Stephen Fruitman

Author: Stephen Fruitman

ujif_notfound :: Aneuch (Electroton)

Reviews 01/13/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

As ujif_notfound, Kiev-based Gregoriy Potopalski is a white-hat hacker whose delicate manipulations on Aneuch conjure huge vistas seen through a pinhole. The opening, title track […]

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Neohachi :: Lovecadio Hearn (White Paddy Mountain)

Reviews 01/04/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Lovecadio Hearn is joyful and colourful and incomparable. “Neo” something, that’s for sure. Neo, but not the least bit pseudo. Neohachi is a ”fancy and […]

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Olaf Hochherz and Tim Blechmann & Manuel Knapp :: Double review (Kwanyin)

Reviews 01/01/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Two handmade, personalized packs housing the “Mini Kwanyin Series,” the 2010 outgrowth of “guerrilla” Chinese experimental art association Sub Jam, probably the most interesting, loosely-organized […]

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DJ Olive feat. Honeychild Coleman :: THWIS (The Agriculture)

Reviews 12/29/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Coleman’s sweet, sweet voice is treated as a delicate instrument by Olive, fragments and shavings of it nestling alongside his soft, rootsy bass, dub keyboards […]

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Rapoon :: Seeds in the Tide: Volume 02 (Zoharum)

Reviews 12/27/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

One of the most significant living figures in contemporary electronic music. I wouldn’t hesitate to call Robin Storey one of the most significant living figures […]

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Hitoshi Kojo :: High Tide Mirror (Shining Day/Omnimomento)

Reviews 12/26/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

A singular sound, most recently enjoyed on Animala Corolla by Jüppala Kääpiö, basically the same song under a different mantle. Both sound like the first sounds ever made by […]

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Kode9 :: Rinse: 22 (Rinse)

Reviews 12/22/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

British beat and bass avantgarde and head of touchstone Hyperdub label, is notably partial to its darker, miry side, and despite opening with an exemplary […]

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