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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...