You can't please all the people all the time, but you can bash them into a pulpy mass. Aphex Twin & Hecker show us how it's done, as witnessed by Fillip K Donk.
Freshly Spannered
Techno, hip hop and sci-fi elements converge on Mark Pritchard's latest project. Laurent Fintoni talks to the many-monikered man behind some of electronic music's most enduring moments.
Unity Gain Temple vomits up a disturbing sound collage for Spannered's 9th Oddcast.
Oddball opera, modernist classical kartoon klassics and the tone-transgressions of an avuncular middle-seventies gent? Martin Longley checks back in from New York.
Normal Oddcast service has been suspended. Your 50-minute alternate journey will be provided by DJ Bus Replacement Service with contributions from MC Toilet. It may not be going where you wish to travel.
SoundGoods explores Música Popular Brasileira Contemporânea for Sambacana's 39th edition.
Transparent Sound's Orson Bramley pays his first visit to the Burning Man festival set in Black Rock City, Nevada.
Resonance FM's DJ Wrongspeed presents the sound of a hard drive going wrong.
A deeply, darkly ambient mix by sylvan-eared Coppice. First in a series inspired by lost corners of forest and parkland in London.
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- Is there such a thing as too much emotive techno? Not for Kone-R, who tucks merrily into volumes 3-7 of B12's colossal archive series. 17 Jun 2009
- Orson Bramley of Transparent Sound whipped up an electro (dust) storm at last year's Burning Man festival. If you didn't make it out to Black Rock Desert you can check it here. 17 Jun 2009
- Ambient doo wop, cavity-shaping exercises and a modernist classical makeover for Tom and Jerry? Martin Longley seeks out more musical oddities in NYC. 9 Jun 2009
- Unity Gain Temple delivers a beastly Oddcast, while Rio de Janeiro's SoundGoods explores Música Popular Brasileira Contemporânea for Sambacana. 9 Jun 2009
- Laurent Fintoni reviews the latest offerings from Nosaj Thing, Starkey, Joker & Ginz, Ghislain Poirier, Ras G and DOOM. 6 Jun 2009
- Spills, thrills and ills abound in volume 8 of Spannered's Oddcast series: a stark blast of outsider music from DJ Bus Replacement Service featuring MC Toilet. 29 Apr 2009
- Rio de Janeiro's DJ Cheech presents the 38th Sambacana show: an hour of tasty Brazilian nuggets from the likes of Jorge Ben, Rita Lee, Caetano Veloso and Elis Regina. 28 Apr 2009
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