It absolutely was there, in a little club, bar, and gallery called the Brain, that artists like Orbital and Andrew Weatherall mapped dance new music’s outer boundaries in DJ sets and—a rarity for the time—live performances on keyboards, samplers, and varied bits of hardware.It’s not an expressly retro set; toward the end of the main hour, t
In January, experimental artist Laurel Halo celebrated the a single-calendar year anniversary of her regular monthly residency on NTS Radio. Her present tends to range commonly—an average episode might contain classical minimalism, American primitive guitar, dub reggae, and Detroit techno, all mixed seamlessly collectively.It’s not an expressly
. Conceived because the imaginary eighth album in her discography—in reality, it’s the third—it finds the Welsh musician abandoning her usual hallmarks in favor of stark, industrially tinged beats and ominously looped vocals. A similarly experimental spirit fuels her Resident Advisor combine, which opens with ghostly a cappella with the 11th