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EMIKA Interview

Since she founded her own Emika Records in 2014, EMIKA has been a fine example of a modern independent artist. With a new album ‘Falling In Love With Sadness’ just released, Berlin-based Anglo-Czech musician and producer Ema Jolly is on an artistic high with what has been her most powerfully cathartic and personal musical statement yet. Ema Jolly kindly chatted about her creative ethos. Continue Reading ›

MAN WITHOUT COUNTRY Infinity Mirror

Now onto album number three and without original musical partner Tomas Greenhalf, Ryan James continues to hone and develop his hybrid mix of luxuriant synthetics and subtle guitar textures as MAN WITHOUT COUNTRY. Already preceded by three singles ‘Remember the Bad Things’, ‘Lafayette’ &and ‘Achilles Heel’, ‘Infinity Mirror’ features another nine tracks and doesn’t deviate too far from the template that James has developed so far. Continue Reading ›

FORM defiance + entropy

With twelve tracks over just under an hour, ‘defiance + entropy’ is a remarkably ambitious artistic statement for a debut long player. FORM are SHELTER’s flamboyant frontman Mark Bebb, Keith Trigwell from DEPECHE MODE tribute act SPEAK & SPELL and German producer Rob Dust whose credits include ALPHAVILLE, CAMOUFLAGE, DE/VISION, MESH, TORUL, CHROM and FRONT 242. Basically, if you like your dark flavoured melodic synthpop, then FORM are the band for you. Continue Reading ›

STOLEN Fragment

After a ten year hiatus, the legendary German dance label MFS returns with the release of ‘Fragment’, the long-awaited new album by Chengdu techno-rockers STOLEN. This album is a seamless hour long trip in more ways than one. Produced in Berlin by Mark Reeder and Micha Adam, having witnessed their intense live presentation while on a tour of China, Reeder confessed to an excitement he hadn’t experienced since the early days of NEW ORDER. Continue Reading ›

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