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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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After several wildly popular singles out on Penrose Records, alongside labelmates Thee Sacred Souls, The Altons gear up to release their debut album on Daptone Records. With lead vocals shared between Adriana Flores and Brian Ponce the interplay between their unique timbres brings a romantic quality to the music that...
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he duality of “man” is a subject that has been explored in art for centuries, from writings of the Bible to Descartes, all the way up to filmmakers like Lynch, Cronenberg, & Carpenter. Who is your “true self” & what do they want? With their sixth studio album “Wish Defense”...
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Released in 2004, A Ghost is Born saw Wilco develop the sound that had seen them garner much acclaim on 2002’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, resulting in another critical success for the band. The album also saw lead singer Jeff Tweedy take further creative control, assuming lead guitar duties after the...
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A limited triple vinyl and double CD set capturing the one and only Four Tet live at Alexandra Palace, London on 24th May 2023....
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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: 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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Kaoru Inoue is a Japanese veteran producer and DJ, active since late '90s. He has been releasing music from his own label Seeds and Ground and other labels like Mule Musiq and Groovement. This album was originally released in 2013 Japan. It's a style mix of world music, field recording,...
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Stephen James Buckley's work as Polypores has always pecked at the heels of otherworldliness, crafting rich soundcapes that bloom from nowhere: insistent arpeggios and staggered melodies that sprout thorns and seep honey. His craft is honed to the point that it's all flawlessly integrated and deeply hypnotic on his latest...
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An expanded album length version of the 2006 Advisory Circle EP Mind How You Go, inspired by the world of TV Public Information Films. Remember, electricity cannot be seen or heard. Harmful, invisible forces surround us everywhere we go. Fortunately The Advisory Circle is on hand to help us make...
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Melos Kalpa formed in 2019 around the vision of Tom Relleen; a quintet of musicians employing unconventional instruments and strategies to make music that exists somewhere at the intersection of improvisation, minimalism and sublimated reverie. Musicians Agathe Max (Abstract Concrete, Papivores, These Towns), Jem Doulton (Thurston Moore Group, Too Many...
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You Never End is the third album from Valentina Magaletti, Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews (Moin) out via AD 93 on the 25th October. Its title alone expresses the teetering and shifting nature of both the album and band. This record marks the Moin’s shift into a new phase with...
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The Numero Group guide to private issue new age. Featuring Laraaji, Iasos, Joanna Brouk, Don Slepian, Peter Davison, Master Wilburn Burchette, Jordan De La Sierra, David Casper, Robert Slap and 9 other pioneers of the Perrier underground. Adorned with Marcus Uzilevsky's Linear Landscapes, this 2xLP compilation is housed...
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Talk Talk began as a quartet consisting of Mark Hollis (vocals), Simon Brenner (keyboards), Lee Harris (drums) and Paul Webb (bass guitar). They were generally associated with the New Romantic movement; more specifically, in their early years, they were often compared with Duran Duran, as both bands not only featured...
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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: You ever listen to Aphex Twin’s ‘Richard D. James Album’ and wish it sounded just a little less like he was taking the piss? Like, yeah, those melodies are very pretty, and those beats are ingenious, but it all sounds like it’s happening through a thin veil of...
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Out of print for 15 years, Soul Jazz Records’ “Do It Yourself” features a host of post-punk, punk, punk funk/dance and electronic experimentation from UK bands in the late 70s and 80s that all arrived in the aftermath of punk. As well as loads of great music, the album also...
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Audiopile Review: At the front of the ongoing resurgence of dub and pressurized bass exploration is Jay Glass Dubs, who has been tweaking the sound for most of the last decade. After issuing lusted after releases for Bokeh Versions, Ecstatic, Origin Peoples, and The Tapeworm, the skids have been greased...
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Audiopile Review: Phil Elverum faced a daunting task following The Microphones in 2020, his masterful 40+ minute autobiographical return to a long-abandoned name. Now, pivoting back to his Mount Eerie alias, Elverum draws us closer to the varied untethered experimental spirit of his early work as The Microphones, contrasting with...
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An astonishing seven years has now elapsed since the release of James Holden‘s milestone debut album The Idiots Are Winning in 2006, rightfully acclaimed in such quarters as The Guardian as “The most astonishing debut in electronic music since Boards of Canada’s ‘Music Has The Right To Children’”. But June...
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Time moves in spirals. It took 20 years for Hyperdub to release a jungle album, finally converging with the most important sound of its prehistory. South East London's Tim Reaper and Kloke from Victoria, Australia are two big guns from the new wave of junglists. On Reaper’s relentlessly hyperactive label...
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The band's first effort for Capitol Records was an album which was recorded before Come Down called The Black Album, which was rejected by Capitol for, according to frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor, containing "no hit songs". It was later released as a double album in 2004 with Come On Feel the...
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Formed in 1994 in Portland, Oregon, The Dandy Warhols have carved out a niche with their unique blend of garage rock, psychedelia, and indie vibes. Celebrating their iconic sound, [PIAS] has unveiled special 2LP reissues: the self-titled album on striking Red Vinyl and "...The Dandy Warhols Come Down" on vibrant...
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King Crimson's explsovie 1974 album Red primarily revolves around the raw power trio of Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford and John Wetton. David Cross, Mel Collins, Ian McDonald, Robin Miller and Mark Charig make guest appearances on this powerhouse of an album. Taking the music to new levels of clarity and...
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Audiopile Review: There’s a certain, shall we say, distrust of expertise out there these days. Grumpy skeptics might want to lend their ears to ‘Dew Point Harmonics’, the delightful new album from UK-based producer Luke Sanger. There are plenty of IDM-influenced ambient albums floating around, but Sanger’s expertise really elevates...
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UK supergroup Flock return with their anticipated sophomore album ‘Flock II’. Comprising an exceptional line-up featuring Bex Burch (fresh from her debut solo album on International Anthem), Sarathy Korwar, Tamar Osborn (Collocutor, Dele Sosimi, Unknown To Known), Danalogue (The Comet Is Coming / Soccer96) and Al MacSween (Kefaya), the new...
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Audiopile Review: We live in an age of instant access to unlimited musical inspiration. It’s hard to believe that a small hardcore of seminal artists drove the pre-post-punk underground. Some of these artists have gotten lost in the abundance and no longer have the stature they deserve, most obviously...
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Audiopile Review: Basque experimental-punk and free-jazz artist Iker Munduate makes a drastic shift away from his roots, embarking on this maiden voyage under his own name that tills the fertile territory of Japanese Environmental music. Munduate joins an ever-growing crowd of Environmental Music devotees—Unknown Me, Green-House and Oval Angle are...
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HOME RECORDINGS (2018-2021) “Who is Yara Asmar and how does she make music so strangely beautiful? The 25-year-old instrumentalist-puppeteer lives in Beirut with her cat, Mushroom, and presumably that’s the feline’s shadow next to the artist’s on the album’s back cover. The warm light of that photograph and the quiet...
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Audiopile Review: Music From Memory follow-up their triumphant Virtual Dreams comp with a second volume that zeroes in on the concurrent and wildly fecund Japanese IDM, ambient-techno and chill out scene of the’ 90s. While the first volume contained names familiar to even those who may only dabble...
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Audiopile Review: Only a week since we listed the Hiding Places reissue, the 2019 billy woods LP alongside producer Kenny Segal, we’re treated to the newest full length from ELUCID. While Backwoodz has been centered around reissuing the sought after back catalog of the extended Armand Hammer universe, Fat Possum...
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Audiopile Review: A key figure in the US experimental underground, Alex Cobb issued dozens of titles during the mid 00’s under his Taiga Remains moniker, though his work running the Students of Decay label for the past two decades is likely how most would have crossed his paths. While the...
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Audiopile Review: Australia’s Lawrence English is a real mover and shaker in the international experimental-electronic music community. Aside from running the Room40 label, he has collaborated with Loscil, William Basinski, Alessandro Cortini, David Toop, Tujiko Noriko, Francisco López, and many others. English came onto the scene around 2005, when Fennesz’s...
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Beacon Sound present a reissue of Terry Riley's Descending Moonshine Dervishes, originally released in 1982. Recorded live in Berlin in 1975, and largely improvised, Riley plays a modified Yamaha organ with variable resistors to facilitate tuning in just intonation. This is a 50+ minute recording divided into two halves for...
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Back in 1997, DAVID PAJO was a little over a half decade removed from the future sensation known as SLINT. Their second album had been released in 1991 when the band themselves were already defunct. During the next five years, David worked with PALACE BROTHERS, KING KONG TORTOISE, THE FOR...
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1966 debut album by Texan pioneers of psychedelia. Presenting the HIT singles ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me’ and ‘Reverberation’ This ground-breaking album not only defined psychedelic rock but informed punk a decade later, influencing everyone from Led Zeppelin to The Cramps. Originally issued in November 1966, this album has not only...
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Songs ’94-’98 is a smart selection of material from The Cat’s Miaow, an Australian indie-pop group that gifted their decade with some of its finest songs. Released on World Of Echo, the album draws from the group’s string of excellent seven-inch singles, a small clutch of compilation contributions, and features...
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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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