As any recording geek knows, zero dB is the optimum level for recording. Yet the duo who have taken this studio jargon as their moniker place no limit on their production other than to flap ears, trigger nods and shake tail feathers wherever and whenever it’s played. read more

Maintaining Morr Music’s strong relationship with Iceland’s musical exports is this new album by Borko, an artist who first made waves amongst fans of melodic electronic music with 2001’s Trees & Limbo. read more

Gianluigi Di Costanzo, aka Bochum Welt, released a number of EPs and albums on Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label, Sony Music Japan and Universal, among others. read more

Demonstration Tape (1997-2007) is a 2-disc retrospective compilation, commemorating Solvent’s 10-year career in electronic music. Late-2007 saw Solvent touring all over the world, including stints opening for VNV Nation (certainly the biggest name in today’s EBM/Gothic scene), and with Freezepop (heroes to synthpop kids and Guitar Hero enthusiasts worldwide). read more

“The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.” Annie Dillard
It’s this musical whisper that is amplified on Oceanic Feeling-Like, as Italian based musician Mike Cooper and Australia’s Chris Abrahams unite for the first time to create what could be described as a picturesque horizon of melodic ocean swell. read more

Genre-busting pop pioneers GOLDFRAPP release their fourth album, ‘Seventh Tree’ through Mute on February 26th 2008. ‘Seventh Tree’ is written and produced by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory and was recorded at their own studio deep in the English countryside. read more

“Epilogue in Waves” is the third album from n5MD main-man Mike Cadoo’s ever evolving Bitcrush moniker. The album is the soundtrack to a story which begins with a sense of hope, but whose undercurrents pull you to the end you feared. read more

Skyphone belong to a new generation of Danish musicians that also include bands like Under Byen and Efterklang. Musically it´s possible to place them somewhere between Efterklang, Sigur Ros and Swedish group Tape. In the Rune Grammofon catalogue Skyphone is probably closest in spirit and musical ideology to Svalastog and the more melodic sides of Alog. read more

Skylla’ is a monster. A sheering, scathing collision of computer generated sounds meshed with guitar and turntable. The results are intense yet bearable, funny but not stupid. From the rhythmical excesses of ´Pink Umbrella´ and ´Kirre´ to the subtle dronescape of ´Syne´, this is a full on experience. read more

An annual festival of art, music and ideas, which is currently in its 12th year, Futuresonic occupies the orbits of both music and digital culture.

Extending the focus in recent years on presenting artworks in unexpected city spaces, and on social art and social technologies, the 2008 theme is The Social - Social Networking Unplugged. read more

Ghislain Poirier is one of the most commanding artists around exploring new terrains of hip hop and electronic music fused with world riddim idioms twisted deep around bass. His obsession for the big, the dirty and the rhythmic laid the foundation for creating No Ground Under, his first album for Ninja Tune. read more

After last autumn’s sublime “Glyphic” long-player, Boxcutter reverts to his given name for a journey through his extensive back catalogue of material. These are tracks that date from the period 2002-2005; up to the time Barry wrote his classic first album “Oneiric”. read more

Tanake is unexpected music, hearth lungs sweat (even brain but kept in a hidden place), is music mentally physic, is music physically mental, is twilight at dawn, bitter honey, fresh decomposition, joy in crying. tanake is music generated by her 3ree sweethearts… read more

Christopher Willits and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s new release, Ocean Fire, is a sublime soundtrack for the ocean. It is an intense and stirring wash of cascading tones and textured harmony. Willits + Sakamoto surprise with rare form in this collaboration, creating a sound world unlike anything they have produced previously. read more