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Come 1999 and the turn of the millennium, Underworld were untouchable. Following two sterling albums and the blockbuster international success of “Born Slippy,” Karl Hyde and Rick Smith joined DJ Darren Emerson one final time, for the release of the last of their three studio sets together as the all-conquering...
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Second Toughest in the Infants came three years after Underworld's potent debut Dubnobasswithmyheadman. Opening with an opulent triptych called 'Juanita', 'Kiteless' and 'To Dream Of Love' - three tracks which segue seamlessly into each other and form a quite splendid 16-minute Underworld-a-thon—the trio certainly weren't afraid to indulge when making...
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Audiopile Review: When the rave revolution really started to kick off, loads of people who’d just been hanging around the UK music scene got sucked into its orbit. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that people who’d been lost in the musical wilderness finally found their home. Released in...
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Originally released in 1996 on Quarterstick Records, Music for Egon Schiele is the soundtrack to a piece of dance and theater that was debuted by the Itinerant Theater Guild, May 18, 1995, in Chicago. Based on the life of the romantic and controversial Viennese painter, Egon Schiele was written and...
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Audiopile Review: There’s an expectation that electronic music should be futuristic. This seems unfair given that, by our estimate, it’s existed as a form for three quarters of a century. But we feel it too. When a legit futuristic electronic music album comes across our desk, we’re all like: “Hell...
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Audiopile Review: Seven years have passed since Djrum shook the electronic underground with On Portrait With Firewood, an album so deftly constructed, intricate and referential that it made its eventual IDM tag fall short as a descriptor. Djrum signalled his anticipated return with last year’s Meaning Edge EP, a razor-sharp...
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"This is the first Six Organs of Admittance record to be recorded in a studio. No computers were harmed (or used) during the making of this record. Free-jazz sensation Chris Corsano contributes drums with the greatest sympathy. It's a fantastic new album, as just a fraction of a listen will...
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New Zealand-born (of Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Pākehā descent) and Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, vocalist and visual artist, Sarah Mary Chadwick has announced her ninth studio album Take Me To a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby? Each of Chadwick's records marks a moment in time. This new collection signals the beginnings...
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Going belly up, guess it's always a possibility. Following the release of their latest acclaimed record You Never End (Pitchfork, The Quietus, RA) Moin follow up with their latest EP, Belly Up....
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Four Seasons in Kyoto marks the final chapter of The Kyoto Connection’s Ambient Japanese trilogy, following Postcards (2018) and The Flower, The Bird and The Mountain (2022). Like its predecessors, this album pays homage to the pioneering ambient and environmental music movements of 1980s and 1990s Japan. The album unfolds...
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Public Possession welcoming „ddwy“ to the label, after a first appearance on this years Chill Pill compilation with the balearic dance beauty „Orchard“ the duo now delivers their first Mini LP titled „Sprig Songs“. ddwy that is DJs „Inner Totality“ and „Nangi“ introduce their special style of tripped out dubby...
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Audiopile Review: Some names come up again and again in our reviews. We’ve probably mentioned the godlike Peter Hammill a couple of times. Huerco S. (aka Brian Leeds) is another artist we call back to again and again. There’s a reason for this. Huerco is absolutely one of the best...
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Audiopile Review: Florian TM Zeisig dons yet another guise, returning to Somewhere Press as Spool, chasing his crackled dream-pop collaboration with vocalist Alliyah Enyo that dropped during his busy 2024, coming alongside his murky ambient NUG project on West Mineral and a full length of inverted trip-hop for Stroom. Needless...
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When Slowdive disbanded in 1995, music fans widely associated it with the demise of the shoegaze genre. Their last sign of life was Pygmalion (before they reunited in 2014) and it was, after "Just For A Day" and "Souvlaki", a totally different and more abstract album, and one of the...
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Souvlaki, the second studio album from English shoegaze pioneers Slowdive is an iconic album that remains a defining work of the genre. Released in 1993, Souvlaki marked a significant evolution for the band. The album merges influences from David Bowie's Berlin trilogy and Joy Division with deeply personal lyrics. The...
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Audiopile Review: Great to see Monolake getting the extensive reissue treatment. As one of the creators of Ableton Live, Monolake’s Robert Henke is among electronic music’s most influential people. But, along with a revolving cast of collaborators, he has also amassed one of electronic music’s most consistently impressive discographies. ‘Gravity’,...
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Audiopile Review: The Silent Season catalog is a dense one. Though the label has been dormant for a few years now—label head Jamie McCue currently focusing on his dub-forward 7 inch-only imprint Moon Garden—this week and next will see first-time vinyl pressings of a pair of releases, dusting off some...
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"Penza Penza are in very different territory here – paying tribute to the glory days of the 60s surf instrumental – but with all the unusual twists and turns that make their music so great! Things are still pretty funky – but there's also a lot of echo and fuzz...
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No other solo American guitarist this century has impacted that fecund scene quite like William Tyler. After crucial stints in Silver Jews and Lambchop, this adopted son of Nashville emerged at the dawn of the last decade with a string of inquisitive albums that paired the measure of his country...
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Electric War is an electrifying collaboration between British power trio, Little Barrie (Barrie Cadogan and Lewis Wharton, who wrote and performed the theme to Better Call Saul) and acclaimed producer/drummer, Malcolm Catto, fusing unique talents into a mesmerizing exploration of raw, experimental sound. Electric War delivers a blend of sharp...
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Under his Blendreed nom de plume, French saxophonist Musina Ebobissé follows the success of 2024’s “ARMAUN” EP with a revived and ramped-up reissue of his second album “Tales Of Tides”, originally self-released digitally in late 2022. Imagine yourself floating on a vast expanse of water with no sight of land....
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Audiopile Review: Detouring from his usual dour jangle fair, Bobby Would turn in a metaphysical drone album for his newest on Digital Regress. While a sizeable move away from the “fog pop” that we’ve come to know him by, it also isn’t coming entirely out of leftfield. Originally recorded live...
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Audiopile Review: Something just occurred to us about the marvelous trio albums Oren Ambarchi has been making with Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin. They could almost be stripped-back mixes of tracks from the last couple of Talk Talk albums. That connection became clear when we heard ‘Kind Regards’, Ambarchi’s new...
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The third edition of 'Brahja,' featuring avant-garde, spiritual jazz led by saxophonist Devin Brahja Waldman. Rooted in the NYC and Montreal jazz scenes, Brahja evolved over years of touring, incorporating musicians from various jazz-rich cities like Chicago and Washington, D.C. The self-titled 2019 album, recorded after years of live performances,...
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“The beauty of Every Day is an understanding of Ron Carter, RZA, June Tyson, Sun Ra, Recloose, Theo Parrish and all that good stuff.” GILLES PETERSON The Cinematic Orchestra have announced the first ever reissue of their bonafide classic album “Every Day” originally released 20 years ago. Spread across 3...
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NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY, like their partners in time BITCHIN BAJAS, live their days in flow motion. Rhythms come and go, instruments sound as a means to a greater end. Their debut convergence, Automaginary, feels as natural as it does inevitable. Both groups were first heard in 2010, both emerging from...
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Audiopile Review: New age legend Ariel Kalma is clearly unable to rest on his laurels and be JUST a new age legend. While his music has always been as spiritually blissed as you could hope for, it has a rigour that Kalma clearly learned when studying electro-acoustic music at France’s...
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Audiopile Review: Loraine James has built an impeccable track record in the UK electronic scene. When working under her own name, she leans into IDM, while her Whatever the Weather moniker gives space for her ambient inclinations. This latest entry refines the sounds of the project's debut with a sharper...
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Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points has announced his new album Crush will be released on 18 October on Ninja Tune. Along with the announcement he has shared new track 'Last Bloom' along with accompanying video by Hamill Industries and announced details of a new live show with dates including London's...
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Vinyl re-issue of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, third album, originally released in 1993. This album brought blues-rock into the alternative era. On its second full-length release, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion lives up to its name. Merging blues with the post-grunge angst of Sonic Youth or Mudhoney and a...
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Released on 180 gram black vinyl. Deluxe gatefold with printed inner sleeves. 2007 release -- originally released in 1995. Redolent with the spirit of such high priests of effects and delay as Loop, Spaceman 3, and My Bloody Valentine, not to mention a fair dollop of the Jesus And Mary...
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Audiopile Review: Aussie producer Cousin finally gets to a long player, or at least the closest he’s come yet, after an incredible string of EPs for shop fave imprints like Mood Hut, NAFF and Nummer. Despite these dalliances abroad, Cousin’s been quietly running his own imprint for years now, Moonshoe,...
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Audiopile Review: Balmat Records, who, at this point, need little introduction to our regular readers, follow up last year’s bounty of six full lengths by kicking off 2025 with the second album from DOVS, the cross-continental collab between Johannes Auvinen (best known as acid techno expert Tin Man), and Mexico...
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Audiopile Review: What’s up with the cover of Bon Iver’s new album? Shit looks like Jan Jelinek’s 2001 glitch-dub classic ‘Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records’ (or possibly something on the Peak Oil label). Not sure how this electronical design scheme benefits the indie-folk icon, but it sure was appropriate for the woozy minimalism of...
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Up until the release of his debut album in 2014, Shinichi Atobe managed to stay off grid since his release on Basic Channel’s Chain Reaction imprint back in 2001. He delivered the second-to-last 12” on the label and then disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a solitary 12” and a...
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"Shinichi Atobe exists out of time, producing material that’s both inimitable and genuine. "From The Heart, It's A Start, A Work Of Art” was released back in 2017 and is perhaps the most unique and enduring of all of his output over the years. Curiously, it has origins going all...
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"An hour of deeply inspirational House music for the ages that could have been produced 20 years ago, or earlier this year - we’ll probably never know. Heat is a new double album from Shinichi Atobe for DDS. It follows on from last year’s “From The Heart, It’s A...
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Shinichi Atobe’s fifth album for DDS, his first in two years. Deep and sublime, the classic Chain Reaction < > Chicago House vibe, but this time with a swarming Drexciyan undercurrent, somewhere between DJ Sprinkles, Dopplereffekt and The Other People Place, and yet still 100% Shinichi. It’s odd working with...
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Visionary Dark Magus Anticipates Developments in Jungle, Noise, and Drum ‘n’ Bass Music: Funky, Ferocious, Free-Form Miles Davis Double Album Is an Exhilarating Jazz-Rock Trip Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition 180g 33RPM 2LP Set Presents 1974 Performances with Absorbing Detail, Color, and Energy 1/4” / 15 IPS analog copy to DSD 256...
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This anthology follows Now-Again's Loving On The Flipside, issued more than a decade ago. And that anthology itself got its start in a different time, a decade even earlier - the era in which Now-Again's Egon and his friends chased down funk 45s and the odd LP for their testosterone...
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Audiopile Review: Truly mind-bending electronic music is often something of a sonic stew. In the recent post-techno realm, we could point to the extraordinary Topdown Dialectic as a prime example. The beats almost sink into an intoxicating gumbo of mutated, convolved, and resynthesized voices and instruments. In this context, the...
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Audiopile Review: Wide-vista ambient zoners from Aussie duo Tunnel Dancers, made up of Jackson Fester and Hugh Burridge—the latter known under his Hugh B guise and the humble trail of releases on Not Not Fun and Planet Trip, while the former is best known as Cousin, who has had us...
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Audiopile Review: Critic Sasha Frere-Jones once said the only thing that made Of Montreal an indie rock band was the people who listened to them. He was talking, we think, about the fate of groups that confirm a following in the broad church of indie rock before converting to a...
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On Pause, Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) stays close to his folk roots with its acoustic instrumentation but explores elements of lush indietronica with funk-filled, jazz-infused beats. The result is a gyrating, groove-filled wonder....
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Audiopile Review: In a loaded week at the shop for freshly landed titles from Jazzagression, the Norwegian imprint’s biggest ace is the newest spiritual/modal jazz offering from the Leeds-based Mu Quintet, their second since first appearing on the label back in 2023 with their debut, Summit. While much of our...
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A true exploration in spiritual jazz that follows Work Money Death's acclaimed previous albums, with pianist Richard Ormrod, bassist Neil Innes and drummer Sam Hobbs creating a powerful trio foundation for Tony Burkill's soulful tenor saxophone. Blending influences from Indian ragas to African rhythms, its intricate layersiharmonium, congas, trilling fluteibring...
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Begging the Moon is a collection focused upon an early-to-mid 20th century style of Thai popular song, commonly named Phleng Thai sakon (meaning "song which is both Thai and universal"). With recordings taken from the end of WWII until the start of the 1960s, many of these tracks may also...
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