Thee Koukouvaya An absolute mind-fuck of seductive electronic imagination, nothing much prepared us for this release in August on Saint Marie Records. Plumbing the depths of time while skimming along on the visceral edge of the modern, this Greek band came out of a kind of cosmic left field and left us flattened and exhilarated.… Continue reading Thee Koukouvaya, Mind Brains at Stereo Embers
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SPC ECO at Pop Monitor
Ende November erschien Dark Matter – das siebte Album der englischen Shoegaze-Band SPC ECO. Exklusiv für Popmonitor hat Ex-CURVE-Member und Multi-Instrumentalist DEAN GARCIA die neuen Songs kommentiert und einen Vorspann verfasst… We are very of the moment when we record and write. We prefer to keep with something that has a certain feeling and mood… Continue reading SPC ECO at Pop Monitor
SPC ECO at Magnet
The brainchild of Dean Garcia (Curve)—has just released a new album called Dark Matter, and today MAGNET has a free preview of opening track “Creep In The Shadows.” The track is brooding and dripping with electronics, with Rose Berlin’s vocoder-heavy vocal performance showcasing the subtle tension of the song. [Link]
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
SPC ECO at New Noise
From the mastermind behind the ’90s band Curve, comes SPC ECO (pronounced “Space Echo”) and a brand-new, highly limited vinyl release. With just 250 vinyl copies floating around, Dark Matter is sure to sell out fast, especially if you’re a fan of meticulously crafted ambient sound scapes, sultry female vocals and a wispy, loungey feel.… Continue reading SPC ECO at New Noise
Presents for Sally at Primal
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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