Adventure

• 8-bit video game music
  
• MP3: untitled track
  
• www.myspace.com
  
  Area C - SEA of RAINS
  The WIRE 294: "There's an inherent affinity between the inky sparkle of interstellar space and the looming sonorities of synthesized sound. Sea of Rains is Rhode Island native [sic] Erik Carlson's contribution to this field; the music was commissioned by the Museum of Natural History in Providence to accompany an exhibition called "Mission Moon." Read the whole review
  
  
• MP3 downloads here and here
  
• www.myspace.com
  
  Richard Chartier - Further Materials
  "This collection is a wide range of sound works from the ultra-minimal whispers of "composition09.01" to the subtle harmonics and musicality of "how things change" to the loud violent distortion of "tempt"
  
• Excerpt
• www.myspace.com
  
  connect-icut
  connect_icut is the recording alias of Sam Macklin, an English abstract electronica artist living in Vancouver Canada.
  The Wire: "Always involving - and easily rewarding enough to make getting up and turning the record over an anticipatory pleasure."
  Why we Cry
  
  
• connect-icut.com
• The WIRE's review of his latest CD
  
  Leighton Craig
  The Wire: "Craig revels in deliberate, simple patterns and the warm, spongy tones of his vintage keyboard collection are invitingly sensual throughout"
  
  
• www.myspace.com
  
  Akai Ikuo - Language Without Words
  
• MP3 excerpts
  
• Homepage with downloads
  
  Otto von Schirach - Oozing Bass Spasms
  "More Break-Booty-Electro-Horror-Porn than you can handle!"
  
• MP3 downloads
  
  Smile Down Upon Us - Smile Down Upon Us
  moomLooo sings, tell stories, makes electronics, collects sounds and breaks things. Keiron and David play musical instruments - lots of them. moomLooo lives in Tokyo. Keiron and David live in London." More
  
• Reviewed in The WIRE 294
  
• MySpace
  
  Franck Vigroux
  
• www.myspace.com
• www.franckvigroux.com
  
  Alexander+Wendt
  "composing audio visually for performance space, gallery and screen, running 12x50 Recordings London, presenting FREQUENZEN radio programme on Resonance104.4FM, working as Lecturer Sound & Media"
• Two tracks at Last.fm
• Homepage

THE WIRE: "Taking brute force and seismic impact of Metal and using it as a foundation for exploring the noisier end of drone and the darker side of Ambient...while sacrificing none of Metal's sheer impact. This music is both atmospheric and enormously powerful [and] redefines 'big' music as something vast and comfortless, but by applying an irresistible dynamic and executing it with elegant brutality, it's a darkness that irresistibly beckons"

• MP3: Asva - A Trap For Judges
  
• Asva @ MySpace

Experimental noise artist and operator of the label Fag Tapes. Lots of downloads from The WIRE

The first single from Tricky's forthcoming album Knowle West Boy.

Tricky - Later with Jools Holland 05/20/08:

• performances: Puppy Toy and Council Estate
  
• Interview
  
  
• Order Knowle West Boy from Amazon .com .de or .co.uk