Alan Lockett

Author: Alan Lockett

Moss Garden :: Understanding Holy Ghosts (Kaico)

Reviews 07/06/2013 by Alan Lockett

The tenor of Understanding Holy Ghosts is warm, pacific, contemplative at first blush, but as it goes on, surfaces prove deceptive. More ghostly than holy elements […]

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Boards Of Canada :: Tomorrow’s Harvest (Warp)

Reviews 06/30/2013 by Alan Lockett

Tomorrow’s Harvest achieves a kind of re-route, as if seeking to achieve triptych, somewhere sequential with the psycho-ambient-chill of MHTRTC and the ambivalent wooze-out of […]

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Martin Schulte :: Slow Beauty (Lantern)

Reviews 06/29/2013 by Alan Lockett

A closing serving suggestion might be that Slow Beauty is best consumed less in full-on focused home listening mode than in expansive semi-distracted mix dosage. Dub Techno. […]

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ANODIZE :: Tactile Visual Audio

Newswires 06/08/2013 by Alan Lockett

Anodize prides itself on the artistic value inherent in the physical object, what it represents historically and literally to the aural and visual mediums simultaneously vanishing […]

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Ben Fleury-Steiner :: Clearings (Rural Colours)

Reviews 06/02/2013 by Alan Lockett

Clearings seems to describe a trajectory in its passage from organic to more ethereal sounds; a dynamic of slow aperture, a catharsis involving nature’s mediation—these […]

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BOARDS OF CANADA :: “Reach for the Dead”

Newswires 05/25/2013 by Alan Lockett

With word lately heard that a new full-length would be coming in June, and their promo campaign people playing out a slow tease that’s not […]

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ALAN LOCKETT :: Ambivalentine mix

Features 05/24/2013 by Alan Lockett

Tons of tones—some dissolved in beats, some beatless treatments—in a continuous mix of current ambient and electronic goodies. Igloomag’s Alan Lockett, via audio-meddling alter ego, […]

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Kassel Jaeger :: Deltas (Editions Mego)

Reviews 05/22/2013 by Alan Lockett

A new rider on its aftershock wave, navigating borders between concrète-fabricated retro-fit experimentalism and newer ambient noise and electroacoustic improv, this Swiss pitch-shifter nicks shticks from […]

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PETE NAMLOOK :: Tribute Release

Newswires 05/13/2013 by Alan Lockett

News has emerged lately to lighten the heavy hearts of Pete Namlook fans and FAX-ophiles alike. For the uninitiated, Namlook (Peter Kuhlmann) had a major […]

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Versalife :: Vantage Point (Clone West Coast Series)

Newswires 05/07/2013 by Alan Lockett

Chilly atmo twiddle, electro squiggle and rhythmic shtick abound in an machine-mean pristine update of a hark-back to the sound of Drexciya. Multi-monikered Boris Bunnik […]

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