Alan Lockett

Author: Alan Lockett

Fis :: The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now (Loopy)

Reviews 08/02/2015 by Alan Lockett

A veneer of unkempt noise and disorder is attended by intimations of hyper-timbral detail and hermetic design. There’s definitely something in the water in Wellington […]

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I Dream Of Wires in Berlin

Newswires 07/23/2015 by Alan Lockett

Not some dodgy ’80s neu-Romantische synth-pop revival heralded by the headline, but a documentary about the modular synthesizer-its history, demise and resurgence. I Dream Of […]

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ALAN LOCKETT :: Dalliance #11 mix

Features 07/18/2015 by Alan Lockett

Dalliance #11 is an Ambient Dub Techno mix from igloomag Contributing Editor Alan Lockett, aka MistMaxer albient—latest in a series from Techno’s Outer Limits. Featuring: Acronym, Alderaan, […]

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Techno’s Outer Limits :: July 2015

Reviews 07/18/2015 by Alan Lockett

Latest postcard from Techno’s Twilight Zone—recent 12″s/EPs/LPs + notes in the margins. Scroll down for Soundcloud set of selections. France first, where Dement3d, prime suspect in some […]

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High on KRAKE

Newswires 07/12/2015 by Alan Lockett

KRAKE 2015 takes place from August 3rd-9th, ranging across Berlin with arts and culture events at Urban Spree and Berghain Kantine, heaviest live doses to be caught […]

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6APPEAL :: Shimmering Moods

Reviews 07/03/2015 by Alan Lockett

Neonate Shimmering Moods label’s rapid-fire release strategy tops our pile with an array of the unknown, Gallery Six, Michiru Aoyama, ~~^^^macheteoxidado^^^~~, TimeDog, and away from […]

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Alex Cobb :: Chantepleure (Students of Decay)

Reviews 07/01/2015 by Alan Lockett

Ultimately, though darkness and desolation are hinted at, each track of Chantepleure enfolds a trace of hope within it, perhaps simply elemental—the abyss musically faced and […]

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Triac :: Days (Line)

Reviews 06/22/2015 by Alan Lockett

Days shifts from light and floaty to more earthy and rumbling, its seven pieces ranging from pop-ambient lushness to wispy Basinski, the lingering residue of its […]

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Pinkcourtesyphone :: Three Themes (Line)

Reviews 06/07/2015 by Alan Lockett

An album that makes a suggestive and seductive soundtrack for come-downs and come-ons alike. Richard Chartier picks up his Pinkcourtesyphone to dial in a digital expansion of Three Themes, originally […]

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Offthesky & Pleq :: A Thousand Fields (Infraction)

Reviews 05/24/2015 by Alan Lockett

At the intersection between ambient, minimalism, 4th world, found sound, drone, and post-classical composition. Questing ambient and soundscape exponents with previous form over a slew of […]

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ALAN LOCKETT :: Slings the Wooze Anew mix

Features 05/23/2015 by Alan Lockett

Revisiting the sound and vision of Slings The Wooze, Igloo’s Alan Lockett, aka Mist-maxer albient, Slings the Wooze Anew with more than a score of exponents of […]

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