#errorgrid

The future of instrumental industrial music continues to be safe in the hands of the Errorgrid imprint.  .XOR unites five artists for a compilation that investigates what it means to hold on to one’s humanity in the face of technology and dehumanization: a classic theme in industrial music, but one that has moved swiftly from the realm of science fiction to the real world. Riccardo Bozzoni leads…

This month marks the five-year anniversary of Portland, OR’s Errorgrid Records, and to celebrate the occasion, they have teamed up with Heterodox Records to produce Tension/Release 2, a sequel to 2021’s Gridworks 1: Tension/Release.  Some of the artists are the same while others are new, but the imprint’s raw industrial timbre remains. The theme is “the coexistence of polar opposites and the…

Errorgrid’s Raw Øblations series kicked off last fall and has been resurrected in early summer, with the sixth edition just hitting the airwaves.  The series has now reached twelve tracks, clocks in at over an hour and works as a compilation, joining the twin flagships Darker Sounds of a Present Future and Quantized Realities.. When played in order, the set also makes internal sense, launching in…

This short follow-up to last year’s Quantized Realities – Technology continues to investigate the ways in which technology distorts human perception.  As Errorgrid leader Olivier Bernard Egli declares in the liner notes, human beings are exposed to “more data containing less meaning” than ever before, as “a lack of scrutiny” allows false narratives to proliferate.  Are the images we see “real” or…

How does technology affect our perception of reality?  This question is addressed on the first of a new series from Errorgrid.  The label’s subtitle, “A Darker Sound of a Present Future,” makes it a perfect match for such explorations.  This is also the first set to travel outside the label’s roster, although we would not be surprised to see some of these artists appear here again. In the 21st…

Errorgrid ~ Darker Sounds of a Present Future feat. Malarki, Dfaniks and Riccardo Bazzoni

Over the past three months, the Los Angeles-based label Errorgrid has released over three hours of music: albums from Malarki, Dfaniks and Riccardo Bazzoni, bracketed by two volumes of Darker Sounds of a Present Future.  The title is also the label’s subtitle, and is a perfect summary of the music.  Over the past two years, we’ve enjoyed watching their roster grow, as they’ve continued to stake a…

Johno Wells ~ Gotham Child / Francis Theberge ~ The Burial Of William B.

Some folks correlate colours with numbers. Others can taste certain words. In the world of music, a few artists comparably create their work in a kind of chromesthesia. Their music is not only a sequence of sounds, but an attempt to convey a visual narrative. We may not see exactly what they saw. But on these two short records, the ocular impulse enriches what we hear. Gotham Child is the new…