The main music-project of the prolific Austrian Herwig Holzmann, Photophob navigates between ambient, broken beats, electronica and idm, incorporating influences and inspiration from classic science fiction literature into his musical [ … ]
Tag: hive records
Devotion, Denial, and Discipline: an interview with Jamie Blacker of ESA
ESA has slowly been creeping in to power noise fans’ collective consciousness over the past couple of years, with some excellent live performances, and the release of the highly regarded [ … ]
Hive Records: an interview with Davyd Pittman
“Shrapnel Beats” is the main slogans for Hive Records a relatively young label founded in 2003 by Davyd Pittman (alias DJ: Insect) a DJ active in the Texas scene, now [ … ]
Edgey vs Depth Error – The Abuse Technique
CD, Hive Records, 2006 www.hiverecords.com Hive Records, purveyors of fine hard electronic music, bring together two heavyweights from the scene for a battle over 14 rounds, each taking it in [ … ]
Prometheus Burning – Beyond Repair
CD, Hive Records, 2005 www.rhinoplex.org/vaneck The history of Prometheus Burning started in 1999 when Greg VanEck and Nicole Palmer began experimenting with sound. The duo parted ways in 2001 but, [ … ]
ESA – Devotion, Discipline, and Denial
CD, Hive Records, 2006 www.electronicsubstanceabuse.com With this debut release from the British ESA (Electronic Substance Abuse) Hive records is supposedly “bringing the fucking beats back”. Luckily ESA are bringing a [ … ]
Still Warm – Still Warm
CD, Hive Records, 2006 www.photophob.net Scarcely two years after the release of his debut album, Herzwig Holtzmann, alias Photophob, returns with “Still Warm”, a new opus released on Hive Records. [ … ]
Pneumatic Detach – [re.vis.cer.a]
CD, Hive Records, 2006 www.pneumaticdetach.com This is the companion disc to the 2005 release “[vis.cer.a]”, an album that certainly impressed us here at Connexion. I have had to take my [ … ]
The Liar’s Rosebush / Scrape[dx] – collect:erase
CD, Hive Records, 2005 collecterase.scrapedx.com Rather than a ‘simple split’, the excellent “collect:erase”, released in late 2005 in the American label Hive Records, is the result of a de facto [ … ]
Mash Up Soundsystem – A great escape from lunacy
CD, Hive Records, 2006 www.mashup.org The opening sample on this album asks “what’s there to smile about?” Well, if you apply that question to this album then the answer would [ … ]