Eigteenth of Oktember The night falls The king comes The hunt starts Wolfgang Voigt, Rausch (2018) GAS is Wolfgang Voigt, co-founder of the legendary electronic music label Kompakt from Cologne, and Rausch (2018) is his masterpiece. On the cover art we see and on the two discs we hear the mythical German forests, birthplace of …
Jon Hopkins – Singularity (2018)
Electronic music has been ridiculously disappointing in recent years- too much repetition and lack of fresh innovative ideas. We’ve seen the cycle happen before when a music scene starts to turn inward, focusing on past glories reproducing sounds with “authenticity“. It’s a prescription for boredom. And electronic music is never more unbearable then when its …
Album Twins: Hopkins / Kiasmos
I don’t know about you, but I tend to go through these phases with my music listening habits; maybe Krautrock or Morricone or even… Led Zeppelin (well, maybe not Led Zeppelin). When I’m into one of these periods, little else is going to satisfy my mood or hold my attention. I’ll need a full week or …