© 2013 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. The hands of virtuoso and the mind of a poet – an exclusive interview with James Blackshaw James Blackshaw needs just 12 strings to create beautiful and floating tapestries and narratives of sound with their own turns and twists. His … Continue reading
© 2013 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. Photo by Lyja Constructing unearthly narratives that convince with truthfulness – an interview with an influential visual art composer KORB Rimantas Lukavičius is a director and founder of digital filmmaking and design company KORB, based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Having started … Continue reading
© 2013 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. Photo by Alice Angeletti Shaping the vague life concrete – an interview with angst pop architects Haus Arafna The German angst pop/industrial innovators Haus Arafna seemed to be standing on the edge of two worlds. Employing the harshness and roughness … Continue reading
© 2013 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. Photo by Larissa Iceglass In search of real feeling – heartfelt and smart interview with Larissa Iceglass, one half of the modern age romantics Lebanon Hanover Once there were two poetic souls wandering around Europe. Eventually they met each other … Continue reading
© 2013 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. An unpredictable universe of deliberate complexity and abyssal emotion – Adam Fowler, influential visual artist Adam Fowler (b. 1979) is a visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Fowler studied at Maryland Institute College of Art and Bachelor … Continue reading
© 2013 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. The world behind the beautiful algorithms – Dalglish, unsung hero of IDM, speaks Chris Douglas hiding behind Dalglish, O.S.T., Scald Rougish and several other aliases is an unsung hero of electronic/IDM/experimental scene, for about 20 years creating complex mathematical sound … Continue reading
© 2013 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. Photo by Nico Van Hoen Hearing the mystery – Mark Van Hoen talks about his colorful soundworld Mark Van Hoen is one of the mergers of two different sides of electronica – surreal, pastoral compositions and colder architectural sound experimentation. … Continue reading
© 2013 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. From the USA to China: the experience of Bvdub Bvdub music is like rich and deep color layers on the canvas in abstractionist landscape. Abstract, yet beautiful. Minimal, yet evoking the maximum of emotions. Sometimes it feels very close, however … Continue reading
© 2012 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. Photo by Mark Mushet Loscil sound concept is quite explicitly inscribed in the title. Loscil is the blend of “looping” and “oscillator”. And you can certainly feel what Scott Morgan, the man behind the project, means by that when listening … Continue reading
© 2012 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. Photo by PAL. Orphx, the Canadian duo of Richard Oddie and Christina Sealey, dare to go into many extremes of electronic music merging the mechanical/ futuristic pulse of techno, mathematic complexity of glitch/IDM, rawness and anger of industrial, subtle cold … Continue reading
© 2012 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. James Clements, publicly known as ASC, a British forward-thinking electronic music producer who is now residing in San Diego, United States, is probably one of the most prolific and honorable musicians in the drum and bass scene and beyond. While … Continue reading
© 2012 Secret Thirteen. All rights reserved. Amanda Brown is probably one of the most expressive people in present underground aristocracy. Both visually and sonically. Having explored surreal and hypnotic borders between distorted psychedelic and experimental soundcapes in Pocahaunted, she moved on to play with blurred lo-fi … Continue reading
