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Audiopile Review: The duo of PLO Man and SnP 500 return with a quick turnaround after their debut 12” release, Seven Hundred And Fifty Loops, issued just a few months back. Now swinging for the fences with a triple pack that goes even further into the expansive minimal techno explored...
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Audiopile Review: After the surprising success of ML Buch’s Suntub—it was one of this shop’s best selling releases for 2024 and one of our most played albums in the shop—we’re now primed for a proper dissemination of her 2020 debut, Skinned, initially issued as digital-only release. Coming three years after...
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Audiopile Review: After selling out our initial batch on pre-order weeks before our copies even landed in the shop, Dregs’ self-titled LP, initially a CD-only release in 2023, gets a quick repress via Purely Physical. Following a similar route as fellow Melbourne/Naarm artists like Carla dal Forno and CS +...
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Audiopile Review: Alongside this week’s highlighted album by Dregs, Milan W.’s hyped new album was also sold out before landing in the shop, anxious customers banging down the door with an inescapable case of FOMO. As it’s been going these days, that resulted in the first pressing ballooning in price...
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Audiopile Review: Legendary trumpeter and cornetist Don Cherry had many important collaborations in his life. From a personal perspective, his artistic partnership with wife Moki was probably the most important. But most jazz heads would likely rate his membership of the Ornette Coleman Quartet as the most significant. For us,...
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Audiopile Review: Just the other week, we were decrying the fact that legendary underground hip-hop producer Madlib isn’t as ridiculously prolific as he used to be. There are some artists (such as the godlike Peter Hammill, just to pick an example completely at random) who demand full engagement. You must...
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Audiopile Review: Returning to Vegyn's Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds five years later, it’s easy to see why he’s become such a staple here in the shop. Between his standout 2024 effort The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions and his much adored work under the Headache moniker, Only...
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Audiopile Review: A welcome repress of a Brannten Schnüre rarity, a six-track seven-inch initially released back in 2020 via I Dischi Del Barone, the seven-inch exclusive sub-label of Discreet. Both the direct and spiritual connection to the Discreet/Gothenburg outlet is one that’s well established, the German duo stirring up an...
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Audiopile Review: You might have heard about this one. Tristwch y Fenywod caused a bit of a critical stir upon emerging onto the scene and has recently been popping up on some prestigious year-end lists. Indeed, The Quietus placed this UK three-piece’s debut album at number two in its albums...
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Audiopile Review: You might have heard about this one. Tristwch y Fenywod caused a bit of a critical stir upon emerging onto the scene and has recently been popping up on some prestigious year-end lists. Indeed, The Quietus placed this UK three-piece’s debut album at number two in its albums...
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Audiopile Review: Arriving only a few months after his release of sunset improvisations with Craig Weinrib (drums) and Dylan Day (guitar), Sam Wilkes returns with those two alongside Chris Fishman (Moog) and Thom Gill (guitar/keys) for a live album that expands on the ambient-jazz and drifting Americana deployed earlier this...
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Audiopile Review: You’ve gotta love any musician whose career is a baffling succession of curve-balls. Think of the godlike Peter Hammill following the angst-ridden prog of his early albums with the glam howl of ‘Nadir’s Big Chance’ before developing a startlingly individual proto-post-punk sound. And think of Bill Orcutt, whose...
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Audiopile Review: Following on quickly from his co-release with Alliyah Enyo, Selkie Reflections, Florian T M Zeisig issues a debut proper for his Angel R guise, landing back on the Enmossed imprint for this highly limited run. Wildly busy with various projects, including operating as one half of ambient oddballs...
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Audiopile Review: Been a dang minute since we’ve gotten any new material from Will Long’s ongoing Long Trax series, so we’re happy to have a new two-tracker, which is actually a primer for the upcoming Long Trax 4, due early next year. For anyone out there who...
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Audiopile Review: Regular readers of this here humble email might recall the name Paul Cousins and his highlighted Vanishing Artefacts LP, released last year via Castles In Space, the imprint also behind this newest effort. His obsession with the ephemeral nature of tape continues onward with the appropriately titled Oxide...
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Audiopile Review: In what’s become a big week for smeared ambience and reality bending loops, Vancouver producer Daniel Majer drops a significant LP after a tape on Isla and a split release with fellow local producer Jonathan Scherk released on Jan Jelinek’s esteemed Faitiche imprint. Further refining his sample-based production,...
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Audiopile Review: Oh yeah, that bit of the 90s where people were into 50s exotica records, Beach Boys-related west coast 60s pop, and 70s soft rock. What was all that about, and how would it stand up today? Well, in the case of Sean O’Hagan’s High Llamas, extraordinarily well. O’Hagan...
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Audiopile Review: Oh yeah, that bit of the 90s where people were into 50s exotica records, Beach Boys-related west coast 60s pop, and 70s soft rock. What was all that about, and how would it stand up today? Well, in the case of Sean O’Hagan’s High Llamas, extraordinarily well. O’Hagan...
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Audiopile Review: Wolfgang Voigt is obviously best known for the arboreal dub-techno of Gas. This is understandable, as Gas is one of those rare musical projects that manage to be hugely influential while remaining utterly unique. Voigt’s work outside the Gas giant is less well-known. This is a shame, because...
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Audiopile Review: We Are Busy Bodies answer our pleas to have MIDI Janitor’s Holy To Dogs cassette pressed to vinyl, arriving a mere six months after it’s initial appearance. A Christmas miracle, some may say. But Holy To Dogs was far too good to be left out of print and...
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Audiopile Review: New imprint Feedback Waves materializes with a first time vinyl reissue of Palomatic’s 1995 release, Trill, which lands a month after Music From Memory’s jaw-dropping survey of ambient-techno and IDM culled from the fertile Japanese scene of the early ‘90s. The inclusion of Palomatic’s “Flutter”, which kicks off...
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Audiopile Review: When it comes to navigating a sustainable career in music, Darren ‘Actress’ Cunningham seems incapable of steering a straight path. Cunningham gained massive critical acclaim for his unique mixture of techno, dubstep, and glitch on albums like ‘Splashz’ (2010) and R.I.P. (2012). Becoming a prominent voice in the...
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Audiopile Review: He’ll turn 90 next year, but first-generation minimalist composer Terry Riley has never been more relevant. His mixture of hypnotic repetition, spiritually minded improvisation, space-faring electronics, and proto-new age mysticism ties in with any number of contemporary trends. He remains most famous for ‘In C’ and ‘A Rainbow...
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Audiopile Review: Stumbled across this one in the depths of an Instagram scroll recently, a post of someone gripping what appeared to be a bootlegged cassette edition of Andre 3000’s ambient-jazz surprise hit, New Blue Sun. Further inspection led us to a Bandcamp that told the story of deep, medicated...
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Audiopile Review: Showstopping physical debut from Australian producer 990x, whose previous digital-only releases were heady sojourns into a syrupy interworld suspended between thunderous trap beats and glossy vaporwave textures. 990x slides neatly into the Sferic family, his billowing ambient hip-hop make a ton of sense next to albums by label...
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Audiopile Review: Huge shout out to Warp Records for helping get so much of the On-U Sound catalogue back into print. It’s noticeable that this ongoing reissue series has gone beyond heavy hitters like African Head Charge and Dub Syndicate to explore lesser-known corners of On-U’s vault. This is very...
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Audiopile Review: 12th Isle round out their quiet 2024 with a new LP from the long-running Fan Club Orchestra, a Belgian unit active for the past quarter century, issuing albums for the Mouse On Mars associated Sonig, among others. While earlier outings could be chaotic affairs of DIY-informed IDM or...
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Audiopile Review: Somewhere Press chase a pair of dreamtime passages from Slowfoam and Alliyah Enyo & Angel R (aka Florian T M Zeisig) with a new LP from Estonian producer/vocalist Man Rei (Kristin Reiman). In a major year of dreampop exploration, Man Rei falls even deeper into an ether that’s...
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Audiopile Review: The turn of the century was a rebirth period for underground hip-hop. The flurry of major label distributed independent labels and various subsidiaries that popped up through the ‘90s had mostly died off as hip-hop moved into the mainstream, the majors focusing more and more on sure shots...
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Audiopile Review: We tend to think of guitarist Jeff Parker as the guy who replaced David Pajo in Tortoise. But we’re idiots, and here’s why. First, Parker and Pajo were in Tortoise at the same time, duh (they played together on ‘TNT’). But much more than that, Parker’s career has...
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Audiopile Review: There’s an argument to be made that 1994 was the best year in hip-hop. Alongside Illmatic, Ready To Die, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, Hard To Earn, Blowout Comb, 6 Feet Deep, Between A Rock and a Hard Place, and Tical, Organized Konfusion’s sophomore LP, Stress: The Extinction Agenda, is in the...
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Audiopile Review: The wildly rare 1978 Moondog LP, “H’Art Songs” (a combination of Art Songs and his last name, Hardin), is mercifully reissued for the first time since it’s quiet appearance almost 50 years ago. Outside of the cheeky “Enough About Human Rights!”, which was included on Honest Jon’s fantastic...
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Audiopile Review: Portland’s Concentric Circles follow this year’s domestic reissue of the incredible Sternpost LP with a deep find from the cobwebbed closet of 1980’s DIY Olympia. So wildly obscure that barely a whiff of this seems to exist on the internet outside of this specific pressing, which makes all...
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Audiopile Review: We did not see this coming. Obviously, we’re not surprised to be hearing yet another new album by glitch legend Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto. Dude is as prolific as the godlike Peter Hammill, just to pick an example at random. And he’s consistent, so we’re not surprised...
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Audiopile Review: The third member of the trio who helped shape André 3000’s New Blue Sun, multi-instrumentalist Nate Mercereau, joins his collaborators in a 2024 victory lap with his own solo album, plunging even deeper than the releases we’ve already heard this year from Surya Botofasina and Carlos Niño. Created...
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Audiopile Review: What’s likely to be the final release this year from Blod (but who knows!), the decade-long project from Sweden’s Gustaf Dicksson, is also one of the more perplexingly straight forward that we’ve encountered, particularly after the abstracted tape crunching collab with Shadow Pattern released just prior. Gathering a...
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Audiopile Review: Black Star AND Madlib? In THIS economy??? Regular readers will probably have guessed we were going to say that. But we could have gone with: “Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) AND Talib Kweli AAAND Madlib etc.” That would surely give you some appreciation of the economically unviable level...
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Audiopile Review: Somewhat overlooked during our current revaluation of ‘90s electronic music, Robert Leiner, probably best known under his Source Experience moniker, was nonetheless an impactful figure of the beloved era, landing smack dab in the middle of that great collision between post-rave techno, early IDM and chill out room...
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Audiopile Review: We normally try to avoid reading the official record-company write-up before we start telling you about an album. But we couldn’t help catching a glimpse of the opening gambit on 4AD’s press release for the new Kim Deal album. “WAIT IN THE CAR! Kim’s got *business*.” That should...
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Audiopile Review: Kranky is a vintage label that seems more relevant than ever. In a world where all that was solid has melted into air, the ambient post-rock of acts like Labradford and Stars of the Lid seems distinctly prescient. One of Kranky’s foundational inspirations was the ECM label, which...
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Audiopile Review: Vancouver’s extremely active and engaged experimental electronic music scene stretches back at least to the 1990s. But a lot of the activity has happened live, with releases coming in a piecemeal fashion, if at all. With the arrival of cassette label Hotham Sound around 2016, Vancouver’s bleepy bloopy...
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Audiopile Review: Silent Season sub-label Moon Garden strikes quickly after their opening volley from Japanese producer Silentwave, a deep listening ambient album issued on cassette this past summer. With the smaller sized formats as Moon Garden’s preference thus far, their second offering is a 7” single from the German duo...
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Audiopile Review: New pressing of a Jon Collin LP that was issued earlier this year via Italian boutique imprint Laboratorio Palestro in a tiny edition of 100 copies. We blinked and missed that one. Most of you did.Thankfully Collin himself has done a quick reissue on his own imprint Early...
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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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