electronica
Exclusive Mini-Mix of new Belleruche AlbumThursday, 19 April 2012Theartsdesk have an exclusive premiere of a 12 minute mini-mix of Rollerchain, the new album by Belleruche. The album, out on 7th May, is the band’s fourth and the mix is by the band’s turntable wizard DJ Modest. Belleruche are a British trio with a... Read more... |
Just in From Scandinavia: Nordic Music Round-Up 4Monday, 16 April 2012
Two things are certain with music coming from the north: there will be some wonderful surprises and some of it will sound like nothing else on earth. It’s even more enticing when the two merge. Making the peculiar accessible is a uniquely... Read more... |
CD: Kris Menace - Electric HorizonSaturday, 14 April 2012
There was time when “trance” was not a dirty word amongst connoisseurs of electronic music. It became, eventually, regarded as an aberration in the hip techno universe. Gentlemen of a certain age still make statements such as “I only like real... Read more... |
CD: Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black is BeautifulThursday, 12 April 2012
Martin Schmidt of the US electronic experimental outfit Matmos once said, “If you make a living from your art, that starts to poison it. You can’t help thinking, how can I change this art to make a better living. The obvious answer is that you make... Read more... |
CD: Orbital - WonkySaturday, 31 March 2012
In 2009 Orbital returned too soon. Dance music icons Paul and Phil Hartnoll only called it a day a little over four years previously so it was hardly a magnificent comeback. The resulting live shows smelt more of tax bills than art. Fair enough, we... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio ShowThursday, 29 March 2012
Welcome to theartsdesk's first radio show with Peter Culshaw and Joe Muggs, recorded with the extremely able help of Brendon Harding at Red Bull Studio London.In the course of this show, Peter and Joe take a look at the depth and breadth of music... Read more... |
Justin Broadrick previews JK Flesh albumMonday, 19 March 2012The veteran noise artist Justin Broadrick - whose previous projects include Godflesh, Head of David, Napalm Death, Jesu, Greymachine, Palesketcher and Techno Animal, the latter in collaboration with Kevin Martin - has unveiled the new track "... Read more... |
CD: John Foxx and the Maths – The Shape of ThingsMonday, 19 March 2012
I decided to listen to the new album by former Ultravox frontman John Foxx on a trip to buy some louvre doors at a branch of Homebase. I thought the journey to the city's edge industrial estate via flyovers and concrete spur roads would provide the... Read more... |
CD: Grimes - VisionsSunday, 18 March 2012
The word “grimes” conjures up images of a Dickensian London underworld, or of tough modern urban music, but Grimes is far, far from these reference points. For starters, she’s from Canada. She also makes music that defies easy categorisation.... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Reykjavik: A New Musical Landscape for IcelandSunday, 18 March 2012
It’s 11pm on a Thursday night. The kind of weather that makes balloon animals of umbrellas, that raises a tsunami in a bird-bath, is raging outside. Inside the Harpa concert hall some 300 people are gathered in attentive silence while five musicians... Read more... |
Duke Slammer album announcedFriday, 16 March 2012After a steady flow of tracks on various formats, an album has finally been announced by the London based experimental electronic "chunky wonked funk" project Duke Slammer. The currently untitled album will be released at the beginning of May on the... Read more... |
Singles & Downloads: March 2012Monday, 12 March 2012
After a nine-month absence, during which Joe Muggs explored the world's largest natural bassbin in the Amazonian rain forest and Thomas H Green waited to receive his passport back from the Bolivian government, Singles & Downloads returns to... Read more... |
