Blue Stahli arrives at your party in suave style with a bombshell on each arm, martini in hand, but by night's end he will be throwing burning couches into your pool. Such is the one-two punch of the debut Blue Stahli album - ten tracks of cathartically vengeful alternative rock with a streak of Ray-Ban-sporting electro-funk that gives it a sexiness punk never had. Stahli doesn't shy away from playing with the reigning dance styles of our day but each track retains the distinct Stahli flavor that wrenches your head open, climbs in, and uses your brainy bits to pantomime Pete Townsend's entire history of guitar-smashing. With powerful vocal hooks and a knack for hybridizing...   
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Canada's hottest industrial sensation is back to the cold. Four years after having dropped a bomb in the form of his Implicit Structures debut, Antigen Shift comes back with a second full length, The Way of the North, filling up the expectations raised by his 2002 collaborations with label-mate Detritus and long-time collaborator Iszoloscope and his sophomore Next to Departed single.

The shift could actually not be more obvious. Build as an homage to Nick Theriault's dear icy northern lands, The Way of the North is a fresh start for Antigen Shift, as Nick Theriault presents here an album in which he breaks out of his past's...   
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Bleak, fiercely heavy, distorted and yet so close to the soul: Oyaarss's debut album is an impressive work of pulsions, subtlety and coldness. Tapping from electronic experimentations as much as from metal atmospheres, Bads builds massive tracks of noisy percussions towering on the most desolate icy soundscapes. Something to close you eyes to or to head-bang along, a highly gifted album of gritty strings, antagonistic beats and detailed builds-up; a colossal, self-imposing work of extremely rare power and depth.

"It would work better to have a picture with no trace of humanity on it". Oyaarss's remark about the artwork to his album is an accurate...   
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Though subtle and humane, Mobthrow's debut album is a larger-than-life experience, an elaborate and detailed ensemble of scalding beats and encompassing atmospheres, of massive basses and flowing voices. This artist offers us a very cohesive entity ranging from dancefloor-compatible drum'n'bass to introspective home-listening songs, the whole thing stuck together by his consistent work on rhythms and tones. We're here listening to an album in the truest sense of the word, a guided adventure through an adventurous and perfectly put together concept.

Though the matte painting on the cover artwork of Mobthrow's début album shows a scorched landscape,...   
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Somebody will need to come up with a genre name for Underhill's Silent Siren. With music written by Dean Rodell, Balkansky / Cooh and Current Value and vocals by Martina Astner and MC Coppa, this album is as coherent as its line-up is improbable. Trip-hop, drum'n'bass, gothic atmospheres and hip hop: all these elements are molten into each other with great care, creating an impressive work which is far more than the sum of its parts. Try it at home, then try it on a huge PA: Underhill's Silent Siren is a multi-faceted creation which just invites its listener to dive deeper.

Silent Siren is not an easy album to describe in a few...   
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On his 2011 demo, here completed, remastered and re-designed, Oyaarss already expressed all that made of his Bads album such a widely praised work: the intense analog noise, the bass-heavy droning, and most of all the implacable, misanthropic atmospheres. Smaida Greizi Nakamiba: "The Future Smiles Wryly", but also very loud, as Oyaarss's music (here supported by three other Latvian musicians) sings the tune of decay and rust. Exigent, massive and calling the deepest pits of its listener's ears and soul, this album underlines Oyaarss's talent, while displaying another side of his vast repertoire.

Originally recorded as a demo in 2011,...   
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While we wait for Igorrr to bring a sequel to his remarkable and praised Nostril album, here comes a extensive (and budget priced) re-release of his first two albums, originally self-released. These 25 tracks document this musician's past and provide us with new tunes mixing classical baroque, cut up dubstep, metal sensibilities and sheer insanities. Igorrr has now become an essential name for everybody into extreme music, and he shows us here how he got there. An unmissable document.

Seldom has an underground musician gathered so much praise in such a short time. Though he was already known in some small circles, Igorrr has shot to the pantheon of the...   
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Thrashers, DJs and all fans of hard electronic music rejoice: Gore Tech's new EP is an undeniable proof that breakcore is back, (un-)healthier and more broken than ever. Taking all the elements of this bastard child of hardcore, drum'n'bass and punk with today's improved production techniques but coming with open ears and fresh ideas, this adequately titled record is made to become a classic for everybody who like their beats raw, their bass heavy and their tempo shattered. Take good care of your turntable, as we guarantee repeated plays.

Hard beats, sudden breaks, changes of pace, metal riffs, ragga anthems: all terms which have served to describe breakcore...   
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A follow-up of sort to Sura, Enceladus is another evolution for Hecq: his pristine dubstep gets enriched here with even more encompassing soundscapes and humane melodies. Collaborating with Skyence on the title track, Hecq has given birth to a very coherent record mixing cinematic atmospheres, huge percussions and a light nod to retro tonalities. Add to this a mischievous crunk remix by Knight Riderz and a dancefloor explosion by Mobthrow, and you get a compact yet exhaustive snapshot of Hecq's unmissable talent.

A year and a half after Sura, Hecq returns to Ad Noiseam with a new record. Like its predecessor, Enceladus is a way for...   
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Larvae's fourth album is a highly introspect and mesmerizing work which takes a step forward from the more electronic trilogy formed by "Fashion Victim", "Dead Weight" and "Loss Leader". An instrumental, solo work, it is a place where long strings and fragile melodies form a contemplative landscape and relegates the electronic beats to the backgrounc. An intense collection during which Larvae focuses on its most emotional and sincere side, here is a necessary album for introvert nights and profound, closed-eyes listening.

It will have taken almost four years for Matthew Jeanes (Larvae) to write his fourth album and escape the boundaries and...   
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