Multiverse is a collection of psytrance tracks from Israel’s Atomic Pulse, aka Tamir Ozana. It’s a dual CD collection that’s made to order for fans of psychedelic trance. The first CD is Atomic Pulse’s take on tracks by Infected Mushroom, Skazi, Astrix, Protoculture, Fatali, Shanti, G.B.U and Pop Stream. Atomic Pulse’s production is first rate, and… Read More Atomic Pulse – Multiverse
Rifflet is a new site you can have some fun with those songs that you’ve never gotten around to finishing. The concept involves the uploading of something called a “rifflet,” which is a piece of a song – like a bass line, a guitar riff, a drum beat, or something else altogether. Each rifflet must… Read More New Site Wants The Songs You Never Finished
Nine Inch Nails is riding high on the publicity of its heavily hyped Ghosts I-IV release and is capitalizing on that buzz with a new free album release, The Slip. It’s available exclusively as a free download, but physical releases are in the works. There’s a 2008 Nine Inch Nails Tour coming up this fall,… Read More First Review Of Nine Inch Nails’ The Slip
The Spotted Peccary label has been consistently putting out great ambient, space and synth music albums. Their latest release, Below The Mountain, by Craig Padilla, is no exception. We’ve reviewed a couple of other albums by Padilla, The Light In The Shadow & Genesis. While his last two releases had more of an ambient or… Read More Craig Padilla – Below The Mountain
Made Records sent over iiO’s Rapture Reconstructed and it wasn’t one of those disks that we had to immediately dig into and check out. The release is a double-CD set of remixes of iiO’s 2002 club hit Rapture. Does anybody really need 18 remixes of any track? After giving the release a few listens, though,… Read More iiO Rapture Reconstructed
If you want to hear some music that’s really original, you could do a lot worse than checking out Ojos De Brujo’s wonderfully syncopated, flamenco-influenced Techarí. Ojos De Brujo (Eyes of the Wizard) is a Barcelona-based world fusion group, with eight members that play everything from flamenco guitar to tablas to turntables. Guest on the… Read More Ojos De Brujo – Techarí
Gods & Monsters, the seventh release from Juno Reactor, sees Ben Watkins stretching a bit, but not straying too far from the Reactor formula of mixing techno and world music influences. While it’s great to see techno getting bent and adapted, not all off Juno Reactor’s attempts to push its range are successful. The first… Read More Juno Reactor: Gods & Monsters
The Zizzle Zoundz is a psychedelic electronic music toy that looks to me like it might be as much fun for parents as it is for kids. Apparently it uses RFID embedded in the pieces that act as triggers. Here’s the official description: Zoundz creates a fusion of self- composed music with an accompanying light… Read More Psychedelic Electronic Music Toy
René van der Wouden‘s Universal Quiet is a collection of retro synth music that is a treat for fans of 70’s Berlin School music.van der Wouden is a Dutch composer and synthesist who describes his style as retro, Berliner Schule and progressive. van der Wouden builds on Klaus Schulze’s pioneering mid-seventies sound, modernizing it and… Read More René van der Wouden – Universal Quiet
Momentum, the latest release from UK artist David Wright, is a generous helping of lush symphonic electronica. It’s another great release on the AD Label, which is home to Robert Fox, Code Indigo, Ashok Prema, Richard Bone and many others. Momentum is a studio reworking of music Wright performed at a recent Gatherings concert in… Read More David Wright – Momentum
