Articles by Daniel Sylvester

Justus Köhncke

Justus Köhncke & the Wonderful Frequency Band

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2013

Perennial Kompakt Records producer Justus Köhncke's first album in five years has been described as his poppiest collection of songs to dat...

Nitemoves

Themes

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2013

Rory O'Connor (a.k.a. Nitemoves) is the latest in the line of throwback producers striving to holistically rekindle electronic music's rela...

Laurel Halo

Live, Wired

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2013

"Hopefully next year I'll find a place to live." After a whirlwind year and a half that saw the release of her critically-lauded debut, Qua...

Noah Pred

Third Culture

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2013

LP number three from Noah Pred is one of the least "Berlin"-sounding albums to come out of that city's burgeoning electronic music scene. M...

Various

Uprising

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2013

With great collections from Honest Jon's, Italians Do it Better and Livity Sound surfacing over the past few years, alongside the resurgenc...

Laurel Halo Talks 'Chance of Rain' and the Influence of Her Father's Art

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2013

On Tuesday (October 29), left-field techno purveyor Laurel Halo (real name Ina Cube) followed up 2012's Exclaim!-approved Quarantine with C...

Kheswa & Her Martians

Meadowlands, Stolen Jazz

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2013

South African stage actress Nonhlanhla Kheswa's debut is a throwback African jazz album in the loosest sense. As this uniquely American sou...

Kaito

Until the End of Time

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2013

Kaito is a great example of just how far-reaching the Kompakt sound has become. A producer from Tokyo, Hiroshi Watanabe (aka Kaito) has bee...