New Carbinax Album – “Flex” I’ve had a few single releases during the course of 2019, but compared to previous years, 2019 was relatively quiet, with only Above and Beyond released on Touched at the very beginning of 2019, and Imagineer released in May.There were a few standalone tracks on […]
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I thought I was being really smart when I commented to Mrs. Carbinax that 2020 vision was the perfect analogy for how I felt musically, as we head into the year 2020, until She brutally informed me it wasn’t a new analogy and everyone was using it. It seems strange […]
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I met Mary Anne Hobbs in Belfast at one of those events where they field questions at the end. To cut a long story short, She played one of my chilled tracks on Her Sunday morning show about a week later.Listen to the soundcloud track here and hear Her tell […]
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“Carbinax continues in a prolific pursuit to release some of the finest electronic music over the past several years, and Imagineer is no different. 22 tracks in all, this is another behemoth collection that features a wide assortment of what the Belfast-based artist is capable of. This rugged, robust, and […]
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Igloomag Review “If you’ve not heard of Carbinax or 2ndMouse, now’s the time to tune in and get your fix—he’s amassed around 18 releases, numerous compilation appearances, and doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. The 2ndMouse moniker, retired as of 2016, comes back to life in the form of […]
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“All Ears is my current front-runner for album of this year. It was released just a couple of months ago by Chris Carbinax and is the kind of album that reminds me why I spend so much time trying to discover new music. It is explosive, spine-tingling, Cheshire Cat smile […]
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Carbinax continues to do what he does best, wrapping up high-energy melodies in a swirl of emotive, maximum-impact beats, bass, and hard-punching rhythms. Take the Twilight Mix of “Last Night I Dreamt In Binary Code” as a prime example. You simply cannot get any more submersed into the artists knack for creative, […]
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Review of Snowglobe Citizen on Igloomag here What’s amazing about Snowglobe Citizen is the sheer number of ideas Chris M manages to pack into any one track. With an average running time of over five minutes, this is needed but also afforded by the source material. That focus on melody […]
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Playful, articulate electronics, melodic and nostalgic, 2ndMouse returns with Acquiesce. 18 audio snapshots shed raw energetic synthesizer acrobatics which bubble to the surface from start to end. “Chroma” and “Fissure” are prime examples of Chris M’s sweet yet tactile approach to cohesive electronic music. Sliding to and from polished mechanical […]
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REVIEW of Expert Tiger Mediocre Troll , by JazzySpoon , October 2011 ALWAYS YOU – Great opener. The intro doesn’t come out in a raging hurry to hit heavy, but it instead sets the listener up for an intense audio journey. This is the elevator music playing on your ride […]
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