Alan Lockett

Author: Alan Lockett

ALAN LOCKETT :: Slings the Wooze Mix

Features 04/14/2012 by Alan Lockett

20 exponents of blurred and blissed ambience, washed out synthwave and reverb-drenched electronica selected and strategically slung into a document of daze, a hymn to […]

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AUN :: Phantom Ghost (Denovali)

Reviews 03/15/2012 by Alan Lockett

Phantom Ghost has about it a compelling elusive quality, as if evaporating when its solidity feels graspable; it seems to float, as if levitating, just above […]

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Yann Novak :: Presence (Hibernate)

Reviews 03/12/2012 by Alan Lockett

Presence operates in the inbetween between unresolved and resolution, flirting with the chill charms of the unpitched then back, finding refuge in more comfily pitched […]

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BROKEN20 :: 3View

Reviews 02/25/2012 by Alan Lockett

These three releases (10-20’s Magnet Marsh, Isodyne’s Dreams Torn From The Sky and Nanorhythm’s Beyond the Green Wall) show Broken20’s faculties very much intact in […]

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Stormloop :: Snowbound* (Glacial Movements)

Reviews 02/07/2012 by Alan Lockett

There are no great shifts to the glacial isolationist ambient paradigm here, but a consummate execution of a programmatic template. A little more than this, […]

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Spheruleus :: Voyage (Hibernate)

Reviews 01/29/2012 by Alan Lockett

What makes this Voyage, indeed our (listening) voyage, resonate is not the literal of the littoral, of dock to deck to descent, but the figurative […]

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Bvdub :: I Remember (Translations of Mørketid) (Glacial Movements)

Reviews 01/14/2012 by Alan Lockett

The sound apparently sweeping the new ambient nation is so anodyne; and that, unlike the likes of Lull or Aquadorsa, or indeed Netherworld, it chimes […]

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Pausal :: Autumnal (Students of Decay)

Reviews 01/07/2012 by Alan Lockett

Autumnal is a diptych of floating tableaux of wistful bucolica and gently heart-string tugging micro-symphonics created from a mélange of treated guitar and processed vinyl, […]

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Marcel Dettmann :: Conducted (Music Man)

Reviews 01/02/2012 by Alan Lockett

Dettmann conducts his brute orchestra of kick-pulse, synth-stab and bass-throb with predictable pazazz, choreographing anthemic and abstruse, antiques and curios, deriving gains from playing tradition […]

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Chihei Hatakeyama :: Mirror (Room40)

Reviews 12/11/2011 by Alan Lockett

Chihei achieves a felicitous juxtaposition of analogue sound sources, digital processing and musicianly sensibility, imbuing Mirror, for all its floaty-drifty hyper-ethereality, with a certain satisfying […]

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Scott Solter :: One River (Hidden Shoal)

Reviews 11/27/2011 by Alan Lockett

A lulling affair of quiet majesty, at once glacial and warm, with a hymnal swell-relent dynamic, One River relaxes without being anodyne, retaining attention through […]

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