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Review: Kyoka - SH

The six electronic pieces of SH were recorded/edited during sound checks and live performances. Compared to the studio – where hours and hours can be lost to the acts of revision and refinement – the performance environment is strictly adherent to the clock. The artist works within pre-defined times, often shaping

Review: Ryoji Ikeda - Supercodex

Ikeda’s music has always been high-volume headphone music for me. I saw a live rendition of Test Pattern at the Barbican last year, and while there was a primitive pleasure in having gigantic whirrs of bass cutting through my guts, the music was also coated in an inevitable acoustic

Interview: Frank Bretschneider

So you’re playing NODE Festival in a couple of days’ time? It’s on Saturday (15th June), yes. It’s the live premier of Super.Trigger. I always have visuals with the concerts, and I’m busy preparing the visual stuff for this premier of the new album. How

Review: Kangding Ray - The Pentaki Slopes

I can’t quite put my finger on it. There’s something about Kangding Ray that seems to leap out into the physical world without ever actually leaving the techno realm; the bass drum feels more akin to an actual material impact rather than being a mere intangible construction of

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,