“Never So Alone” reviewed by Musique Machine

The Crónica imprint presents Never So Alone, a full-length CD by long-running sound artist Simon Whetham. Based out of Bristol, U.K., Whetham’s sonic vocation since 2005 has been laboring with field recordings. This passion has taken him all over the world in search of sounds, from the Amazon Rain Forest to (in the case of …

Marc Behrens re-releases on Availabel

Marc Behrens funded Availabel just a few months ago, to re-release some his solo works and collaborative works with other artists such as Francisco López. Up until September 20, 2014, seven digital editions, ala001–ala007 were released. The entire Eyephone catalogue (a 1990s IDM side project by Behrens), remastered by Atomâ„¢, is among the editions. In …

Futurónica 123

Episode 123 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, September 19th. The playlist of Futurónica 123 is: Haswell & Hecker, Aguirre I (2008, Nachts / Aguirre I, Editions Mego) Hecker, Stereo Mix (2006, Electronic Music Soundtrack for ‘The …

Rashad Becker live in Porto

Next Friday, the series of concerts curated by Filho Único in Culturgest in Porto will present a performance by Rashad Becker. Rashad has built a worldwide reputation as the mastering and cutting engineer on a host of electronic dance and experimental music albums. He began making music in the 1980s, experimenting with mixing audio tapes, …

New release: Mathias Delplanque’s “Transmissions”

Crónica is very proud to present a new album by Mathias Delplanque, “Transmissions”, a series of compositions based on recordings of sounds produced by various industrial machines. Transmissions by Mathias Delplanque Parts 1 and 2 are based on loom sounds recorded by Mathias Delplanque in 2008 at the Musée du Textile of Cholet (France). Part …