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Audiopile Review: With a helping hand from Diego Herrera (aka Suzanne Kraft), Aiden Ayers, fellow Pender Street Stepper Liam Butler and official Mood Hut saxophonist Linda Fox, Jack J doubles down on the sun-kissed sophisticated pop of his debut with a followup that just might best it. Across Blue Desert...
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Audiopile Review: In the early 90s, Sebadoh quickly grew from lo-fi beginnings to something resembling alt rock stardom. At the same time, Lou Barlow and pals were never afraid to scream “WE WILL BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS” before launching into some weird tape collage. Still, there’s...
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Audiopile Review: For those who were taken aback by the Sternpost’s Ulrika, which we had highlighted earlier this year, prepare yourself for the newest release from Testbild!, the long-running project spearheaded by Petter Herbertsson, who also doubles as Sternpost. With the recent underground success of Ulrika (the original pressing now...
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Audiopile Review: Music From Memory chase recent full length debuts from Contours, Tim Koh & Sun An and Total Blue with another premier transmission, this one courtesy of Dead Sound, a duo comprised of a pair of MFM mainstays—vocalist John Moods, who last collab’d with The Zenmenn, and Young Marco,...
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Audiopile Review: Sound Migration, the collaborative label between German imprints Sound Metaphors and Transmigration, keep their outflow of “synthetic dancefloor productions from the 90s” going with a first-time reissue of the early trance cult classic from SYT (Shave Yer Tongue), the lone album released by the UK act. After initially...
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Audiopile Review: Saying that Juan Atkins is a techno legend… Well, that’s obviously an understatement. He is one of the Belleville Three, after all. And, as such, he is one of the people who undeniably invented techno. His work with Cybotron and those classic Model 500 12”s helped set the...
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Audiopile Review: You ever listen to Aphex Twin’s ‘Richard D. James Album’ and wish it sounded just a little less like he was taking the piss? Like, yeah, those melodies are very pretty, and those beats are ingenious, but it all sounds like it’s happening through a thin veil of...
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Audiopile Review: Another classy dose of spacey techno and bouncy electro from Dan Piu, who rounds out his loose trilogy of releases for the Childhood Intelligence imprint with The Mystic Mind. With a lineage that reaches back to Gerard Hanson’s Convextion & ERP projects and the flightier end of Drexciya,...
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Audiopile Review: The tenth anniversary of Oren Ambarchi’s ‘Quixotism’? We’re gonna skip having that make us feel old and go straight to enjoying the reminder of this great album. Ambarchi made his name with his starkly minimal solo releases on Touch. But the big group blowouts he went on to...
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Audiopile Review: Absolute jaw dropper from Texan producer Gi Gi, who strikes quickly after Sunchoke, his 2023 trance induction on the Good Morning Tapes imprint, which instantly put him on the must-watch list here at the shop. And Gi Gi does not disappoint. Returning to the NYC Quiet Time Tapes...
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Audiopile Review: Say what you like about genres and sub-genres, but they can prevent some important artists being lost to history. You might argue that ‘fourth world’ is not even a type of music, it’s just a term Jon Hassell invented to describe his irreverent avant exotica. Maybe it covers...
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Audiopile Review: Eternal shop fave RAMZi follows up her 2023 Feu Follets release with a new full length, once again issued on her own imprint, FATi. It’s taken most of a decade, but the rest of the world has finally caught up to her primal blend of house-via-fourth world dance-offs,...
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Audiopile Review: In recent years, Los Angeles-born, Berlin-based Jake Muir has emerged as one of the most compelling voices echoing around that deeply conceptual end of the experimental electronic underground. ‘Enmixed’ is essentially a DJ mix drawing exclusively from releases on the enmossed label. But Muir makes the material his...
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Audiopile Review: Strong missive of balearic-tinged electronica and dream-dub rock moves from a new LA outfit made up of players that include members of Mi Ami, Suzanne Kraft and Geo Rip (Trilogy Tapes). With an urge to colour outside any strict genre lines, the trio slip into hedonistic grooves and...
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Audiopile Review: At the front of the ongoing resurgence of dub and pressurized bass exploration is Jay Glass Dubs, who has been tweaking the sound for most of the last decade. After issuing lusted after releases for Bokeh Versions, Ecstatic, Origin Peoples, and The Tapeworm, the skids have been greased...
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Audiopile Review: The Japanese underground is often portrayed as a place of extremes. On the one hand, you have the mind melting Japanoise of Merzbow and Aube. On the other, the ramshackle indie pop of Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Nagisa Ni Te. But there seems to be a spot...
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Audiopile Review: London collective Ill Considered offer up their newest LP after a quiet few years, though, to be fair, most of the current lineup have been busy with other projects, including shop faves Unknown To Known and Wildflower. While Ill Considered are based in one of the major centres...
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Audiopile Review: Phil Elverum faced a daunting task following The Microphones in 2020, his masterful 40+ minute autobiographical return to a long-abandoned name. Now, pivoting back to his Mount Eerie alias, Elverum draws us closer to the varied untethered experimental spirit of his early work as The Microphones, contrasting with...
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Audiopile Review: During The Fall’s lifespan, Mark E. Smith released countless live CDs on his own Cog Sinister label. In recent years, many (if not most) of these have appeared on vinyl, as have sundry questionable, grey-area releases. To take control of the situation, ex-Fall members Paul Hanley, Steve Hanley,...
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Audiopile Review: Double shot from the Finnish spiritual/free jazz imprint Ultraääni, who continue to shine a light on their home country’s vibrant and ever-expanding scene, this time issuing a pair of up-and-coming outfits who are both making their debuts here. First up is the newest ensemble from Lauritz Lyster Skeidsvoll,...
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Audiopile Review: Double shot from the Finnish spiritual/free jazz imprint Ultraääni, who continue to shine a light on their home country’s vibrant and ever-expanding scene, this time issuing a pair of up-and-coming outfits who are both making their debuts here. First up is the newest ensemble from Lauritz Lyster Skeidsvoll,...
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Audiopile Review: Surya Botofasina returns to Spiritmuse for his newest album, which feels like a bit of a victory lap after his triumphant work on Andre 3000’s spiritual jazz opus New Blue Sun, as well as this year’s Subtle Movements LP on Leaving, his three-way collab with longtime cohorts Nate...
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Audiopile Review: With humble beginnings in the cassette underground, Japanese house producer Soshi Takeda has been on an incredible ascent that has recently seen his initial run of three cassettes reissued to vinyl. And now 100% Silk have banked on his this widening appreciation with a jump straight to vinyl...
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Audiopile Review: Swedish minimalist composer Catherine Christer Hennix (1948-2023) remains one of those artists who make a nonsense of cultural gatekeeping. Ye olde critical discourse tends to define art as either Apollonian (brainy and severe) or Dionysian (wild and crazy). In music, you’ve got classical, which is brainy, and rock’n’roll,...
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Audiopile Review: Some of the most evocative reissues feature music most people would not have heard at the time. Sometimes, the cult figures and also-rans evoke an era better than the instantly recognizable megastars. That’s why every new archival reissue from the vault of space-disco maestro Patrick Cowley is such...
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Audiopile Review: Robert Rental, like his erstwhile collaborator Thomas Leer, is remembered as a pioneer of bedroom synth pop. But Rental and Leer emerged from the post-Throbbing Gristle industrial scene. And as anyone who’s heard side B of their classic duo album ‘The Bridge’ will tell you, they could get...
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Audiopile Review: Joseph Kamaru aka KMRU has been one of the most intriguing experimental electronic artists of recent years. When KMRU appeared on the scene, the fact that he came from Kenya was certainly part of the intrigue. But the consistent brilliance of his work meant that any spurious novelty...
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Audiopile Review: There’s a certain, shall we say, distrust of expertise out there these days. Grumpy skeptics might want to lend their ears to ‘Dew Point Harmonics’, the delightful new album from UK-based producer Luke Sanger. There are plenty of IDM-influenced ambient albums floating around, but Sanger’s expertise really elevates...
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Audiopile Review: Stop the press! We did not see this one coming. You may have noticed that we’re very enthusiastic about ECM’s Luminescence reissue series. And yet, it somehow escaped our notice that said series was set to include a first-time-on-vinyl edition of Annette Peacock’s astonishing ‘An Acrobat’s Heart’. Peacock...
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Audiopile Review: Melbourne’s CS + Kreme quickly established one-to-watch status. The duo’s 2020 LP, ‘Snoopy’, had real ‘what is this even?’ appeal. It was the type of record that provokes a strong but confused reaction. Is this the kind of music I like? Is it ambient IDM? Old school post-rock?...
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Audiopile Review: Big week for the ambient crowd! Shop faves Ulla & Perila drop a 2xLP set that is also the first album that the long-time collaborators have recorded together while in the same space (imagine that!) after years of digital-only correspondence. Jazz Plates is the duo’s intimate take on...
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Audiopile Review: First brought to our attention way back in 2017 via PAN’s ambient compilation Mono No Aware—which featured fellow up and comers like Yves Tumor, Flora Yin-Wong, Kareem Lofty and James K—the French experimentalist Malibu has since maintained a bit of a low profile, quietly releasing Palaces Of Pity...
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Audiopile Review: Slint’s Tweez hits the 35 year mark and slams back into the world with this newly remastered edition. An album ripe for reappraisal, Tweez has lived in the shadow of Spiderland for much of the last three decades, suffering a similar fate as albums like Isn’t Anything,...
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Audiopile Review: Well timed reissue of Rodan’s lone studio album, a record that surely wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for the dust kicked up prior by fellow Kentuckians Slint, who also celebrate an anniversary this week of their debut LP. Borrowing just as much from Tweez as they would...
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Audiopile Review: Slint’s Tweez hits the 35 year mark and slams back into the world with this newly remastered edition. An album ripe for reappraisal, Tweez has lived in the shadow of Spiderland for much of the last three decades, suffering a similar fate as albums like Isn’t Anything, Pod,...
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Audiopile Review: We live in an age of instant access to unlimited musical inspiration. It’s hard to believe that a small hardcore of seminal artists drove the pre-post-punk underground. Some of these artists have gotten lost in the abundance and no longer have the stature they deserve, most obviously...
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Audiopile Review: We live in an age of instant access to unlimited musical inspiration. It’s hard to believe that a small hardcore of seminal artists drove the pre-post-punk underground. Some of these artists have gotten lost in the abundance and no longer have the stature they deserve, most obviously...
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Audiopile Review: There’s a tendency for the Basic Channel/Rhythm & Sound duo to be portrayed as a legacy act. It’s true that Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus pretty much invented dub techno in the 90s and early-2000s. But they’ve also continued to produce excellent, innovative work ever since. Notably,...
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Audiopile Review: Basque experimental-punk and free-jazz artist Iker Munduate makes a drastic shift away from his roots, embarking on this maiden voyage under his own name that tills the fertile territory of Japanese Environmental music. Munduate joins an ever-growing crowd of Environmental Music devotees—Unknown Me, Green-House and Oval Angle are...
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Audiopile Review: The legend of producer Manfred Eicher’s ECM label was established early on, with a diverse run of avant-garde jazz releases in the 70s. As ECM moved into the 80s, it became increasingly associated with an atmospheric ambient jazz sound, which has never been more relevant. The label’s...
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Audiopile Review: Malmö, Sweden-based producer Golden Ivy (Ivar Lantz) has his two beloved LPs for the Malmö Inre imprint repressed for the first time since their initial limited appearances a half decade back. You’d be forgiven for missing these the first time around, limited edition runs (120 for Monika, 250...
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Audiopile Review: Music From Memory follow-up their triumphant Virtual Dreams comp with a second volume that zeroes in on the concurrent and wildly fecund Japanese IDM, ambient-techno and chill out scene of the’ 90s. While the first volume contained names familiar to even those who may only dabble...
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Audiopile Review: Only a week since we listed the Hiding Places reissue, the 2019 billy woods LP alongside producer Kenny Segal, we’re treated to the newest full length from ELUCID. While Backwoodz has been centered around reissuing the sought after back catalog of the extended Armand Hammer universe, Fat Possum...
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Audiopile Review: Only a week since we listed the Hiding Places reissue, the 2019 billy woods LP alongside producer Kenny Segal, we’re treated to the newest full length from ELUCID. While Backwoodz has been centered around reissuing the sought after back catalog of the extended Armand Hammer universe, Fat Possum...
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Audiopile Review: Western psyche rock groups often nodded to some vague idea of ‘far-eastern spirituality’. Japan’s High Rise turned this on its head by having songs called things like ‘Eucharist’ and ‘Deuteronomy’. You really notice the songs titles with this group because the same ones come up repeatedly across its...
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Audiopile Review: The original UK post-rock scene was largely based in London, but it had outposts in Birmingham (Broadcast, Pram, Scorn) and Glasgow (Mogwai, Long Fin Killie). A scene also developed in Bristol, and it was a scene that clearly reflected that city’s fierce independence from the capital. Bristol post-rock...
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Audiopile Review: While its been almost a decade since their last album proper, Shearing Pinx, the Nanaimo-via-Vancouver DIY lifers, awaken from a slumber with one of their most invigorating and potent full lengths since they spawned from the pot-holed alleys East Vancouver almost two decades back. The group, which still...
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Audiopile Review: A key figure in the US experimental underground, Alex Cobb issued dozens of titles during the mid 00’s under his Taiga Remains moniker, though his work running the Students of Decay label for the past two decades is likely how most would have crossed his paths. While the...
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