VNV Nation are a long standing favourite of mine, and for good reason. Musically, they lie somewhere on the dark electro spectrum, between EBM (Electronic Body Music, a kind of industrial dance) and synthpop. While they're well-known for both...

November's coming up, and that can only mean one thing: NaNoWriMo. For those unfamiliar with this, it stands for Nation Novel Writing Month. The idea is simple. Write 50,000 words in the 30 days of November – that's 1667 words a day. Like many others,...

Sometime it's nice to just let beautiful music wash over you. Sleeping, working, or walking, Bossa Nova makes a great background soundtrack.  The alikeness of it all makes it a little dull to listen to actively, but it's a shame to let such soft,...

When it comes to Mandarin Pop music, there's a lot of bland artists. Love stories, heartache stories, and all-round forgettable songs. Maybe they're better if you understand the lyrics, but I doubt it. The prototypical Mandopop is Shidaiqu (Chinese...

Just a quick entry for this one. Lo fi isn't strictly speaking a genre, it's just refers to the music with a sub-par recording quality. For the life of me I can't understand why this is this something to gloat about. Sure, there's something to the...