Monthly Archives: May 2011

Freaky audio genius Amon Tobin banging and twanging stuff and using lots of weird synthesis and morphing techniques to create sounds for his latest album Isam.

This self Pat Meher project involves the ‘processing of a tattered charity shop Wagner vinyl, paced down and filtered onto a C60 tape and back onto vinyl and CD with all the accumulated hiss’ (http://furtherlistening.tumblr.com). Much of it sounds like a 70′s sci-fi soundtrack – oppressive drones shift in and out, clipping and hissing while [...]

If you’re within hearing distance of the experimental electronic music scene, or have been at any time over the last 15 years (or have ever read The Wire), you will have heard of John Wall. An autodidact who began his compositional journey at the age of 40 with an FZ1 mono sampler, he began with [...]

Here’s a wicked Italian avant-garde prog album by Orchestra Njevudarov. Cinematic, abstract and very cool. Orchestra Njevudarov – Con Le Orecchie Di Eros by liquid-architecture Download it here

Unless you make regular pilgrimages to weird central European backwaters to check out strange, esoteric installations, you’re unlikely to be offered the opportunity to see post-industrial titans Nurse With Wound very often. I don’t, obviously, so the last time I saw them was their show at Queen’s Hall on the Southbank about 4 years ago. [...]

In my opinion the real standout track from the latest album Cervantine by A Hawk And A Hacksaw. It has a really hopeful quality to it while at the same time expressing indescribable loss – it’s got a fantastic music video, directed and animated by Ben Popp, to boot.

Found this full album stream today. It’s something that I’ve been very into for a while now, really dark trip-hop with crunched, distorted drums and some scary vocal samples. Teargas and Plateglass “Black Triage” by Waxploitation

Listening to an interview with Moby this morning, he offered this as his favourite track. He talked particularly about the mix, saying that in his opinion it was perfect – allowing the vocal to be soaked in reverb and the drums to stay so far back that they’re just a murmur in the background – [...]

While digital crate digging for old library music this morning I came across a 6Music show where Jonny Trunk and Jarvis Cocker go exploring in the BBC Archive. They dug out the soundtrack to L’Uomo Dagli Occhi Di Ghiaccio, an Italian film from 1971. Apparently there were only ever about 20 vinyl copies, and then [...]

With lots of shiny CD re-releases coming out at the moment, it’s getting easier and easier to fill those superficial holes in any avid NWW collecter’s catalogue, however it’s finds like this that get me excited. Unfortunately, a download of NWW sort of defeats the object for me in some ways, as a big part [...]