Alan Lockett

Author: Alan Lockett

3VIEW :: Tomonari Nozaki (forwind)

Reviews 05/01/2016 by Alan Lockett

The whole is re-imagined into a dish fit to set before Basinski buffs and Hecker checkers. The series’ sheer sweep sees Nozaki’s sound gather in sono-dramatic force, cementing detail, […]

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Emiliano Romanelli :: Tabulatura (Terziruolo)

Reviews 04/24/2016 by Alan Lockett

Though little of Tabulatura may strike the outside ear as new, the inner will likely not have heard it so before—with indeterminacy’s agency laying the grain of […]

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SsS… soon from SHXCXCHCXSH

Newswires 04/24/2016 by Alan Lockett

Techno mischief-makers SHXCXCHCXSH return soon with a new LP on Avian. A follow-up to 2014’s Linear S Decoded, SsS… has the pron.-challenging Swedes revisit signature stop-mo percussion and hypertensile synthesis […]

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Tobias Hellkvist :: Vesterhavet (self release)

Reviews 04/17/2016 by Alan Lockett

Vesterhavet has been shaped and fine-tuned, the Swede’s swathes stretched and swollen over years in teeming layers of transportive tone accretion, into chronostatic sprawl. Ambient electroacoustic artist Tobias […]

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2VIEW :: Parallelism / Valanx (Shimmering Moods)

Reviews 04/12/2016 by Alan Lockett

The first new releases of 2016 from Shimmering Moods—by Parallelism and Valanx—continue to champion the cause of artists blurring the boundaries of ambient, drone, electro-acoustic and […]

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ALAN LOCKETT :: Daliance #14 mix

Features 04/10/2016 by Alan Lockett

Dalliance #14 is an Ambient Techno mix from igloomag Contributing Editor, Alan Lockett, aka Mist-Maxer albient—latest in a series from Techno’s Outer Limits (check incoming April 2016 transmission). Dalliance #14 […]

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Techno’s Outer Limits :: April 2016

Reviews 04/10/2016 by Alan Lockett

Latest in a series of emissions from Techno’s Twilight Zone of EPs, 12″s & LPs with notes in the margins. Beginning in Berlin, Milton Bradley (having dallied […]

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Beautumn :: Bordeaux (Infraction)

Reviews 04/05/2016 by Alan Lockett

The promo discourse gestures vaguely to ‘something inherently Russian about Bordeaux, about this sound,’ before settling for ‘Tragic, cold, mysterious and beautiful—it is a product of […]

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36 and 36 minutes of Seconds & Forever

Newswires 03/27/2016 by Alan Lockett

36 is to release a new album, Seconds & Forever, on 1st May, Madrid’s Mystic & Quantum label playing host to the prolific ambienteer for two eighteen-minute tracks. […]

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Assembler/Responder, Music Producer

Newswires 03/12/2016 by Alan Lockett

Sean Curtis Patrick may be familiar to ambienteers as a visual artist whose imagery has adorned releases by the likes of Rafael Anton Irisarri, Benoît Pioulard, and Alessandro […]

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Lucy’s Self-Mythology Is Imminent

Newswires 03/06/2016 by Alan Lockett

Self Mythology sees Lucy marshaling polyrhythmic patter, diaphanous drones and textured ambience to push the boundaries, with fusion and occlusion of Anatolian, African and Middle-Eastern chant and […]

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