O Yuki Conjugate – A Tension of Opposites Vols 3 & 4

O Yuki Conjugate are among the top-tier post-Industrial/experimental projects of the past 40 years, and it’s been an amazing experience going over their catalog over the past few weeks in my personal collection.  This is archival material and a complement to A Tension of Opposites Vols 1 & 2.  From Continue Reading

Various Artists – A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto: To the Moon and Back

Your browser does not support iframes. Our heroes age. After the passing of Yukihiro Takahashi last month, it got me thinking about how long we have Sakamoto-san and Hosono-san with us. Both are due a tribute album of some sort. Thankfully, Milan Records has done a sterling job bringing together Continue Reading

Cabaret Voltaire – Dekadrone

With the passing of Richard H. Kirk last year and Stephen Mallinder keeping himself busy with his own projects, Cabaret Voltaire will be no more.  This final album, basically with Kirk alone programming the music, is a fifty-minute track that has much more in common with it’s early Industrial past Continue Reading

Various Artists – Bureau B 2022

Bureau B has released so many incredible reissues that it has been hard to document all of them.  Artists released this year include Martin Rev (of Suicide), Cluster, Dieter Moebius, Jimi Tenor and Faust among so many others.  The label is incredibly prolific, and 2022 was another banner year for Continue Reading

Pete Swinton – The Book Of Chuang-Tzu, Ch. 18

Zhuang Zhou is the pinyin transliteration of Chuang Tzu, the Chinese taoist philospher who lived some time during the 4th century B.C. during the Warring States Period, and was part of a movement where Chinese philosophy enjoyed an explosive period of development.  He is the subject of the album being Continue Reading