Digging Deep: ENA

April 1, 2014 | Matt Clough 1

Lurking in the far-flung Oriental corner of the Minimal-170 genre is Tokyo based producer, ENA.  Producing under several different monikers, including Yu Aseda and other apparently more ‘secret’ aliases, ENA’s releases have been sporadic since 2008 and have often gone … Read More

Soul:ution Exit Records Special: Band On The Wall – 30/11/12

November 27, 2012 | Jack Smith

Soul:ution Exit Special – 30.11.12 – Band On The Wall Manchester

This month Manchester’s Soul:ution returns to Band On The Wall for the second instalment of the bi-annual Exit Records residency. With residents including Calibre, Dub Phizix and Marcus … Read More

SPOTLIGHT: Narratives Music

May 16, 2012 | Adam Tiran

Narratives Music first appeared on our radar at the start of this year, introducing itself with an impressive debut 12” consisting of two slices of militant tech-jungle by label’s co-owners, Blocks and Escher. We reviewed it here. Both Sagan and … Read More

UE.2: Jack Smith

February 10, 2012 | Adam Tiran

Volume two in our mix series comes from our main man, Jack Smith, as he delivers an autonomic-infused collection of discordant melodies, sparse percussion and militant futurism.

UE.2: … Read More

SPOTLIGHT: The Crescent

February 7, 2012 | Adam Tiran

There’s an air of mystery surrounding new ambient-170 label The Crescent. Tunes on the label’s appropriately sparse Soundcloud have gone up and come down in quick succession, but there’s already a huge demand to hear more.

We were lucky enough … Read More