We’ve always thought of Jeff McIlwain, better known as Lusine, as one of our heroes in the universe of the so-called IDM, and perhaps one of the genre’s most solid references coming from the …

The task of trying to stay up to date with the enormous amount of ambient and experimental works hailing from all over the world is harrowing. The expansion of these genres, together with a wider a…

There’s a lot more about the Dutch electronic music scene than we are aware of. Hailing from Apeldoorn and based in Schiedam, Rutger Zuydervelt has been on our radar since we heard his works with A…

There’s a lot more about the Dutch electronic music scene than we are aware of. Hailing from Apeldoorn and based in Schiedam, Rutger Zuydervelt has been on our radar since we heard his works with A…

2026 is keeping Pascal Bideau busy. The French saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist re-pressed Fleeting Future (2022) and Lines (2023) – his first works as Akusmi – on Tonal Union at t…

The festival scene in the Iberian Peninsula grows every year, but not always with such successful examples as the Brunch Electronik Festival, which celebrated its fourth edition on the 7th, 8th and…

El panorama de festivales en la Península Ibérica crece cada año, pero no siempre con ejemplos tan exitosos como el Brunch Electronik Festival, que celebró su cuarta edición el 7, 8 y 9 de agosto cong...

"La música más emocionante surge cuando los artistas se centran en desarrollar su propio lenguaje e identidad."

Now for over 3 decades, in mid-June the Catalan capital is transformed thanks to Sónar festival, this year gathering for than 150.000 people across more than 200 activities. With a new direction, a…

A roundup of reviews and features published at Cyclic Defrost over the last two months. The MerKaBa Brotherhood – The MerKaBa Brotherhood (Mississippi Records) — reviewed by Bob Baker Fish Titanic @ Primavera a la Ciutat (BCN) 7th of June 2026 — reviewed by Paranoid Monolake – Interstate (Field Records) Vinyl Release — reviewed by Owen Moy CocoRosie: Deconstructed Divas in a Theatre of Contrasts – Razzmatazz BCN 10th of June 26…

June is an intense month for live music in Barcelona. This year the season started with Primavera Sound, one of the biggest festivals in Europe: over 280,000 people and more than 200 performances i…

A roundup of reviews and features published at Cyclic Defrost over the last month. Taylor Deupree & Zimoun – Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations (12K) — reviewed by Paranoid MaerzMusik 2026 – Sound is a Political Territory — feature by Zoltan Fecso & Anna Morley – Desire Path (Oxtail Recordings) — reviewed by Listen To The All Encompassing Music of Driftwood — feature by Bob Baker Fish KINK GONG – The Lisu (Discrepant) — reviewed by

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2026 has been the best year so far for a Boards of Canada follower in the past two decades.  Just think of that Record Store Day back in 2013 and the appearance of 6 mysterious vinyl records around…

Roel Funcken is a long-standing reference in the universe of music longly mislabeled as ‘IDM’. Hailing from the Netherlands, he’s been prolific in past years, all while exploring modular music. Thi…

Akira Kosemura - Tale Frog Pocket - Frog And The Haar Entidad Animada - Microcielo Loom & Thread - Spheres Chessie + Contriva - Lunar White Laura Kampman - Flute Song Emil Mark - Op Kettel - Secr

Back in December the label 12k released ‘Wind Dynamic Organ, One & Two’, and ‘Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations’. The first by Swiss artist Zimoun, and the second in collaboration with Taylor Deup…

We were lucky enough to witness Adrian Sherwood present his ‘Live Dub Sessions’ at an intimate venue in the Poblenou district of Barcelona. This was towards the beginning of his most extensive tour…

A couple weeks ago we caught Rafael Anton Irisarri in a sold out show in Barcelona. Closing a tour around Budapest, Vienna and the Basque Country with his latest album, and a performance with Abul …

Paranoid dub @ Porch - Barcelona 04.03.2026 - Erykah Badu - The Healer The Orb - Towers Of Dub Digital Underground - Nuttin’ Nis Funky Blockhead - The Music Scene Coldcut x On-U Sound - Divide & Rule

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With Galician and Basque references in its name and song titles, Bi Gezur (two lies) from artist Luz Gónzalez was released back in December on Everest Records and it’s been under our radar since th…

It’s always a delight to catch up with Carpe Sonum. The U.S. based platform started in 2013 to release ‘Die Welt Ist Klang’, a fantastic Pete Namlook tribute that we remember dearly given the colle…

We’ve had this split EP on repeat since it came out a couple months ago on Portraits GRM together with Shelter Press. It presents two pieces commissioned for the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (INA…

I know what you’re thinking, am I human? Did AI write this? Or at the very least did it help? And the answer is who cares? It’s humans who are plunging us into unjust bullshit wars, pretending genocides aren’t occurring on our watch, telling us that reality can no longer be trusted. So at this point maybe its time to have a crack at robot overlords.