William Stokes

1 week ago | soundonsound.com | William Stokes

Already movers and shakers in Melbourne/Naarm’s musical underground, producer Kuya Neil and rapper Teether began collaborating in late 2020. Describing themselves as “raised by the Internet” and their sound as “future‑focused rap”, the duo draw on a combination of experimental sound art and various modern club styles, not to mention the influence of African electronic subgenre gqom.

1 month ago | soundonsound.com | William Stokes

Synthesist and producer Julien Guillot started his project Stazma The Junglechrist back in 2008, in his words at “the super violent and punk end” of the breakcore scene, before breaking out into more experimental territory. Alongside his prolific output as an artist and a busy schedule as a mixing and mastering engineer at his own Electric Voyage Studio, he also teaches sound synthesis at Lyon’s venerable Les Escales Buissonnières.

1 month ago | soundonsound.com | William Stokes

Colombian‑born Ela Minus was studying jazz performance as a drummer at Berklee College Of Music when she got a taste for electronic music. “I loved synths,” the artist and producer says. “I saw there was another major called Music Synthesis. But I never really wanted to produce, to be honest, but I loved synthesis, so I did a double major.” She subsequently landed a job building synthesizers with Critter & Guitari, where she contributed to the design of the celebrated Organelle synth.

1 month ago | soundonsound.com | William Stokes

The new album by Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear, features familiar collaborators pulling in a very different musical direction. American‑born, Portugal‑based artist Noah Lennox has found enduring popularity in the world of electronic music, both as part of Animal Collective and as a solo artist under the name Panda Bear. New album Sinister Grift is his sixth under the latter name, and sees him backed by something surprisingly close to conventional rock arrangements.

2 months ago | soundonsound.com | William Stokes

The more you talk to producer and sound designer Sasha Lewis, the more you learn. Atop his role as one half of the wildly off‑kilter Unicorn Ship Explosion along with jazz drummer Rob Pemberton, Lewis has honed his craft working with the likes of Four Tet and Jon Hopkins, and has provided sound design for numerous film companies. And did I mention he’s the founder of one Black Cloud Tea company?