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10 Songs That Shaped City and i.o’s Spirit Volume Album
Spirit Volume by City & i.o It’s nearly impossible to crack the sonic codes within Spirit Volume, a new PTP tape that takes City and i.o down a road that’s both stormy and serene. The producers/multi-instrumentalists give us a few hints in the following playlist, however, as they relate the record back to music that’s […]
Umberto Makes Us a Film Mix, From Popol Vuh to Fabio Frizzi
Photography VIKTORIA GOKUN Considering how cinematic Matt Hill’s music has always been — from proper film pieces (All That We Destroy, Portraits) to nearly a decade of deeply immersive Umberto albums — we can’t think of a better way of putting this week’s Helpless Spectator LP into perspective than the following mix. Weaving its way […]
Félicia Atkinson Shares the Stories Behind Her Surreal New Album
Photography STINE SAMPERS Aside from a few admitted influences — the seminal French classical sounds of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie — Félicia Atkinson doesn’t provide many hints as to what’s happening throughout her new Shelter Press album, The Flower and the Vessel. A few clues emerge in the track-by-track commentary below, however, as […]
Relapse Signs Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin’s Zonal Project, Readies Techno Animal Reissues
Photo JOSE RAMON CAAMAÑO In a move that makes perfect sense given their backgrounds in extreme music, Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin have joined the Relapse Records family and unveiled a self-titled sampler from their new Zonal project. “Under their new guise,” the label writes in a press release, “the duo push the parameters further […]
Pharmakon Taps Into Our Cannibalistic Tendencies
Photo JANE CHARDIET Margaret Chardiet has announced her fourth Pharmakon album. Due out August 30th through Sacred Bones, Devour is described as “the most intense output of her 12+ years creating industrial noise… using imagery and language of self-cannibalism as allegory for the self-destructive nature of humans.” Uniform guitarist Ben Greenberg captured the entire record […]
Visible Cloaks Explain Their Elemental Album With Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano
"A game of exquisite corpse"
8Ball Unveils Bogdan Raczynski Mixtape, We Used To Corrupt Each Other With Art & Coffee
In case you missed the return of Bogdan Raczynski last April, the braindance auteur is back with yet another look at his Rephlex archives. Now available in a digital edition after two sold-out tape runs, We Used to Corrupt Each Other With Art & Coffee is actually a 60-minute survey of choice Raczynski material by […]