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Audiopile Review: In what’s shaping up to be an incredible run for Organic Pulse Ensemble, the one-man band made up of the wildly talented Gustav Horneij chases a pair of near-perfectly executed spiritual jazz juggernauts for Ultraääni, plus an instantly sold-out 10” EP for Jazzagression, with a new album that...
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Audiopile Review: Independent jazz imprints RR Gems and Ultraääni have a lot of crossover appeal for connoisseurs of contemporary jazz, the two labels trading off releases between like-minded acts in an inspiring display of mutual love and appreciation that conjures the communal spirit of independent jazz labels of 70 years...
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Audiopile Review: Those of you who only know Mazzy Star from ‘So Tonight That I Might See’ are in for a shock. Sure, that album’s great. And, yes, we love ‘Fade Into You’. But ‘So Tonight…’ is honestly the band’s third-best album, after ‘She Hangs Brightly’ and ‘Among My Swan’,...
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Audiopile Review: When is pop truly sophisticated? No shade on sophistipop per se acts like The Blue Nile and Prefab Sprout. We love them. But there’s another stratum of sophisticated pop acts where the sheen is often less shiny but the musical and lyrical content is arguably more truly sophisticated....
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Audiopile Review: Absolute bliss-out session from the long-running ambi-folk project of Dutch musician Jonny Nash. Arriving a couple of years since his Point Of Entry album, Nash slips into a balearic-zoner after the ghostly shimmer-folk of its predecessor, lazily waltzing towards sunnier pastures this time around. Circular guitar lines lazily...
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Audiopile Review: Despite being one of the most influential and flat-out-best experimental electronic artists of the 21st-century, Christian Fennesz keeps an oddly low profile these days. You might even have missed his excellent 2024 album ‘Mosaic’, particularly as the Touch label only put it out on CD. The sole vinyl...
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Audiopile Review: Long-awaited vinyl edition of Salamanda’s 2nd album, 2021’s magnificent and sorely overlooked Sphere. Initially released only on cassette and CD, the album disappeared between the cracks of their splashy debut for Good Morning Tapes and the widely praised pairing of Ashblakum and In Parallel. Japanese imprint Plancha satiate...
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Audiopile Review: Back to back winners from Dutch producer Mammo, who follows up the very recently highlighted 2x12” under his Fabiano guise with his first full length under his most notorious moniker. With about a dozen 12”s as Mammo and various ungoogleable pseudonyms (2301, 2302, 2401, A∞x, CoA-A) since arriving...
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Audiopile Review: Up until the turn of the millennium, Finnish electronic duo Pan Sonic built a small but perfectly formed discography. After that, the situation started to get a little fuzzy, as Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen indulged in all manner of collaborations and solo projects. It can all be...
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Audiopile Review: ddwy returns after 2024’s fantastic Spinning Stones with another brief delight in the form of Beaming Backwards—four cuts of dreamy, dubby, and groove-heavy bliss that feel tailor-made for summer’s waning hours. This time around, a deeper dream pop influence runs through the haze, with hints of Broadcast-like ambient...
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Audiopile Review: In the late 90s, Berlin’s To Rococo Rot had the extremely good idea of combining Tortoise-style post-rock with the glitched-out electronics of Mego/Mille Plateaux/Raster-Noton. TRR was primarily a collaboration between Stefan Schneider (also of Kreidler, who had a similar idea) and sometime Raster-Noton recording artiste Robert Lippok. Together...
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Audiopile Review: Finally have enough stock of this 2024 standout to get it into the weekly email, the demand for it always outweighing the amount of copies we could secure. If you’re just hearing their name for the first time, you’d be forgiven, the Bristol-based trio have been slipping under...
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Audiopile Review: Following the success of their instant classic The Cocaines 2x10”, SnPLO swiftly returns for a victory lap with Ciganisati. Like all great minimal producers worth their salt, the trio has mastered the art of sonic tailoring. Crafting tracks that are not quite techno nor noise, but enticingly in-between,...
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Audiopile Review: The recent trend of electronic and experimental-leaning artists drifting into indie/pop-adjacent territory is well documented by now, with recent lateral shifts from the likes of Ben Bondy, Suzanne Kraft, Jack J, and Priori. But few releases floored us quite like Naemi’s 2024 shop favourite Dust Devil. A...
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Audiopile Review: Sferic breezes into 2025 with their first release of the year after 2024 standouts from both Bianca Scout and 990x, offering us the debut album for Any, the Montreal-based harpist Anastasia Patellis. Linking up with producer LA Timpa, the old world classicism of Patellis’ harp comes to head-to-head...
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Audiopile Review: Fans of the early 90s really should be aware of Mark Van Hoen. He was in the original line-up of Seefeel (and reunited with them under the guise of Scala). He made trip-hoppy post-rock as Locust. And he’s even collaborated with Slowdive’s Neil Halstead as Black Hearted Brother....
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Audiopile Review: Sweden’s Tomas Bodén aka Civilistjävel! has been one of the most consistently satisfying experimental electronic producers of recent years (even though many of his releases supposedly contain archival recordings from the 90s). His mixture of analogue warmth, glitchy texture, moody melody, and intriguing abstraction always hits the...
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Audiopile Review: François Bonnet aka Kassel Jaeger is un grand fromage in the world of electro-acoustic composition. MF is director of Paris’s legendary Ina-GRM institute/studio/whatever, ffs. He’s kinda une grosse affaire. That means ‘a big deal’. It just sounds much worse in French. But what typically sounds awesome in French...
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Audiopile Review: Another double header in from the recently minted False Aralia imprint, the two newest EPs coming in alongside needed represses of the first two, both of which we initially sold out of before we had a chance to even list them. Like the first two releases, False Aralia...
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Audiopile Review: Where False Aralia 03 shines with its wistful idiosyncrasies, 04 emits a lush but intermittent light. "Track 1" kicks off with a quivery framework, a set of murky sequences intertwined with atmospheric oscillations. At over 130 BPM, it’s a bit of velocity ascent from Schlossman, but it’s surely...
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Audiopile Review: Not surprising to find Nate Mercereau & Carlos Niño meetup with International Anthem mainstay Josh Johnson, though it is a bit of shock to see Blue Note stick their nose in such affairs. Yet, that’s been the net positive effect of Andre 3000’s New Blue Sun, which continues...
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Audiopile Review: Farewell transmission from the enigmatic Brannten Schnüre, arriving as the German duo’s grip on the experimental underground has never been stronger, their ascent not coincidentally dovetailing with the likeminded Discreet/Gothenburg scene and their upward trajectory of recent years. Christian Schoppik and Katie Rich haven’t strayed the course much...
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Audiopile Review: After a few years laying low, long-running French drone-rockers France return to the physical format with a two-sided behemoth that captures their legendary live energy like never before. For the uninitiated, over the past two decades France has been piling up a totemic discography via dozens of labels...
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Audiopile Review: Nostalgia is a potent tool that can easily lead an artist into overly familiar terrain. That being said, on their first release under the Disiniblud banner, experimental artist Rachika Nayar and multi-instrumentalist Nina Keith wield it differently: not as a stylistic crutch, but as an emotional compass, channeling...
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Audiopile Review: Three years on from her 2022 breakthrough on Smalltown Supersound, Perpetual Now, French producer rRoxymore lands on K7 with a balmy foray into new age and tropic-laced ambi-techno. While the long-winding futuristic club tunes of Perpetual Now shared much in common with her Smalltown label mates like Kelly...
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Audiopile Review: What if we were to tell you there’s an artist called Ganavya, who has performed live with Sault, is produced by Nils Frahm, and sounds a lot like Arooj Aftab? If you have any sense, you’ll want to hear her new album, ‘Nilam’, like, right away. And when...
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Audiopile Review: Gigi Masin is a veteran ambient composer whose profile has recently been growing outside his native Italy, thanks in no small part to the estimable Music from Memory label’s patronage. His music is occasionally labelled ‘new age’. This relates less to any association with pantheistic spirituality and more...
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Audiopile Review: In Sheep’s Clothing, the LA record shop, label and local hub, step into the reissue game, a noble first effort that shines a light on Electric Satie’s CD-only release, Gymnopédie '99, an ambitious project helmed by Mitsuto Suzuki, best known in the video game world for his Final...
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Audiopile Review: Most of you probably don’t need the hard sell for this one, but it is worth noting that Misha Panfilov’s Days As Echoes, arguably his breakthrough, is back in print! Issued five years back, long time email readers of ours might recall that this was the album that...
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Audiopile Review: Following up two previously shop highlighted albums from Conna Haraway and chantssss, NYC producer Alien D joins the Theory Therapy imprint, expanding the label’s cushiony offerings and marking them as a crucial new outlet for liquid ambient and muddied techno permutations. Like his label mates, Alien D explores...
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Audiopile Review: Freshly inked pseudonym from the prolific Dutch producer best known as Mammo, adopting the Fabiano moniker for this 2xLP set that diverts from his usual axis of dub/bleep/IDM/-techno hybrid 12”s that have been coming fast and furious across his many aliases over the past few years. Coinciding with...
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Audiopile Review: Provocative statement: the ‘progressive’ hippie underground and the DIY punk movement had a lot in common. Frankly superfluously provocative statement: In ambient music, choons are as important as vibez. What does all this have to do with Hiroshi ‘Green’ Yoshimura’s 1983 ambient classic ‘Pier & Loft’? Well, ambient...
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Audiopile Review: Every new Biosphere LP demands to at least be considered for the inestimable honour that is Audiopile Record of the Week Status. How many electronic music projects could you say that of, let alone ones in the fourth decade of their existence? But here’s Norwegian ambient veteran Geir...
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Audiopile Review: Dutch producer Dave Huismans adopts ex_libris as his new moniker, dropping two EPs to help launch a new imprint of the same name. Probably best known as either A Made Up Sound or 2562, Huismans was a mainstay of the Tectonic imprint during their impactful years at the...
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Audiopile Review: Dutch producer Dave Huismans adopts ex_libris as his new moniker, dropping two EPs to help launch a new imprint of the same name. Probably best known as either A Made Up Sound or 2562, Huismans was a mainstay of the Tectonic imprint during their impactful years at the...
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Audiopile Review: Big Hands, the pseudonym of Italian-born/London-based producer Andrea Bonalumi, might not be an instantly recognizable name, but if you’ve dug into the more esoteric corners of our dance 12” section, then you’ve probably come across something of his. Labels like Blank Mind, Trule and his very own Baroque...
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Audiopile Review: Three years on from his last entry into the Acid Dub Studies series, Om Unit returns with a third volume, rounding out his heady exercises into a tidy trilogy. With each release, Om Unit still seems to find new corners to explore, revealing the endless uses and timeless...
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Audiopile Review: We associate Norwegian duo Deaf Center with the early 2000s drone scene. This was a time when Fennesz-style glitch and Sunn-y post-metal met the New Weird America uptown. It’s a dark, underappreciated corner of recent music history, so it’s a tonic to hear ‘Reverie’, Deaf Centre’s first album...
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Audiopile Review: There’s been plenty said about the post-Hype Williams scene that’s emerged out of the UK, one that’s warped hip-hop, R&B, jungle, ambient, and noise into something foggy, nocturnal, and emotionally resonant. Few artists fold it all of the above into their music like Rainy Miller. Since 2022’s arresting...
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Audiopile Review: Prince Far I is perhaps best known as the Voice of Thunder that graces so many On-U Sound releases. He is surely the most distinctive deejay in reggae history, and his commanding tones could be heard echoing through On-U releases long after his tragic death in 1983. Of...
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Audiopile Review: Who are the true English originals? Syd Barrett, Kate Bush, Mark Hollis, and of course the godlike Peter Hammill… But the great folk singer Shirley Collins MBE predates them all. Significantly, her newly reissued debut album, ‘Sweet England’ was released in 1959. There’s an invisible but highly audible...
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Audiopile Review: EM Records dusts off a gem from the lusted after Vanity Records imprint, SAB’s Crystallization, one of the earliest releases from the infamous Japanese imprint (#2, in fact) and one of the few full lengths not yet reissued after rarities from Aunt Sally, Tolerance, R.N.A. Organism and BGM...
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Audiopile Review: After a string of collaborative albums crafted alongside a sole producer—Maps with Kenny Segal, Church with Messiah Musik on the boards, and the Preservation-helmed Aethiopes—billy woods calls on what feels like the whole Backwoodz crew to mount one of the most impressively dense and masterful rap records of...
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Audiopile Review: Is it possible to be legendary and yet still underrated? Sure, look at the godlike Peter Hammill blah blah etc. etc. And then you have Mark Ernestus of dub-techno originators Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. In the almost two decades since the last new Rhythm & Sound...
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Audiopile Review: The second release from Ultraääni this week is from Ville Valavuo, a veteran of the Finnish punk and noise scene with a stacked resume ranging from guitarist, recording technician and visual artist across hundreds of releases. With little indication of his involvement in the world of jazz prior...
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Audiopile Review: A pair of new releases in from Ultraääni Records this week, the Finnish imprint keeping their undeniable hot streak alive. Largely made up of Finnish improv/jazz vets, plus the introduction of the fresh-faced hotshot drummer Veeti Hietala, Phardah further cement the Ultraääni signature of chaining improvisatory free jazz...
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Audiopile Review: To call Kara-Lis Coverdale a Canadian ambient music producer is not entirely inaccurate. But it does also sell her more than a little short. Coverdale is, in fact, a legit composer with global scope. Her latest album, ‘From Where You Came’ was recorded at two legendary electronic music...
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Audiopile Review: The 12” single is mostly associated with dance music. But, to some of us, the format is also closely linked to the wave of neo-psychedelic avant rock groups that came out of the UK in the late 80s and early 90s. Groups like Loop, whose ‘Twelves’ compilation makes...
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