Comforting, dramatic, and all aquiver, The Bridge Between Life and Death has the pacing and variety of a matinée for the whole family, bound by […]
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Free Babyronia :: Matrix Grooves (AUN Mute / Kaico)
Matrix Grooves is rhythmic dub cubism, its strangeness strangely compelling. Free Babyronia (Rodriguez Yukio, from Nagoya by way of Lima) chisels a dark, outlier techno out […]
AOKI Takamasa :: RV8 (Raster-Noton)
It is simplicity as virtuosity, minimalism whittled with the knife-edge exactitude of a Giacometti figurine. Eight flint-edged “rhythm variations” by Osaka-based AOKI Takamasa, bitumen slick […]
Maxmillion Dunbar :: House of Woo (Rvng Intl)
House of Woo is a counter swoosh to big-box house music, handmade and unbrandable, a curve-ball from left-field thrown with muscle. House of Woo is […]
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Hatami coaxes the seed out of its pod, through the soil and into harsh sunlight before a moment of silence preceeds a drawn-out keen to […]
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Ideas of Noise entices the listener to lean in to his rough-hewn creations, beyond the fuzzy grit and static, allowing an image or feeling form […]
Michiru Aoyama :: 音は光る (The Sound Is Shining) (Organic Industries)
In these eight striking miniatures, he illuminates that meaning for us by melding, in the Zen spirit of forerunner John Cage, artifice, nature and technology. […]
Alley Catss :: (II) (AVNL Records / Sewage Tapes)
Pop electronica in a rickety box held together with baling wire and duct tape, with a glossy cache of inspired melody inside. The meaninglessness of […]
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