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Monday, October 10 2011

The Survival of the Industrial Sonic in a Deindustrialized West

In the '90s, industrial music crossed over into the mainstream with heavy guitar and massive personalities, but blue collar labor itself was disappearing...


Wednesday, February 9 2011

Com Truise: Cyanide Sisters

Com Truise is never far from a long-discontinued synthesizer or a 1980s VHS tape.


Thursday, January 13 2011

Loden: Buggy

Built of of the same hip-hop-governed IDM that’s become all the rage in the past few years, since Prefuse 73, DJ /rupture, and others became afflicted with the aural leanings of early 2000s Warp and Tigerbeat6, Loden’s smashing Buggy is a fair contender in the same arena.


Thursday, December 2 2010

My Life With the Tape Hiss Cult

When we think of our experiences with electronic music, we can follow a thought trail that leads like a Wikipedia article from one incendiary album to many others. Their qualities are not always alike but for one: the nostalgic thread that runs through them.


Tuesday, November 2 2010

Squarepusher: Shobaleader One - d’Demonstrator

Squarepusher's not pop. He's not R&B or French house. I’m not sure I can dance to his music.


Tuesday, October 27 2009

Rival Consoles: IO

In the foreground, it's a solid slab of dance beats and sequencers; in the background, it's something more.


Port-Royal: Dying in Time

Frequent sonic mutation is Dying In Time's most admirable trait.


Wednesday, June 3 2009

Boxcutter: Arecibo Message

Barry Lynn's 2006 debut Oneiric stuck to the dubstep formula, but he opened up his palette for Glyphic the next year. That IDM progression is fully embraced and articulated on his latest and greatest.


Wednesday, May 7 2008

Chevron: Tuff Shite EP

Jonathan Valentine finally follows up his classic 2005 debut with a myriad of IDM rockers compressed into EP form. Ding ding!


Thursday, January 3 2008

Kim Hiorthøy: My Last Day

Interestingly, Hiorthøy saves his best moments for the tracks with Norwegian titles.


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