Pedestrian Deposit – Fatale

Just like many performing noise artists, well, real noise artists who understand and compose cacophony as something more than aural shock value, the sounds of Pedestrian Deposit are comprised physically and sometimes violently, creating art by using technology and instruments completely opposed to how they’re traditionally meant to be utilised. Electrifying metal to collaging tearing …

Jeff Mills – Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo

Although ironic to say, this live set of unadulterated Detroit techno is so humanesque. It’s not straight-down-the-middle, calculated or cold. It’s not uniform and not overtly chaotic. That doesn’t sound like techno at all does it? The first ten or so minutes of Segment I exemplifies this point as Mills cycles through vinyl spastically as …

Vangelis – Blade Runner

  Often imitated, never replica(n)ted Blade Runner is among my favourite films ever made. And so much of what makes Blade Runner great and allows it to continue to endure today as one of the greatest of its genre is its iconic, incredibly realised vision. To anyone that has seen or even heard of Blade Runner …

cLOUDDEAD – cLOUDDEAD

“I lost my liquid tongue for the wet pen” To me, the pinnacle of hip hop, although it’s not the easiest thing to call hip hop in the first place. Everything about cLOUDDEAD is so surreal, cryptic, dense and mysterious. It’s like hip hop’s final boss, a 70+ minute opus of both production, where shards of …

My Bloody Valentine – Loveless

Taking a Hot Shower on a Cold Winter's Night I once saw someone describe listening to this phenomenal record as the same as ‘taking a hot shower in the middle of a cold winters night.’ In essence, I felt that this short and profound statement truly summed up the content of this album in a …