Review: Challengers OST – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – 2024

Challengers OST - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Challengers Original Soundtrack – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Released April 26th, Milan/Sony    Challengers is the latest soundtrack album by Academy Award-winning duo, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross. The album is notable for its predominantly high-energy techno-influenced music which serves as the beating pulse of the movie. The movie itself is a tennis-themed movie … Read more

Release Roundup – February 2024

House Techno Breaks DnB downtempo releases February 2024

February 2025 was an epic month for releases which makes this one an epic post. We’ve got a modern classic revisited plus plenty of old skool vibes for the house heads plus the full spectrum of techno from introspective experimentalism right to up to industrial strength nose bleeders. There’s also a whole ton of big … Read more

Release Roundup – January 2024

January 2024 dance releases

Well, we got through it, the most boring month of the year, from here on in it’s just going to get warmer and hopefully more exciting. Unless you’re in Australia, in which case it’s going to get colder and there’s never a dull moment because all the fauna is constantly trying to kill you. Lucky … Read more

Review: Skee Mask – C – Released 4 January 2023

C - Skee Mask

C – Skee Mask – Self Released January 4th, 2024 Skee Mask is a DJ/producer from Munich. He first rose to prominence with the release of his 2016 album Shred, the first of three albums released on Ilian Tape, the label run by fellow Bavarian bass pioneers, the Zenker Brothers. In 2022, Skee Mask self-released … Read more

2023 Release Roundup

2023-2024

2023 is drawing to a close so best to recap it now before the New Year while we’re both still capable of processing the written word. Nothing too elaborate on this post, just some shout outs some of my favourite releases and producers for 2023, plus my pick for label of the year. For the … Read more

Release Roundup – December 2023

december 2023

Right so eeeh… Now that that’s out of the way, it’s time for the release roundup for December 2024. Boo-Urns Of The Month Maceo Plex joins prestigious names like the Chemical Brothers and DJ Shadow by becoming my boo-urns of the month. Recently I’ve been going flat out to commemorate all the classic hiphop albums … Read more

Release Roundup – November 2023

November 2023 releases

November 2023 was an exciting month for electronic music releases with some slick techno bangers, a compelling new release from Woodleigh Research Facility plus some ingenious acid, electro and jungle. Album Of The Month November 2023 My album of the month for November 2023 is Phonox Nights by Woodleigh Research Facility. Hard to believe we’re … Read more

Album Review: Blind On A Galloping Horse – David Holmes and Raven Violet 

Blind On A Galloping Horse - David Holmes

Blind On A Galloping Horse – David Holmes Featuring Raven Violet – Released November 10th 2023 After a hiatus of 15 years, Belfast-born DJ, producer and composer David Holmes has released a new album featuring the talents of vocalist Raven Violet.  Though he’s remained busy composing movie soundtracks and working on other projects, Blind On … Read more

Release Roundup  – October 2023

Metallic Spheres In Colour -The Orb

Some worrying developments in Technoland this month. The first being the sale of Bandcamp resulting in layoffs and concerns about the future of the company. This was soon followed by news that NTS Radio has been partially bought up by Universal Music Group. These are both disturbing signs of the ever-growing corporatisation of the scene, … Read more

Release Roundup – September 2023

Release roundup September 2023

Been another hectic month with lots of interesting releases, news of more exiting releases on the way, not to mention lots of 30th anniversaries I really wanted to make sure are covered here. But anyways, at the risk of sounding unpopular (perish the thought) let’s get this out of the way: So now that I’ve … Read more