Alan Lockett

Author: Alan Lockett

Teebs :: E S T A R A (Brainfeeder)

Reviews 06/08/2014 by Alan Lockett

Naturally big on beats and bass, though refracted, after its founder’s off-kilter bent, driven less by boom-bap imperative than the diffusion of a heady vibe via tone color and harmonic motif.

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Emiliano Romanelli :: 333 Loops (Volume I) (Terziruolo)

Reviews 06/04/2014 by Alan Lockett

333 Loops is a field of inquiry with a potential duration of between 110,889 seconds and 110,889 years, of which this volume, constituting numbers 148, 149 and 150, […]

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Tegh :: Night Scenes (Inner Ocean)

Reviews 05/31/2014 by Alan Lockett

With sonorous grace and a gravity nearer doleful than dark, more glimmer and glowing than glowering and grim, Tegh’s Night Scenes are suggestively rendered to […]

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Nicolas Bernier :: frequencies (a / fragments) (Line)

Reviews 05/25/2014 by Alan Lockett

Bernier combines sounds from mechanically triggered tuning forks with digital soundwaves, using a micro-controller to trigger sequences via software, activating solenoids that hit rows of […]

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Fibreforms :: Treedrums (Infraction)

Reviews 05/06/2014 by Alan Lockett

Treedrums draws on melding instrumental passages of kit drums and guitars with found and treated sounds, psycho-activating vibrant forms and spaces. Back in the mists […]

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Electric Deluxe :: US Weekend / Jeff Derringer EP

Profiles 05/03/2014 by Alan Lockett

Electric Deluxe hit the US for the weekend Tour of May 23-24. The label hosts the opening party of Movement Detroit, linked to the launch […]

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Celer :: Zigzag (Spekk)

Reviews 05/03/2014 by Alan Lockett

Airy, spatial, with shuddering modulations, shades of unquiet, odd disembodied voicings in remotion, suggestive dissonant swells. Celer‘s remote yet intimate tonal stream of consciousness has […]

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Techno’s Outer Limits :: April 2014

Profiles 04/27/2014 by Alan Lockett

First in a series of postcards from the edge—a snapshot of Techno’s twilight zone of EPs/12″s. First up, from the darker recesses of the ‘floor Raster […]

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ALAN LOCKETT :: Dalliance #7 mix

Features 04/27/2014 by Alan Lockett

Dalliance #7 is the latest Ambient Techno mix from igloomag Contributing Editor Alan Lockett under his mix-Meister albient alias—part of a continuing series of audio […]

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