As major labels continue to exist behind the times, artists and labels with little capital and lesser reputations are producing some of the most innovative, interesting, and inspiring music. Whether it's creating a new niche in digital technology or looking to once obsolete formats, Agitated Atmosphere hopes to pull back the curtain on a wealth of sights and sound from luminaries such as No UFO's . Breaking through the DIY door is harder than it appears. Despite being in control of your music and message, new labels and artistic projects sprout [...]
Konrad Jandavs released Soft Coast on cassette in 2010 and now Spectrum Spools has given it a well deserved vinyl edition. Blending synth flutter and Kosmiche drift with a psychedelic touch that guides both halves, the album manages to make itself stick out amid a plethora of similarly minded synth projects. Jandavs has a keen sense of space and texture, blending noise elements and dropping beats out entirely to great effect. Adding to the already potent mix is Jandavs' use of some dry guitar crunch, which lends a bit of the raw nerve of punk that quivers down [...]
I've already suggested that we should keep a firm eye on Britain's latest underground establishment Public Information , and with its second release the label reaffirms its ambition to bring us only the most alluring themes in leftfield electronics. No UFO's is the project of Vancouver resident Konrad Jandav, whose second effort Mind Controls The Flood is a seven-piece excursion into the outer realms of kosmische, deeply enchanting analog synth experiments that showcase quite an impressive range of style and expression, neatly held together by the stunning, noise-laden and spaced-out playfulness of each single track. [...]
Putting together these monthly mixes has become one of my favorite things to do on Pretty Goes with Pretty. It's not like putting together a typical mix, which usually has some unifying theme. No, these are mixes made with strict rules: all the songs were downloaded within the last month all are new to me, and it should go without saying that I think they're all great the mix is intended to be listened to straight through and should be a satisfying experience (The fourth, til-now-unspoken rule is that each [...]
Public Information are a new label sticking records out on vinyl and digitally. Public Information have been kind enough to contact us about their first two releases, one by ADR and the other by 20JFG fave No UFO's. Public Information seem committed to releasing electronic music from the 50s onwards. We can get behind this ADR 's Jupiter Rising comes on like an unheard out-take from OHM . You find yourself lulled [...]
It was as if, glimpsed from the right angle, all of the attempts at categorisation had but cascaded into one. Moving the three lists back into their proper position temporarily solved this issue but the great list-master remained disturbed. For what could this mean, he thought. What were the semantic implications of this perilous discovery? Were the three lists secretly as one? What would the creators of the lists think of this? A year's work, carefully separating and categorising reduced, by a tilt of the head, to a universal soup. ////////////////////////////// //////////// Darkstar - North. In the [...]
It was as if, glimpsed from the right angle, all of the attempts at categorisation had but cascaded into one. Moving the three lists back into their proper position temporarily solved this issue but the great list-master remained disturbed. For what could this mean, he thought. What were the semantic implications of this perilous discovery? Were the three lists secretly as one? What would the creators of the lists think of this? A year's work, carefully separating and categorising reduced, by a tilt of the head, to a universal soup. ////////////////////////////// //////////// Darkstar - North. In the best [...]
One of Juan Atkins most influential releases, 1985's 'No UFO's' set the precedent for the early Detroit techno scene. Truly avant garde, on it's release the combination of strange bassline, synth and unique vocal created this dancefloor reaction . Check Juan's recent Beats in Space mix . Model 500 - No UFOs
We sit sprawled within the nebula-grey walls of our collective zine. Drifting amongst the vast bodies that exert their eternal pull on our fragile mass. Directionless and infinite; endless inquiry is expended on our destination, but we simply do not know; mere amateurs that we are at this low-budget journey. All we [...]
The many great thinkers of our time seem to have no problem getting their heads around staggeringly complex metaphysical concepts. Epistemology? No problem. Post Structuralism? Piece of Cake. Existential phenomenology? A breeze. But Twitter? These guys haven't got a clue. Check out this recent Tweet we got from @ristotle It is clear, then, that wisdom is [...]
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