Author: Ivan
SIRUS. Wires, code and journeys.
The last few weeks we’ve been having a chat with Josh from SIRUS, a cutting-edge Melbourne cyberpunk music project. We met many years ago in the early mid 2000’s, if…
Canberra Metal?
The last few weeks I’ve had some feelers out, searching for those often elusive local bands and projects of a metal variety. By “metal”, we’re referring of course to progressive,…
Rock Storm Radio!
We recently met a wonderful fellow known as Doc, who runs a Rock and Metal show on 96.7 FM in Canberra and its surrounds. Rock Storm! We asked him to…
The ENDE Insight
This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Boris Otterdam, founder of ENDE Records, an Australian independent label which focuses on abstract, dark, heavy and hardcore electronic music, among other…
A Modular Age
Recently I had the great pleasure of joining an online community of musicians from Australia and New Zealand, Modular Theme Time, who specialize in modular synthesis. All this came about…
Review of “We Have Become Oceans” by A Beautiful Machine
Quite by chance, whilst making an effort to reconnect with what might be cooking in Melbourne’s live music culture (some 600km away unfortunately), I came across the work of Skye…
We’re Back!
Welcome to Darkstereo, freshly re-awakened in July 2021! Right now we are feverishly working on content, including numerous album reviews, artist interviews and playlist curations. Over the coming weeks we…