Ensemble Economique — The Human Behind the Sound
Brian Pyle on the intimacy of Blossoms in Red, the hope inside melancholy and the cities that shape Ensemble Economique. A conversation about personal music, cinema and finding a world of one’s own.
Publications archive
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Damien Dubrovnik
Loke Rahbek (Damien Dubrovnik, Posh Isolation) curates an introverted selection (STM 165). A collision of Scott Walker’s avant-balladry, Serbian folk, and raw industrial texture.
Discipula
Art collective Discipula merges mellow ambience, musique concrete experiments and noisy soundscapes into a surreal and dreamy mix.
Ssleeping DesiresS
Gabriel Ramos of Ssleeping desiresS delivers a dirty, cinematic synth-pop/post-punk mix for your midnight revels.
Ketev
Yair Elazar Glotman (aka Ketev) of Subtext and Opal Tapes explores introverted, exotic and melancholic spaces with his exclusive ambient/drone/chamber mix.
Dark Day
Robin Crutchfield (DNA, Dark Day) weaves a pastoral tapestry of folk, psych, and avant-garde. A whimsical journey featuring Nico, Moondog, and The Incredible String Band.
Unsound reveals part of its mysterious line-up
Unsound 2015 reveals a programme of one-off performances, unexpected collaborations and unusual pairings around the festival’s “Surprise” theme.
The monolithic and the pastoral — Norbergfestival 2015 reviewed
Norbergfestival 2015 brings industrial romanticism into the Swedish countryside. This report follows the music through Mimer, Kraftwerk and the surrounding festival grounds.
Shawn O’Sullivan
Shawn O’Sullivan aka 400PPM drops a mind-blowing 150 BPM selection of wild 90’s techno.
Haunter Records
Videodrome's body horror opens a route through warped grime, industrial pressure and fractured grooves, placing the Milan label's own discoveries beside SD Laika, Killing Sound and Big Black.
Herz Jühning
Kay Jühning traces a path from the rebellious post-punk of his GDR youth to industrial and power electronics, linking formative songs, restored cassette recordings and private unreleased material.
M!R!M
Raw guitars and elusive melodies map Iacopo Bertelli's influences, from the no-wave friction of DNA and Theoretical Girls to Wire's taut pop and the closing industrial rupture of Pharmakon.