The concept behind this compilation is interesting. Ten different music producers are each given a photograph, then asked to compose a music...

Snow Party is a release from Active Suspension, a new label that's based in France, a country not too well known for electronic music but on...

Nothing Down-To-Earth sounds like eerie and darkly hip science documentary music. Galerie Stratique likes to work with abstract beats and ee...

Sarah Peebles has long been a proponent of showcasing avant garde 20th century compositions by women through her radio show on CIUT, The Aud...

Speedy J has produced influential touchstones in techno in the past, like G Spot, and created assorted brilliant ambient works under his own...

Documenta is a three-part compilation where each CD focuses on a particular facet of contemporary music. This being the first in the series,...

Opening with heavily distorted guitar followed by drilling breaks, Unitus, aka Daniel Ross, clamours with a powerful, menacing yet adrenalin...

The intro track, "Fractures," opens up with a clamour of percussive instruments before Aloha kicks in with "They See Rocks" and takes off wi...

Steve Roach's latest foray into ambient space music sees him this time teaming up with Vidna Obmana, who here plays a Hungarian overtone win...

The long awaited debut full-length by Naw, aka Neil Wiernik, offers dark and murky techno saturated in shadowy sounds yet dominated by power...

Do Make Say Think play the kind of music you might want sound-tracking your life. For starters their cinematic instrumental sound defies the...

Knurl is Alan Bloor, a noise artist who produces a variety of harsh, extreme textures in sound. Bloor comes for the realm of noise similar t...

An uncommon approach to music from a traditional band set-up of upright bass, drums and keyboards, the Necks form patterns in their music, u...

A double CD release of avant sounds from avant Montreal label No Type, featuring an overwhelming 36 tracks in total. A buffet of styles is o...

If you thought DJing involved beat matching a couple of records while manipulating pitch and EQ, think again. Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman)...

For those who wished to court deafness via high-pitched abrasive sounds, this bill featured various local noise acts, capped off by the star...

An ambient/down-tempo project that reminds me of the Boards of Canada but tends to a more ambient direction, and though there are rhythms, t...

Tresor Records has released a mix of exceptional Basic Channel tracks by Chain Reaction's Scion (Pete Kuschnereit and Rene Lowe), featuring...

As always, Nobukazu Takemura has some of the finest CD cover art that looks like it would fit right in a children’s fairy tale. Bright yet p...

Usual Cerex is yet another fine example of the burgeoning electronic scene in France, specifically in Le Bourg, where some high-quality work...