For the start of this gentle electro EP, the Dutch producer Taupe is sighting in the abyss. The opener “Deep Water” is a fair, stripped down duplicate of that miraculous track from “Aquatic Invasion”. Surrounded by swarming jellyfish, the artist resumes in a soft-spoken manner, with crystalline layers and echoing pads in “Still”. The best track is “Tempest”. It’s driven by melancholic chords and bubbling synth lines, before airy arps gradually guide us into the eye of a cyclone. In the presence of subtle dub waves, “Arctic” perceived nocturnal breeze from the other side of the Polar Circle. A ..read more

Terminal 313 favourites of 2023, with the focus on ambient, dub, IDM and melodic electro, the tracklist included. https://terminal313.net/wp-content/uploads//2024/02/Annual-Report-2023-Seaside-Mix.mp3 TRACKLIST [artist – track – release (label cat. no)] numün – Beyond – Book of Beyond LP (Shimmy Disc Shimmy-2015 Plant43 – Frost Walk – Silver Streams LP (Plant43 Recordings PLANT43008LP) Paul St. Hilaire – The Weather Man LP – Tikiman Vol.1 (Kynant Records KYN EX 003) Anatolian Weapons – Three Suns I – Earth LP (Subject To Restrictions Discs STRD-XIV) Subject 13 & Conscious Route – Dripping ..read more

After forty years in action, R&S Records has remained young at heart and keenly explores diverse sounds under the electronic umbrella. For the 40th anniversary, the label once set up by Renaat and Sabine in Ghent, and now managed from London, reignites the legendary “In Order To Dance” series, which for decades has spread the message of techno all over the world. In the early 1990’s, the market was flooded with CD compilations that were a budget solution for the young peeps not able to get hold of twelves. The volumes of “In Order To Dance” belonged to the top shelf of such samplers. Espec ..read more

Release date is 31 March 2023 For me, it was a well spent Sunday. Listening to Wackies sampler in the morning and pre-ordering “Tikiman Vol. 1”, a new album by Paul St. Hilaire in the evening. The artist’s former alias in the title looked like an invitation to the mid-1990s when the Dominica-born master of rhymes and rhythms made the first appearances on Main Street and Burial Mix. Both Basic Channel sublabels marked a shift from Berlin’s monochromatic subterranea towards solar spirituality of the Caribbean. Which means that the collabs of reggae artists with Rhythm & Sound served as educa ..read more

With determination and courage, Maxime Denuc set up a challenge between computer and organ. More exactly, in May 2021 the musician from Belgium steered electronically the organ in the St. Antonius-Kirche in Düsseldorf. Offering various forms of modern classical with an urban twist, “Nachthorn” would not sound out of place either at a midnight mass or at club nights. After tuning the organ with contemplative dronescape (“Edo”), Denuc immediately drops the album’s highlight “Infinite End”, a hosanna to the immortals with joyful chords performing a broken rhythm waltzer. Vibrating timbres provide ..read more

***** Fadi Mohem – MOHEM 01 (MOHEM 01 – 2022) Did Fadi Mohem ignite a new club trend by offering something many may have subconsciously anticipated: Dub techno for peak times? Without interruption, the school of Basic Channel has been present in electronic music, either in worshipping sessions of the originals or in new productions carrying the dub elements. However, often they belong to the ‘chill’ segment of electronic music, and club-focused dub techno tracks have been rare in recent years. Klockworks affiliate Fadi Mohem was not satisfied with the situation and shook the dub techno floor w ..read more

Margus Löve launched the Processed imprint ten years ago in Tallinn and marks the anniversary with a various artists EP. The A-side belongs to Löve’s own 1DERL& alias, the first two tracks picked from the CD album “Reflection” (2012). “Float Boat” is on a par with mid-paced funk of Vogel and Begg, episodically distracted by percussive tempest and narrowly missing the ‘industrial’ tag. “Potion” is aligned with dub techno’s milder end and runs on a smooth groove, which reminds of Traum Schallplatten sound, followed by ambient and drone study with bass edge (“Left With Memories”). The B-side ..read more

In November 2006, Convextion’s debut album left the pressing plant. There was much anticipation in the air, as already in 1995, the artist’s first EP on Sean Deason’s freshly founded Matrix Records had become a landmark of dub driven minimal techno. Before the album release, the price of the MATRIX1 had climbed to crazy 150 euros on Ebay, meaning that the initial value of the debut EP had been multiplied by thirty. Panicking about the availability, I managed to grab two copies of the album, from Hard Wax and Frankfurt’s Freebase, and it’s not something to regret. Gerard Hanson from Dallas, TX ..read more

For the start of spontaneous Icelandic theme hour, I first joined crazy ride of the electro and synth pop maverick Kuldaboli who has been one of my recent favorites. After such intensity and an isotonic drink, next up were placid sounds by Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson aka Yagya, one of Iceland’s electronic wonders who in 2020 launched Small Plastic Animals. Now if his new EP “Always Maybe Tomorrow” on the label would be the sole sonic evidence from 2021, recovered by our descendants in a thousand years, they would believe we were living in a futuristic paradise. The catalogue number ‘2SPA’ tells whe ..read more

Suitably for an album scheduled for November, “Sublunar Tides” is carrying the melancholy of fallen leaves when Plant43 revisits familiar deepness in a new album. The artist has conceived another set of attractive compositions, which offer home listening pleasures and also work in a suitable club environment or even in concert halls. For the beginning, the album’s theme song “Sublunar Tides” and “Links Forever Forged” rely on velvety bass and gleaming pads. Very imaginative “Arc Furnace” is equipped with a sonar for fathoming dark depths of the ocean, before resurfacing to plain daylight and u ..read more