Posts Tagged ‘atmospheric’

Just 300 copies of this edition are being made, each of them individually numbered and designed in collaboration with Air’s art director Laurent Pinon and the band themselves.


KAITO is that familiar whisper in the centre of KOMPAKT’s kaleidoscopic strobe light to the many loyalists that know us well. To think it has been over 8 years since he dropped the unsuspecting masterpiece “Beautiful Day” on our doorsteps makes us as giddy as the realization that we have watched his son grow up [...]


“Things Are What They Used To Be” has by no means strayed from the dark and atmospheric, hooky and melodic road, but what we now hear is a strikingly upfront, passionate, personal and mature development.


0101, 0103, 0107, 0108, 0113, and 0115. Since all jj choose to show of themselves is their music, video, and occasional blood-spattered merch, then those Sincerely Yours catalogue numbers represent the sum total of what we know about them. Hell, we wouldn’t even know jj were a “them” had the group’s Gothenburg, Sweden-based, Tough Alliance-owned [...]


There are stories which like fairy tales find a musical determination. The treasured Ian Simmonds, who currently is performing as singer and poet on tour in Japan with a 18-piece Japanese improvisational orchestra, is responsible under his given name and as Juryman for the most innovative thrust in view of new paths on the electronic [...]


If this was an audition then Audision certainly played the part. The duo featuring Tobias Schmid and Niko Tzoukmanis have announced the release of their debut LP Surface to Surface which will be released on &nd Records. It will hit the public sometime in August, however an exact date has not been specified.


It’s always entertaining to drive around Cologne with ADA. The conversation starts off with a saga about her trip to the city car impound thanks to her illegally parking her chariot, while tunes crackle through her relic of a car stereo cassette player. Looking back, our trips always seem to end with chorusing some Madonna [...]


Essen, Germany may not have established itself on the map of musical creativity that stretches from Chicago to Berlin and back, but it’s suffice to say the unassuming German city has provided Manuel Tur with enough inspiration to name his debut album after its area code. It may not be 90210, but if it’s helped [...]


The Field – aka Sweden’s Axel Willner – is very much the jewel in Kompakt’s crown, with his debut album From Here We Go Sublime ending up the the best-received album of 2007 according to music critic aggregators site Metacritic.


The brand new album by the Trans-Atlantic Dynamic Duo – Christian Smith & John Selway joins the elite roster of Techno All Stars on Sino, the label known for all things techno.