Alan Lockett

Author: Alan Lockett

Pausal :: Sky Margin (Own)

Reviews 01/16/2014 by Alan Lockett

The sky, regardless of marginalia, is hymned as winsome, as radiant, as before; but by adding new skin to the old ceremony, finding a natural […]

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DALGLISH :: 3View

Profiles 01/01/2014 by Alan Lockett

‘What we have said makes it clear that music possesses the power of producing an effect on the character of the soul.’ (Aristotle, The Politics, […]

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Atlantis :: Electra’s Discovery (Handstitched)

Reviews 12/27/2013 by Alan Lockett

Studied lo-fi sci-fi archaeologies at the edges of a path trodden by Boards and electronic thrift-store diggers like Ekoplekz, it taps into a similar vein […]

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ALAN LOCKETT :: Dalliance #6 mix

Features 12/22/2013 by Alan Lockett

Dalliance #6 is an Ambient Techno mix from igloomag Contributing Editor Alan Lockett under his mix-Meister albient alias. Assembled on 12-13-13, with an eye to […]

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Day Before Us :: Misty Shroud of Regrets (Rage in Eden)

Reviews 12/21/2013 by Alan Lockett

Misty Shroud of Regrets is predominantly neo-classical-informed ambience, whose mournful lyricism is aligned with a certain strain of transcendent Old European pessimism. Day Before Us […]

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Bastian Void and Sima Kim :: Double review (Chemical Tapes)

Reviews 12/21/2013 by Alan Lockett

The two twirled here are one of retro-futurist synth purism from Bastian Void, the other of postclassical-ambient texturalism from Sima Kim. Two new doses of […]

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Stuart Chalmers :: Crossings (Somehow)

Reviews 11/23/2013 by Alan Lockett

Overall, Crossings sees Chalmers depart from a somewhat unkempt bruitism characterizing other releases towards a more finished melodically-inclined model—a balance of timbres, particulate and nebulous, […]

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Hakobune :: Nebulous Sequences (VoxxoV)

Reviews 11/16/2013 by Alan Lockett

What you get with Nebulous Sequences is an upgrade of Hakobune’s accumulated drone knowledge to full Masters level; mastering of another kind, by new ambient […]

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3View :: Infraction

Reviews 10/26/2013 by Alan Lockett

Founded around the turn of the millenium, Infraction Records has played an unerring long game since then. One suspects Jason Bryant subscribes to The Long […]

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ALAN LOCKETT :: Dalliance #5 mix

Features 10/20/2013 by Alan Lockett

Dalliance #5 locates itself at the more ambient end of the Dub Techno spectrum—where the dub is massive trailing atmo-smears of echo and reverb (call […]

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