Tag: mark van hoen

Mark Van Hoen at Magnet

Los Angeles-based, U.K.-born electronic pioneer Mark Van Hoen (who you might know from some of his work as Locust, Scala, Black Hearted Brother or one of the other 100 projects over the last 30 years) has released new album Nightvision on Saint Marie Records. Van Hoen compiled a video mix tape of inspirations and a bit of… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen at Magnet

Mark Van Hoen, SPC ECO at Fear and Loathing

The world can be a very bizarre, very loud place at times. The insane volume of the current year’s unimpressive conclusions mixed with the annoying murmur of lives in motion, cars starting in the morning, empty laughter on lunch breaks, and meaningless chatter that booms within the walls of happy hour every day. December comes… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen, SPC ECO at Fear and Loathing

Mark Van Hoen at Big Takeover

This London-based ambient electronica artist, AKA Locust, has covered a lot of stylistic ground in his career. This time he’s made a synth-heavy valentine to the spacier side of Krautrock (explicitly on “Froese Requiem I &II,” for Tangerine Dream mastermind Edgar Froese, who died earlier this year). Slowly swooshing melodies intertwine with percolating patterns, occasional… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen at Big Takeover

Mark Van Hoen at All Music

Nightvision is Mark Van Hoen‘s first album under his birth name since the preceding The Revenant Diary in 2012 — the producer issued You’ll Be Safe Forever (2013) and After the Rain (2014) asLocust. During that time, Van Hoen was involved with Children of the Stones and Black Hearted Brother, rather disparate and more collaborative… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen at All Music

Mark Van Hoen at Stuff to Blow Your Mind

We’re about to break for Thanksgiving here at STBYM, so how about a little Space Music? First up, electronic music veteran Mark Van Hoen just released his new album “Nightvision” on Saint Marie Records. If you’re not familiar with Hoen (or his work under the moniker “Locust”), then I can’t recommend his gloriously organic, time-traveling… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen at Stuff to Blow Your Mind

Mark Van Hoen at Raised By Gypsies

It doesn’t take a lot of musical knowledge or technical terms in your head to have heard music been referred to as created by composers before, but I truly feel as if Mark Van Hoen takes the term “composer” to a whole new level.    Every song is, essentially, composed by someone but not every… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen at Raised By Gypsies

Mark Van Hoen at Brooklyn Vegan

Mark Van Hoen has been making electronic music for over three decades, having released records as Locust, and under his own name for labels like R&S, Apollo, Editions Mego and others. Initially influenced by Eno, Steve Reich, Tangerine Dream and other ambient-leaning composers, Van Hoen’s music can be seen as a precursor to artists like… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen at Brooklyn Vegan

Mark Van Hoen at Big Takeover

Los Angeles-based composer, Mark Van Hoen, has delved into electronic music for nearly thirty-five years with records running the spectrum from Berlin school pulses to throbbing EDM, all of which influence his latest ethereal synth-driven release. Nightvision ranges from pastoralHarmonia-like krautrock to the darkness of Italian horror movie soundtracks byClaudio Simonetti and Fabio Frizzi. Haunting… Continue reading Mark Van Hoen at Big Takeover