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“Joe McPhee’s first international release, Black Magic Man, was issued on the newly formed Hat Hut imprint in 1975. It was a watershed moment for the 35-year-old musician. Based in Poughkeepsie, New York, he was too far away from Manhattan to have participated extensively in the Loft Jazz happenings of...
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Audiopile Review: Probably best known outside of South Korea as one half of the hallucinatory-pop duo Salamanda, Yetsuby has become somewhat of a star in her home country, netting a Best Electronic Album award last year from the Korean Music Awards for here digital-only release My Star, My Planet Earth....
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Audiopile Review: Just the other day, we had the honour of being messaged by London’s imposingly cool World of Echo record shop. The message read: “M8, we’re blasting The Dead C’s 1992 noise rock classic ‘Harsh 70s Reality’ and it sounds mint. Also, there’s a bloke in here buying a...
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Audiopile Review: Left Ear Records, the label that brought us reissues of the astral-psych-pop of Twin Cosmos, the minimal ambient drift of Picture Music, and the homespun DIY art-pop of Influenza Prods., now unearth previously unissued recordings from Respuesta Alternativa (née Jesus Mª Catalan), their second release for the obscure...
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Whitney Houston’s self-titled debut album has few parallels. Viewed solely through the lens of sales numbers, Whitney Houston is a watershed statement on par with the most commercially successful and culturally dominant LPs ever released. Having sold more than 14 million copies in the U.S. and upwards of 25 million...
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Dave Saved makes his debut release on studio 33 with Passing Images, an entrancing suite of hazy dance floor mementos, infused with a characteristic chopped and screwed soul. As if heard through the dusty circuits of an android's dying memory drive, replaying songs picked up during its lifetime and mixing...
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Guitarist Grant Green joins organist Gloria Coleman and drummer Pola Roberts on this satisfying and soulful album, unique in the Impulse catalog. Produced by Bob Thiele, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder and originally released in 1963....
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Roland Barthes, in his 1982 book, Structuralism And After, suggests that a diary, instead of presenting its writer with the question: “ Who Am I?’’ , actually declares a far more droll question: “ Am I?”. It is this question, this unusual dry amusement that is provoked by the absurd...
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AF is proud to feature Vertical67 on the label. It's hard not to have heard of Thomas Pahl in the electro underwater depths after multiple appearances over the course of more than a decade and under a ton of aliases. With the illuminating title of 'Changes', Thomas gets rid of...
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"Happy 20th birthday to Family Album, the third recording of Faun Fables and the first one released on Drag City. These songs belong to sons and daughters, entwined and orphaned, domesticated and feral; to all the family vines unraveling from a ball of yarn. In this family album, runaways graze...
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Avant-garage clang and clatter from a UK/Italian duo operating at the margins of the DIY guitar underground. Heavy tape manipulation and random noises rub up against primitive song structures and repetitive melodies. Features members of Black Time (In The Red) and Virvon Varvon (Girlsville Records). Pressed in an edition of...
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Both hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, Shurlock launched his production career in 1990, Byron career began in 2007. Byron began collaborating with well-known Parisian producer Onra on an EP entitled "The Big Payback." That collaboration led to numerous releases on independent labels like Rush Hour, Warp (with Flying Lotus), HHV, Circulations,...
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Occupying a unique place in the history of black music, Sun Ra took the big band aesthetic of his role model Duke Ellington into thrilling new territory. A pianist and keyboard player with an ear for uncommon timbres, a profound interest in a wide range of non-Western cultures as well...
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I have always wanted to play with the voices that toy with my brain. If you welcome them they’re not as bad as they can seem. Belonging gives them freedom to flaunt their strange faces, without the fear of rejection or alienation. I wanted the Roland TB-303 to talk with...
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As you might expect, there's no fuss and no fight to 'Drippin' For A Trip (Tripp-a-Dubb-mix)'; it's a laidback, party-friendly showcase of Sotofett's seductive charms and easy way with a collaboration, whether keeping the sun up with the tribalised drums and colourful bird calls of his 'Drippin' For '97' side...
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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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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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Introducing a super charged split LP featuring the talents of Cameron Stallones aka Sun Araw and Spencer Clark’s duo with Jan Andersen, Tarzana. What originally started as an Aquapelago inspired residency in the summer of 2021 quickly developed into its own thing. Truth be told, both artists always surfed their...
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Live double album originally released Independently in UK on vinyl and compact disc. This album compiles recordings from the 1987 European tour, made by the bands sound engineer on a Sony Walkman. Limited Edition/one time pressing. Feel Good Now by SWANS...
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"These are tracks that were not meant to be released. They are sort of my songwriting practices made on a Playstation 1. When I was in high school, I got this Music 2000 game as a Christmas present. I was really into Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, and Basement Jaxx, so...
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ODESZA announced the ‘Flaws in Our Design’ collaborative EP with Yellow House (Cape Town-based songwriter/producer/instrumentalist Emile van Dango) that drops on July 21 via Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune. EP is available on clear sky blue vinyl Sept 29. ODESZA & Yellow House are teasing the upcoming dreamy EP with first...
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Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden… is the latest instalment in composer, improviser, saxophonist, and visual artist Matana Roberts’ visionary project exploring African-American history through ancestry, archive and place. Weaving together elements of jazz, avant-garde composition, folk and spoken word, Roberts tells the story of a woman in their...
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Second time out for the Wormholes following on from their anthology, this one an unreleased album recorded in a concise burstof seven nights in Dublin’s Sun Studios in the spring of 1996. Originally envisaged as being The Wormholes’ second album, the follow up to their 1994 debut “Chicks Dig Scars”...
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Altoist Marion Brown is perhaps best known for performances on albums by his contemporaries, such as Coltrane's Ascension, but Brown stands on his own as one of the most creative and important forces to come out of the 1960s avant-garde jazz movement. Porto Novo is widely regarded as one of...
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Mining a similar path to Jake Muir’s Mana album, Bondy explores a late, late night mood on this one, obscuring delicate digital processes behind gossamer webs of static, windchimes and smeared guitars drifting into bliss. Over the space of half an hour, breathy atmospheres blur into a pastel-hued paradise, feeding...
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First time on colored vinyl! Martyr Loser King is the fifth studio album from musician, actor, poet, and activist Saul Williams. A thinly veiled concept album carved from the tales of its main character - a computer hacker living in Burundi with the screen name mrtyr_lsr_kng - the album confronts...
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Heavy Metal Kid was the last album Coloured Balls recorded during their all too brief three-year existence. It's often overlooked due to the enormous impact and success their preceding album Ball Power had on Australian music. Coming into 1974, they were at the peak of their powers as a group....
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That A-side taps into the same iridescent feels as classic LFO, pre-Junglist Gerald, Accelerator-era FSOL, 808 State - all about those pads and strings, pure emotional meltdown if you’re of a certain disposition. On the flip, it’s a couple of years later, spiritual comedown, midnight at whirl y gig, backroom...
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It’s a quintessential Sunday afternoon. The calendar is open. The weather is pleasant and crisp. The whip is freshly waxed. All you need to do is find the proper soundtrack and the right co-pilot. In these days of digital abundance, there are millions of options but only a few perfect...
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Ben Shirken aka Ex Wiish is best known on home turf for organising the record label and performance series 29 Speedway, home to multimedia shows by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Poncili Creación, Debit, Pent, James K at various venues. He also performs in free jazz group, Nu Jazz with Dan...
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Montreal duo Bas Relief present a collection of rough-cut IDM and pitch-corrected emo on Insulary, a five-song EP. Written and compiled long distance from threads of bass music-inspired alt pop and guitar recorded in isolation, Insulary is the duo’s first substantial release since 2018. Granulated microglitches fill out the digital...
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Freestyle Records are proud to reissue Ambiance II Fusion's mid-80s fusion rarity "Come Touch Tomorrow" - originally recorded in Hollywood CA October/November 1984 and released in 1985. Following a yearly run of 4 albums self-released between 1979 and 1982, Nigerian-born saxophonist, flutist, and clarinettist Daoud Abubakar Balewa then took a...
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Spoken word, synth, modules & beats invite the listener into an electronic landscape where smell is colour and sound has weight. 'Momentary Lapses' is the second collaborative album from London based artists BAG (Jody DeSchutter and Daniel Allison), and Collapsing Drums (Charlie Behrens). This is a deeply artful...
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Czech guitarists Jakub Šimanský and Tomáše Niesner drew their inspiration from the roots of 1950s classic country blues or American folk songs. But also the cross section of the Mississippi Delta and the Appalachian Mountains' traditional music informed by atonal elements of the European avant-garde. This musical style has been...
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During the years he spent living in Amsterdam, when his DJ career seemed to become an unstoppable juggernaut, Tom Trago was a regular visitor to Deco Sauna, a local institution that helped him “decompress” and de-toxify his body. Eventually, a more extended period of “decompression” was needed, with Trago moving...
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The prodigiously talented trumpeter Fats Navarro was a bebop innovator whose career was cut tragically short when he died in 1950 at age 26. As part of the 1500 series Blue Note later compiled this 12” <span dir="ltr"...
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11th album by the one-of-a-kind collective: psychedelia and free form jazz (not jazz) trigger a sophisticated excursion into weird textures with drastic turns. Dislocated dense music full of secret connections! The images that Kammerflimmer Kollektief conjures up therefore happen not in the focus of consciousness, but rather in its outer...
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DOKOMO: Burnt out transmissions from the end of the information age, Ryan Wick & M. Willet go cross continental, ghost riding power lines with IDS RECORDINGS.
Dokomo - The Illusion Of Control - IDS041 by Dokomo... 
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Stalwart of the LA jazz scene returns with inimitable vocal style over some heavy funk and cosmic jazz vibes plus guest spots from the likes of Kamasi Washington, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Greg Paul, Megashia Jackson, G. E. Stinson and more! Ancient...
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Formed in Berlin in one night, 14-year-long friends Rhys Edwards and Rhys Williams conceptualized 'Ulrika Spacek' and came up with The Album Paranoia as their debut album title. Moving back to their shared house 'KEN', an ex art gallery in Homerton in the summer of 2014, they began work on...
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We’re not called Groove Diggers for nothing! This previously undiscovered live recording was first uncovered by the Groove Diggers team in 2004, and issued on a CD – it’s taken 18 years, but this essential live recording is finally getting an analog release! Much like her studio album, “Portrait...
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UGLY is slowthai pulling himself apart and exposing his anxieties of the last couple of years, an acronym for U Gotta Love Yourself. This new album may show a side that people haven’t heard before but he sees it as the fullest picture yet. Recorded in producer Dan Carey’s studio...
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Gumbo II by Brenk Sinatra is considered an all-time classic of European instrumental albums. Many young beatmakers started to produce themselves because of this album. Everyday Scenario alone generated over 1 million streams and was added to more than 25k private playlists. With 3000 physical copies sold, it is still...
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Part hexagonal lube-pool, part peatman’s gallbladder; EEL marks an encephalitic (onward) plowter for both of us. Like intractable flagellations hoisted through individual druse romps, staminate bleachfields give way to unillustrated gonging, in chiefly 12V 3A veinlets. EEL – acronymised in ‘pen scrape’ – decontaminates, in our eye, four key baronial...
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Pianist, drummer, composer and producer Hamish Balfour presents jazz funk, soul and electronic music, bridging the gap from classic Blue Note to Warp via Sonar Kollektiv on Running Colours, his electrifying debut album for London’s Shapes of Rhythm Records. Praised by Jazzwise for his solo flourishes and sidestepping harmonies, Hamish...
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Sound-art collage of field recordings, voicemails and improvisations collected and curated by LAMFS founder member Joe Potts. "Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the mid-1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective and multimedia publishing vehicle. Founded by teenage Le Forte Four members Chip Chapman, Joe Potts and Rick...
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Alongside the likes of As-Shams recording artists Pat Matshikiza and Tete Mbambisa, Lionel Pillay was one of the legendary pianists to emerge during the golden age of South Africa jazz in the 1960s. A sideman to and friend of Winston Mankunku Ngozi, Pillay appears on the most lauded historic recording...
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Louisiana is a unique place. Only the backwoods of Mississippi, Alabama and South Texas can come close to the vibe that emanates from places like Alexandria, Crowley, Lake Charles and all the surrounding backwater towns. Dark back roads lined with run down bars and roadhouses where people work...
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