synthesiser – Page 21 – The Sound Projector

04/08/2019 Ed Pinsent

The Choir Invisible

Now for some electronic-industrial music from the 1980s Spanish underground…the album Orféon Gagarin was originally released on cassette in 1986,

17/07/2019 nausika

Promien: aestheticised violence turns out to be noisy kitsch dance music

Mazut, Promien, Poland, Positive Regression, CD PR PRO (2019) Released on their label Positive Regression, this album by the duo

07/07/2019 Ed Pinsent

Metabolist Architecture

Welcome return of Chester Hawkins with his new cassette Metabolism Quartet / Nocturne for Poppy (INTANGIBLE ARTS IA022 / ZEROMOON

01/07/2019 nausika

Tracer: a haunting evocation of a possible post-apocalyptic future where entropy reigns

Omit, Tracer, United States, The Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS005 2 x CD (2005) Never one to do things by halves

27/05/2019 Ed Pinsent

Dig We Must

The Residents The Residents’ Mole Box UK NEW RALPH TOO / CHERRY RED RECORDS NRTBOX010 6 x CD (2019) I’ve

24/05/2019 nausika

Tretiy Album: retro-1980s darkwave from a world of bleakness, depression and casual violence

Pyat’shest’tri, Tretiy Album, Germany, Detriti Records, cassette DR-034 / Squall Recordings, cassette (2018) Pyat’shest’tri (the name means “five-six-three” in Russian)

11/05/2019 nausika

Terra Alta: minimalist coldwave with a techno feel from Barcelona

Fatamorgana, Terra Alta, United Kingdom, La Vida Es Un Mus, LP MUS188 limited blue vinyl (2019) Begun as a bedroom

11/05/2019 nausika

The End of Electronics: plenty of pop-friendly singles material from Russian one-man coldwave project

The End of Electronics, self-titled, Russia, Serpien Records, CD (2018) Impressively named act The End of Electronics is a one-man

10/05/2019 nausika

Etazhi: ghosts of Kraftwerk, Joy Division, New Order and others in retro post-Soviet coldwave

Molchat Doma, Etazhi, Germany, Detriti Records, vinyl 12″ DR-004 (2018) Imagine that the coldwave / darkwave bands that arose from

18/04/2019 Ed Pinsent

Wireless Heaven

On The Radio (LATHELIGHT LTD LLL028) is a cassette that rescues some historical-ish broadcast materials from the American trio Tart.