★Spectrum Spools
Temporal Marauder makes you feel
he Spectrum Spools nu-kosmische world domination is truly upon us this week with a corking Bee Mask Album and this blinder from Temporal Marauder who consist of Jean Logarin, Hans Schule, Lissa Zukovich and Max Tanguy and together they make a glorious cyberdelic racket packed to the rafters with bubbling synths with all sorts of tranced out meandering bleeps, pulses, neon sine waves and even some more fucked up techno sounds. It opens sounding like Can being fronted by R2D2 and then morp…
Elegy For Beach Friday
CD edition: For the last few years, Chris Madak has been on a tangled and cryptic path toward the full realization of his Bee Mask alterego. Now, for the first time there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel - a chance for old plans to come to fruition and for new ideas to blossom into the unknown. "Elegy for Beach Friday" is a personal selection of highlights from a slew of limited cassette and CDr editions recorded between 2003 and 2010, reimagined, reedited, and remastered, offe…
Forma
Sold out at source FORMA (Mark Dwinell, Sophie Lam, & George Bennett) emerged on the NYC minimal synth scene in 2010 with a singular vision of cosmic Krautrock for a new age. On their eponymous debut LP, the Brooklyn-based electronics trio merges the melodic flow and primitive rhythms of their motorik predecessors with the hypnotic drones of Minimalism, creating an intricate work both addicting and rewarding with repeat listens. Like many of the LP's eleven tracks, the churning and relentl…
A Sort Of Radiance
Matthew Mullane is a Chicago multi-instrumentalist performing under the guise of Fabric. Here we have a fine suite of compositions which embark on a voyage through darkness of night and the brightness of day. Washed-out dark colors and static pulses sweep across your stereo painting a portrait of intense yearning and determination. Recorded over the course of a year, Matthew has constructed a multi-dimensional organism of sound that has perplexing depth and astounding detail. The album reveals n…
Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico
Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico" is an outstanding document in the long and complex Bee Mask discography, part of an astounding body of work that's been brewing since the mid-00's, and a carefully and meticulously composed album on par with the classics of the Lovely Music and INA-GRM catalogs.Straying from the status quo of improvised "one take" synthesizer music flooding the underground electronic community today, Chris Madak has created an elaborate and captivating work, a soundt…