GAZELLE TWIN – Better In My Day (From Pastoral LP) Gazelle Twin leaves aside her blue school gym gear and body horror themes examined in her album Unflesh, for a grotesque character study of Middle […]
Tag: Aphex Twin
Collapse EP: A comfort blanket when there’s nothing left to say about Aphex Twin
Aphex Twin is a bit like The Beatles at this stage; whether you are in deep or have just a passing regard for him, most people at least know the name. I remember reading about […]
Premiere: Zoid’s Nebulous Concrete is a jazzy Braindance odyssey
Zoid’s vague bio tells us he “grew up in Dublin in the 90s listening to techno and jazz”, and there’s not much else to go on. Listening to his latest release Nebulous Concrete you’d guess […]
Sharp and slithery synthesis from NYZ on FLUF Records
There’s nothing stripped-back about minimalist electronic label FLUF’s output over the last few months. This new one from NYZ is the Swedish label’s ninth digital EP release since the end of September, and a recent interview […]
More confounding electronics from ‘computer hooligans’ EVOL
Swedish label FLUF has started 2018 as you know they’ll go on – with another example of next-gen electronics, sound-designed to the nth degree. The label, run by producer tuuun, is populating Bandcamp with avant-garde […]
The Warp Magic Tour Bus parks up in Dublin (2002)
A band of modern-day merry pranksters has rolled into Dublin – a busload of DJs and expert knob-twiddlers creating an alternative summer holiday soundtrack. After 100 releases, the Warp Record label is taking its Magic […]
‘I think therefore I ambient’: Mixmaster Morris interview
Mixmaster Morris is the OG of the UK chillout room, an ambient pioneer who reworked the acid house experience to include soft landings alongside the all-night raving. You can loosely file him alongside The KLF […]
Irish gigs round-up
HELMET, Whelan’s, Dublin, tomorrow Legendary New York post-hardcore act Helmet were on the bill of the ill-fated BARE in the Woods festival that had to cancel last month — leaving behind one of the most bonkers […]
Aphex Twin set for all the brain-wrongs at Forbidden Fruit
After Life Fest broke the festival seal last weekend, we’re ready for another summer of three-day sessions, and Forbidden Fruit still has claims on being the handiest of the lot. On the go since 2011, […]
Clark’s Death Peak sounds like ‘a boulder bouncing down a hill with birds tweeting around it’
For years Clark has been a relatively unsung hero on Warp Records, hidden in the long shadows cast by cult electronic poster boys Aphex Twin, Autechre and Boards of Canada. But English producer Chris Clark […]
Lines of Communication open: Tom Middleton interview
WITHIN a few minutes of chatting to Tom Middleton, he jokes that Pete Tong used to call him The Professor because of the way he talks in “musical scenarios”. It’s not long before I start thinking […]
Gigs of the week: February 27 – March 6
CHOICE MUSIC PRIZE, Vicar Street, Dublin, Thursday, SOLD OUT Say what you want about the irrelevancy of the BRITs for actual music — you know we won’t be here this time next week talking about all […]
New age not dead: Mark McGuire – Along the Way
Guitarist Mark McGuire’s first post-Emeralds solo album may take a few listens before you stop sniggering at the back. It’s an “odyssey through the vast, unknown regions of the mind”, according to the inner sleeve […]
Hive mind: Autechre – Exai
If the copyright ever runs out on the term ‘heavy metal’, Autechre should claim it back from the guitar gods. The future-industrial clang on Exai has a greater metallic yield than any down-tuned Fender, and […]
Verbal gonorrhoea: The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales
“You’re about to be ear-fucked,” warns Chilly Gonzales on his latest project – an all-orchestral rap album. He reckons it’s the world’s first and a quick Google search suggests he’s probably right, so we’ll run […]
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