Meakusma Belgium Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Leftfield heroes Don't DJ and NWAQ (aka Newworldaquarium) nudge their own sonic boundaries on Fashion, a fantastic mini album for on Meakusma. The tracks were recorded live at Meakusma Festival 2019 and at a residency preceding the Belgian event and fuse weird percussive techniques, glassy synths and airy light house with abstracted techno sound. It's a collage of sonic experiments that burrows deep into your brain one moment ('Central Bern/No Burn') and then sooth you the next ('Vanessa'). It's is the collision of two distinctive styles and thrilling new ground that is found as a result that makes this such a compelling record.

Review: Sebastien Robert is an interdisciplinary artist who is in emotive and explorative mood on Emerging Threshold, his debut long player. The record is a richly layered affair where field recordings and synthesised sounds all naturally coexist. There are new age elements and hints of kosmische musik to this ambient, but it is often intense and thoroughly involving rather than simply aural wall paper. The trutruka, a traditional wind instrument of the Mapuche people of south-central Chile, is a central tenet of the record which is the result of Robert's sonic exploration of the western flank of the Sierra Nevada volcano.