Dylan Ettinger Lifetime Of Romance Not Not Fun I discovered Dylan Ettinger more or less at random, trawling the Forced Exposure mailing list for anything with hints of synth drone and/or Krautrock influences, when I stumbled on his trippy, languid masterpiece, New Age Outlaws. Suffice it to say that Lifetime …
Orbital Wonky ACP Recordings It’s hard enough identifying most bands purely by their sound, never mind electronic acts. But within a few seconds of shimmering synth tones and crystalline keyboard arpeggios, you know you’re listening to Orbital. On Wonky, their first album in eight years, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have …
I don’t know where I’ve been lately, but it hasn’t been in an electronic music state of mind. Hearing RVNG Intl‘s reissue of Harald Grosskopf’s obscure 1980 album Synthesist, and its companion disc of remixes, Re-Synthesist, jolted me sharply out of that. RVNG’s website has a concise history of the …
Watch this. Feel that lump in your throat? When all the handwringing about exploitation begins — and there will be plenty of both the former and the latter (somewhere at this very moment a deeply unfair reality show contract is almost certainly being drawn up) — let’s not forget why …
If I gave a real life hat tip to Simon Reynolds every time his writing opened a door onto a new sonic universe, my brim would be permanently tilted in a most rakish fashion. But his support of the Ghost Box axis of BBC Radiophonic Workshop–esque electronic ephemera deserves a …