“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]