Richard Chartier
Minimal soundscapes, dub pulses and restless electronics accumulate across 31 layered records, including early glimpses of AGF’s Source Voice and the expansive William Basinski collaboration Aurora Liminalis.

Minimal soundscapes, dub pulses and restless electronics accumulate across 31 layered records, including early glimpses of AGF’s Source Voice and the expansive William Basinski collaboration Aurora Liminalis.
Orphx connect 32 tracks across industrial, ambient and techno. Over 90 minutes, shifting rhythms and densely sculpted textures reveal the discoveries that shaped the Canadian duo’s sound.
Twenty-four seven-inch records trace a personal route through African funk, garage psychedelia, soul and traditional music, with worn grooves and unexpected affinities giving distant recordings an intimate scale.
Forty-one artists share the records they returned to in 2012, crossing genres and generations.
Two hours of electronic music move between early synthesizer experiments, machine funk and digital abstraction, tracing the character of specific instruments alongside unreleased work from the duo’s wider circle.
Matthew Samways on independence, musical energy and the challenges of running a label from Canada. The original 2012 conversation accompanies a twelve-track Electric Voice Records selection.
Eleven electroacoustic works unfold through sustained tones, live instrumentation and minute changes in texture, placing Lucier, Radigue and Parmegiani beside newer experiments in resonance and electronic space.
The Secret Thirteen team looks back on 2012 through new releases, reissues and records by journal contributors.
Greek composition and contemporary sound experiments meet across thirteen records, connecting Xenakis and Christou with improvised textures, field recordings and fractured electronics from the Athens underground.
A survey of Editions Mego and its offshoots sets abrasive synthesis against melodic patterns, noise and ritual song, gathering sixteen releases into a portrait of the label’s restless musical direction in 2012.
Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey trace the meeting of industrial music and techno, improvised performance and the transformation of everyday tension into sound.
Dub, acid and ambient records dissolve into exclusive edits and improvisations, threaded with Stockholm rain and Bergman dialogue. Analog delay gives the shifting collage a continuous sense of depth and motion.