King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto and Austin, Texas, engineer Bill Munyon have managed to modify their computers into musical electrocardiogram machines that output an array of avant-garde techno...
Japan's Zeni Geva are relentless, forceful and ultra- intelligent - their steamrolling assault of progressive jazz-noise rock hymns inbred with touches of ancient traditional Japanese passages is not...
Everyone's favorite hyper-imaginative, alt-country- space-waltz folkster Mark Linkous returns to destroy rock forever with his third full-length disc. A bulk of the material was recorded/produced with...
Former Jessamine cohorts Andy Brown and Rex Ritter and friends step up the flow of their liquid space jazz funk to the next level. Whereas their debut was doused with the textural jams of Miles Davis,...
Led by the spiritual struggling-for-peace vocals of Kim Torres, this New Hampshire four-piece beautifully characterizes the sounds of damaged loneliness, abuse, autism and stillness. The surreal...
ISIS blend minimalist-dub, music concrete and heavy churning tribal psychedelic drone to create a hypnotically intense listening experience. Recorded at the Outpost in Stoughton, MA, as well as...
Between the months of October 2000 and January 2001, producer/engineer David Bottrill (see issue #19) sonically conducted and committed a musical masterpiece to tape: Tool's Lateralus. The 79 minute...
What is peculiar about the avant rock music machine that Kitchens And Bathrooms create is that has a 3rd person narrative quality to it. That is, their approach is so set back (but not necessarily...
For twelve months, Ben Christian Green (of Godflesh) deposited himself within the Cambrian mountains to escape modern civilization and search within the imposed silence of his surroundings - to hear...
For those who are into absorbing sparse modern folk with a cerebral poetic twist a la Wilco or Sparklehorse, then the sparse and etched sounds of Royal City will carry you through another joyfully...
Finally. It has been almost three long years since Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren took a plunge into sonic depths. And now, the duo surface with Consciousness- a welcoming release of ambience of which...
Unlike their previous releases, fixed::context sounds far less microscopically scientific; this time, their approach is noticeably more melodic and even old, but not in a dated sense, like...
Attention: For those in need of a genuinely dense dose of psychedelia then look no further. Just listen. For this particular venture (their first since leaving the Sub Pop label) the trio reverts deep...
