Lone Galaxy Garden R&S My favourite thing–among many–about Lone’s fifth full length is that it never pauses for breath. That’s not to say everything on Galaxy Garden is super frenetic; the actual tempo of opening track “New Colour” is a fairly laid back 125-ish bpm, something you could just as …
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 …
Why is it, a-void readers, that our fellow 9-5ers take very little convincing to go for mid-week drinks despite the near-guaranteed hangover and wallet-damage; but when I try to get them to check out new music—such as Galapagos at The Drake a couple weeks ago—they come up with the flimsiest …
The turntable is fixed, the mix is done, it is free, you will like it. There’s some scratching, not all of it terrible, and some decent transitions and such, so all told I would actually recommend checking it out. Maybe even share it with your friends. Go wild! See jungle! …
It’s that month of the time. I was about to mix up this admittedly not super-timely collection of tracks when I discovered that my mixer’s left channel is kaput, so I threw this together in Ableton; there are more four-on-the-floor type tracks than usual, just because I figured I’d …
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 …