Stephen Fruitman

Author: Stephen Fruitman

M-PeX :: Ignis (Enough)

Reviews 09/16/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Fitting for the analogy, Ignis is a perfectly-paced extended player themed on the ideal of Platonic solids, an elegant theory whose aesthetics have delighted mathematicians […]

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My Fun :: This Is All I Had Time For (The Land Of)

Reviews 09/16/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

My Fun’s ambient is very homey and close to life. It breathes with the same rhythm as its listener and has dog-eared corners, some scratches […]

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Xambuca :: Joulupukki (Erototox Decodings)

Reviews 09/16/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Each track is a vigorously constructed matrix of beats, flexible but muscled and oiled up, arranged in a lattice of suggestion and ideas. [Release page] […]

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Laurel Halo :: Quarantine (Hyperdub)

Reviews 09/12/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Halo trowels through a soft soil of idea-rich, melodic self-accompaniment, an impressive display of compositional dexterity, complementing bass and electric piano with a hefty role […]

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V/A :: Lost in the Humming Air: Music Inspired by Harold Budd (Oktaf)

Reviews 09/10/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Lost in the Humming Air is a credit to the lasting debt these artists are due a pioneer in their field without being beholden to […]

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Andrew Weathers :: Someone Else’s Summer (Visceralmedia)

Reviews 09/08/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Gazing hard at it, there is no depth in which to plunge, which seems to me the essential ingredient for a successfully crafted drone. [Release […]

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Burnt Friedman :: Bokoboko (Nonplace)

Reviews 09/06/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Bernd Freidmann reaffirms his status as one of the most interesting genres-in-himself in electronic music. [Release page] This artist has gone increasingly beat crazy as the […]

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