On All is Silence, Ametsub cleverly mixes research and development in what he calls New Field music—post-glitch, post-dub, post-ambient, past caring about genre and style, which at the same time […]
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Fescal :: The Descending Light (Wist Rec)
Irresistable little box of wonder from Wistrec, the little Irish art house with big, innovative packaging ideas (cf. its “Book Report” series). English sound innovator […]
John Sobocan :: A Soft Circle (Databloem)
Rollingly classic, accommodating ambient, A Soft Circle leaves a big, cozy space between the listener and his or her thoughts and the music. The so-called natural […]
Bangeliz :: Mixtape (Mik Musik)
Mixtape adds up to two, twenty-minute merries-go-round (…) and though you’ll step off woozy, it’s melodic, it’s accessible, it spins at an angle but steady. […]
Enduser / Needle Sharing / The Teknoist :: Enduser Shares Needles with the Teknoist (Ad Noiseam)
Such relentless bludgeoning could easily hide sloppy thinking, but this troika inscribe enough detail to make it seem like scrolling commentary, a comedian’s aside or […]
Scanner :: Colofon & Compendium 1991-1994 (Sub Rosa)
Lone explorer of this terra—or rather aether incognita back then, Colofon & Compendium consists of sketches and “thinking processes” undertaken in the early nineties and have […]
Robert Haigh :: Strange and Secret Things (Siren)
Haigh’s seventeen miniatures are hardly strange and if they possess some secret, he seems more than willing to share it with us. He plays a […]
Radere :: Dreamless (Full Spectrum)
The unfancy package is meant to extend the theme of lo-fi, rawer loop experimentation, to reflect the “share a moment in time” aesthetic of social […]
TM404 :: TM404 (Kontra-Musik)
Andreas Tilliander gets his fingers into the recesses hidden out of sight by sleek, Kraftwerkian efficiency to writhe in more sinister joys, a burble and […]
Deadbeat :: Eight (BLKRTZ)
Eight is another engrossing extension of dub territory, as each of Monteith’s solo albums opens up a new world. Eighth world, next the ninth. Montrealer […]
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