Review: “DJ VLK” – Ballermann Partykeller
Every year during the summer, drunken Germans had to the island of Mallorca to engage in drunken antics. These “Ballermann” party hard and the new release on Strategic Tape Reserve, …
Review: Cadu Tenorio – Blue Thirty-Four
There is a point about halfway through The Samurai Who Smelled of Sunflowers, the second track of Brazilian artist Cadu Tenório’s new album on Blue Tapes, where the drones break, …
Review: Rupert Lally – The Prospect
Story driven synth concept albums are usually futuristic in nature, synth sounds are near ubiquitous in sci-fi movies and TV series. It didn’t always have to be so, however, with …
Review: Veins Full of Static – Passenger Songs
This is not the night mail crossing the border There are no cheques or postal orders Letters for the rich, bills for the poor Letters for the rich, bills for …
Iain’s end of year list of albums that were very enjoyable to listen to
I don’t think a ‘best of’ list can be created, I’ve not listened to everything out there to be able to definitively say something is ‘the best of’ and I …
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Review: Phirnis – Presence / Cadence
Austrian musician Phirnis has returned with a new album, one that has been many years in the making, and it is an epic one. Released by the German label TC5, …
Review: MAbH – On Being Pollinated
One of the arguments for the superiority of the 12” LP over other formats was the ability to include better artwork, that glorious 12” square cover, the liner notes large …
Review: C. Moody Crews – LA, 2000
Los Angeles is many different things to many different people. For those of us who have never been, it’s a place that holds a sort of mystique, a fictional world …
Review: Qualchan. – The End of All Seasons.
Words: Iain (Ghost Signs / Transpacifica) Modern music production is akin to magic, it’s all a trick to fool us into thinking something that didn’t take place did. These musicians …