Gui Boratto's keenly anticipated new album doesn't do exactly what it says on the tin.»
Industrial pioneers Cabaret Voltaire are back! Sort of.»
The first in a regular series from one half of DJ duo British Males, reporting on the best of electronic music for the head, for the feet, and for all points in between.»
Daniel 'Grizzly Bear' Rossen's other band proves to be much more than a side-project with In Ear Park.»
