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Barmy and quite brilliant new album from Mira Calix, that cuts thru a ruff clutter of abstract ideas and wildly disparate elements with a digital hotknife, collaging elements from avant garde experimental music, rap, footwork, opera, industrial and dubstep. Somehow the result is coherent and utterly compelling - perhaps her...
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10 tracks of beautiful Hip Hop music produced by Vienna Producer Mez
& French producer 20 Syl.
We made this album after running into each other on tour in Brazil then again in France. We kept talking about needing to do a project together
then eventually met up on my homies farm in...
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Melody As Truth returns with "Talk From Home" an album from Los Angeles native Suzanne Kraft. "Talk From Home" showcases Kraft's emotional depth as a producer, and skill as a multi-instrumentalist. Recorded over a few weeks in the winter of 2014, the intimacy of the recordings shines through in a...
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Black Encyclopedia of the Air is the product of a rewardingly unruly artistic mind. Moor Mother, aka Camae Ayewa, is a Philadelphia-based poet, musician, artist and activist whose music inhabits various underground sub-genres (experimental hip-hop, industrial noise, free jazz). She is also a member of Black Quantum Futurism, an art...
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LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization created in 1986 to promote the compositional legacy of musician and composer Charles Mingus through publishing, education, archival preservation, and performance.
Charles Mingus is recognized as a major 20th century composer, whose entire works have been acquired by the Library of...
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Few artists in the contemporary sphere can not only surprise-drop a follow-up to their most celebrated album out of nowhere, but have it met with a universal notion of intrigue across all facets of musical factions. Such unpredictability is just one small part of Dean Blunt’s enduring appeal.
Black Metal 2,...
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The everlastingly unique Susumu Yokota pursued a world filled with beauty and delicate expression in Symbol, the first in a series of newly remastered works to be reissued with P-VINE records. Despite having his life cut tragically short, Yokota left behind a legacy of sonically gifted works, and his mastery...
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On Talk Memory, the latest album from Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD and their first for XL Recordings, the trio of Alexander Sowinski (drums), Chester Hansen (bass) and Leland Whitty (guitar/woodwinds), return to their instrumental beginnings and pay homage to the musicians, composers, innovators and influences that first informed their work. As...
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Featuring Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and seminal American poet and writer Charles Bukowski with beats from J Dilla, Madlib and ol’ Metal Fingers himself.
“I’ve been a fan of Bukowski for a while. It was a friend of mine – damn, I forget the n*gga name – from Life Sucks Die, it’s...
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As the Spring of discontent took hold on 2020, composer Andrew Wasylyk sought shelter in the familiar. Low-light morning walks in Dundee’s 19th century Balgay Park acted as sanctuary and solace to events happening in the world outside. Opened in 1871 the park, with adjoining cemetery and sweeping panoramic views...
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박혜진 Park Hye Jin announces her highly-anticipated debut album ‘Before I Die’, set for release on 10th September on Ninja Tune. The album—entirely written, produced and performed by the South Korean-born and now LA-based the producer, rapper, singer, and DJ—follows the release of her hugely successful ‘How can I’ EP...
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Y2K prepper-rock for the underemployed. Tracked at home in 1999, the 1975 EP expands on Stratosphere’s slacker-positive dreamscape, with layers of guitars both clean and fuzzy, humming organ, and—gasp!—a drum machine. Needle down, candles on....
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On October 15, 1965, tenor saxophone master and composer Wayne Shorter recorded The All Seeing Eye, a brilliant and ambitiously multi-layered album for Blue Note. Shorter’s goal for the album was to use “a wider range of colors and textures” while continuing his explorations of “life and the universe and...
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Formed in 1992, Boris boldly explores their own vision of heavy music, where words like "explosive" and "thunderous" barely do justice. Using overpowering soundscapes embellished with copious amounts of lighting and billow smoke, Boris has shared with audiences across the planet an experience for all five senses in their concerts,...
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Turnstile release their new album Glow On on Roadrunner Records. Recorded with producer Mike Elizondo and co-produced by the band’s Brendan Yates, Glow On follows Turnstile’s 2018 breakthrough album Time and Space, which saw the Baltimore band charting new ground for hardcore, expanding stylistic boundaries and celebrating new possibilities. With...
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The genesis of Yaral Sa Doom took place in 2018, when Swedish musician Karl-Jonas Winqvist traveled to Toubab Dialaw in Senegal, a small fishing village with a vibrant bohemian art scene. Connecting with local artists, Winqvist led recording sessions alongside studio engineer Arouna Kane that encouraged freewheeling ideas and improvisation....
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Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer and musician Nala Sinephro's debut album "Space 1.8" to be released via Warp Records.
"Sinephro’s music fuses meditative sounds, jazz sensibilities, folk and field recordings. Her musical practice is rooted in the study of frequency and geometry and guided by the premise that sound moves matter. Her debut album...
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Over the course of her lush, expansive, defiantly sprawling new album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, released on Age 101, the Ivor Novello award-winning, Mercury nominated Little Simz delivers an undeniable modern classic, effortlessly condensing any number of disparate styles and genres into music which thrillingly broaches the gap between...
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Second long-playing outing by Daniel Lopatin operating in more idiosyncratic, Oneohtrix Point Never, mode. Curiously, 'Replica' is an album of sample-based tracks that have a leaning towards the opiated, electro-boogie of his alternate production guise, Ford & Lopatin, but OPN's signature, amorphous and ambient touches are very present. Less a...
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Loraine James comes with her second album for Hyperdub, made in the summer of 2020. Reflection is a turbulent expression of inner-space, laid out in unflinching honesty, that offers gentle empathy and bitter-sweet hope.
2020 was tough for Loraine; unable to tour and build on the success of For You And...
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toe is composed of Kashikura Takashi on drums, Yamane Satoshi on bass, and Mino Takaaki and Yamazaki Hirokazu on guitar. Formed in 2000, they've spent the past two decades building a dedicated online fan base around the world based on their mostly instrumental music, with the swift and acute...
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Following his recent live shows at London’s Hackney Church and the global stream, Daniel Avery shares new album 'Together In Static'. Out now via Phantasy worldwide and Phantasy/Mute in the United States and Canada, the record was originally conceived for the Hackney Church concerts.
The record has been my own personal...
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Les Filles de Illighadad present their first ever studio album “Eghass Malan.” The female led avant rock group hailing from the village of the same name bring their new genre of Tuareg guitar mixed with traditional rural folk. Versed in tradition, Fatou Seidi Ghali and her band have created contemporary...
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The infiltration of the finer mechanisms of religion and spirituality into a musician’s artistic output is not uncommon, with Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, George Harrison and even Kanye West just some of the names well-versed in creating spiritual concept pieces that take a deep dive into the divine. With SINNER...
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Trilogy Tapes catch yung New Yorker Anthony Naples on the ascendent with his most substantial and deepest grip of tracks to date.
After some bangers for Mister Saturday Night and Opal Tapes and that ace remix of Four Tet, his TTT 12" exhibits a more spacious, romantic side to his oeuvre....
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Just a continuation of things that have been done before and that will be done in the future. The plan is that there is no plan and the story goes on! 18 tracks about distinct moods, patterns and the pure joy of creation itself....
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Les Filles de Illighadad comes from the village of Illighadad in a remote region of central Niger. Like many of the villages in the area, its borders are loosely defined, owing to the largely pastoral population. It rests on the shore of a seasonal pond that swells during the rainy...
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Namir Blade controls the clouds and the concrete. With the blink of a synapse, his imagination conjures elaborate visions of valleys of death, bad Tijuana dreams, and shotgun raids. In the next breath, he’s blowing off texts, rolling out of bed around noon, and crooning falsetto pleas about his willingness...
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The Pusherman's debut album celebrates a quarter-century this year. Remastered from the original DATs it's never sounded heavier, with all the virtuoso bass noodling and hyperactive break editing you can squash into one album = an IDM classic, no doubt
Along with μ-Ziq, AFX and Luke Vibert's Plug, Tom Jenkinson was instrumental...
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The surest thing about traveling through time is that you’ll eventually and up right back where you started. On About You, Suzanne Kraft has closed the loop.
A Los Angeles native, Diego Herrera grew up in Venice Beach, breathing visions onto four track tapes. Hair down, mind far off, his garage...
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The enthusiastic reviews of We're New Here all agreed: this was more than just a remix album. Jamie xx had leapt from the brackets behind the track titles to take joint credit for a project as much his vision as that of the original artist. He stitched together tracks from...
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Nothing New is an album of recordings that Gil Scott-Heron and Richard Russell made in New York during the sessions for I'm New Here. It is comprised of songs that Gil chose from his back catalogue, just voice and piano. Each song he chose was from a different...
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Originally self-released on cassette in 1986, “Keyboard Fantasies” was entirely recorded on DX-7 and TR-707 in the northern Canadian town of Huntsville, ON. Musically it lies somewhere between new-age and (accidentally) early Detroit techno experiments. The inimitable style of BGC here is both peaceful and meditative while simultaneously rhythmic and...
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“The Volume Of The Light” is the new album from Emanative & Liz Elensky released on Home Planet
Recordings (Ltd edition vinyl & digital).
Emanative is drummer and producer Nick Woodmansey, best known for spiritual jazz albums and releases on labels such as Brownswood, The Steve Reid Foundation and Jazzman Records, as...
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Following his debut album, ‘Nothing Is Still’, Leon Vynhall returns with a sprawling album of trip hop, ambient, tech-house and breakbeats kinked with his jazzy turns of phrase
‘Rare, Forever’ spells out his style with intricate sound design and overripe emotions between the Aim-like trip hop of ‘Ecce! Ego!’, the skudgy...
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On June 20, 2000, Deftones released their third studio album, White Pony, which was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece by fans and critics alike. Fueled by the successful singles “Change (In the House of Flies)” and “Digital Bath,” the album is the band’s highest selling album and is certified Platinum...
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The Koreatown Oddity is Dominique Purdy. This album tells the origin story of his “supernatural powers and spiritual awakening,” the results of two car accidents that occurred in his childhood while growing up in Los Angeles’ Koreatown district.
The first accident happened when lil’ Dominique was five years old, rupturing a...
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Dry Cleaning - the South London group of Nick Buxton (drums), Tom Dowse (guitar), Lewis Maynard (bass) and Florence Shaw (vocals) - will release their debut album New Long Leg on 2nd April.
The 10-track long-player, which includes ‘Strong Feelings’ and last year’s single ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’, was recorded over two weeks last...
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Though it's hard to pick a winner among the estimable Black Jazz catalog, this 1972 release from bassist Henry 'The Skipper' Franklin would have to be near the top of the list. Franklin got his start woodshedding with Latin maverick Willie Bobo in the mid-'60s and went on to play...
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