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'Teratai Åkande' explores electronic techniques transforming sounds, melodies, and rhythms from balinese gamelan. It's an interaction and synthesis of acoustic and electronic expressions, exploring an imagined territory between two otherwise separate cult

Black Zodiac is a science-fiction sonic piece in which the oblique movement of harmonies allows conversations with other existences. It is a galactic chant created by the words of Manah Depauw and the web of sounds of Ben Bertrand.

Words as mirrors in a framework of clatter shape the arches to VOICE ACTOR’s pavilion. Surrounded by offerings of flowers, a construction is shown. The unusual compact scale conforms to tiny standards for intimate listening. All is half-height, so the vis

Quietly concentrated downbeat pop, illbience, dematerialised drums and sliding whimpers from Max Stocklosa’s TRJJ and TRIIGroup, rejoining Stroom for his 3rd LP and follow-up to ’12 Dances’

Venturing forth in his discreet, unobtrusive style of ambient-

Enigmatic Brussels collective Pablo’s Eye reappear with a poetic transition between desert blues, ambient vignettes, adult contemporary, and machine driven hustle on a new LP for Stroom, RIYL This Mortal Coil, To Rococo Rot, Barbara Morgenstern, Daniel La

Sissi Rada's humble manifestations of the miracle of life, the troubles of love, the thoughts that span through a human mind while performing simple tasks, educated by her love and natural inclination to poetry, read like small vignettes, or marginalia no

Alex Deforce & Charlotte Jacobs are overtaking emptyness in shades of silence. Language has something to say here. Voices combined in poetic levels of belgitude. Poetry rewriting days and nights.

"An exciting and vulnarable compilation of the world according to W.A.T., a dutch pop / wave band who was active in the early to mid 80's. For fans of VAZZ & Ruins."

What’s good comes fast. Two years after Ad van Meurs met Frank van den Nieuwenhof in t

STROOM continues to spotlight Europe's oddest operatives with this debut from Belgian avant-pop duo Sergeant, a hybrid post-punk/krautrock band who think of themselves as DJ Shadow in reverse, sampling their own jams and collaging the results into unortha

The haunting work of Patrick Stas (1995-2020) is emblematic of the early ‘80s Belgian tape scene’s creative fecundity and dare-to-differ DIY discipline. As a musician and co-founder of tape label Home Produkt, he was a key part of a home-brewed movement w

Delectable synth-pop romance from Montreal’s Library L’Amour - manna for the Cosey, From Nursery To Misery, Oï les Ox or Teresa Winter fanclubs. Jointly highlighted by Ziggy’s Stroom and Victor De Roo’s cherry picking Kontakt Group, the duo of Yasmine Ixe

A moving and poetic journey that can sound at once coldly electronic, seemingly abstract, and at once heartwarmingly human. Holsen’s unique gentle melodies emerge to surface and go hand in hand with Cassiers’ fragile bits of songs and words, offering the

Dali Muru & the Polyphonic Swarm (formerly known as FITH) sit in a venn diagram of troubadour poetics, cinema soundtrack, and primordial electronics.

"We drew a map of the road trip together. A green line from Bambi across the Danube to the Carpathians

Another unclassifiable oddity from the always on point Strooomy, "Venier Le Temps" collects up choice cuts from impressively obscure German ethno-trance duo Taras Bulba. Cast yer mind somewhere between Vangelis, Steve Hillage, Jam & Spoon, quirky eastern

Emerging from Lower Franconia's hidden reverse, Johannes schebler, known as ambient-poltergeist "Baldruin" and surreal folklorists Christian Schoppik & Katie Rich of "Brannten Schnüre"-fame have puzzled and amazed outernational audiences from the stranger

"Naive overlooked New Beat / New Age project from 1989"

Sometimes in life, a certain incentive is needed to convert talent into productivity. As for the case of MKS, the enigmatic and musical disguise of Nicolas Aubard, it was a merely coincidental enc

After cropping up on a compilation EP (STREP-039) last year with the brooding balm of ‘Ambient Kinsky’, Jo Bogaert aka Thomas De Quincey (and tonnes more monikers) ‘fesses up to these languid and pretty cheesy cuts dating to his early years, spanning the

"“Als das Kind Kind war, wusste es nicht dass es Kind war” the opening words of “Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire)” by Wim Wenders are so incredibly simple and innocent that they strike you down like the most murderous thunderbolt: “When the child was

Following the releases of the vinyl compilation Spring Break and the maxi 12” compilation Bardo for Pablo, Dark Matter is part 3 in the Pablo’s Eye trilogy of selected works on Stroom.

More than anything, Pablo’s Eye is a temporary atmosphere, like a t