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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: After the runaway success of 2023’s Maps, the second collaboration between billy woods and Kenny Segal, Backwoodz dips into the extensive back catalog of woods and reissues one of his most sought after LPs, 2019’s Hiding Places (originals were going for about $400!). While Maps was a rare...
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Audiopile Review: Already cemented as a visionary from very early on after pushing techno into new explosive territories with his early 12”s and kick-starting IDM with the first volume of Selected Ambient Works, Richard D. James also created what many now consider the greatest ambient album of all time....
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Audiopile Review: Fresh off The Doober, his newest collaborative effort with longtime pal Sam Gendel (also in this week), Sam Wilkes forges a new trio alongside drummer Craig Weinrib and guitarist Dylan Day. Pushing into a relaxed rural psychedelia that is far less knotted than his work with Gendel, the...
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Audiopile Review: Läuten der Seele, the solo project of Brannten Schnüre’s Christian Schoppik, closes out his trilogy and returns to Hands in the Dark after issuing the second installment of the series via World of Echo just last year. Somewhat oddly, we suppose, it’s the most accessible piece of the...
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Audiopile Review: Behold the much-anticipated return of spiritual jazz maestro and Warp Records recording artist Nala Sinephro. More anticipated than you may realize. You know how it is: a record blows up and everyone’s excited. Then they move on to the next thing. But if a record is seriously good,...
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Audiopile Review: Seefeel is a band that’s been legendary across multiple genres. Emerging from the MBV-inspired dreampop scene, Seefeel became a defining act of the OG UK post-rock movement. Early releases on Too Pure melded deliriously looping guitars, incoherently cooing vocals, and electronically enhanced percussion. Debut LP ‘Quique’ encompassed everything...
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Audiopile Review: Probably best known outside of South Korea as one half of the hallucinatory-pop duo Salamanda, Yetsuby has become somewhat of a star in her home country, netting a Best Electronic Album award last year from the Korean Music Awards for here digital-only release My Star, My Planet Earth....
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Audiopile Review: Our Record of the Week is the self-titled 1996 debut from Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas project. Finally reissued by Voigt’s Kompakt label as a deluxe 3LP set, this is an essential part of any serious electronic music fan’s record collection. The Gas discography is a cornerstone of both dub...
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Audiopile Review: Gerard Hanson’s E.R.P. moniker seems to have supplanted his Convextion project, the latter of which hasn’t been seen since 2016 when he dropped the incredible 2845, a high watermark of his sci-fi inflected brand of deep techno. Though the E.R.P. guise has been in use since Hanson’s initial...
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Audiopile Review: Recently, discussing a reissue of Belong’s 2011 ambient-pop classic ‘Common Era’, we also teased a new LP. We called it an album-of-the-year-contender. Well, now we have ‘Realistic IX’ in stock and, while time will tell regarding the AOTY thing, it’s certainly our record of the week. New Orleans-based...
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Audiopile Review: Double shot this week of two EPs of Terre Thaemlitz’s legendary work culled from her 1994 CD-only album Tranquilizer, both 12”s fitted with freshly unearthed mixes that were initially issued on the expanded 2xCD 30th anniversary reissue from earlier this year. Thaemlitz might be better known as a...
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Audiopile Review: Double shot this week of two EPs of Terre Thaemlitz’s legendary work culled from her 1994 CD-only album Tranquilizer, both 12”s fitted with freshly unearthed mixes that were initially issued on the expanded 2xCD 30th anniversary reissue from earlier this year. Thaemlitz might be...
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Audiopile Review: Stunning debut album from Parisian duo Rue des Garderies, a recently forged alliance made up of Désiré Bonaventure & Zach, both new names to us but are known quantities within the experimental scene in Paris. In fact, their name is taken after Rue des Gardes, a notable but...
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Audiopile Review: The newest Danish import to blow our minds is Fine Glindvad, known simply as Fine (pronounced feen-uh), dropping her debut album on Escho Records, the same label that also brought us Astrid Sonne’s Great Doubt earlier this year. Leading up to the album, Fine has been busy. She...
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Audiopile Review: Coming in hot off his very recent double pack of kinetic dance floor shakers, ISS010, and three years on from Pool, his manic post-IDM masterpiece, Skee Mask takes the time to stretch out and luxuriate with his newest full length, Resort. Befitting of its title, Resort is also...
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Audiopile Review: Comprised of the same group of musicians behind last year’s Gala!, Misha Panfilov’s Septet regroup for a luxurious sprawl on their new release for Funk Night. While Panfilov’s various other pursuits certainly have elements of jazz, the Septet is where he’s been able to explore this interest further....
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Audiopile Review: No longer a mere offshoot of the long-running and many-tentacled noise-punk outfit Shearing Pinx, Nanaimo’s own Earth Ball break from the regional limitations inherit with isolated island living and self-released cassettes with a debut LP on one of the UK’s best imprints, Upset! The Rhythm. Initially formed as...
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Audiopile Review: Four years on from his debut LP, The Indoor Gardener, Duncan Thornley’s Double Geography project is reignited, this new album issued once again by Invisible Inc. While his debut was a one-man show, Thornley has enlisted a small crew for Open Water to help flesh his sound out,...
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Audiopile Review: One of last year’s best kept secrets was Hysterical Love Project’s debut release, Lashes, a CD-only release that was issued in a micro-pressing of 50 copies. Finally making it to vinyl courtesy of the Motion Ward imprint, a label better known as an outpost for “ambient underground” artists...
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Audiopile Review: The first two EPs from beloved deep/dub techno pioneer Convextion (aka Gerard Hanson) get their first ever repress, sandwiched together as a double pack and emblazoned with a new sci-fi themed cover, an appropriate aesthetic that has been the Texas-based producer’s motif as of late. Initially released on...
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Audiopile Review: It’s been four years since Scott Gailey released his 2020 full length for the Mood Hut imprint, Obit For Sunshade, but it’s not like our man hasn’t kept busy with various other projects. He’s recently played in Yu Su’s live band, helping flesh out her magnificent AOTY Yellow...
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Audiopile Review: Following a quiet 2023, 3XL’s opening salvo for 2024 is a sprawling 2xLP album from Naemi (formerly Exael) and features a jaw-dropping guest list, including Huerco S, Pontiac Streator, Perila, Ulla, Ben Bondy, Erika De Casier, and former Vancouverite NAP (Daniel Rincon). It’s basically a who’s who of...
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Audiopile Review: Khan Jamal’s 1974 album, Give The Vibes Some, gets a first ever reissue courtesy of the Italian imprint Eating Standing, a label who have already reissued fully licensed pressings of wildly rare jazz albums from Noah Howard, Sahib Shihab, and Clarence Peters. Arriving shortly after Jamal’s 1972 entrance...
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Audiopile Review: The trio who were largely behind André 3000’s New Blue Sun, Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau and Carlos Niño, continue that highly successful partnership with a vast new double album for Leaving Records. Clearly tuned into the same astral vibration, the trio restlessly smudge the lines between jazz, fusion,...
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Audiopile Review: The Head Hurts But The Heart Knows The Truth has maintained its grip on us since its digital debut in the first half of 2023, even earning a spot on two staff member’s end-of-year lists despite not having a physical release until now. It was that good. It...
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‘If I don't make it, I love u’ is Still House Plants’ third LP and the fullest embodiment of their sound to date. Where ‘Fast Edit’ formed with quick attachment and jump cuts, ‘If I don't make it’ is shaped by persistence - a commitment to the songs that makes...
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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 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 its...
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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 pick,...
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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: 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: 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: Always a pleasure to make a local release album of the week. Not something we’d do from the goodness of our hearts. Record store people. We’re simply not that nice. When will you learn? But ‘Imerro’, the latest LP from Caton Diab, is more than deserving of its...
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Audiopile Review: Always a pleasure to make a local release album of the week. Not something we’d do from the goodness of our hearts. Record store people. We’re simply not that nice. When will you learn? But ‘Imerro’, the latest LP from Caton Diab, is more than deserving of its...
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Audiopile Review: Finnish imprint Ultraääni Records continues their stellar outpour of Scandinavian jazz and experimental records, this time around dishing a new album from Organic Pulse Ensemble, a one-man spiritual jazz outfit based in Sweden, helmed by Gustav Horneij. OPE has actually been on a bit of a tear as...
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Jonny From Space is the moniker of Miami-based producer, DJ, and co-founder of Impacto, Jonathan Trujillo. After two EPs on Omnidisc and a few more self-released, Incienso presents his debut solo LP, back then I didn't but now I do. Loping drum loops, warbling synth lines, sun-streaked pads and voice...
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On June 29th, 2023, Jeremiah Chiu walked into the Vintage Synthesizer Museum (VSM) in Highland Park, Los Angeles, with no plan more specific than “let’s fire this stuff up and see what happens.” Exploring the VSM’s vast collection of classic, rare and staple synthesizers, he would sequence, trigger, and layer...
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Lo-fi, low budget, and low key, The American Analog Set’s suite of hypnotic, neo-psychedelic, Texas sloth-kraut LPs appeared briefly on Austin’s Emperor Jones label and slunk quietly into the sprawling indie underground as the old millennium crested. Gathered here are The Fun Of Watching Fireworks, From Our Living Room To...
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Lo-fi, low budget, and low key, The American Analog Set’s suite of hypnotic, neo-psychedelic, Texas sloth-kraut LPs appeared briefly on Austin’s Emperor Jones label and slunk quietly into the sprawling indie underground as the old millennium crested. Gathered here are The Fun Of Watching Fireworks, From Our Living Room To...
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Double bassist Mark Ibsgaard Gregersen’s :”ecoegoe” is a stunning album that confounds the acoustic/digital divide. Made with an ensemble of jazz-savvy players, the resulting audiography maps an uncanny valley somewhere between “processed” and “performed.” Beguiling & beautiful. RIYL: Jan Jelinek, Joshua Abrams, Milford Graves, and Carl Stone. Mark Ibsgaard Gregersen...
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Audiopile Review: We always seem to be waiting for Hiroshi Yoshimura. Arguably, the Japanese ambient music genius cannot be held personally responsible for this, as he sadly passed away in 2003. But a lot of people are complaining that his ghost is distinctly tardy. We’re not saying that, but a...
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