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Audiopile Review: Huuuuge new comp from the blessed souls over at Blank Mind, taking us on a deep dive into the cushier end of the breakneck strains of UK techno during its ascendent ’91-94 period. The producers here, most of them well kept secrets or favourites of the connoisseur, sprung...
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Audiopile Music: One of our favourite oddball entities from explosion of late ’00’s/early ’10’s garage and so-called “weird punk” (ugh, sorry for reminding you) bands are still at it, sounding somehow even more vital 18 years in. We have to admit, we lost track of them somewhere along the lines—oh,...
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Tierra Whack is a premiere rapper, musician and visual artist who is returning to the scene after a two-year gap in new releases. With collaborations with artists such as Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and Lil Yachty, Tierra has become a force to be reckoned with in the music industry. Her highly...
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Audiopile Review: The second of the two releases this week from Goaty Tapes, this one coming from mysterious duo Echardt & Kash. And, as the zen-like, post-hippie cover might have tipped off, Songs of the Soul is a deep plunge into new age mysticism, filled with the hallmarks of the...
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Audiopile Review: Goaty Tapes issue their second volume of archival digs from the vaults of Darrell DeVore, probably best known for his work in SF out-jazz-psych group Pygmy Unit, who had their lone album, Signals From Earth, reissued a few years back. The recordings here, mined from anywhere between the 70s...
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Over atmospheric instrumentation expanded by cinematic structure and pacing, Pearlty presents Knifeplay somewhere between dream-pop influenced shoegaze and lofty slowcore, never fully committing to one or the other in its insistence on creating an immersive, organic world.
Originally released in 2019, Knifeplay’s vivid debut Pearlty documents songwriter Tj Strohmer’s expressions of...
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Audiopile Review: Bellofatto & Gentile is a newly minted duo made up of Dan Gentile and Jesse Edwards, the latter of whom had an excellent cassette on Pacific Rhythm last year under his C-Thru guise. That cassette was in heavy rotation here in the Audiopile office, and some further digging into...
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Audiopile Review: The duo of MC Mattic and producer Daylight Robbery, together known as Odd Holiday, drop their second album mere months after L.I.S.A., one of our favourite hip-hop albums of 2023. The pairing have clearly struck upon something special here, And Then There Were None continuing their potent psychsploitation...
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Jonny From Space is the moniker of Miami-based producer, DJ, and co-founder of Impacto, Jonathan Trujillo. After two EPs on Omnidisc and a few more self-released, Incienso presents his debut solo LP, back then I didn't but now I do. Loping drum loops, warbling synth lines, sun-streaked pads and voice...
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Indie Rock, Psych, Jazz, Rock
“Sternpost is the work of Malmo's Petter Herbertsson, a highly experienced musician whose work pre-dates any sounds currently emanating from the Swedish underground yet certainly shares a similar ethos to those satellite operations. Traversing the kind of jazz-aligned, bossa nova inspired spaceage pop we might immediately associate with Stereolab /...
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Audiopile Review: Another must-grip release from the Sloth Mate imprint! Cuneiform Tabs features the label’s head and Violent Change mainstay Matt Bleyle, alongside Sterling MacKinnon, who also played in VC, though is now located in the UK. Trading recordings back and forth, the duo have painstakingly pieced together a collage of...
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When diving into Bevan Smith’s discography, one continuously gets the feeling that the well is bottomless. Whether creating lo-fi soundscapes with Andrew Thomas (Feeling Flying), pastoral IDM in the late 90s style (Aspen), or outsider ambient techno (Signer), he seems to be everywhere at once (we’re not even gonna get...
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Audiopile Review: Georgian producer Saphileaum has released albums on some of our favorite imprints—Good Morning Tapes, Not Not Fun, Constellation Tatsu and Silent Season, to name just a few. The prolific producer finds a new home at another fave, the great Japanese institution Mule Musiq. Exploring Again is firmly planted in...
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Talisman was originally released 1995 on Alastair Galbraith's own label Next Best Way. It was the debut CD on his imprint and has never been issued on vinyl. Having been charmed by this album since its release, Otic is proud to release this seminal work on vinyl for the first...
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In the decade since James Holden’s last solo studio album, he has totally freed himself from structure and convention, finally coming back to Earth to transmit to us a cross cultural multiverse rave DJ set. While he has certainly been active in the time since The Inheritors astounded us in...
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Long awaited reissue of classic sought-after Convextion tracks originally released on Matrix (Detroit).
Collectable full color cover-art by David A. Hardy...
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Audiopile Review: After his initial pair of muddied illbient and heat-warped ambient albums released on Huerco S.’s West Mineral imprint, Kansas City-based producer Mister Water Wet has found a home at Soda Gong, who issued his excellent Top Natural Drum back in ’22 and now hit us with this beguiling new...
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Audiopile Review: The relentless and always impressive Greg Foat helps kick off our first ROTW of 2024 with his newest album and final release of 2023, one of a staggering four full lengths issued last year. While his work has always hinted at the library-groove aesthetic, Interstellar Fantasy is the first...
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Audiopile Review: Achingly gorgeous new LP from the master of arctic ambient, which sees Geir Jenssen in free form on this completely improvised album that, like 2022’s Shortwave Memories, utilizes a set of vintage analog synths. Hinted at by the album’s majestic cover, Jenssen pulls awe-inspiring tonal ambience from the cold...
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Audiopile Review: Italian imprint Black Sweat Records unearths a gem from the depths of their home country’s vibrant but overlooked 70s jazz and fusion scene, reissuing the lone album from Folk Magic Band. With core members springing off the short-lived outfit Spirale (some of the you may recall the reissue of...
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Audiopile Review: Coming out of the ŌFFKILTR hip-hop collective and last seen working together on the fantastic 2022 Clouds In A Headlock, this new duo, made up of France-via-North Carolina MC Mattic and North London-based producer Daylight Robbery, drop one of 2023’s best kept secrets in underground hip-hop. Much in the...
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Audiopile Review: New EP from Ben Bondy’s k2dj pseudonym, who sidesteps his usual vaporous experimental/ambient proceedings —issued on shop faves like 3XL, Quiet Time Tapes, West Mineral, Good Morning Tapes—for, well, a set of vaporous experimental pop, marking a new parallel direction from the prolific producer. Utilizing a particularly faded and...
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Sahib Shihab (Edmund Gregory) played with many of jazz’s finest musicians. Shortly after he became one of the first jazz players to change their names due to an Islamic conversion, he joined Thelonious Monk for his Blue Note sessions. He also played with Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Pettiforn and...
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The spiritual successor to The Gospel According To Budgie mixtapes and The Good Book albums with Alchemist. Holy Ghost Zone picks up right where they left blending 90's Gospel with a 2018 bounce.
Holy Ghost Zone by Budgie...
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Transatlantic dreamworld noise communion feat. the vocal talents of Amateur Hour's Julia Bjernelind and the shredded tape manipulations of Form Hunter's Weston Czerkies and Mr Gothenburg himself, Dan Johnannson. With Johannson even part way behind the controls, you know which way this one is gonna spin, though I will say...
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The Vaselines have long been celebrated by musicians and music enthusiasts across genres and across the globe, including super-fan Kurt Cobain. Emerging in the mid-eighties under the wing of The Pastels’s Stephen McRobbie, The Vaselines came to define the sly wit and irresistible pop hooks of the era’s...
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French synth-dub duo Froid Dub continue their blast of organic and digital material on this brand new 6-track album. Pushing the clash between synth wave and dub even further, the electronic beats of the TR-808 are more than ever engulfed in the slow motion vibes of the digi-bass echoes.
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Keplar releases a vinyl reissue of 2001’s »Curve,« the second album released by Frank Bretschneider on Mille Plateaux under his real name. »Curve« saw him pick up on the underlying concept of 1999’s »Rand,« but gave his explorations of the sonic and stylistic range of electronic music notably more space...
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Parallel Minds’ fifth label release is a major landmark for the Toronto-based label. Not only is it their first full length LP, it is also the debut album from co-founder Ciel, who is also making her first solo appearance on the label since its inception.
In 2021, spurred on by a...
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“Pimps… whores… pushers… dopers… gangsters… and bottom of the human chain shit-heels. Now you’re probably thinking I’m writing about major record companies and their unscrupulous executives… and lawyers. You could be right… but this time… YOU’RE WRONG! I’m describing the characters in my album ‘13’ …Some I knew… some I...
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Many artists achieve greatness but very few produce work that is so moving it's considered sacred. Whether you choose to call them hymns, psalms or spirituals, their songs are a healing force for troubled times. Jazzman's Spiritual Jazz series would not exist without the inspiration and leadership of the spiritual...
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In the swirl of underground music emerging from Dunedin, New Zealand in the 1980s, Peter Gutteridge stands as one of the era’s most intense and shadowy figures. Despite being a founding member of The Clean and The Chills, Gutteridge would eschew indie-rock fame for the hypnotic and driving sounds of...
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Estonian composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Misha Panfilov continues to operate in his own diaphanous waters where waves of funk, jazz, and exotica crash upon mystic sands of psychedelic rock and kosmische music. Recorded in the archipelago of Madeira, his latest album, Atlântico, shifts tectonic plates of space and sound, leaving...
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The first full-length studio album by Richie Hawtin, who was 22 years old at the time and living in Windsor, Canada. It was first released in June 1993 under the F.U.S.E. name on Hawtin’s own Plus 8 Records imprint and again on Warp Records as part of the Artificial Intelligence...
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Debut studio album by Dutch electronic music producer and DJ Speedy J (real name Jochem Paap), Ginger was originally released in June 1993 as part of Warp Records’ Artificial Intelligence series.
Remastered in 2021, the reissue contains the original design by longtime Warp collaborators The Designers Republic.
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Full Bloom is an experimental sound collective traveling through polyrhythmic timezones and psychedelic soundscapes deeply rooted in the aesthetics of Jazz, Hip Hop, Afrobeat and Dub. Whatever happens, we try to convey a feeling that sits deep in your stomach and makes your body move!
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"Aloneptu stands alone on crumbling sandstone, feet warm ankle-deep at the shoreline while carrying seven ancient vibrations. With the tropical ambience of breezy trees at its back, Aloneptu faces high-tide's wide horizon singing songs for the earless shadows that haunt the ocean depths. Aloneptu wants nothing in return. Later, cruising...
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Beautiful re-press of Don Cherry's seminal work from 1976, 'Brown Rice'. A brilliant fusion of jazz with rock, African, Indian, and Arabic music traditions.
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Back in the 90s JP Buckle had releases on Aphex Twin’s legendary Rephlex records and Warp. His debut album Flyin Lo-Fi is true classic in the Rephlex cannon.
These JP Buckle originals are from that album, released in 1998 and out of print on vinyl for 20 years, now re-released on...
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In an era of rampant, man-made climate chaos, “solastalgia” (the longing and distress experienced by individuals as a response to environmental change/degradation) has emerged as a useful, semi-viral concept — a catch-all term for the pervasive sense that the world as we know it is far from well, and only...
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"Arriving with the latest Cindy collection from Sloth Mate comes this new long player from fellow San Fran mainstays, Violent Change. Headed up by Matt Bleyle, the force behind Sloth Mate and a former Rat Column no less, and completed by a rotating cast of other scene notables (you'll not...
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From the grey-skied isles and forested horse farms of British Columbia comes the second volume of Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy’s “Paradise Gardens” trilogy: Sound Of Blue. Originally conceived back in 2016, the album was then recorded, finessed, abandoned, resurrected, overdubbed, and finally mixed into nine refinements of daydream shoegaze...
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Seoul duo Salamanda arrive on Wisdom Teeth with their latest and most focused LP yet: In Parallel -- a vividly textural and immersive record that brings a new level of clarity to their typically psychedelic, expansive approach. Since arriving in 2019, the pair -- comprised of friends Uman Therma (aka...
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The Keplar label presents the next instalment in a series of reissues from the catalogue of Sasu Ripatti's seminal Vladislav Delay project. Originally released on Mille Plateaux, the vinyl edition of Entain from 2000 omitted two shorter tracks and included all others in an abridged form. With this reissue, the...
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Multila was the third album by Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti under the moniker Vladislav Delay. It compiles the Huone and Ranta 12" EPs Ripatti released on Basic Channel's Chain Reaction label in 1999 and 2000. The album features six hauntingly murky dub ambient tracks and the impressive 22-minute techno odyssey...
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Bulbous Monocle focuses its lens further into the legacy and archives of the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. These Things Remain Unassigned—a phrase coined by Brian Hageman, one of the band’s musical snake appendages emanating from its Medusa crown—is presented as a double LP (gatefold jacket with a twelve page...
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For his 20th album, Strategy set out to unite divergent interests into a thematically cohesive set geared equally to headphone immersion or sound system endurance tests. A sequel to the 2015 LP Seeds of Paradise (Idle Hands), The Wet Room starts where that album concludes, both figuratively (a shared perspective...
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Triple LP version. Back in the 1990s, video games were still largely seen as nerdy: fun, sure, but basically a guilty pleasure that you'd soon grow out of. The release in 1995 of wipE'out'', a lightning-fast, razor-sharp, futuristic racing game that helped to launch the PlayStation in Europe and North...
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