Source: Cyclic Defrost. Last time we checked up on Rafael Anton Irisarri was a year ago, with his first release on Black Knoll Editions – and he’s been active as usual since then. This includes touring solo and with Abul Mogard, with highlights like Le Guess Who, Mutek MX or the Festiwal Ambientalny, and more recently a series of sold-out workshops and concerts in Berlin and Prague.

Last week we were lucky enough to see a performance by Plaid, one of our long-standing musical heroes.  It happened during Nitsa’s 30th anniversary, taking over that first weekend of December to en…

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 of an artist who has used the sterile world of digitalia as such an effective means of self expression. Aside from his solo albums he’s become increasingly known for his installations which celebrate digital precision, sine tones and pure white digital light.

Abul Mogard has had a very prolific past couple years, and it wasn’t missed on our radar. Aside from remarkable duos (‘In Uno Spazio Immenso’, ‘Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close’), live shows recordings (with Rafael Anton Irisarri at Le Guess Who or ‘Live At The Athens Conservatoire’), and collaborations or remixes for KMRU, CoH and Joachim Spieth, he’s started his own imprint Soft Echoes with the release of his new album ‘Quiet Pieces’.