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Jesse Osborne-Lanthier :: Unalloyed, Unlicensed, All Night! (Raster-Noton)

Reviews 01/01/2017 by Pietro Da Sacco

An abrasive, agitated and swift EP that bursts at the seams, as it should, based on its initial construct. Robust and well-rounded, it’s hard to […]

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DJ Overdose :: Don’t Get Burned (Computer Controlled)

Reviews 01/01/2017 by Robbie Geoghegan

Corrosive 303 bars are bubbled and boiled, reduced and simmered into a scorching syrup, one spiced even further by punishing percussion and a decent dollop […]

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Qebrus :: ᐔ ᐌ ᐂ ᐍ ᐚ EP (Love Love)

Reviews 01/01/2017 by Pietro Da Sacco

Qebrus’ definitive arcane noises all seem to coalesce somehow. Next-level experimentation, chaotic as can be, this EP is the perfect soundtrack to an altered parallel universe.

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Techno’s Outer Limits :: December 2016

Reviews 12/30/2016 by Alan Lockett

Last emission of 2016 in a series from Techno’s Twilight Zone of EPs/12″s and LPs with notes in the margins. https://youtu.be/8ziwQ92H1uk Porter Ricks’ quasi-mythical status may […]

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V/A :: Ten Year Electronics (Cultivated Electronics)

Reviews 12/30/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

To commemorate this anniversary a 12” has been commissioned that celebrates the imprint and the wider electro world. Ten Year Electronics closes the recent series […]

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Chris Randall :: Oscillator Breach (Detroit Underground)

Reviews 12/30/2016 by Eric Sorenson

What should we expect from this stylistic chameleon? Heavy bass, for starters. More of those delicious dub/dub-techno chord changes and beats. Six original tacks, then […]

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Dissolved :: Illuminant Shatter (Dissolvedamberrooms)

Reviews 12/29/2016 by Pietro Da Sacco

Illuminant Shatter, Dissolved’s third album for 2016, is yet another bustling percussive trove. An emblematic audible flurry and vibrant collage art piece. Dissolved, a Glasgow-born, Vancouver-based artist, […]

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Three on the Radar :: Cass., Elektro Guzzi, Tilman Robinson

Reviews 12/27/2016 by Nocturnal Ghost

Three albums, three different stories. From warm ambient electronica and eclectic techno to abstract fragments of electroacoustic and modern classical seduction. Cass. :: Youth Sessions […]

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Manie Sans Délire :: Untitled (June)

Reviews 12/26/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

This latest installment probes the shadows even further. Tracks delve deeper into murky undercurrents, scrutinizing ashen aspects and the pierced psyches of the unseen and, […]

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Lokom :: Nyctalope Ponies (Abstrakt Reflections)

Reviews 12/24/2016 by Pietro Da Sacco

Lokom succeeds in crafting a maze of extraterrestrial glitch, adding some friends on remix duty—including Balkansky, c0ma, DaFake Panda, Andrew Course, Ralp, The Ghost of […]

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