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Audiopile Review: Epic treasure trove of ambient and new age music from Mexico culled from a collection of cassettes and CDs issued through the ‘80s and ‘90s, lovingly co-curated by the blessed saints over at Séance Center and Smiling C. This isn’t either label’s first dalliance surveying the music of...
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Audiopile Review - After a string of digital-only singles (compiled recently by Tough Love), impossible to find cassettes and a highly limited lathe cut 7”, San Francisco group April Magazine issue what amounts to their debut album proper. Despite being a part of the seemingly never-ending supply of great bands...
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Audiopile Review - Another top tier ’90s electronic reissue from the Lapsus imprint and their Perennial Series, who have already bolstered our collections with new pressings of hard-to-find albums from the likes of Swayzak, Kettel and Cold Storage. This time around they’ve brought us Reflections, the 1994 debut from Kirk...
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Audiopile Review - Another ‘90s braindance classic gets its due—Bochum Welt’s Module 2, initially issued back in ’96 on Richard D. James’ beloved Rephlex Records. Arriving in the wake of artists like µ-Ziq, Squarepusher and, of course, Aphex Twin, Module 2 was a standout in a growing crowd that was...
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Audiopile Review - Regular readers will know we’re big fans of the minimalist composer Phill Niblock. He could achieve more with a single note than most artists achieve in a lifetime. All those shimmering, mind-bending overtones! Old Phill could do so much with so little, and we cannot get enough....
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Audiopile Review - By their nature, almost by definition, the most significant experimental electronic artists wilfully avoid doing the easy, obvious thing. Daniel Lopatin could have made a nice career repeating the analogue space-scapes of early Oneohtrix Point Never. Instead, he established himself as an Important Artist doing something much...
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Audiopile Review - In many cases, we’ll take ideas over execution, no question. Give us a spirited amateur over a jaded pro. But sometimes, the execution is so damn good it makes you realize the ideas are way better than you originally thought. A lazy critic might dismiss Montreal trio...
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Audiopile Review - After a 5 month wait since being sent into orbit upon hearing the digital-only release of ML Buch’s Suntub, we’re beyond ecstatic to have finally gripped the physical incarnation of this stunning album. Technically her second album, Skinned, the 2020 digital-only debut, got the ball rolling with...
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Audiopile Review - Nearly lost to time, the short-live San Jose outfit Ozean only issued a three track cassette in 1993 and played two live shows. The cassette may have been a nearly forgotten footnote in shoegaze if it wasn’t for Moon Sounds Records, who reissued the cassette as a...
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Audiopile Review: After a handful of singles under various pseudonyms (Mad Honey, Jambonne, GALXTC), the Dutch crew behind the Space Grapes imprint step into the dizzying light of the disco ball with their debut full-length as Another Taste. Much like the beloved singles that they were behind under their previous...
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Audiopile Review - Debut vinyl release for Daniel Aged, the in-demand studio musician who has amassed some crazy credits over the past few years, contributing to albums for the likes of Kelela, Frank Ocean, Yves Tumor, and FKA Twigs. He also came up alongside Sam Gendel in the LA improv/jazz/electronic...
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Audiopile Review - You’d be forgiven for missing the string of digital-only singles from Helen Island last year, one of the many projects of the somewhat mysterious Parisian producer Léopold Collin. The bottomless depths of Bandcamp and streaming outlets can make it difficult to find those artists who refuse to...
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Audiopile Review - Shop fave Joseph Shabason, ever the uber-collaborator, teams up once again with Ben Gunning, formerly of the Sloan-backed indie rock outfit Local Rabbits (the real 90s cancon heads will know). Holed up in Shabason’s studio with a pile of gear—synths, samplers, guitar, flute and sax—the duo piece...
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Audiopile Review - Dub reggae introduced an extraordinary new principle to music. Any given recording of a song could be reimagined in any number of ways. The arrival of sampling took this a quantum leap beyond. Now, fragments of any recorded sound could be recombined and recontextualized to infinity. These...
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Audiopile Review - The recent surge of interest in ‘90s trance continues on, and this time we’re treated to the first vinyl reissue of Juno Reactor’s epic 1997 full length, Bible Of Dreams. Taking off from the trance originators of the early ‘90s—recently documented in the excellent Planet Love comps...
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Audiopile Review - Active in the early days of the late ‘60s Brazilian bossa nova explosion, then eventually working with the likes of Jorge Ben, Gilberto Gil and Marco Valle, pianist & arranger Osmar Militio quietly issued Viagem in 1974, which arrived in the vibrant and exploratory world that came...
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Audiopile Review - Glenn Donaldson, the hardest working man in DIY indie rock, gifts us a new album under his beloved Reds, Pinks And Purples guise, his first of the year and likely not his last. For fans of Donaldson’s prolific project (8 full lengths in 5 years, plus a...
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Audiopile Review - Coming in hot off last week’s ROTW for Astrid Sonne’s ‘Great Doubt’, we’ve got the debut album from French-born, UK-based Vanessa Bedoret, who was on violin duty for Sonne’s recent UK tour. Instantly awestruck by Great Doubt, which quickly positioned itself in contention for a best-of 2024...
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Audiopile Review - Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal marks the first proper full length from Stars of the Lid co-founder Adam Wiltzie, though he’s certainly remained active over the decades with soundtrack work and other projects like The Dead Texan, Aix Em Klemm and A Winged Victory For The Sullen....
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Audiopile Review - Look, we’re going to level with you. We kinda lost track of Mount Kimbie after their delightfully danceable, dubstep-influenced debut ‘Crooks & Lovers’. These things happen. Maybe it was just impossible to imagine this UK duo maintaining the youthful verve of that debut. The rough edges of...
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Audiopile Review - Model 500. Classics. Is that not enough for you? Just buy it already! Okay, fine… Model 500 is Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins. This dude is one of the three people who literally invented techno (the other two being Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson). ‘Classic’ is a...
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Audiopile Review: NPVR was the duo of late Editions Mego founder Peter Rehberg and Nik Void of Factory Floor. ’33 34’ is a set of archival recordings made soon after the duo’s debut, ’33 33’. Both artists were extremely busy at the time, and initial plans to release these recording...
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Audiopile Review: Keplar is doing a phenomenal job of getting early-2000s glitch classics back into print. It was only a matter of time before the label turned its attention to Osaka’s Tujiko Noriko. And here’s a reissue of 2003’s ‘From Tokyo to Naiagara’. During the noughties, Tujiko was extremely productive,...
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Audiopile Review: Berlin’s Robert Lippok is a real glitch survivor. Perhaps best known as a member of glitchy post-rock trio To Rococo Rot, he also recorded for Alva Noto’s Raster-Noton label. And while glitch sank into the black hole of cool during the 2010s, he never went away, working extensively...
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Audiopile Review: Three new tapes from the Not Not Fun camp this week, though the highlight is surely the double cassette release from New Mexican Stargazers. Alongside one previous release on NNF, New Mexican Stargzers has been largely self releasing a continuous drip of tapes, very limited vinyl pressings and...
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Audiopile Review: Astrid Sonne, the Danish-born, London-based experimental composer, has deviated from the path of her prior three albums and landed with this extraordinary and idiosyncratic vision of pop music. While those previous albums (also new in stock this week) explored the textural collision between her eerie viola work, haunted...
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Audiopile Review: Huuuuge new comp from the blessed souls over at Blank Mind, taking us on a deep dive into the cushier end of the breakneck strains of UK techno during its ascendent ’91-94 period. The producers here, most of them well kept secrets or favourites of the connoisseur, sprung...
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Audiopile Review: While many of Dozzy’s previous solo outings relied on conceptual ideas, Magda is a return to the sprawling sound he perfected with his Voices From The Lake duo alongside Neel. Clearly paying homage to the world-building of the German kosmiche pioneers, Dozzy treats us to his version of...
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Audiopile Review: Juho Toivonen makes the logical leap over to Gothenburg outlet Discreet after his debut release on Ultraääni last year, his home-fi ambience a perfect fit for the label. Once again utilizing piano as his primary instrument, Toivonen’s cyclical lines bear a faint resemblance to Eno’s piano playing on...
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Audiopile Review: You might remember Wrecked Lightship from ‘Antiposition’, their Peak Oil album that we highlighted a little while back. Well, here they are again with a new vinyl edition of an album that predates ‘Antiposition’. To refresh your memory, Wrecked Lightship is an exploratory beat-making duo featuring dubstep legend...
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Audiopile Review: Glasgow producer Dip Friso dishes his newest album for his own Real Landscape imprint. The project is helmed by Murray Collier, who we last heard in the shop a few years back under his Sunny Balm guise, enrapturing us with its intricate rhythmic minimalism that shuffled up with...
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Audiopile Review: Bless, bless, bless Warp Records for enabling this ongoing reissue series which mines the copious vaults of Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound label. The many post-punk-dub-reggae projects helmed by Sherwood sound as primal and futuristic as they did a few decades ago. This latest set of reissues focuses on...
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Audiopile Review: Azimuth’s 1977 self-titled debut for the ECM label has received some rather unexpected attention in recent months. Long story short, Drake sampled it. Honestly, if he had to draw attention to something in ECM’s vast back catalogue, he could hardly have picked something more appropriate. Not only is...
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Audiopile Review: The first of three releases planned this spring by Greg Foat, Live at Can Rudayla, Ibiza kicks off the series with this completely improvised set that captures the synth voyager in a blissed mode alongside guitarist/bass player Sasha Galperin and the drum machine dialled in by Ash Robinson....
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Audiopile Review: We were not completely shocked last year when it was announced that André 3000’s debut album would be a jazz record. Considering his notable appearance on Carlos Niño’s collaborative album last year, (I’m Just) Chillin’, On Fire, alongside random public appearances playing his flute to passersby, this move,...
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Audiopile Review: Guitarist Bill Orcutt is hard to pin down. Even ‘guitarist’ fails to cover it, as Orcutt is also renowned for his advanced computer music skills. In the ‘90s, he played face-melting noise rock with Harry Pussy. More recently, he’s emerged as a next-level acoustic improviser. And so much...
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Audiopile Review: Mind-blowing live set from Alice Coltrane at the height of her powers, recorded just after the release of her landmark Journey In Satchidananda. Featuring the jaw-dropping lineup of Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Garrison, Cecil McBee, among others, Alice Coltrane leads the group through the first two tracks...
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Audiopile Review: This crate-diggers delight finally gets a first-time reissue since it’s initial 1970 pressing. Heavily sampled over the years, including notable flips from Cypress Hill, Ugly Duckling, Jay Dilla, Bustah Rhymes, O.C., and Vast Aire, Seasons has become a bit of a holy grail for the hip-hop DNA embedded...
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Audiopile Review: Norwegian saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Jan Garbarek epitomizes the ECM label’s established sunrise-over-the-fjords aesthetic. The piercing clarity of his tone and his ability to evoke awe-inspiring natural beauty are what people think of when they think of ECM. But Garbarek was also central to the label’s more avant-garde early...
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Audiopile Review: Marcus Brown, the unique voice and producer behind the Nourished by Time moniker, is back with his XL Recordings debut to prove that the explosive success of 2023’s "Erotic Probiotic 2" wasn't a one time deal. Much like its predecessor, "Catching Chickens" forges elements of 90s R&B, pop,...
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Audiopile Music: One of our favourite oddball entities from explosion of late ’00’s/early ’10’s garage and so-called “weird punk” (ugh, sorry for reminding you) bands are still at it, sounding somehow even more vital 18 years in. We have to admit, we lost track of them somewhere along the lines—oh,...
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Audiopile Review: At heart, Chicago footwork is a highly functional form of regional dance music. And yet, its frenetic 150bpm+ beats have always seemed inherently avant-garde to many heads. That’s presumably why it caught the ear of Gary, Indiana’s Jerrilynn Patton, aka Jlin. Because nobody has owned the avant aspects...
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Audiopile Review: A lot ‘90s UK post-rock heroes have been coming out of the woodwork recently. Heck, we even got a deluxe reissue of Moonshake’s era defining ‘Eva Luna’ (an essential purchase in case you do not already have it). But Mark Van Hoen never went away. Back in the...
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Audiopile Review: Coil’s ‘Moon’s Milk: In Four Phases’ will do strange things to your perception of time. Stop a second, though. Let’s start by going backwards. Given the relatively high profile their 1980s albums enjoyed at the time, those fearsome industrial works should still define Coil. But with the 1991...
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Audiopile Review: Coil’s ‘Moon’s Milk: In Four Phases’ will do strange things to your perception of time. Stop a second, though. Let’s start by going backwards. Given the relatively high profile their 1980s albums enjoyed at the time, those fearsome industrial works should still define Coil. But with the 1991...
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Audiopile Review: Norwegian imprint Jazzagression follow up their two recent albums from Greg Foat and Misha Panfilov with this striking debut from the Leeds-based Mu Quintet. Moving away from the faux-library styles of Foat & Panfilov, Summit is in line with the modal sound that we’re more familiar with from...
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Audiopile Review: Reissue of the first widely available album from Japanese-born, Brooklyn-based trumpeter Takuya Kuroda, which was initially issued on Blue Note back in 2014, quickly went OOP and has since ballooned in price online, with copies regularly going for $300 or more! Big thanks to a few of our...
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