UK producer Emil Rottmayer is back with yet another short but sweet dose of slick electronic music straight from the VHS era. Although we’ve yet to hear of a successor to 2018’s Descend, Emil Rottmayer is an artist who obviously values consistency over quantity. With
From the shadows born under the palest of moons, a red carpet of warm, fresh blood glows in commemoration of a grand hunting season to come. Russian producer Acryl Madness has reemerged from the darkness with his latest violent opus Kaidan, a tale of horror
From the desolate, infinite stillness of our ever-expanding musical cyberspace, Shenzen-based producer Ryan Hill, aka KAGAMI Smile, has hijacked the early April airwaves. The nature of the transmission? An aethereal excursion into forms set free from the confines of the physical realm, a sonic mass
Well what can I say? I actually loved it. I did. It is not in any degree a perfect movie but, it was as fun as a bar fight south of South Street, Philadelphia. This wonderful gem is now streaming simultaneously on HBO Max and theaters,
The Berlin-based Siamese Youth has just dropped the delicious "Echoes of Tomorrow," their sophomore album from NRW! "Echoes of Tomorrow" is stuffed with layers of neon-drenched synth, sick guitar grooves, and supremely catchy pop influences that combine to create a fantastic album of next-generation synthpop. Siamese
The absolute legend Timecop1983 has returned to patrol our hearts with "Faded Touch!" This beautifully nostalgic album is catchy and heartfelt, pumping out what may be Timecop1983's most moving album to date. It's been three long years since Timecop1983's last full length, with the darker "Night Drive"
Reading the Chainsaw Man manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto has me in a body-horror mood. And being in such a mood brings me back to David Cronenberg the director of such genre cult-classics as Dead Ringers, The Fly remake, Shivers, Videodrome and the film adaptation to
It wasn’t any earlier than February 8th that London Dreampunk label Dream Catalogue had announced the end of their 7-year run, effective as of February 23rd. Yet here we are, a mere 5 weeks later, with news that the British label is back in business
This month of March will have been a seemingly quiet one to many casual listeners and fans of bandcamp electronic music. Whilst many patiently await the imminent release of Perturbator’s enigmatic new album, the retrowave found itself in a near-dormant state this month, as though
Gamers, retro-dreamers and hopeless romantics, you’re going to want to reach for your headphones for this one. Castroe is back in top form with a full-length album of retrofuturistic bliss. With its nine tracks and forty-minute runtime, Fall Into You is a concise album that
In recent years, I’ve seen a small backlash against the character Ferris Bueller. One sometimes hears the trite, overused buzzwords such as “out-of-touch,” “entitled,” and “privileged." I remonstrate against this dismissive characterization of one of the most potent symbols of youthful exuberance and freedom. Both
