industrial

Naum Gabo – F. Lux (DFA)

Glasgow duo Jonnie Wilkes and James Savage take their Naum Gabo project into new territory with a vital LP of industrial and abstract sound

Namesis – Rave Is Dead EP (Soma)

Shadowy techno meets electronic body music on Namesis’s Rave Is Dead EP, the Russian producer’s debut for Glasgow’s Soma label

Placement of Sound in an Imaginary Physical Space: Isolating Interview

Stephen Hindman reveals what’s behind the curtain of Isolating, their dystopian machine music project with releases on 4GN3S and Optimo Music

HAAi – Systems Up, Windows Down (Mute)

DJ and producer HAAi’s dancefloor lethal, industrialised machine music debut for Mute gets a very welcome release on 12″

Kemper Norton – brunton calciner

Kemper Norton’s self-released brunton calciner album is a work of industrial beauty, disturbing archaeology and curiously fitting electronics

Frank Rodas – The Sellout EP (Optimo Music Digital Danceforce)

Optimo Music Digital Danceforce presents Frank Rodas’s persuasive debut EP of industrial, proto-techno, dystopian electro and spectral acid house

Martin Jensen’s From Beyond Brussels with Love Mixtape

The Home Current’s Martin Jensen serves up European electronic dreams with a beautifully crafted mix for Concrete Islands

Cosey Fanni Tutti – TUTTI (Conspiracy International)

TUTTI is an abstract autobiographical study rendered in dark, sensuous electronics that conveys a hallucinatory experiencing of the past in the present

Through the Crash Barrier Mixtape

Through the Crash Barrier is a sort of ground zero Concrete Islands mix, capturing a moment three months into our existence

Chris Carter – Miscellany (Mute)

A solo box set from Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter contains archival recordings of future shaping electronic dispatches from Ballardian Britain

John Carpenter – Halloween Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sacred Bones)

John Carpenter revisits the music of Halloween with vital efficiency and proves he can still keep up with the darkness

Exploded View – Obey (Sacred Bones)

Exploded View make organic machine driven music fit for getting lost in and Obey demands listeners disappear into its inky depths