Is there a definitive song about Cincinnati? One that truly captures the fraught relationship with being a city both out of time and place? A Midwestern Rust Belt straddling the Southern border [...]
Finally here from Lasse Marhaug: Personal Best 8. My favorite zine around. Always a worldwide affair, a zine that felt familiar to me the first time I picked up a copy. Since it is the bane of my [...]
Full circle. A new project from Jonathan Borges (Pedestrian Deposit, Everyday Loneliness, Emaciator, etc). After several years of operating in more subtle areas of experimental music, Vasculae is [...]
The Column, brainchild of prolific musician & illustrator Reuben Sawyer, returns with the Sparrows Tongue EP, his first vinyl release since the 2018 LP, Oracle. Sparrow’s Tongue finds Sawyer [...]
Boychoir is the band’s second LP, and first for the experimental label Whited Sepulchre (Midwife, Planning For Burial, Forest Management). Recorded at Cincinnati’s historic Ultrasuede [...]
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: “Exceptionally unique Detroit proto-minimalist techno. Near industrial-like rhythms saturated in tape hiss and atmosphere. Equal parts danceable as it is [...]
№ 113: by ᴘ ᴜ ʀ ᴇ RAVE ‘Completely stunning tape-loop based sonic tapestries and psychedelic manipulations. One of Detroit’s true gems.’ – BH European customers, please [...]
Gorgeous drip-drop electronic industrial rhythms that sound as though they come both from as far into the future as they do from the past…Excellent!’ – BH No. 111
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 [...]