Mille Plateaux Germany レコード& CD

Review: Legendary German experimental label Mille Plateaux is back this week, with a fascinating album by Melody Tomb which is a collaboration between Tokyo artist Teruyuki Kurihara and London drone pop band The Leaf Library. Story has it that back in March 2020, The Leaf Library sent Kurihara some material to play with, in the hope that a collaboration would be born. He was indeed receptive, resulting firstly in the track 'Kite Beach' which was featured on the band's Objects Forever compilation in 2021, with the rest of the album slowly appearing over the next year that takes in drone, soundscapes, minimal techno and industrial noise throughout its eight tracks. The artists hope to continue the collaboration with another album in the near future.

Review: Seminal Frankfurt imprint Mille Plateaux had a much anticipated reboot two years ago, with label owner Achim Szepanski overseeing a prolific and consistent quality of output - almost like that of his label's heyday in the early noughties. Its latest release is another great one which comes from Lena Saito, who debuted for the imprint earlier this year under her Galcid alias. Under her birth name on Downfall, she presents a collection of jagged and contorted IDM experiments co-produced by her husband, the veteran producer Hisashi Saito. Unscored and predominantly improvised, it is a sound best described by the label as 'something possibly making more sense to enlightened minds a thousand years in the future.'