Foxy Digitalis
Scott McKeating writes neurodivergently from Whitley Bay, a seaside town in the North Tyneside borough in Tyne and Wear, England.
A sporadic 2010-2012 project of Mack Chami, the end of 2022 and the start of 2023 is seeing a rebirth/reevaluation of the Crown of Cerberus moniker. Now a weirder, brighter, and more nimble animal, this tape steps into a freewheeling alchemy of breakcore sounds and Warp aesthetics. Having recently more heavily leaned into the slower […]
Third go round, and some further selections from artists either stumbled across or eagerly watched out for. Filmmaker Artillery Material (Opal Tapes) Determinedly relentless Industrial techno with a bounce to it, this latest from the prolific Filmmaker keeps up his high-quality streak. Summoning something of the glory days of the ‘industrial meets electronic’ remix when the groove […]
Another release from super prolific ambient artist Ryan Hill, this tape sees him accessing a colder side of Kagami Smile’s output. The cover might look like it will be a selection of vaporwave candy floss hits, but this is some oppressive shit to get through. Rather than sinking into clouds and being allowed to drift, […]
While it does come under the icy umbrella of dark ambient, and while Derealization is certainly a record that will corrode a good mood, there’s nothing generically spooky or background about Driftloss’ latest. With granularly damaged audio objects phasing in and out of each other, the sense here is of a record that’s simultaneously both stalled at […]
Working within and around the form of minimal electronics, the four tracks on The Wave Ahead are a form of ambulatory ambient. With gentle synthesized sounds and repeating melodic patterns, there’s obvious movement in the music – more progressive (in the momentum sense) than cyclical. The EP is more a series of journeys than an atmosphere. Overall, […]
First tape for this duo’s second outing, and it’s a pair of messily shifting black metal and noise-toned zone-the-fuck-out heaving coils of coal black doom. So, not too dissimilar from their debut, then. Cinematic only in its most grainy, found footage sense, A Wheel of Burning Eyes is a submersion. It’s like someone drowned The […]
Glim In The Mire is a five-track stumble of elements harnessed together in an odd mood with some random audio cables. An under-the-radar digital-only transmission from Frank Baugh’s (aka Sparkling Wide Pressure) other face, it’s the sound of someone fucking around within the limits of a self-imposed limited palette. So with beats, guitar wreckage, snatches of […]
I used to write for a print magazine that covered a ton of Black Metal and harsh noise, and before deciding to review a demo or interviewing an artist, I’d (honestly, 90% of the time) have to search “[band name] Nazi.” Depressing times. So, it’s a complete breath of fresh air to come across a […]
Welcome to the first edition of Microforms, a shameless copy of The Capsule Garden but from someone raking through a different set of digital record bins. So, here are seven short takes of things of note that have been on repeat. As always, trying to do my Bechdel / Kinsey best. Carnivorous Plants Ruled by the […]