Ghastly Chicago minimal electronics, post-punk overtones, dark room techno, and industrial noise washes dwelling in a black hole. GREAT MIDWEST SOUNDS!
The first long play from Product KF, Songs of the Groves, is the work of a trio of young Chicago musicians who have one of the more impressive cumulative resumes in all of Midwest punkworld [...]
What our staff has to say: “Exchange was originally release on a criminally mere 72 copies on cassette via Sexkrime Arts (the former imprint run by Alex K of Climax Denial / Fog Of Joy etc. [...]
Stuntwoman”/“Wavelengths,” the premier single from Chicago’s Death Valley, breathes a shimmering life into the often staid hypnagogic synth pop movement. The single delivers a synthwave flayed to [...]
ant’lrd, the name given to Colin Blanton, is responsible for scores of moving synth-landscapes of obscured inputs and high cloud ceilings. For Sleep Drive, Blanton called on Odd Nosdam [...]
Kevin Micka has returned with his first full-length since 2009’s Memory, Fatigue is a chronicle and culmination of the past 10 years of Micka creating live music for large ensembles. In his [...]
Previously located in NYC, now Detroit-based post-punk outfit YOU. released their first two records on Cult of Youth’s Sean Ragon’s Blind Prophet Records. Their third LP Sunchaser was [...]
What our staff has to say: “Exceptionally unique Detroit proto-minimalist techno. Near industrial-like rhythms saturated in tape hiss and atmosphere. Equal parts danceable as it is [...]
Description With a steady drip of releases from labels such as Great Circles, L.I.E.S., and Jack Dept., Philadephia-based M//R (Billy Werner) has carved out a uniquely penumbral club zone. [...]
DJ Cathycat – Game of 1000 Cubes CS Radio Topo #15
GAME OF 1000 CUBES “A spooky mix of horror game OST rips from the third-best-selling sixth-generation video game console. The perfect soundtrack for searching for missing siblings and [...]
Description Languid washes of warming tones punctuated by untreated piano, glittering glissandos, and delicate droplets welcome us into Florian T M Zeisig’s 𝑆𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ. Like icicles drifting [...]
‘Techno’ has always avoided definition. Be it referencing the classic experimental and working class sounds from its origins in the early 80’s in Germany or later in Detroit – to the now [...]