Yet another artist among the handful of Iberoamericans who’ve found Germany as the adequate place to develop their music and find a receptive audience, Madrid-born LINCE has been working as a DJ in Berlin since 2009, while also making encompassing ambient and minimal techno. The video for the rework of his track "Sombras en mi corazón," a gorgeously crafted recollection of images edited by Machines Désirantes Buró and taken from the film The Endless Summer , uses the idea of moving water in the form of ocean waves as a consistent theme and aesthetic for his repetitive, vaguely melodious and ...

Every fortnight we'll ask you question via the site/twitter/facebook/tumblr and the best answers will be included here, alongside anything else from our networks we feel like sharing. In the last edition we asked you the following question: What's your favourite album of all time? The new question can be found at the bottom of the article. Our Favourite Responses All Mod Cons by The Jam. It got an eight year old absolutely hooked on music. Still sounds fresh to me 30 odd years later. from Steve Mcgillivray (Facebook) **** The Queen Is Dead, but I can ...

Christian Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto Flumina [Touch; 2011] by James Parker Rating: Flumina is the third collaboration between Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakomoto. And it’s much more in the vein of 2007’s Cendre than their live outing from a few years before that, Sala Santa Cecilia . Where Sala Santa Cecilia was a lush and noisy record, constantly shifting between dense electronic clatter and distorted quiet, Flumina is overtly ambient: a subtle dialogue between Sakomoto’s artful piano meanderings and Fennesz’s atmospheric fuzz. In fact, Flumina is a ‘concept’ or ‘process’ record in two senses. First, because each of the 24 tracks is ...

1er février - ** Thousand + Myra Lee @ International ** Rivulets + Rach Tree @ Espace B 3 février - Sister Iodine + TG Gondard + Fusiller + Nox Factio @ Olympic Café 6 février - Nat Baldwin @ Espace B 7 février - Black Lagoya @ Instants Chavirés 8 février - ** Nit Neroc + Vagina Vomit @ International **  9 février - General Elektriks @ Maroquinerie Tennis @ .FMR 10 février - Balam Acab + Holy Other + oOoOO @ .FMR 11 février - Alina Orlova @ Café de la Danse Christophe + Alister + Guillaume Fédou @ Maroquinerie Yussuf Jerusalem + Catholic Spray @ L'inattendu Fiodor Dream dog + I Break Horses @ Fleche d'Or  13 février - François & The Atlas Mountains @ Café de la danse  15 février - Megafaun @ Café de la ...

[ Dusted Magazine ] ~ Blame Fennesz. Like it or not, his interpretation of the guitar instrumental as simmering pop elegy has held sway for almost the better part of a decade. The grainy melodicism of Endless Summer and, and to a lesser extent, Venice exert such a gravitational pull on listeners that their presence [...]

Field Day have confirmed a raft of new additions including Modeselektor, Liars and more. Held in Victoria Park, Field Day is one of London's most prominent one day events. A cross-section of indie, electronics and more the event regularly pulls in exclusive performances from seminal acts. 2012 looks to be no exception. In a bulletin this morning Field Day organisers confirmed appearances from German bass munchers Modeselektor, experimental American types Liars and more. Having dominated 2011, Blawan opens the New Year by confirming his involvement with Field Day . Elsewhere, Dev Hynes returns to London under his Blood Orange guise ...

Austrian noise experimentalist Fennesz unveiled Flumina , his new album with frequent collaborator Sakamoto, last month. Now he's released a 48-minute piece for Touch Radio called "On Invisible Pause", which accompanied a dance performance titled HAZE in November. Listen to the whole thing over at Touch Radio .

6.01.12 - On Invisible Pause - 48:13 - 192 kbps Photo: Mats Bäcker On Invisible Pause, choreographed by Christopher Arouni, is part of Skånes Dansteater's performance HAZE, November 4th 2011 in Malmö's Skånesdansteater. Mixed by Christopher Arouni, Christian Fennesz &...

The first Touch Radio free download of the year is nothing less than a Fennesz performance for modern dance. The work is “On Invisible Pause,” choreographed by Christopher Arouni, and it was part of Skånes Dansteater’s performance HAZE on November 4, 2011, in Malmö, Sweden. The piece is lengthy and rangy, encompassing vast stretches of [...]

When Oliver tweeted asking if anyone would like to write about ‘out there’ sounds, I thought, ‘yeah, why not. I like a bit of that.’ But what exactly is ‘that’? By proxy it’s usually a fool’s game to try and categorise, but for the sake of simplicity, lets just say we’re talking about music that pushes boundaries to the extreme. Now, pop music often pushes boundaries (usually those of taste…) but rarely does it cause you to question your own perception of what music actually is. I remember hearing Whitehouse’s ‘Why You Never Became A Dancer ...

by Bill Meyer It's not exactly news nowadays when folks collaborate over email; it's more remarkable when someone springs for the airfare required to get musicians from different continents playing in the same room. The construction sequence that avant-heroes Ryuichi Sakamoto and Christian Fennesz followed to... Read More

After Monday's first instalment , a further 50 exceptional artists/releases to complete  LMYE's 2011 Festive 50 + 50. Not, of course, that our centurions' were the year's only worthwhile sounds - we're intensely conscious (particularly after relishing others' deeply-felt - & very different - lists, notably Anti-Gravity Bunny 's, Gacougnal 's, The Liminal 's (& its contributors'), The Milk Factory 's, Suborno 's,  Fluid Radio 's & 5:4 's) of how much more thrilling music 2011 had to offer & how partial even our expanded selection must inevitably be. Still, as with our earlier batch , each of these artists/releases resonated greatly with one or both of us over the year. Some will with you too, hopefully... Keith Berry - The Ear That Was Sold To a Fish (album preview) Sublamp - Girl, Calling to an Empty House [via  pdis_inpartmaint ] kreng - grimoire (album preview) Further 50 (or so...) 3ofmillions  ::  Abstruction  (Rufus) /  a. d. l. r.  ::  Foam On The Waves Of Space-Time...  (Non Projects) /  Aquarelle  :: A Shifting Visage  (Low Point; split w/ Alex Cobb )/ Sung In Broken Symmetry  (Students of Decay) /  A Winged Victory for the Sullen :: A Winged Victory for the Sullen (kranky) / Keith Berry  ::  The Ear that was Sold to a Fish  (Infraction) /  John Chantler  ::  The Luminous Ground  (Room40) /  Chubby Wolf  ::  Turkey Decoy  (Digitalis) /  Cleared  ::  Cleared  (Immune) /  Dark Class  :: Gendie/Music For A Destroyed Landscape  (Heat Death ...

Julianna Barwick | photo by David Blake Hutchinson To kick off AiMT 2011 , here's what is by far the most Flash-overload feature to ever grace the site. Hopefully it won't make your browser tweak out. Inevitably these SoundCloud streams will start to vanish, which will make this post a lot less fun. Enjoy them while they're here! Also check out last year's ambient list . #20 Grouper - A I A : Alien Observer / A I A : Dream Loss [Yellow Electric] WATCH "I SAW A RAY" AND STREAM A I A : ALIEN OBSERVER PREVIEW: #19 ADR - Solitary Pursuits [Public Information ...

After a 405 Focus piece, and his incredible 'Fill Me In' feature, we thought it would be good to lock in Benjamin Shaw for an 'Under The Influence' piece too. So that just leaves a guest mix, artist picks and disposable 405 article, before this site becomes the unofficial second home for Mr Shaw. In the Fishtank – Sparklehorse & Fennesz I have long been a devotee of both Sparklehorse & Fennesz, so to find out they had worked together on this was a delightful surprise. Almost all instrumental, it combines the electronic guitar glitches of Fennesz and Mark Linkous' creepy atmospherics wonderfully ...

“A curious mix of chaos and chilling atmospheres, Cadu T.’s Sobre a Maquina relies on trippy beats and meticulous, beautifully crafted timbres, bringing together minimalistic melodies and the complex, worn-out, “urban” sounds of the big city. Influenced by bands and artists like Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Tim Hecker, Fennesz and Can, the trio first got together [...]