Nina Kraviz has announced a new EP that will come out towards the end of the month. The three track EP, stranno stranno. Neobjatno will be released on Kraviz’s label трип. In addition to the EP, she has shared the music video for EP track “I Want You.” The three track projects features […]

New video and EP from Nina Kraviz

It’s summertime and time to party and we are fairly sure that this gem will throw off any mixtape. Italian born DJ Deborah De Luca has pulled off a stunt that clearly delivers. No one has probably missed the Billie Eilish frenzy that kicked started 2019. Billie’s new album has […]

Deborah De Luca goes Bad Guy

Pryda aka Eric Prydz (or Cirez D for that matter) is out and about delivering pumping beats by the hour. The influences tend to come from a variety of sources, but always with a nice twist of his own. The driving beats and the delicate synth “loops” that flavored his […]

The Pryda retrospect

If experimentalism had a name in music Miles Davis would certainly be a candidate. The level of innovation in his life’s work is immense and now there is actually a new treat out there for you. Last summer we made a trip to Rome and of course did some decent […]

A hidden gem from Miles Davis

Today we will make a roundup on cool new gear that will trigger your creativity in electronic music production. So please treat this as a micro guide to some of the more intriguing things that has been released during 2019. Starting off with this little beast. KORG VOLCA MODULAR Bob […]

Gear that will trigger your creativity

The next Outlands tour, which starts Thursday 13 June, will feature Fracture Patterns, the live collaboration between UK duo Semiconductor (made up of Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) and New York producer Eartheater (alias of Alexandra Drewchin). Semiconductor makes visually and intellectually engaging artworks which explore the material nature of […]

Fracture Patterns

London’s Barbican recently launched an exhibition called AI: More Than Human, which showcases the latest developments in creative and scientific applications of AI. One of the installations you may come across is an AI platform called Mimic, which lets you create and remix sounds using AI software. At the installation, Massive […]

Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja goes AI

Curious about the title of this post well it is the name of a new live album from electronic pioneers New order. New Order’s 2017 set at Manchester International Festival is captured on a new live album from the band. Division made their television debut on Tony Wilson’s “So It […]

∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif)

Tired of searching for new tracks and loops, but still want explore new sounds? Well why not let an AI do the job for you. A new site streams Techno And Deep House generated on-the-fly by a computer, for what it is worth we may add. Petr Serkin’s new Eternal Flow […]

So you want infinite techno?

As we have started to get accustomed to, this year’s Intonal festival had a plethora of interesting artists lined up. Over four days the city of Malmoe becomes a hubspot for an all you can eat experimental and electronic music festival. At the center we have Inkonst, the organizer of […]

Intonal – On the edge featuring AUX 88 & Jasss

Came as little surprise that Depeche Mode’s master mind Martin Gore would join a long line of artists receiving the Moog innovation award at Moogfest. Yesterday, it was announced that Martin L. Gore, a founding member of legendary band Depeche Mode will be the 2019 recipient of the Moog Innovation […]

Martin Gore to receive this year’s Moogfest Innovation Award

Inkonst in the south of Sweden remains the undisputed source to go to if you are a fan of experimental arts and contemporary electronic music. Based in Malmoe its international prominence has continued to grow with its yearly electronic arts festival Intonal where renowned artists play side by side with […]

Quadraphonic waves – Interview with Suzanne Ciani

We are not sure how many chiptune software synths that are out there in cyberspace, we recon endless versions all attempting to mimic that pleasant sound of vintage machines – that we of course all love so much. Still today tons of tracks are spiced up a bit by adding […]

Has the ultimate chiptune machine arrived?

Though avatars and other types of artist expressions are fairly common Jumo does it in the spirit of releasing himself of the boundaries between audio and visuals. Four years ago, Clément Leveau gave birth to Jumo, a musical avatar and singular identity, that allowed him to give free rein to his […]

Jumo – a musical avatar and singular identity in music

The idea behind Endel is that your mind responds to ambient noise in different ways — sound can invigorate you, relax you, help you focus, or put you to sleep. We’ve all been there: uplifting music at the gym, a soothing piece to help us sleep or relax — this isn’t […]

Endel – an algorithm that creates music on demand

We can´t help it but every time we engage with Caterina it is impossible not to associate with the ex-Japan member Richard Barbieri, although to our knowledge they are not related in any way – apart from the fact that both are highly acclaimed artists and their fascination for synthesizers. […]

Ecstatic Computation

We’ve all seen those images of war and the terror that comes with it. But through the media we’ve also heard the ambient and sometimes disturbing noise that goes with it. Many get terrified others want to explore it further, Nik Nowak is one of the those guys. The Berlin […]

The sound of war

Although most people are still eagerly awaiting the return of Daft Punk on stage (and as far as we know no signs of this yet), fans may still get to experience a bit of the magic from Daft Punk in the spring. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of the world-famous […]

TECHNOLOGIC becomes art – Daft Punk revisited

Talk Talk has a music legacy of its own and to learn about the passing of Mark Hollis is sad, to say the least. Although he has been out of the music industry for many years his legacy lingers on. Remember even how I tried to imitate the handwriting style […]

Such a shame

Here’s a nice find – a one hour performance with Amelie Lens, well yes in a tunnel. Perhaps more fitting than one would suspect. The Belgian DJ has really put her self on the map, especially with her recent releases. Being one of the biggest names in techno, Antwerp-born Amelie Lens’ascension […]

Live in the tunnel

Well it was about time that the wanna-be Nobel prize for music, the Polar prize, finally came to recognise one of modern days most notable music genre’s hip hop. With the nomination of the DJ Grandmaster Flash the Polar academy took the prize into the right millennium again. Back in […]

The grandmaster is back

It is time to explore what Eastern Europe has to offer when it comes to experimental music. Loads of books has covered the legacy of western electronic and experimental music, so it is about time that we indulge ourselves in what the eastern realms have to offer. Berlin, and Europe […]

400 pages covering experimental music in Eastern Europe

Don’t we all love to experiment with new sounds, well some are taking this quite seriously. As field recordings have become the new hype among electronic artists some prefer to create those unique sounds with test equipment. Like the German synthesist Hainbach for example who explores an early electronic music technique. But […]

Using Lab equipment to make electronic music

Modular synthesizers has long been the go to route for musician with slighter bigger pockets. Building a modular wall will cost you a fortune, but in the same way as KORG has realized that there is money to make from wanna-be geeks with the newly announced Volca modular, so have […]

A paradigm shift in modular?