Foxy Digitalis
Scott McKeating writes neurodivergently from Whitley Bay, a seaside town in the North Tyneside borough in Tyne and Wear, England.
The lines between underground drum and bass and its leftfield, more experimental twin have always been razor thin. Sitting in the scrapyard in between, YLAS is a brutalized variation on the Martin Broadrick axis of abusive jungle electronics. Essentially a single lengthy piece, with a flipside dub knack up Degradation, Iceman Junglist Kru has the […]
Cassette Edition available here I used to be a fairly firm believer in the word Lynchian being used to only describe things that David Lynch made. Sometimes though, there are exceptions that have to be made. Throughout the extended scenario that is WHNZ:77: Softures, there’s a mixture of abstraction and narrative that’s all at once confused, […]
Cruel Nature Records recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with a 23-track state of the union double cassette. 100% of profits will be donated to The Toby Henderson Trust, an independently funded charity in North East England which supports autistic youth and adults, as well as their families and caregivers. Here are the seven personal highlights. VHS¥DEATH […]
Posset There Are So Many Lights In The Sky I Don’t Know What’s UFO Any More (Self-Released) Newcastle Upon Tyne’s ever-reliable, ever-woozy Posset’s latest dispatch is a single journey of many mini movements. Drawing ever nearer to Chris Morris in terms of juxtaposition and surreality, There Are So Many Lights…. is more domestic than its interplanetary title […]
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, […]