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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...
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Audiopile Review: <span data-sheets-root="1" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Brian Eno, it seems, is widely considered a compiler of other people’s ideas and a curator of other people’s talent. That view does little justice to the beauty of his solo music or the brilliance of his best production work. Furthermore, even when Eno is functioning...
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Audiopile Review: If you’re among the growing legion of glitch connoisseurs, you’ll probably recall that Microstoria was a duo of Markus Popp of Oval and Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars. Those in the know will tell you Microstoria is objectively better than either Oval or Mouse on Mars....
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Audiopile Review: One of the best releases on Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder imprint is Lapalux’s 2013 debut album. The British producer was physically far removed from the LA beat scene that initially populated the influential imprint, but FlyLo himself was quick to notice that Lapalux had his own unique take on...
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Atte Elias Kantonen is a composer and sound designer based in Helsinki, Finland. a path with a name follows well-received releases on Mappa and Active Listeners Club, and finds Kantonen expanding the scope of his dynamic and idiosyncratic practice. Here, he places his listeners within an auditive diorama, affording them...
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From his appearance on Alan Watts’ This Is It to his epic piece on I Am The Center, the prolific Joel Andrews is the suzerain of new age harp. And what Vision Songs is to Laraaji’s catalog, Paradise Bird is for Joel Andrews — the outlier, the beautiful odd one;...
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Sasu Ripatti presents the fifth and last volume in his Dancefloor Classics series. Music for imaginary dancefloors, released on Ripatti's own label "Rajaton". Dancefloor Classics Vol. 5 by Dancefloor Classics...
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Vladislav Delay presents the fifth and last EP in his Hide Behind The Silence series. Intuitive and raw music, momentary and reflective, released on Ripatti's own label "Rajaton". "Stillness is a myth. Consider concepts such as 'still water', or 'still air' for that matter . . . It's filled with...
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The LA-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Nailah Hunter has been recording mystical folk and ambient-inspired music since 2019, releasing a series of singles and two EPs: Spells and, most recently, Quietude. Now signed to Fat Possum, Lovegaze is Hunter’s debut full-length, an enthralling album that draws listeners into her enchanting cosmology....
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Transmigration celebrates the 20th release milestone with a repress of Coil's The Snow EP. Released as a promotional single for the 1991 album Love's Secret Domain, it marks the influential groups closest brush with the dance floor. Featuring a set of remixes from Peter Christopherson, Jack Dangers and an early...
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Audiopile Review: <span data-sheets-root="1" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A recurring theme around here is the phenomenon of the artists who are so consistently brilliant it’s almost annoying. You know the type: every album is great and just different enough from the last that you’ve gotta get it. It’s a good problem to have, as...
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How should we manage the distance between ourselves and others? I observe myself feeling isolated and yet not wanting to get close to others, and I fall into confusion. What is it to want to connect with others? And likewise, what is it to not to want to? There are...
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What is it that "human" means now? In our current society the existence of truth and value has become obscured. What should we possibly strive for? Until recent years it was possible to see the structure of society and culture in the balance of capitalism and socialism. However, slowly, the...
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Live From The Gonsch showcases Sydney head (and O.T.I.S. label boss) Hugh Burridge aka Hugh B’s lesser known domestic dub mode, low-slung and low volume, tracked on headphones during hidden hours, often with his daughter strapped to his chest. The album’s eight cuts are built from rhythmic modular loops layered...
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Itinerant journeyman Phil Geraldi has hitched and hustled from Humboldt Bay to Brooklyn to Portlandia and beyond, working in a variety of guises both artistic (cathode noise project Mystics In Bali, farmhouse show coordinator at Arcata’s Mex N’ Wow, mystic mixtape maker) and survivalist (bike courier, sex shop custodian, apartment...
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Drapizdat is the umbrella banner for Russian producer Vladislav Godzevich’s rogue gallery of musical identities. Its name derives from a fusion of samizdat (illegally reproduced publications of censored materials within repressive regimes) and drap (slang for marijuana; an early beat music alias was Papa Drap), which aptly evokes his ethos...
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Paradisal axe master Marat Shainsky returns with a fresh 13-song suite of mantric jangle and coastal guitar instrumentals ripe for a world in need of cool breeze: Sequentia. Bleached bedroom cruisers, faded synth skylines, city pop miniatures, stereo organ bops, and sparkling ambient percolations weave in wide arcs across 53-minutes...
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2023 repress. "...and at the heart of Bitchin Bajas, there is pure peace. Bitchin Bajas have been around the world in five years; chasing sonics through space and time and coming up with a lot of conclusions along their discographical path. Always, they push forward, recklessly consuming processes in order...
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In 1983, Dieter Moebius (Cluster) and legendary producer Conny Plank teamed up for the third time, resulting in the Zero Set project. On this occasion, they were backed up by one of the best drummers on the German rock scene: Mani Neumeier of Guru Guru. Moebius had got to know...
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Inner Roads and Outer Paths is Herefordshire born Vic Mars’ third release on Clay Pipe Music. It follows last years ‘The Soundtrack To The Hospice’ commissioned by Gideon Coe for BBC 6 Music, and 2015s critically acclaimed ‘The Land and the Garden’. Inspired by in part by Alfred Watkins words...
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Palestre is a study of higher-dimensional spaces and altered states of consciousness. It explores parallel dimensions and temporal anomalies from a perspective that blends mythology, modern physics, ADHD, transcendental music and club culture. Sciogli Assurdi was recorded between art galleries, clubs, squats, and folkloric festivities in 2018. <iframe style="border: 0;...
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It’s Only a Matter of Acceleration Now is dedicated to the great Binvanga Wainaina, whose July 2014 Chimurenga story the title derives from. It’s Only a Matter of Acceleration Now by Lamin Fofana...
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Mbalax is a genre of dance music that is primarily performed in Senegal and The Gambia. Here we have re-interpretations of the mesmerizing master drumming rhythms from Holy Tongue, Beatrice Dillon, Lamin Fofana and LABOUR. Holy Tongue (Al Wootton, Susumu Mukai, Valentina Magaletti) take things in a heavy...
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Known for his viral video series “Sexta dos Crias”, Ramon Sucesso is a virtuosic DJ who crushes, reimagines and rearranges songs to such a degree that the original tracks become virtually unrecognizable. He has turned his controller into a particle accelerator, creating firework-like bursts of classic funk carioca samples, his...
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‘Dave Cudlip’s debut album, inaugurating the highly promising, experimental label Klang Tone (spawn of the estimable Stroud record shop): a stunning and unique combination of ethereal ambient soundscapes, undulating rhythms, and atonal sound collage, with Harmonia and Autechre looming amongst its forebears.’
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The Chemical Brothers returned in 1999 with their third album, Surrender. Highlights include "Hey Boy Hey Girl", "Let Forever Be", "Out of Control", and "Music: Response". Surrender received a ton of hype based on its superstar guest appearances, and none more historically relevant than "Out of Control" with New Order's...
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If you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears), you also took home Plantasia, an album recorded especially for plants. Subtitled “warm earth music for plants…and the people that...
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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...
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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...
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Audiopile Review: The fifth volume in Andrés self-titled series of albums finally lands after a 4+ year wait since IV, which, once again, comes courtesy of Moodymann’s Mahogani Records imprint. While Andrés is best known for his seemingly endless string of 12”s that cover everything from disco edits,...
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Audiopile Review: Drone overlord Phill Niblock with guitar noise orchestrator Rhys Chatham on flute and vocals? How did we not know these two legends of New York’s downtown new music scene had worked together in 1972? Heck, we did not even know Phill Niblock had started composing music back then....
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Audiopile Review: Absolutely blissed new album from Martin Glass, who hasn’t been seen on the physical format since his 2017 sleeper hit The Pacific Visions Of Martin Glass, now fetching some notable sums on you-know-where. While his first album was indebted to the plastic grooves of City Pop threaded through...
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The Scandal of Time' bookends a prolific period of experimentation for Sam Shackleton and follows a raft of collaborations (with Wacław Zimpel, Heather Leigh and Scotch Rolex this year alone) with what amounts to his first new solo album since 2021’s ‘Departing Like Rivers’. It might also be his most...
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Following from a.s.o. 's self-titled LP, we have a set of remixes taking their trip-hop torch songs in new and different directions. Under his Lew E moniker, Lewie Day takes 'Go On' for a trip to trance-town. Brooding minor key menace as Alia Seror-O'Neill's melancholic vocal gets twisted into strange...
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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...
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Before electronic dance music blossomed and bloomed in the late 1980s and came to dominate the British club scene in the 1990s and beyond, house parties and dances were dominated by radically different sounds - from reggae and soul to funk and boogie. Like Death is Not the End's rave...
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This is a presentation of Xexa's different sensibilities as a composer, musician and sound designer, mapping what are in effect her initial explorations with voice, rhythms, synths, ambience, ever searching for an organic final result. As a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) between 2019 and...
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Double LP version. The Black Dog's highly regarded album, Radio Scarecrow, is now remastered and re-issued on Dust Science, 15 years after its original release on Soma Records. Two years of constant development culminated in a masterpiece that flows delightfully and hits hard. Marking a true progression from the band's...
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Mule Musiq welcomes British producer Jimmy Wallace, presenting his debut album Red, Yellow, Black -- a nine-track strong record that partly leaves the dancefloor behind. Wallace has performed with artists like Ruf Dug, Mr Scruff, and Bradley Zero, heating up the dance floors. As a producer he has already released...
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Double LP version. Over the past 24 years, Scott Monteith's Deadbeat project has spanned a dizzying array of musical references and genres, exploring everything from left-field reggae to downbeat experiments, purifying drone excursions and ambient noise, extranational percussion workouts, and hypnotic techno and house. On his first solo album in...
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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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The story of this unexpected collaboration dates back to the summer and autumn of 1998 when Bryn Jones AKA Muslimgauze, the politically conscious music genius from Manchester, discovered Species Of Fishes' albums through the Dutch label Staalplaat. Jones embarked on a journey of reinventing the Muscovites’ tracks, infusing them with...
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With Scream If You Don’t Exist, Richie Culver metamorphoses from outsider musician to underground fixture, feeling his way from the fringes towards a growing community of musicians that have gravitated towards his singular sound world. Building upon the stark catharsis of his previous dispatches, on his sophomore album the artist...
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After his first album on BLESSYOU "Turquoise", Mogwaa aka Seungyoung Lee from Seoul is back with another stellar contribution this time re-visiting his earlier days of musical appreciation in Reggae music. This album is another entirely instrumental work with 8 tracks, effortlessly displaying his confidence in the studio when it...
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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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Decades since his slew of LPs for AFX’s label, Jonathan Taylor’s Global Goon sticks to what he does best with the satisfyingly curdled and sloshing acid-electro-nica functions of ‘Nanoclusters’. The eight tracks mostly hold to a squlechy mid-tempo bounce that really does it for us. Comparisons with Analord classic are...
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Batu returns to A Long Strange Dream for a deep dive into otherworldly ambient soundscapes, after infusing his interest in beatless forms in recent releases. Drawing inspiration from the ambiance of chill-out rooms and their ability to channel the intense emotions of rave, he presents an entrancing voyage into post-euphoria,...
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Water Sign finds Brin (aka Colin Blanton) further exploring the slippery world of nanosample bio-techno he’s been researching. As Brin continues to catalogue these ideas, patterns continue to emerge and dissolve into the amorous mesh of tactile audio data; built using sensory percussion and samples, these rivulets of audio spiral,...
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