Church Andrews & Matt Davies
Church Andrews (aka Kirk Barley) and Matt Davies play live electronics and analog percussion, a call and response between Church’s synth sounds and Davies’s drumming. The result is a series of sonic organisms, semi-mechanical ecosystems that click and whirr with subtle, shifting focus. The duo often work with alternate tunings, employing just intonation or observed […]
Carrier
Carrier, aka Guy Brewer has always existed in the hinterlands of electronic music. He began to experiment with sound in the mid-1990s, using a rudimentary setup for his early attempts at drum ‘n’ bass. Ever in search of a new challenge, his head was turned by the quickly evolving, crepuscular sounds emerging from the techno […]
Michael J. Blood
Michael J. Blood is an ultra-mysterious electronic producer who started releasing music in 2019. He collaborates with Rat Heart, a.k.a. Tom Boogizm, so maybe he resides in the same Manchester area. After four cassettes, Blood’s debut album As Is was released in 2022. His music a tribute to late night sleaze, sophisticated or less so, […]
Áine O’Dwyer
Áine O’Dwyer is an artist whose work focuses on both the conceptual idioms of sound-art and traditional compositional techniques, embracing the broader aesthetics of sound and its relationship to environment, time, audience and structure. Her work has been informed by her study of the individual idiosyncrasies found in pipe-organs and notably her realization that each […]
Les certitudes
Juliette Adam on clarinet, Judith Hamann on cello and Léo Dupleix on harpsichord are Les Certitudes. Their music focuses on tones and tuning, working through long musical forms made up of layers and slowly displacing matters. Their music is composed by Léo Dupleix, while the musical direction is the result of a collective spirit. The […]
Ciccio & 2mo
Ciccio & 2mo are Francesco Pastacaldi on drums and Olivier Demeaux on machines. With spangled confections of fizzy and driving percussion, multilingual vocals and pitch-bent electronics, they explore the cracks between classic French psych and industrial, like Vox Populi or Geins’t Naït, and its contemporary descendents, like the Editions Gravats label, with a smart balance […]
Accident du Travail
Accident du Travail is the duo of Julie Normal and Olivier Demeaux (ex-Cheveu, Heimat), formed at the end of the 2000s. Their electronic music is fragile and ecstatic and stems from rare instruments such as Normal’s Ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument invented in the 1920s and subsequently used by Olivier Messiaen, Edgar Varèse and […]
Slumberland
With Slumberland, Belgian musician, composer, and instrument maker Jochem Baelus has been unleashing obscure, hypnotic krautrock and post-punk, colored with echoes of distorted exotica, long-lost soundtracks, and boozy rock & roll greats since 2013. Slumberland’s tactile sound is generated by a battery of sewing machines, film projectors and other dismantled, mechanical objects. He released his […]
Alexander Hawkins
Alexander Hawkins is a composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader unique in modern creative music. Regarded as one of his generation’s most innovative thinkers, his own unique sound world is shaped by a profound fascination with composition and structure, alongside a love of chance and open forms. His writing has been said to represent a fundamental […]
Giulio Erasmus & The end of the worm
Giulio Erasmus’s music swirls into unintelligible mutterings, songs, and collapsing collages, all made with the idea of keeping things simple. It is post-punk p-funk, pre-post dub. It is a kind of proto-music that delves into post-punk’s past and confronts it with new ideas of abstraction, space, and effectiveness. Between alienating and concrete, making the hiss […]