Alan Lockett

Author: Alan Lockett

Techno’s Outer Limits :: July 2016

Reviews 07/24/2016 by Alan Lockett

Latest emission from Techno’s Twilight Zone of EPs, 12″s & LPs with notes in the margins. First Italy, where Dino Sabatini has launched the Outis Opera sub-series with a first […]

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Greenleaf :: Organic electronic music excavated from the landscape

Newswires 06/28/2016 by Alan Lockett

Greenleaf explores such themes as AI, man-made lifeforms, artificial landscape and GM crops. Spores succeeds in being at once ironic/detached and serious/engaged, postmodern art work and polemical […]

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Elsewhereness revisited #1 Ramblings of a AMB-man

Features 06/25/2016 by Alan Lockett

Elsewhereness Revisited is a new feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambientological meanderings, random bc-combing, cloud-watching, tube-findings, and a companion mix. Vol. #1: Ramblings […]

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New Rome :: Nowhere (Room40)

Reviews 06/20/2016 by Alan Lockett

A rich harmonic vein rooted in classic ambient ‘scapism, seen as if through a glaze darkly, via a ’70s-’90s synth-prism. New Rome is the new musical home […]

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L’eoscombu Couti :: Five Cambridge Utilities (Constellation Tatsu)

Reviews 06/14/2016 by Alan Lockett

A fabulous set of heavy-lid hypnagogue ambient drone drift. It’s not long since Constellation Tatsu‘s Winter Batch, which included the lovely likes of Chihei Hatakeyama’s You’re Still In It and Havenaire’s […]

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Philippe Petit :: You Only Live Ice: Music From The Arctic Ice Shelf (Glacial Movements)

Reviews 05/31/2016 by Alan Lockett

You Only Live Ice compellingly presents a landscape initially at rest, then draped, as if in timelapse, in dense tonal swathes, and wracked with electrostatic […]

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Tape Loop Orchestra :: Go Straight To The Light Of All That You Love (Facture)

Reviews 05/28/2016 by Alan Lockett

Artfully as ever, with visuals—blotchy black and grainy grey photos, a figure walking down the middle of a city street, run-down buildings and other urban lowlights—mirroring […]

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Kane Ikin :: Modern Pressure (Type)

Reviews 05/22/2016 by Alan Lockett

Ikin harnesses various trajectories, folding early ’80s industrial and no wave into techno’s pulse, dub’s low end, and eerie Carpenter-esque menace. Drones loom and static sparks […]

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Sand Circles :: Motor City / Motor City Remixes (Posh Isolation)

Reviews 05/14/2016 by Alan Lockett

Overall, a midnight feast of pad wash and beat clunk indulgence with enough wow, flutter and tape hiss to make an old ’80s Dolby-hater happy. Sand […]

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ASC :: The Farthest Reaches (Auxiliary)

Reviews 05/01/2016 by Alan Lockett

Tracks on The Farthest Reaches register around 130 bpm, yet create a kind of illusion of movement towards a rolling half-step neo-Schaffel kinesis. A Zeitgeist-y convergence of genre […]

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