Carbinax

“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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“Raw techno slabs maneuvered via analog machines, plastic rhythms, gritty melodic videogame themes and bass dribbling, 2ndMOUSE (aka Chris Steven McKeown) pulls all the left-field danceable bits into byte sized chunks on Communique. Tangible downtempo beats strewn across funky vocal snippets and experimental ragga tinkering, there’s an array of genre […]