[Video] Roli Mosimann Documentary 1993 feat. Foetus, Young Gods, The The, Wiseblood etc.

Roli Mossimann was a Swiss-American drummer and electronic musician who worked with some of the greatest of the no-wave bands to come out of New York City such as Swans, Foetus and their side project Wiseblood.  He was an in-demand producer working with legends like New Order and Skinny Puppy, Continue Reading

Various Artists – Touch: Isolation

Touch Records introduced many experimental and post-industrial music fans to some of the most crucial artists of the past 40 years or so.  This compilation originally came as 28 single tracks which were available via subscription only, but since that option was shut down, the label thankfully compiled these tracks Continue Reading

Senyawa – Istana (Live)

Today is a workday for us in Beijing, so there is no review today, but I did want to point you to an Indonesian band called Senyawa, who is featured on Rafaelle Pezzella’s incredible Unexplained Sounds Group‘s digipak retrospective called the Far East Music Collection.  It is a reissue of Continue Reading

Meat Beat Manifesto & Merzbow – Extinct

Neither Merzbow nor Meat Beat Manifesto will need no introduction to connoisseurs of either Industrial music or the sound that made Wax Trax! Records famous.  I never, in my wildest dreams, thought that these two would join forces for an album, and, miracle of miracles, their styles actually work well Continue Reading

Scanner – Alchemeia

Prepare yourselves for January 19, ten days from now!  The legendary Scanner (Robin Rimbaud in real life) has a new album out, “…a tribute to the early 1960s library music culture, applying crude techniques of electronic composition, using a mix of hardware and software. It explores a kind of musique Continue Reading

Sonologyst – Shortwave Spectrum

It has been far too long since I’ve had the pleasure to review albums by Sonologyst, perhaps the finest dark ambient project to come out of Italy in the last decade and impresario of Unexplained Sounds Group, who have introduced dark music from all over the world. This album offers Continue Reading

O Yuki Conjugate – A Tension of Opposites Vols 1 & 2

We had the pleasure of O Yuki Conjugate’s release earlier this year reviewing Volumes 3 & 4 of this series.  The old quote still holds: ““Two years after the first two volumes of A Tension of Opposites (ATOO) were issued OYC return to the form they created to house their Continue Reading