An evocative album draws from Ukrainian sci-fi, in Cluster Lizard’s “Star Corsair”
Truly imaginative electronic music can let you screen science fiction in your mind's eye. Dive into Cluster Lizard's LP, close...
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The trippy, rave-y 90s project who scored Mortal Kombat and Marathon
You haven't hit peak 90s until you've got a rave-y techno project with the track "Welcome To My Mind," tons...
Review: MOD Dwarf is a lush, bottomless portal to effects that keeps getting better
If you love software, if you love the imaginative and compositional choices it affords, at last hardware is embodying that...
In Instruments series, encounters between inventors and musicians, watchable online
Starting tonight, and continuing over nine more dates in October, the freshly-inaugurated Morphine Raum will host events exploring invention and...
Stingray is rebooting electro, in an even more fresh and futuristic form
DJ Stingray 313's latest sounds are powered by science, brightly colored synthetic synthesized wavelengths beamed from the future. So don't...
Tour Berna3, a complete 1950s electronic music studio in software – tape loops to test oscillators
While everyone else modulates the 70s, 80s, and even 90s, step back to the 1950s - with a complete array...
Erica Synths LXR-02 drum machine playtest: brutal sounds, live jams, 1.2 firmware
I've been playing with the LXR-02, the new digital drum synth from Erica Synths and Sonic Potions. Verdict: it's versatile,...
In FRKTL’s Azimuth, an ethereal world of undulating sonic and visual surfaces
In fragmented, alien futuristic materials, FRKTL – aka Sarah Badr – has produced another spectacular release. This project fuses her...
Apple’s Spatial Audio experience comes together with head tracking, even for stereo music
Apple is filling in a key piece in the Spatial Audio puzzle – tracking the position of your head through...
Top music gear news from Superbooth 2021 – the CDM monster guide
The music nerd cultural happening - modular pilgrimage is back, and with it... way too much gear to wrap your...
