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1921 – In My Veins (2017)
When is a David Åhlén album not a David Åhlén album? When he pairs with Andreas Eklöf under the group name 1921, that’s when. In My Veins, which marks the singer’s first appearance on Compunctio since...
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Erik Honoré – Unrest (2017)
Unrest is a new collection of masterly collages from the hand of Erik Honoré in which he captures, with absolute precision, the moods and tonal imagery of improvisations and weaves them together in a...
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Oscar Mulero – Acceptance EP (2018)
The relationship between techno and not-techno in Oscar Mulero‘s music goes back to his days in the mid-’90s Madrid scene. As he told RA’s James Manning, he’d open nights at The Omen with the ambient...
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Forrest Fang – Scenes from a Ghost Train (2018)
Forrest Fang falls squarely into the camp of U.S.-based ambient / electronic musicians (also including Steve Roach, Robert Rich, and Michael Stearns among others) who were influenced by the Berlin...
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Mika Vainio + Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto – Live 2002 (2018)
In 2002, when Mika Vainio, Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai gathered in Newcastle for a performance at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, it was a heady time for experimental electronic music....
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Celer & Forest Management – Landmarks (2018)
This collaboration between two American ambient artists harnesses the genre’s distance from reality to magnificent effect. John Daniel, aka Forest Management, currently lives in Chicago, “the most...
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Raising Holy Sparks – Search for the Vanished Heaven (2017)
Raising Holy Sparks is the project that rose from the ashes of Agitated Radio Pilot and saw David Colohan shifting from lo-fi and singer/songwriter releases to something more instrumental, raw, and...
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Martin Glass – The Pacific Visions of Martin Glass (2017)
Perhaps as a bulwark against the internet’s information overload, a few peculiar “lost” electronic artists have been rediscovered in the past few years. There’s the marine biologist and self-taught...
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Spellling – Pantheon of Me (2017)
Oakland artist Tia Cabral calls herself Spellling, as in the bewitching verb. She uses a loop pedal and minimal instrumentation (guitar, synth, her enchanting voice) to create a billowing, diffuse...
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Son Lux – Brighter Wounds (2018)
Ryan Lott is both a classically-trained musician and composer, and an inventive sound designer adept at beat production. For years, he’s blurred genre lines with his scores for film and dance, and of...
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John Tejada – Dead Start Program (2018)
When John Tejada made the move to Kompakt Records in 2011, it seemed like a match made in techno heaven. Four albums in with the Cologne-based label, the L.A.-via-Vienna producer has seemed to revel in...
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Yoshinori Hayashi – Uncountable Set EP (2018)
It’s rare to come across a genuinely baffling record, but a dip into Yoshinori Hayashi’s catalogue will skew the statistics. The Tokyo producer doesn’t trade in unfamiliar sounds, exactly — it’s more...
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Niklas Paschburg – Oceanic (2018)
Niklas Paschburg‘s debut album, Oceanic, will likely be one of the most beautiful records of 2018. Recorded in his makeshift studio overlooking the Baltic Sea, the 23-year old pianist and electronic...
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HKE – Charming Devil (2018)
Last year David Russo said that due to his struggle with depression, he was relinquishing control of his label Dream Catalogue, but things didn’t go to plan. It released four massive compilations and...
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Yves De Mey – Bleak Comfort (2018)
Following up Drawn with Shadow Pens released via Spectrum Spools, Belgian sound artist Yves De Mey returns with Bleak Comfort, his 3rd solo full-length. …Bleak Comfort is about “absence, malfunction...
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Wetware – Automatic Drawing (2018)
The New York-based duo Wetware thrive on disorientation. That’s immediately clear if you catch any of their live shows, which most often feature vocalist Roxy Farman stalking onstage-and-off, offering...
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The JuJu – Exchange EP (2017)
For 23-year-old Grammy Award-winning producer / trumpeter Nico Segal, progression has often come from home. Whether physically or musically, the Chance The Rapper collaborator has made a name for...
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Weeding Dub – Another Night Another Day (2018)
Lille-based Romain Weeding aka Weeding Dub belongs to a group of very promising conscious reggae, steppers & dub producers and artists in the tradition of improvisators dub, miniman or Manutension....
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47Soul – Balfron Promise (2018)
There has long been a link between music and resistance in Palestine, with hip-hop playing a major role in recent years. The best known exponents, DAM, are still angry and active (their new single – a...
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Slum Sociable – Slum Sociable (2017)
Slum Sociable‘s self-titled debut full-length presents an introspective approach to broader issues through the collective’s tactfully illustrated earworms of pleasant, purposeful electronic innovation....
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