Polymath Kouhei Matsunaga is a card-carrying world traveller. A resident of both Osaka and Berlin, his time is divided between producing intricate pen illustrations which depict a disjointed surrealism with impeccable technique and electronic music which is a combination of digital primitivism and an un-abashed, wordless emotiveness. While his line drawings are always black pen on white paper affairs, his music as NHK'Koyxeи is an open language, taking in digital technology and slanted club musics of the past 30 years. You can compare his mediums and find similarities – both his visual and aural arts present [...]

Die Woche fängt gut an: Mat Steel und Mark Fell aka snd haben einen Mix für FACTs Podcast-Serie abgeliefert. Und was für einen. In einer Stunde bringen die beiden Clicks-and-Cuts-Legenden aus Sheffield von Avantgarde-Komponisten wie Morton Feldmann über Einstürzende Neubauten bis hin zu Hecker, Urban Tribe, Oval und Carl Craig, um mal die bekannteren Interpreten zu nennen, auf den ersten Blick ziemlich gegensätzliche Sachen zusammen. Einen gewissen akademischen Nerdfaktor kann man nicht verleugnen. Macht trotzdem Spaß. Den Mix gib es hier. Tracklisting: 01. Albert S. Bregman & Pierre A. Ahad - Demonstratio 27 (from [...]

Der Snd- und Solo-Soundforscher hat auf seiner Webseite eine Mixtape-Serie mit dem nicht ganz ernst gemeinten Titel "Dawn Of Man" online gestellt. this series of six mixes traces my musical interests from 1981 to 1996. it came about after an invitation from british anthropologist georgina born to list some key pieces of music - a kind of musical genealogy. my original intention, and georgina's request, was for a short playlist. i took this to mean about 10 or 12 tracks, but once i started this process it became clear the list would be much longer. [...]
I'd intended this as a complement to my albums rundown from last week but was waylaid in getting it together. As I hope to do every month, here is a mix of my favorite individual tracks, old and new, I came across in the last month (or, in this case, going back to mid-December). The majority of these tracks came from a handful of other people's mixes—namely The Decibel Tolls and Swan Fungus , as well the Mindbending Motorway Mix created by Broadcast's Trish Keenan, which went around the internet after news of [...]

Offering up our year end list a couple of weeks ago just wasn't enough. So I put the call out to a group of individuals - you know, the gang - who make a different in the music scene here in Louisville, asking them to collect a "best of" or "year end" list in whatever format they choose. I discovered some releases that I totally slept on this year. Perhaps you will too. I also discovered some personality quirks in some of my friends I didn't know existed before. For example, Dom from Phantom Family Halo does not want to [...]

Multistability is the branch of Gestalt psychology in which things are perceived in more than one state. It is usually used to describe images like the Necker Cube, or the Rubin Vase, those strange optical illusions which, when you try to focus on them, seem to pulse between two different and wholly contradictory forms, but can also be used with reference to auditory trickery. Trickery like this new album by Mark Fell, one half of Sheffield's Raster-Noton duo SND. Given that Fell's last solo album, 20042s Ten Types Of Elsewhere , focused on "a link between objects and alterity [...]