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Review: Mika Vainio + Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto – Live 2002

Live 2002 is an arrangement of electricity. Adjustments in voltage. Right-angled circuitry. Carefully modulated levels of interference. The three artists negotiate these changes between themselves – one locking into a pulsing bass loop, another sending shudders of static over the top in intermittent waves, another transmitting high-pitched beeps to the edges

Live: Supersonic Festival 2011 Diary (@ The Custard Factory in Birmingham, 21-23/10/11)

Not only is this Capsule’s ninth annual edition of Supersonic Festival, but it’s the fifth time in six years that I’ve traipsed up to Birmingham to attend. The quality of the line-up has been ever consistent – the Capsule girls have always known what’s good in terms

Review: Alva Noto - univrs

As with previous album unitxt, Alva Noto’s univrs presents Carsten Nicolai’s own interpretation of club music (see our interview with the man himself for more). It goes without saying that the club scene is infinitely more eclectic in Germany than it is over here in the UK, and

Interview: Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto)

univrs seems to be continuation of the concept raised in your previous album, unitxt. Was there any reason for deciding to revisit/expand on the concept? Was it spurred by a want to return to a more rhythmically-driven sound? First of all, unitxt was a set mainly produced for clubs,