Category Archives:Sonic Router Mixes
SR Mix #160: Clouds [Channel Zero/Ramp]
SR’s editor’s column on the Quietus returns with an interview with the Helsinki based musicians, Clouds, a duo who recently celebrate the release of their mini-albums, USB Islands on Ramp Recordings and Old Space, on their own Channel Zero label. …
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SR Mix #159: Bambooman [Sonic Router]
It’s hard to try and not use these posts about our own label artists objectively when we’ve invested so much time, money and effort into making a product and promoting it. We were referenced in an article as a verb …
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SR Mix #158: Rejections x Stillpoint [Reject & Fade]
There’s something to the music of the Teeside dwelling producer Michael Hann, aka Rejections, that took to me from the very first listen. Admittedly, when you’re talking about drone based music, which is more about a slow build or a …
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SR Mix #157: Marquis Hawkes [Dixon Avenue Basement Jams]
Emanating from Glasgow, the same city that gave birth to Rubadub and Numbers, Dixon Avenue Basement Jams feels like one of those no nonsense labels run by people who know exactly what they’re doing. You could call it insider knowledge …
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SR Mix #156: Lotide [Astro:Dynamics]
SR’s editor’s column on the Quietus returns this month with a lengthy interview with the Brooklyn based musician, Lotide, a producer who this week celebrates the release of his debut album, Moonless, on the Astro:Dynamics label. “Quite early on during …
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SR Mix #155: Stygian Stride [Thrill Jockey]
We’ve talked up the work of Jimmy SeiTang as Stygian Stride a couple of times already over the last couple of months, pointing you to a couple of little previews of his material that popped up online. But we have …
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SR Mix #154: Neil Landstrumm [Sneaker Social Club]
In speaking to Scottish electronic music stalwart, Neil Landstrumm, when interviewing him around the release of his new Montesa EP on Sneaker Social Club, what’s most evident throughout our conversation is how good he is at speaking a lot of …
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SR Mix #153: Clay Wilson [Styles Upon Styles]
As someone who reads this website more than I write for it, I’m going to assume that you, reader, are probably a bit like me, and find yourself being introduced to new artists and producers on what feels like a …
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SR Mix #152: Herrmutt Lobby [Eat Concrete]
Herrmutt Lobby do things a tad differently. A group of musicians, artists and self-proclaimed nerds whose love of technology has helped shape their musical output as much as the hip hop they pastiche and make, they’ve quietly been releasing records …
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SR Mix #151: Doubleheart [High Sheen]
Back in December we may have hailed Doubleheart’s third EP as ‘a masterstroke’ but it wasn’t just the fact that legendary Scottish musicians JD Twitch and Neil Landstrumm were doing something decisively different to what everyone was doing that made …
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SR Mix #150: Hav Lyfe [Sonic Router Records]
It’s hard to try and not use these posts about our own label artists objectively when we’ve invested so much time, money and effort into making a product and promoting it. But (unsurprisingly) that’s the exciting bit for a lot …
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SR Mix #149: Joe [Hessle Audio/Hemlock]
It’s pretty amazing to note that 2012 was such a massive year for Joe. Considering his mercurial reputation, the London based producer only actually released three tracks last year, with all three dropping on Untold’s Hemlock Recordings label. Stylistic miles …
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