I’m starting to wonder if I should have re-named this blog Life in the Cassette Lane given how many cassette releases I seem to be writing about these days. This is driven primarily by my interest in dungeon synth, as cassette is, to a great extent, the preferred format in that genre. This includes my […]
Month: October 2024
Revenge of Calculon – “Manipulator” (2024)
My history with Revenge of Calculon goes all the way back to 2017, when I ran through the sideways rain of a November Reykjavik evening to catch them live in the upstairs room at a bar called Dillon. A friend insisted I had to check them out, so despite the insane weather I headed out […]
Sombre Arcane – “Realmsong” (2021 / 2024)
Last month’s Mortiis show in Seattle was the first time I got to see some dungeon synth live and in person, and while I was certainly excited to see the OG himself I was also looking forward to the experiencing the other four artists on the card. One of these was Sombre Arcane (below), a […]
Bergur Anderson – “Unisong” (2024)
My prior exposure to Bergur Anderson was limited to the 2023 cassette come, Memory: fieldwork, an experimental sonic collage created in partnership with Katrina Niebergal (who joins him on this record for its most experimental track, the appropriately titled “Katrina’s Song”). I assumed his latest, Unisong, would be much the same. Instead I got a […]
Lada Sport – “Spegill Spegill” (2024)
Lada Sport are back! You will be forgiven, of course, for never knowing they were gone, as they haven’t released much – an album, Time And Time Again, back in 2007, and a 7″ three years later. That’s it. Why should you care about these indie rockers from Iceland? Well, because they have a cool […]