Jan St. Werner – 2069 (2013)

Blaze Colour Burn is a new work from electronic music pioneer and innovator Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars, Lithops, Microstoria) inaugurating Fiepblatter, a series of genre-dismantling releases on Thrill Jockey that will encompass electro-acoustic experimentation, algorithmic elements, scored music, digital signal processing, field recordings, improvisation, public performance and graphic works. These pieces aren’t just […]

Jon Hopkins – Form by Firelight (2013)

Until now, Jon Hopkins has been an elusive character, known to most as an expert producer, Ivor Novello-nominated composer of film scores, remixer and long term collaborator of Brian Eno and Coldplay. Yet as Hopkins freely admits, the fact that his solo albums to date (Opalescent, 2001; Contact Note, 2004; Insides, 2009) have been rather overshadowed by […]

Powell – Fizz (2013)

Following a trio of acclaimed, genre-confounding 12″ drops – for his own Diagonal imprint and most recently The Death of Rave – London’s Powell reports for duty at Mute’s dance R&D department, Liberation Technologies. ‘Fizz’ picks up where the mighty ‘A Band’ left off, being an anachronistic party-starter that splits the difference between rockabilly shuffle […]

Laurel Halo – NOYFB (2013)

Halo may hail from the States, but Behind The Green Door operates more explicitly in a British rave tradition of rhythmic fluidity and exploration than anything she’s done to date. There’s a clear musical kinship between the music I’ve written about above (the likes of Elgato, Sensate Focus and Pearson Sound) and the bounding groove […]

Laurel Halo – Sex Mission (2013)

The foreboding synth experimenter Laurel Halo named her new EP Behind The Green Door after a famed ’70s porn movie, and the latest track she’s shared from it is called “Sex Mission,” so maybe there’s a theme developing here. Or maybe not; the eight-minute “Sex Mission” — like “Throw,” the last track she shared from […]

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