Like a studio onstage: Orbital tells us their live rig synth secrets
It’s a dazzling audiovisual show, with eye-popping visuals, plus an overflowing connection of synths. Orbital share their secrets for live performance and jamming with CDM’s David Abravanel. The timing...
View ArticleFree download: A 400-page guide to experimental Eastern Europe sounds
If experimental music and Europe make you think only of cities like Paris and London, you’re missing a big part of the story. Now you can grab a huge reference on fringe and weird electronic music from...
View ArticleInside the esoteric moon music of Doc Sleep, underground connector
Leftfield grooves, cycles inspired by the cinematic qualities of lunar and natural world – welcome to Doc Sleep’s “Your Ruling Planet.” I talked to the Room 4 Resistance resident and Jacktone Records...
View ArticleDesign, meet music: gorgeous graphic scores from LETRA / TONE fest
Nine designers created graphics scores. Next, nine musicians will interpret them. LETRA / TONE festival is one of the more compelling experiments in festival programming – an adventure in crossing...
View ArticleFrom Ukraine, a compilation to resist normality and go braindance
The letters titling the release spell out, in Cyrllic, “sh**s.” And more than just another dull compilation, this collection of tracks is a statement – in opposition to commercialism and homogeny, in...
View ArticleAutomated techno: Eternal Flow generates dance music for you
Techno, without all those pesky human producers? Petr Serkin’s Eternal Flow is a generative radio station – and even a portable device – able to make endless techno and deep house variations...
View ArticleEnter the freaky trippy acid 90s German synth world of Air Liquide
If you need a break from buttoned-up techno, dance music as business and fashion statement and morose wallpaper – take a holiday with some “trippy mindfkk-muzzikkk.” Here, we’ve got 170 tracks from...
View ArticleA documentary on Dresden’s techno scene, now free to watch
Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne … try Dresden. Rauschen im Tal, a documentary of the emergence of Dresden electronic music, struck a nerve and sold out theaters. And now it’s free to watch (in German, with...
View ArticlePoland’s electronic underground called for support; the world answered with...
In Poland, as queer groups and allies face a rising threat of violence and hate, the Oramics collective chose to respond with music. The result: a sprawling compilation of 121 tracks and international...
View ArticleAlternate African Reality: reorient your listening with this terrific...
Don't miss out on music - speaking of getting Africa back on your listening list, here's an extraordinary, wide-reaching compilation of some of the most adventurous sounds from Africa and the diaspora....
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