Articles by Daryl Keating

Nerve Seek to Disrupt Music Culture with 'Ghosts of Tomorrow'

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2015

"In a nutshell, it sounds like electronic music, but it's not. It doesn't sound like jazz, but it is," Nerve's Jojo Mayer tells Exclaim! fr...

Rival Consoles Reveals His Humanistic Approach to 'Howl'

PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2015

Rival Consoles, the musical project of Ryan Lee West, has been patiently building for a number of years now. His last two EPs, Sonne and Od...

Rival Consoles

Simple Life

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2015

"My process is pretty simple really," explains Ryan Lee West, the man behind Rival Consoles. "It's nothing really technical that a wizard h...

Luke Vibert

Bizarster

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2015

Sometimes when you do so much looking forward, you have to look back once in a while to get some perspective. Bizarster, Vibert's seventh a...

Rival Consoles

Howl

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2015

Howl is an album named after the moaning synthesizer on its title track, and as Rival Consoles, a.k.a. Ryan Lee West, puts it himself: "It'...

An Essential Guide to Richard D. James

PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2015

Some say he lives in a bank with a recording studio in the vault; some say he drives a tank, pulls song ideas from lucid dreams, makes his...

Ryan Hemsworth & Lucas

Taking Flight

PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2015

Ryan Hemsworth, Canada's all-feels golden-boy producer, is back and he's brought a friend. The lesser-known Lucas has been limited to a sel...

Helena Hauff Takes Picturesque to a Whole New Level with 'Discreet Desires'

PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2015

It's been a mere two years since Helena Hauff's debut EP, Actio Reactio, came out on Actress's label Werkdisks, but she's already solidifie...