Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy — Dying Is the Internet (Dekmantel UFO) Dying Is the Internet is the second collaborative release from two prodigious talents shaping experimental club culture in Europe. Released as part of the Dutch festival Dekmantel’s UFO series, that showcases “ranky darkwave funk…

Flying Lotus: “I don’t want to remind people of the world we’re in. I want to help people escape it.” For weeks, Steve Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus, lived inside a surge. From his home studio in Studio City, Los Angeles, he would wake and move straight to work, staying there until evening…

Temporal Totality: The Magical Vibrating World of Éliane Radigue (1932–2026) French composer Éliane Radigue passed away on the 23rd of February 2026 in Paris, at 94 years of age. Just the day before, I was sitting on the balcony of my home with friends, listening to the Feedback Works 2LP set we…

Nathan Fake: “It confused a lot of people.” Nathan Fake might not be a household name like Fred Again or Four Tet, artists often credited with helping to define the current electronic landscape, but his contribution runs deep. Over the past two decades, he has shaped the UK’s ambient and electro…

Nathan Fake – Evaporator [InFiné ] Twenty years after Drowning in a Sea of Love introduced Nathan Fake’s emotive, ambient-electronic palette to a wider audience, Evaporator finds the Norfolk-based producer in reflective but adventurous form. Released via Berlin's InFiné, the album does not revisit…

Listen to an expanded Praed’s experimental electro Shaabi . We're pretty happy to hear that the experimental electro Egyptian trance duo Praed are about to drop another album. It comes hot on the heels of Raed Yassin & Paed Conca's second Orchestra album, The Dictionary of Lost Meanings, on the…

Luz González – Bi Gezur (Everest Records) 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 then thanks to its distinctive feel, rooted in the vast…

Watch Markus Guentner’s expansive new ambient work German DJ and producer Markus Guentner has released his music on Ware, Warner, A Strangely Isolated Place, Moodgadget, and Sending Orbs, also Kompakt where he often featured on their Pop Ambient series. Over the years he has collaborated with…

Caterina Barbieri and Bendik Giske – At Source (light-years) Caterina Barbieri and Bendik Giske's At Source arrives fully formed, like an object that has always existed, outside of the constraints of space and time. The collaboration sounds exactly like what you would expect from these two…

Listen to Akira Kosemura’s intimate piano melodies on the 15th Anniversary of his seminal Poloroid Piano . Room40 have just announced a reissue of Japanese pianist and composer Akira Kosemura's Poloroid Piano on its 15th anniversary. Kosemura has scored anime, a Hollywood drama series, a Nitendo…

Various Artists – Elemental Studies (Carpe Sonum) 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 collective effort that made it happen. TJ Norris is a…

Watch Alejandra Cárdenas (Ale Hop) and Gibrana Cervantes on ‘Inward.’ Alejandra Cárdenas (also known as Ale Hop) is a Peruvian-born artist and researcher based in Berlin. Her multidisciplinary work spans live performances, record releases, sound, text and video artworks, academic research on sound…

Listen to the harrowing ‘Violence Is Like An Infectious Disease’ from Chicago Gunfire Survivors . Given the events in the US overnight it seems pertinent to share this short excerpt from a forthcoming album produced by Ian Brennan. I connected with Brennan about 6 years ago where we had a great…

Listen to The Sea from Swedish composer Matti Bye  Matti Bye is a Swedish pianist, composer and sound artist. With a background in silent film accompaniment having live scored masters like Fritz Lang, Victor Sjöström and Jean Vigo at the Cinematheque in Stockholm , he has gone on to compose over…

Watch Swiss artists Zimoun and Till Hillbrecht’s new work In what feels like a change of pace for Swiss artist Zimoun, he has teamed up with sound designer Till Hillbrecht for a highly textural work and something of a change of pace from last years Harmonium I-VI. We spoke to him at the time and…

Jana Irmert: Portals / 7038634357: Rope (GRM Portraits) 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 grm) and thought for the acousmonium. Berlin…

Watch a tripped out 46 minute audio visual improvisation that is O Fortuna’s album launch O Fortuna is an improvising trio of Robert Vincs (Saxophone), Monty Price (Electric Guitar) and Sam Price (Drums). Late last year they released Hylo, which demonstrated the trios unique approach to…

Craven Faults: “I like things that evolve slowly over time.” The music of UK electronic artist Craven Faults is hypnotic and durational. A mysterious and enigmatic figure who carefully guards his identity, he first emerged in 2017 with Netherfield Works and has since issued a number of EP’s and…

Listen to the incredible new duo album from Carl Stone and ASUNA Carl Stone is a composer and radio producer from Los Angeles. He studied composition at CalArts in the 1970s with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and is a pioneer of computer sampled music, having used computers in live performance…

The Bug & Ghost Dubs – Implosion (PRESSURE) Look, this is a totally superficial comparison but let's entertain an idea that The Bug is playing at being The Beatles of dub techno here. Moving beyond the obvious entomological comparisons, I want to compare how Kevin "The Bug" Martin is moving into…

Mark Harwood – or, Urim (Penultimate Press) Haha I get it. Yep, quick, tell Mark Harwood I’ve cracked the code. It’s funny right? Some albums are puzzles that on immediate listen seem to make no sense, it’s like there’s something greater at play, a deep conceptual plan, a series of in jokes that…

Kevin Purdy – Hundreds and Thousands (Soft Records) There’s a woozy psychedelic energy at the heart of Sydney based Kevin Purdy’s eight solo album. It’s playful, inventive and fun, brimming with a mischievous energy, these odd eclectic constructions, unexpected asides and ill defined samples. It’s…

Cyclic Defrost: Best of 2025 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…

Unravelling Le Guess Who?, Utrecht 6–9 November 2025 Now into it’s 19th year, Le Guess Who? (LGW?) is a major international music and arts festival occuring annually in Utrecht, a metropolitan hub of the Netherlands with a picturesque walled city at its core. From the outset, surveying the…

Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider – A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams (Clandestine Label Services) Jamie Lidell has described this album as "...a guide for those liminal spaces you may find yourself in, so to speak." That space for the artist was an internal one after returning from…

Listen to the strange and beautiful soundscapes of Cleared . Cleared is the longstanding project of Chicago based Steven Hess and Michael Vallera. Since about 2009 they have released albums on Immune, Utech Records and Touch. Their work is characterised by repetition and layering, a near complete…

Listen to Rafael Anton Irisarri’s new music . Cyclic favourite, US composer, producer and mastering engineer, Rafael Anton Irisarri has returned with a new solo album. We've been fans of his work for some time, you can check out our interview with him earlier in the year here. The album, Points of…

Penelope Trappes @ Casa Montjuïc (BCN), 11th of October 2025 The first time we heard of Penelope Trappes was her outstanding remix for Field Works, a desolate soundscape given movement by her hypnotic voice in an already interesting project. That same year we fell for how soothing, oneiric and…

Listen to a newly discovered Western Grey improvisation . Western Grey is the Naarm trio of field recorder, composer and academic Philip Samartzis, guitarist and composer Dave Brown (Candlesnuffer), and late percussionist Sean Baxter. Their previous album Glacial Erratic (2003, Dr Jims), existed…

Princess Liar on songs being magic bullets to the destructive domino effect of “not owning your shit” and other topics Princess Liar is the latest evolution in the artistic journey of Julie Montan. We last caught up with Julie at the release of her Lovers of the Black Bird project ‘Ocean of No…

Jeremy Dower – Personal Computer Music 1997-2022 (Chapter) With Chapter commencing this reissue series of whimsical Australian electronic producer Jeremy Dower I’ve been tearing my house apart trying to locate his Chapter released compact disc EP from 2002, Music For Retirement Villages, Circa…

Cyclic Selects: Horse MacGyver Horse MacGyver is Naarm based media artist and sound designer Timothy Dwyer. He's been making some pretty unhinged music over the last decade or so on labels such as Nice music and Being Intense Records, playing live regularly, touring with Indonesia's iconic duo…

Listen to Brad E. Rose’s new piece about our impact on the world and its sonic landscape . Brad E. Rose is a Tulsa based musician who records both under his own name or under aliases like North Sea, Charlatan, and numerous others. He also runs The Jewel Garden label and is a founder of the Foxy…

Watch a visualizer for Horse MacGyver’s Bing Bong Horse MacGyver is Naarm / Melbourne based media artist and sound designer Timothy Dwyer who has previously released his music on the likes of !K7, Disaro, No Patience Records, Nice Music, and Moontown Tapes. His forthcoming third album is Bing…

Cyclic Selects: Ov Pain Ov Pain is the duo Renee Barrance and Tim Player who are not only band mates but partners, who hail from Aotearoa but have resided in Naarm for the last decade. They first came to our attention via a couple of albums they released on It Records, Reliquary of Dusk and The…

Cyclic Selects: Jeremy Dower Back in 2002 I chanced upon Jeremy Dower’s Music For Retirement Villages Circa 2050 and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Weird jaunty and melancholic it felt leagues ahead of the music I had been listening to. It turns out Dower had been making music under the name…

Watch Craven Fault’s new video In the last few months we've become a little obsessed with UK artist Craven Faults. His music is long form, hypnotic slow moving, modular synth work that seems to just hover in the air and fill the space. When combined with pastoral videos of sheep or fields in bleak…

Imaginal Soundtracking 3: The Wound Where The Light Enters (Phantom Limb) Somayeh is a writer, photographer and film director based in London. She is part of a new generation of Iranian filmmakers blending the poetic sensibilities of Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi with “surreal Western…

Listen to a premiere of Lyon based Tauceti’s debut album Denovali · Tauceti - Guanyin Tauceti is the the alias of Lyon-based DJ, producer, and composer Lilou Chelal. Whilst she's known for her dark, tropical, and sensual techno sets, her debut ambient full-length album Guanyin offers a different…

Listen to Jeremy Dower’s Tetrphnm track ‘Flemington Dream House’ . Back in 2002 I chanced upon Jeremy Dower's Music For Retirement Villages Circa 2050 and couldn't believe what I was hearing. Weird jaunty and melancholic it felt leagues ahead of the electronic music I had been listening to. It…

Watch Daniel Menche and Faith Coloccia’s new Room40 collaboration This collaboration between Faith Coloccia and Daniel Menche exists somewhere between drone and field recordings. It began with Coloccia passing over five recordings of piano compositions which Menche treated, elongated and distended…

Dive within on David Shea’s peaceful new work . Originally from New York and living in Brussels and Melbourne since the early 2000s David Shea has produced over 115 recorded works since 1990. Having collaborated with the likes of John Zorn, Scanner, Jim O'Rourke, and Tullio Angelini as well as…

Zimoun: “When Nothing More Can Be Removed .” Swiss artist Zimoun is best known for installations of industrial objects, creating music from the mechanical, from oscillations and rotation – the sound of movement. If you go to his website you can see some pretty incredible videos which offer a…

Listen to the noisy misanthropic self loathing of YOUR MOTHERS DISGUSTING WINDOW . YOUR MOTHERS DISGUSTING WINDOW is a solo project from Darlene Aaron, who has previously released music as AA Matheson, Bison Grass, Boquillas, WE1 XAM, Jenny Hickingbotham band, and DARLENE over the last 20+ years.…

Listen to Connor D’Netto’s new music on Room40 . Connor D'Netto is a composer, performer and producer who explores the intersections of experimental electronica, ambient and electroacoustic music, combining hardware synthesisers, live instruments, guitar pedals and DIY creations. His music has…

Abstracting authoritarianism: dj sniff “Turntable Solos” (Discrepant 2025) Initial impressions: vinyl scratches in, insects, kids going aah, muffled voices, a drone, static/white noise, a thunderstorm, machine sounds…a spliffed-out beat, jazz drum breaks, dissonant guitar licks, more scratching…

Espinoza @ Festival d’Art Sonor 21st of August 2025 La Festa Major de Gràcia, a celebration that’s been around for over 150 years, took place this year from the 15th until the 21st of August, holding our beloved sound art festival in the Perills passage-way amongst the festivities. The context of…

Listen to Ov Pain’s new synth experiments . Ov Pain is Renee Barrance and Tim Player, an Aotearoa born Naarm based duo who have recorded five albums together. Their approach, often improvisatory is based around immediacy. In the past they've released a couple of albums on It Records and have…

Ryoji Ikeda ultratronics/ CORIN presents DIWA – Now Or Never Festival: Melbourne Town Hall: 28th of August 2025 Japanese audio visual artist Ryoji Ikeda is so far down the digital rabbit hole now that he’s made the world of 0’s and 1’s and digital code his instrument of choice. It’s hard to think…

Listen to Mike Majkowski’s evocative new piece Berlin based Australian bassist and composer Mike Majkowski is no stranger to Cyclic Defrost. We last spoke with him in 2019, you can read that here, and we've reviewed a bunch of his albums including 2023's durational work Coast (review here), 2019's…