Review: Composed between 2020 and 2021, these three pieces, collectively known as "Triptych" have been patiently waiting to be savoured by music aficionados worldwide. Each track offers a distinct sonic journey, with the title track serving as a musical odyssey in itself, seamlessly flowing through interconnected sections to evoke varied atmospheres over its 13-minute duration. "Touch Air" mesmerises with its rhythmic allure, a trance-like session crafted for spiritual elevation, while "Pythagoras in Japan" transports listeners to the Far East with its ambient textures and spoken-word poetry, gliding further into infinity drones and deep, melodic and humming, synth bliss.
Review: Glasgow's brilliantly named Invisible Inc label describe themselves as "a home for music from the periphery". Accordingly, if you've come here looking for good-time disco grooves in true 70s style, you're going to be disappointed by this album. If, on the other hand, you have an interest in exploring electronic music's outer, lower-tempo fringes - if you dig extended synth workouts that blur the lines between cosmic disco and full-on ambience, drifty Balearic jams, slo-mo headnoddin' grooves, that kind of thing - then you'll find much to enjoy here, with Natural Sugars' 'Riddurum Invaders' standing out for this writer.
Review: Glaswegian label Invisible Inc has released its fair share of music over the years, specialising in all kinds of proto-techno, psychedelic, ambient and cosmic stuff. Dedicated to bringing music from the outer reaches of obscurity to the inner workings of your psyche, Invisible Inc always has a way of finding previously unheard, rare or missed music that sounds as fresh today as the day when it was made. V is For Vision hits that spot again, be it through the epic pulses of emotional bass in Double Discone's "A Pas Feutres" to 80s goa-acid tracks in "Athanato Nero" or via examples of new age/future percussion music in "Soixante Semaines". Label mates Secret Circuit and Sordid Sound System appear in their known ambient and experimental forms, with The Golden Bug hooking up with In Fields for the wandering and tripped out "La Main Jaune".
Review: Up next on Glasgow's Invisible Inc is Burundi's Immaculate Rivombo, who has has been living in Berlin for the last five years. She's been honing her sound there: a fresh fusion of the city's infamous love of techno with the wholly organic sounds of her homeland. There is live djembe, square drum, metal castanets, bongos, guiro, jew's harp and mbira. All this combined with her signature use of TB-303 the concoction brings an entirely new meaning to 'tribal' techno. After the slow burning esoterica of "Mbira Girls" there are two versions of "Soudani"; first is the woozy and ethereal slo-mo groove of the Desert Dream version, then the Drum Dance version which works some syncopated polyrhythms into proceedings for more hypnotic effect. Finally, get deep with the epic Afro-acid raindance that is "Mandragora's Scream".
Review: Tross are a four piece from Sweden with atmospherics intentions. Here on this new four track EP we really get to glimpse into their world of sombre moods and edgy grooves. Echoes of Joy Division resound around manic and nervous post-punk-funk, with highlights including the horror-drone of "War Of Apples", the Peter Gunn-style Americana of "Rainbow" and The Cure-ish "Deluxe".
Review: Emanating from Glasgow's Green Door recording studio, the brilliantly titled Sordid Sound System has recorded and mixed the likes of Golden Teacher, The Amazing Snakeheads and The Junto Club. Now we get a debut EP, full of feverish analogue electro-disco-punk-dub recorded deep in the night on 'the studio's Tascam MS16 tape machine, a Korg MS10 and a rusty Roland Space Echo'. The soundtrack to a million creepy 80s horror movies that never were.
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