Maoupa Mazzocchetti @ Red Light Radio 04-03-2015

»La Traversée« (»The Crossing«) is Matthias Puech’s second album for Hallow Ground and follows up on 2023’s »Mt. Hadamard National Park.« Profoundly inspired by re-reading »The Odyssey,« the French composer, instrument designer, and scholar used a Eurorack modular synthesizer to create four pieces that are by far the most intuitive and emotionally charged in his ever-expanding catalogue. Puech’s masterful command of sound comes to the forefront with even more urgency on this record. A wandering meditation on the human condition, »La Traversée« is an album that is constantly in motion—complex electronic music at its most gripping and evocative.

The foundation for »La Traversée« was laid when Puech prepared a live set for a tour organised in collaboration with Hallow Ground in support of »Mt. Hadamard National Park.« Before writing the first three pieces—»Ennosigaios,« »Polyphármakos,« »Nekuia«—the 18½-minute-long »Ithâké« was composed in near-total isolation in the South of France at the end of 2023. Puech performed the material live several times before taking a step black from it for a while. He revisited the pieces when preparing them for a release. »I was struck by how the technical process and the intention behind the music had completely vanished from my memory,« he says.

What remained intact, however, was Puech’s association of the material with one of the most influential texts of Western literature. Reading a graphic novel adaptation of »The Odyssey« with his two four-year-olds, he noticed the effect that it had on them and himself. »Its themes of longing, fear of and attraction to the unknown, unresolved quests, and the struggle for control felt topical,« he says. »I was completely taken. Every story ever told seemed contained in this ancient tale; every story I have ever tried to tell as a composer seemed inscribed in this framework.« This also extended to formal motifs such as the repetition of incidents, narrative developments, or dramatic effects that also mark »La Traversée.«

Puech says that he perceived Homer’s writing as musical, »like an old Delta blues or a Renaissance counterpoint,« which inspired his writing process. »With a couple of knobs on my Eurorack system, I could control the unfolding of a story,« he notes. »This made me pass through different emotional states and led to moments in which everything made sudden sense—when you as an artist get a glimpse at something essential, can touch upon something universal.« This shines through »La Traversée,« a wildly imaginative album that is deeply personal while also telling a story far more wide-reaching than that of its creator.

Composed, recorded and mixed by Matthias Puech
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Cover: excerpt from J. M. W. Turner, Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842)
Drawing by Matthias Puech

La Traversée

Ennosigaios

Series 33 Pt. 1

Solid Rock

Trystero returns with their new album Humming Fuzz on Knekelhuis — a kaleidoscopic voyage deeper into the band’s expanding cosmos.
Built on plunging basslines, acid-drenched loops, and spiraling kraut-inspired guitar textures, the record drifts between hypnotic repetition and free-flowing, hallucinatory songwriting. It echoes the visionary spirit of Psychic TV and the genre-blurring universe of Weatherall, while carving out a raw, magnetic space of its own.
Recorded once again on a canal barge in the North of France, Humming Fuzz feels like a natural evolution from their debut Sfumare e Vedere — denser, more alive, and charged with electricity. Now expanded with Nelly on bass and Alexia on vocals, Trystero channels this expanded energy into their wild, expressive live performances, soon to ignite audiences on their upcoming tours.

Humming Fuzz

Green Flowers

Trystero - Green Flowers

Viktoras Urbaitis @musicateatre crafts electronic music of cinematic quality, evoking images of desolate night streets and the dark, flowing waters of Eastern European rivers. The Overtime EP by Teatre is a testament to the hours spent in the fluorescent-lit purgatory of office spaces, navigating corporate networks and the sterile interactions of online support, all while under the literary spell of Jurga Ivanauskaite’s diaries. It is an auditory journey into the liminal space of overtime, where time itself becomes an echo…

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releases October 24, 2025

Music Composed and Produced by Viktoras Urbaitis,
Mastering: Denis Emery,
Artwork: Eglė Kontrimienė Degutis,
Design: FORMA
Recorded in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Released by Dangė Records, Berlin

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Bézier - Decompose SOUND CLIPS

LE DON DES LARMES

LÉO LA NUIT - NAUSÉE

BUY VINYL: clawsisthebastard.bandcamp.com/album/splat-city-ii
C.L.A.W.S. comes to Dark Entries with a new ripping LP, Splat City II. C.L.A.W.S. is the solo project of musical luminary Brian Hock, who has been a key figure in the Bay Area underground for over two decades via his involvement in projects like Bronze and The Vanishing, as well as helming the record labels Squirrels on Film and Immortal Sin. With C.L.A.W.S., Hock takes on the dancefloor, picking up cues from the Hague’s Giallo-dipped electro, the skewed minimalism of Chicago acid, and the mind-rending forays of San Francisco post-punk icons like Chrome and Tuxedomoon. Following 2019’s inaugural Splat City EP, Splat City II continues to map the psychogeography of a metropolis both alien and immediately recognizable, one where life is cheap, but so are the thrills. Previously released on Squirrels on Film in digital-only format, this expanded vinyl edition of Splat City II features two new cuts. Things kick off with “Route 505” and “One Tear,” a duo of rompers that vibe like Tom Ellard and Chip E locked in a room with a vial of liquid. Next up, Bay Area deckmaster Tyrel lends his editing chops to “Vigilant Slimy Monsters,” sculpting a moody space disco beast. Squirrels on Film co-founder Solar teams up with Hock for “Black Magic Carpet Ride III,” a cavernous downtempo banger. The slow-mo pace continues with “Wild Slugs United,” which features the no wave-esque clarinet work of Paul Costuros. Closer “Don’t Flip the Crystal Ship” pays homage to Bayview venue Bay Area 51 with melancholic strings and a quartz-solid electrofunk bassline. Splat City II comes in a sleeve with artwork by Bert Bergen, which features a vampiric cat and sci-fi cityscapes. 


C.L.A.W.S. - Splat City II CLIPS

Trystero returns with their new album Humming Fuzz on Knekelhuis — a kaleidoscopic voyage deeper into the band’s expanding cosmos.

Built on plunging basslines, acid-drenched loops, and spiraling kraut-inspired guitar textures, the record drifts between hypnotic repetition and free-flowing, hallucinatory songwriting. It echoes the visionary spirit of Psychic TV and the genre-blurring universe of Weatherall, while carving out a raw, magnetic space of its own.

Recorded once again on a canal barge in the North of France, Humming Fuzz feels like a natural evolution from their debut Sfumare e Vedere — denser, more alive, and charged with electricity. Now expanded with Nelly on bass and Alexia on vocals, Trystero channels this expanded energy into their wild, expressive live performances, soon to ignite audiences on their upcoming tours.

Trystero - Riviere Olivier

At a time when modern technology is extending its empire over all human activities, including the most intimate ones... here is a proposal for voluntary limitation ! Unrecognized genius or false prophet ?

For a nebulous dive into a mass of scrambled signals come here : https://nottebrigante.bandcamp.com/album/telegraphic-lucubrations

 A1 - Palimpseste 02:12
A2 - Stuck as the Other 02:37
A3 - Hello Pilot 02:20
A4 - Paréidolie 00:59
A5 - Scorching Sun Blurs Signals 02:03
A6 - Novelty 02:17
A7 - Faux s'en Méfier 01:37
B1 - Patient Mission 02:50
B2 - Plenty City 02:30
B3 - Cruxiform 02:12
B4 - Well Sit in the Train 02:36
B5 - Portentum 01:50
B6 - Ode to Electricity 02:48

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NB10t - Pierna Talu - Telegraphic Lucubrations

There is no quest for efficiency here; the device is rudimentary, just raw, haunting loops repeated ad infinitum to better lose oneself in them ! Send us a telegram here : https://nottebrigante.bandcamp.com/album/telegraphic-lucubrations

Pierna Talu - Patient Mission (B1)

From Grimes' "Visions"
Arbutus Records 2012

Visions

Oblivion

Grimes - Oblivion

The gurgle rumbled in the basement cellar. It could be heard across the city and the distorted groans of the underbelly would continue to rorar for as long as the acid would allow now. The clatter of drains upon concrete left a clattering tone in the ears of all who listened, the acid rolled chundering on. Acid, acid, acid. 
Here is the latest release from the Swerving The Community crew who have just released a four track EP from Chris Moss Acid. Squelchy sounds from England. It bangs.

PREMIERE: Chris Moss Acid - DP Acid - Don't Recordings

A live version of Rotunda, a track from the forthcoming album...

ROTUNDA LIVE

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