2003 was a really big year for me. 2013 is going to be similarly monumental. Digitalis and Foxy Digitalis will both be 10 years-old in 2013. Eden and I will celebrate being together for 10 years. The first (and probably only) DIGIKID will be born. It’s no coincidence that these events all happened around the same time as everything relating to Digitalis and it’s various different veins would not exist without the partnership between Eden and I. Ten years is a long time, though, and obviously things will change. Eden’s role in the label and webzine has gotten smaller over the years and now that she’s working full-time, it’s as miniscule as it has ever been. As our lives get busier and more complicated and as the label continues to grow at a linear pace, 2013 was always going to be the year where something had to give. Read More »

Nine and a half years ago, Brad and I had just gotten married. Digitalis was new, I had just started going back to college, and we decided to start another new adventure: Foxy Digitalis. Read More »

Funny how personal taste can meander like a neighborhood drunk stumbling home from the pub. Before 2011 I was a hard-minimal-dub techno kind of bro. If I heard a track that either was dark/heavy or relentless/banging or psychedelic/droning, then the chances were solid I was digging it. This is really nothing more than demographics: individuals who share my listening history — noise-rock, post-punk, Kosmische Musik, industrial, tweaked hippie shit — tend to gravitate more towards techno (as well as bass music) than house. We’re a macho people who crave macho permutations of pure sonic intensity. Read More »

I once wrote, “I’ve never been a fan of year-end list.”  This is a lie.  I like the idea of hating music lists (especially those of the year-end variety), but the reality is that I’m in lust love with her, I carry on a perverse, and secret romance with this siren: We make eyes daily, I pretend I don’t even notice her existence — sometimes I’m even openly and violently critical toward her– but, when faced with absolute privacy, I sneak her off to the break room for a good ole’ fashion…well, you know the rest.  I bookmark her locations, I hide her from my friends, she shows me things I’ve only ever heard mentioned, but never personally experienced,  hell, my girlfriends certainly have never known anything about her.  Whew, that feels good to finally say (wipes forehead, pulls on collar).  The truth hurts so good. Read More »

Hot on the heels of Mind Safari comes another EP of gloopy electronic beats ‘n’ bass from the Brussels collective known as Herrmutt Lobby. Read More »

With a title referring to Subcommandante Marcos’ vision of a grassroots Zapatista uprising from out of the jungles of Chiapas – what Marcos himself called “pockets of resistance” – this suite of experimental pieces from Brandon Valdivia (Not the Wind Not the Flag, Picastro, Pachamama) draws on a variety of global and Western song forms.   Read More »

A guitar/harmonium duo with a somewhat familiar name, this Vampire Blues cassette comes with the kind of praise normally reserved for solar-reaching artists like Phil Todd. Read More »

Since starting 20 years ago, Princess Dragonmom has released numerous tapes, CDs, CD-Rs, videos, and 7″s, and also has a spinoff project called Little Princess. Read More »

Recently reissued by Fabrica Records, Robert Turman’s “Beyond Painting” is a stunning piece of work.   Read More »