Posts Tagged ‘dub’

Following up on her unanimously acclaimed third album ‘ May Be Later’ (Vakant), Chilean artist and Berlin transplant Alejandra Iglesias conceived “Anemik” entirely for the Wagon Repair label after being approached by label head Mathew Jonson.
A musing on femininity and the fine line between romance and delirium, ‘Anemik’ transcends borders in its range of influence [...]


The world we live in, on a very fundamental level, is flawed. On the eve of my tenth album release I’m still writing my own bio and wondering if I should refer to myself in third person, analyze the past 15 years and justify bad career moves as artistic integrity, and promote myself as the [...]


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 [...]


Since infiltrating the formerly all boys Vakant team this summer with her ‘Move In’ EP (VA020), Dinky has brought with her a welcome infusion of freshness and bloom to the otherwise dank locker room. Now, all nice settled, comes her third album via her new Vakant home. ‘May Be Later’, like the artist, is the [...]


Classically trained as a percussionist, Montreal’s Guillaume Coutu Dumont does a predictably good job with his beat programming on this full length for Mutek-related imprint Musique Risquee.


Many turn the last month of the year into a merciless chasm-filling throng of merriment and shiny cheer; and we are no different. Although we’re not ones to embrace the commercial surface; we draw our happiness from below. And we mean way down low, propelled by a constant, almost omnipresent sub bass, mirth drowned deep [...]


After the surprise success of his self-titled, low-key debut on Hyperdub , Burial returns with an eagerly awaited follow up album, ‘Untrue’. The new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch bent until [...]