Spatial
Romanian wedding recordings open a route through avant-folk, dub and electronic experiment, connecting overlooked fragments of the past with the software-built worlds of The Primitives.
Long-form selections from artists working at the edges of electronic, experimental and underground sound.
Romanian wedding recordings open a route through avant-folk, dub and electronic experiment, connecting overlooked fragments of the past with the software-built worlds of The Primitives.
Forty-nine records explore the outer fringes of goth, post-punk, deathrock and EBM, drawing underground voices into a long narrative of punk anger, fragile melody, nocturnal electronics and unexpected turns.
Polar Inertia slows the pulse to 112 BPM for a specially recorded studio improvisation. Edited from a night of experimentation, the live set drifts through cinematic noise and gradually emerging rhythms.
Wendy Carlos’s demonstrations of synthesis frame a study in fractured rhythm, from algorithmic percussion and techno to a pop song dismantled and reordered by the likeness of its sounds.
A musical autobiography traces the shared impulses of minimalism, Dutch post-punk and tape experiment, with personal notes on the records that shaped a lifelong commitment to DIY sound.
Electroacoustic works, field recordings and traditional music converge in a patient exploration of trance and ritual, where layered fragments find a shared space beyond their origins.
Acoustic objects, voices and electronic noise become materials for an architectural study of sound, moving between close physical textures and cavernous spaces charged with tension.
Recorded live in one take as summer gives way to autumn, twenty-three selections draw voices, cello and electroacoustic detail into a personal sequence of familiar comforts, new discoveries and changing seasons.
Adi Newton celebrates the journal’s third birthday with 14 formative selections. Tape experiments, jazz and early electronics reveal the influences behind Clock DVA’s approach to composition and sound.
HIV+ opens his home-studio record bag for a noirish, predominantly vinyl selection. Unknown Pleasures releases meet industrial, EBM and dark-wave records in a tightly sustained hour of tension.
Studio tests, discarded edits and live fragments from 2009–2014 are spliced into a split-channel collage, turning rave synthesis into unstable patterns assembled between Alloa and Barcelona.
A first departure from techno revisits the vinyl that shaped an early musical life: new wave, industrial and dream pop, linked by memories of taped radio shows and the intimacy of shared records.