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Rainer Veil :: New Brutalism (Modern Love)

Reviews 03/30/2014 by Alan Lockett

A brooding bricolage of jungle and rave dérive pressed into a prickly post-paradigm. Industrial plumes continue to cloud current techno and related—labels like Blackest Ever […]

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E S T A R A is Born :: Teebs

Newswires 03/22/2014 by Alan Lockett

News of a new album from tone-painting beat-poet, Teebs, due soon on Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder. It was back in the mists of 2010 that LA-based […]

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Conforce :: Kinetic Image (Delsin)

Reviews 03/22/2014 by Alan Lockett

Between conceptual techno and pared-back hypgnosis, this year’s model is more nuanced, with less of the warm velvety and more of the cold clinical In […]

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Damian Valles :: Exposure (VoxxoV)

Reviews 03/18/2014 by Alan Lockett

Matter is shaped into dense oppressive drone-slabs of staticky churn; ghosts of settlers skulk in the shadows of its inky contours. Canadian wild frontiersman Damian […]

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Donato Dozzy & Nuel :: The Aquaplano Sessions (Spectrum Spools)

Reviews 03/18/2014 by Alan Lockett

Over the course of its eight Aqua-referencing tracks, Dozzy and Nuel resuscitate the spirits of Ambient Techno with a craft rarely seen in an age […]

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Keith Berry :: Towards the Blue Peninsula (Infraction)

Reviews 02/28/2014 by Alan Lockett

Towards the Blue Peninsula is possessed of a grandeur that belies the lowercase subtlety of the compositions, bearing a freight of ineffability, the key the […]

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Maps and Diagrams :: Multi-rear-view

Reviews 02/22/2014 by Alan Lockett

Tim Martin had reached new heights of hyperactivity at our last igloo-view of Maps and Diagrams; there we found him ‘between mood paradigms of light […]

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Cernlab :: Atomherz (Electroton)

Reviews 02/12/2014 by Alan Lockett

Cernlab returns with a shuffle of tinnitus and crepitus, sawtooth kinesis and electrical grounding tones on a quest for accidental form and errorist structure. Electroton […]

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Secret Pyramid & John Davis :: Double review (Students of Decay)

Reviews 02/08/2014 by Alan Lockett

A major vector in the trajectory of West Coast US ambient/drone for nearly a decade, Students of Decay quietly brought up a century of releases […]

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Tobias Hellkvist :: Turquoise (Small Fragments)

Reviews 01/20/2014 by Alan Lockett

Turquoise extends, chromatically eponymous in aspect, over four tracks full of graceful washes of guitar-wrung tone-melt, drawing out slow flow melodies assisted, the press blurb […]

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