Articles by Bryon Hayes
Nicholas Szczepanik
Not Knowing
PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2014
Desire Path Recordings, a Buffalo-based label that specializes in immaculate vinyl editions, recently initiated the Tangents series to focu...
Valentin Stip
Sigh
PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2014
The Paris-born and Montreal-based producer Valentin Stip is a longtime friend of ruminative minimalist Nicolas Jaar, having previously rele...
Hobo Cubes
Apex Ideals
PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2014
After many years and many amazing releases, Francesco De Gallo — the Montreal-based artist behind Hobo Cubes and the Hobo Cult casset...
Thug Entrancer
Death After Life
PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2014
As CEO of the Laser Palace label and a core member of both Hideous Men and BDRMPPL, Ryan McRyhew was a crucial component of Denver's electr...
Stefan Jaworzyn
Drained of Connotation
PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2014
With the recent re-boot of his Shock Records label, which included a much-needed reissue of his and Matthew Bower's seminal noise group Sku...
Container
Adhesive EP
PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2014
This crunchy 12-inch finds former Rhode Island noise maven Ren Schofield stumbling further down the noise-techno rabbit hole he helped to c...
Kuenta i Tambú
Tambutronic
PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2014
Roël Calister launched his career in the Netherlands playing tambú, a genre traditional to his native Curaçao, the Caribbean island near th...
Tetuzi Akiyama & Anla Courtis
Naranja Songs
PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2014
Recorded in Courtis' native Buenos Aires in 2008, Naranja Songs finds the ultra-prolific musician matched up with the equally hardworking T...