Snook has a bottomless treasure chest of beats, samples and melodies, but rather than just throw them all up in the air and see where […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
O’Leary – Louhivuori – Hauta-aho :: Astral Fishing (TIBProd. Italy )
In its unassuming way, however, this ambient darkhorse recorded with relative unknowns stands out due to its majestic demeanor and excellence of execution. Outwardly the […]
Sven Schienhammer (Quantec) :: Altostratus Translucidus (Bine Music)
Canopying the whole sky, the cloud-watcher on the ground might spy unexpected shapes in the textured dub haze of Altostratus Translucidus: Bach practicing scales on […]
Bleupulp :: Small Places (Pertin_nce)
Bleupulp conjugates dub and techno in his own special way, fastidiously and inquisitively. [Release page] Maxime Tanguay from Lévis, just across the St. Lawrence River […]
Listening Mirror :: Resting In Aspic (Hibernate)
The music collected here is anything but dispiriting. It is the sound of a garden turning toward the morning sun and listening to itself—birds chip, […]
Musculus :: Not In (Dokuro)
Ruomu Guo, Alex Obal and Michael Tau of Musculus claim to have discovered a buried cache of cassettes with a metal detector, which they have […]
Brother Sun, Sister Moon :: Self-Titled (Denovali)
Their debut is like a mood board, a spate (eleven tracks over thirty-seven minutes) of snaps, grabs and aspirations. Barely-there vocalist couples with an electronic […]
Bengalfuel :: Sprague, Edgemere, Lowe, Toth (Hibernate)
Bengalfuel conjures a world where rather than some omninous singularity, man, machine and nature sync up with wit and empathy. Prettiest little mini-disc set ever, […]
Roger Doyle :: Chalant – Memento Mori (Psychonavigation)
Though confined to a single disc, Chalant – Memento Mori is a sprawling work itself, a collection of memories garnered from a slew of answering […]