VESSEL

Blog —

Konx-om-Pax Interview

“I’m an artist based in Glasgow and spend most of my time designing record sleeves for my friends, directing experimental videos and djing. Just started my new label/studio displaycopy.net”

Vessel preface

Welcome back to Vessel, after nearly 2 months offline its great to be back with an updated design and concept […]

“When I was a teenager I listened to a lot of 60′s American music like Love – Forever Changes and Da Capo, The Band – The Band and The Millenium – Begin to name a few. As well as that I was into some of the more interesting British indy bands like Ultrasound and Mansun”

Pawel Interview

“Actually I listened to the upcoming John Roberts album a lot lately, extensively. Besides that I listened to anything from Robert Johnson to Steve Reich, just for relaxing, no new records”

Musiccargo

Musiccargo was founded by Gordon Pohl (electronics) and Gerhard Michel (guitar, vocals). The electronic club experience and advanced sequencer programming skills of Gordon Pohl who before that moment performed as a DJ in the club scenes of Europe […]

A playlist from Jean Herve-Peron

JEAN HERVE-PERON from FAUST has provided 10 tracks he’s been listening to recently. […]

Reviews —

Catch Wave by Takehisa Kosugi

In the early ’60s, TAKEHISA KOSUGI formed the japanese equivalent of the fluxus movement, “Group Ongaku”, a collective focused on improvisation and multimedia performances. They recorded their jams and released them as records […]

John Maus Live

Saturday night at The Grosvenor, a small local pub in South London, tonight let JOHN MAUS, the maniac from Hawaii with a PHD in Political Philosophy and part time keyboard player for Animal Collective, Panda Bear and Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti play solo […]

Freiland Klaviermusik by Wolfgang Voigt

Limited release from Kompakt head, WOLFGANG VOIGT. Freiland Klaviermusik is hard and brave techno using minimal composition, looped notes and tight melodies from the piano […]

Tracks and Traces by Harmonia & Eno ’76

Recorded in 1976 in Forst, Germany but not released until 1997 by Rykodisc records, Tracks and Traces is as progressive now as it was thirty years ago […]

Splazsh by Actress

Splazsh is the second album from London based DARREN CUNNINGHAM. The album builds and expands on ideas presented in his 2008 debut Hazyville occupying an awkward space between house, dubstep […]

Things from the basement by STL

STEPHAN LAUBNER takes us on a haunting tour of his ‘basement’ with rhythmic oddities and slow tempos. […]

More reviews in the archive…

Mixes —

Konx-om-Pax

Konx-Om-Pax aka TOM SCHOLEFIELD is a animator, director and illustrator based in Glasgow, Scotland. His portfolio incorporates print, animation and moving image, some of which you may seen for HUDSON MOHAWKE, ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER or JAMIE LIDELL […]

Pawel

“The mix was recorded in the end of july at the Bar 25 in Berlin. It was the first Dial Allnighter Labelnight that we did there and I think it was the hottest night this summer in Berlin, so everyone was kind of paralyzed in a funny way…”

Veronica Vasicka (Minimal Wave mix)

Minimal Wave is a NYC based independent record label, founded by Veronica Vasicka in 2005. The focus of the label is to unearth obscure electronic gems from the late 70s and 80s […]

Wooden Shjips

Wooden Shjips is a trance-psych rock group from San Francisco, California. They have a few records out on the venerable Holy Mountain label, as well as a new singles compilation, Vol 2, on Sick Thirst Records […]

Lali Puna

Lali Puna is a band from Weilheim, Germany close to Munich. The group was formed in 1998 and its current members are Valerie Trebeljahr (voice and keyboards), Markus Acher (also member of The Notwist), Christoph Brandner (drums) and Christian Heiß (keyboards) […]

Luke Abbott

With a background in Electroacoustic Composition, LUKE is not afraid to explore the weirder side of the dance scene; his records wander wildly through different styles […]

Musiccargo Live

Musiccargo was founded by GORDON POHL (electronics) and GERHARD MICHEL (guitar, vocals). The electronic club experience and advanced sequencer programming skills of Gordon Pohl who before that moment performed as a DJ in the club scenes of Europe […]

Gavouna

Gavouna is the alias of Athens-born London-based ATHANASIOS ARGIANAS […]

Christian Naujoks

CHRISTIAN NAUJOKS debuted in 2009 with an album release on legendary Hamburg based label Dial Records. His music is surprisingly not dancefloor oriented, although deriving from a similar postminimal tradition as the work of such labelmates as Efdemin or Lawrence. […]

Wesley Matsell

Born in the semi-rural and economically deprived ex-coal-mining town of Merthyr Tydfil in the South Wales valley’s, WESLEY has an unlikely interest in the more experimental end of the music spectrum […]

More mixes in the archive…