With an unerring willingness to dispense with the pleasantries of expectation and convention, The Academy’s songwriting duo Benjamin Thompson and Meredith McHugh have forged a unique place in the heartland of melodic song writing, etched with glistening electronic interludes and wall of sound guitars. read more

Recorded with Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros, Sugar Cubes, Cocteau Twins, Suede) and Ewan Pearson (Tracey Thorn, The Rapture, Ladytron) “Saturdays = Youth” delivers the rich sonic textures for which M83 is well known –this time with a more focused approach to song structure and form. read more

Polish author and producer Michal Jacaszek finds the perfect combination between electronically prepared sounds and acoustic instruments. Dark and mysterious but ultimately beautifully rewarding and moving. Filed somewhere inbetween Arvo Pärt, Zbigniew Preisner, Marsen Jules, Deaf Center and Murcof. This is a must have! read more

Taking a break from recent collaborations with jazz drummer Steve Reid, Kieran Hebden delivers his first new Four Tet material since ’05’s Everything Ecstatic. Having carved out his own niche in electronica through his use of organic sounds and crisp percussive breaks, this four song EP definitely marks a change of direction for Hebden. read more

Led by sound sculptor and producer extraordinaire Jack Dangers, MBM continues to evolve. It’s tenth album pushes musical boundaries further than it has before, creating a masterpiece of dubstep and electronica. “I feel closest to the Dubstep trend,” says Jack. “I feel like Dub has always been part of my sound”. read more

Between his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concréte composer and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist ERIKM has earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound source and sound media. read more

Small and perfectly formed, ‘Metanarrative’ explores Mark Stewart’s experiments with midnight techno variants, utilising a stylistic reduction that looks for warmth and detail in every nook and cranny. read more

Ranonkel marks a break in form from the recent output however, avoiding all sense of this being another ephemeral transmission from the Machinefabriek hard drive, and instead sounding like a fully formed bonafide album, a worthy follow-up to the Marijn full-length released on Lampse in 2006. read more

Antwarps is a gorgeous compilation album consists of early works by aus (Yasuhiko Fukuzono) from Tokyo. All the tracks in this album were selected from his groundbreaking debut album ” Kangaroo Note “(2004) and the sublime follow-up album “Crowding”(2005) from U-Cover CDr Limited. read more

The 2nd edition of the Visual Electronics Laboratory will takes place on 2nd and 3rd may in the Laboral of Gijón.

With the support of LABoral Art & Industrial Creation Centre and Laboral Escena, the Internacional Festival of Audiovisual Creation of Gijón will spread the activities in some spaces of the Laboral. read more

Since the release of Silenced in October 2005 The Black Dog have been working delicately on its successor. Radio Scarecrow has been over two years in the making, constantly developing and building, culminating in a masterpiece work that flows delightfully and hits hard. read more

Nascent understanding, quiet burgeoning desires, and the time in your life when everything seemed magical. These are just a few of the experiences captured in Balmorhea’s soulful collection of songs on Rivers Arms. read more

Break, is featured on Son Lux’s debut album, At War With Walls And Mazes, released on February, 26, 2008 at Anticon Records. read more

Well… i guess Portishead doesn’t need a presentation, and either their last album released this month. So here is the video for Machine Gun, a track from the album Third. read more

Much like the bamboo plants that dominate Japan’s landscape, Shuta Hasunuma’s piano work on his new album OK Bamboo has an enduring, simple elegance. OK Bamboo’s title and compositions are the result of Hasunuma’s interest in the ancient relationship between Japan and bamboo. As he explains, “In Japan, bamboo is revered as a plant sharing properties of both wood and grass. read more

Lullatone are back with their latest conceptual pop masterpiece, ‘The Bedtime Beat’. This new 10 song mini-album finds the duo not only further perfecting their blend of self proclaimed pajama pop, but also taking it into new uncharted waters, literally. read more

Yvat lives in Bucharest, Romania managing his own sound design company there.
As a professional sound designer, Yvat implied himself in sampling industry and collaborated with Power FX, from Sweden and Ueberschall Sample Service GmbH, from Germany. read more

Music video for the Efterklang song Illuminant. It is directed and designed by Tobias Stretch. Illuminant can be found on Efterklangs second album entitled Parades released in october 2007 - Rumraket & The Leaf Label. read more

Machinefabriek’s Stuip and Staar are two minimal drone performances captured at the Cross Street Chapel, Manchester (UK) and the Toneelschuurm, Haarlem (NL). Running just under an hour his processed guitar textures rise and fall, stretching their substance through etheral minimalism, slowly evolving epic heights, and moments of sublime symphony. read more

Ontayso is U-cover’s own act formed in the spring of 2002 by Esther Santoyo (Mex) and Koen Lybaert (Bel). Ontayso creates music, video and graphics and sometimes works together with several guest musicians, combining their talents to make the unique Ontayso styled creations. read more

With the knowledge from BREAK and basalt MAO comes as DISKUS from the darkness the Hanseatic city (see SÖRUS). That it as producer and Cutter participated in most video tie-clips from the house modul8 (AERIC, ALPHAWEZEN), does not diminish its profile straight. Anti-Americaism by the way counts not to its hobbies. read more

The next date with Dissonanze will be as usual, in Rome, the 9 and 10 of May. Not only Palazzo dei Congressi, but also Ara Pacis and Auditorium Parco della Musica to explore new forms of electronic music and to live it deepest. read more

Medard Fischer returns with his rather cryptically-titled third album, “The Goodbye Radio”. Representing a large step forward for Fischer’s Arc Lab project, the album is structured as a musical reinterpretation of the sonnet form in which field recordings, organic instrumentation, radio noise, candid male vocals and snippets of old public domain recordings meet with the FM synthesis, female vocals and signature beatwork that made previous Arc Lab efforts so special. read more

Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist experimenting in the dark trance-inducing worlds of ambient, industrial and electronic music. read more

Susumu Yokota is one of the very few consistently engaging electronic artists to emerge in the last 10 years. Always restless, always changing and yet always himself. read more

Cendre was recorded between 2004 and 2006 in New York City by Ryuichi Sakamoto and in Vienna by Christian Fennesz. They came together for the mix in New York City in February of that year. Fennesz would send Sakamoto a guitar or electronic track and Sakamoto would compose his piano piece. read more

‘Oahu’ is a collaborative release between Dutch sound artists Freiband (the latest project of Frans de Waard, founder of the Korm Plastics label and member of Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen and Goem to name but three) and Machinefabriek (the prolific Rutger Zuydervelt). read more

Three years in the making, this self-titled long player could be described as d_rradio’s opus maximus. Their Static Caravan debut ‘U_nderscore’, set the bar dangerously high, gaining a solid reputation as a diamond in the rough among IDM and post-rock fans alike. read more

Felicia and Sylvain’s debut collaborative effort is quite noticeably the work of two of the field’s most noteworthy songwriters. From Dans La Lumiere’s gentle electronic flickering that brings to mind Labradford read more

The 3rd edition of Rokolectiv, festival for electronic music and related visual arts, takes place on the 11th and 12th of April at Club Session, and on the 13th at the National Museum of Contemporary Arts. This year’s theme: Playground. read more

One night in April, 2007, the beautiful city of Melbourne, Australia was host to a small gathering of sound-lovers and curious passers-by descending on the venerable Northcote Social Club for a night of subtle soundscaping by Oz-natives Solo Andata and Seaworthy and New Yorker Taylor Deupree, who was in Australia for a tour. read more

Ever since the release of his first cassette on the renowned and legendary Cologne-based label Entenpfuhl in 1993, Jo Zimmermann aka Schlammpeitziger grants an international audience insights into his private cosmos. The musician, graphic artist and tireless inventor of increasingly strange song titles with a ribald as well as subtle humour has been coining a highly distinctive style for these last 15 years. read more

After a long wait hanging about in Croydon, combing his hair and causing trouble, Benga’s debut studio album “Diary of an Afro Warrior” is finally ready. It will be preceded by his collaboration with Coki, “Night” which thanks to Skepta and Maximum, was the biggest anthem on the holiday islands this year. read more

Gert-Jan Prins started out as a rock drummer, continued as an improviser, but restarted soldering self-made electronic machines in the mid-90s.

His unique self-developed electronic system uses radio- and transmittertechnology, and creates strong noises with great physical energy. During the last four years Gert-Jan Prins, living in Amsterdam, established himself as one of the central electronic performers in improvised music. read more

Over the last few years, the combination of electronics and improvisation has steadily gained momentum, with a number of collaborations between electronic musicians and improvisers coming to light. read more

Uneasy Flowers is the second album by Autistic Daughters, the intercontinental trio of Dean Roberts (guitar, vocals), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion, computer) and Werner Dafeldecker (guitar, bass). It is also the fourth in a series of records read more

Third edition of current art, music and visual culture festival. In three days and two venues in Prague, you’ll be able to see dancefloor heroes Modeselektor & their visual compatriots Pfadfinderei, post-techno wunderkind Deadbeat, eclectic electro rock show by Joakim & His Ectoplasmic Band, minimalist Frank Bretschneider, fully fledged stage performance by Burbuja, read more

Every time i search for new albums and jump from one release to another i hope to find that sweet thing… that album, that track, that band that blows u instantly. Well Sissikontest is that kind of band… i don’t know if band is actualy the right word but… this is so far the best thing i’ve found this year. read more

LINE, a sublabel of 12k, is proud to release this new updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier’s universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works ‘Untitled 3′ and ‘Untitled 3 (reprise)’ and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree. read more

Starting Teeth is a transatlantic collaboration projects born between brains of electronic producers Childe Grangier & Nathan Jonson, formerly Hopen & Hrdvsion. Nathan Jonson aka Hrdvsion has several killer EP on Wagon Repair, ItIsWhatItIs and Plak, remix credits for the likes of Dominik Eulberg, and Milanese to name a few. read more