Reviews

Richard Chartier :: Subsequent Materials (2006-2012) (Line)

Reviews 07/23/2014 by Alan Lockett

‘I was always interested in sound(s), even as a child. I loved the sound of refrigerators, air conditioners. I could often be found listening to […]

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Slow Dancing Society :: The Cogent Sea (Hidden Shoal)

Reviews 07/23/2014 by Nocturnal Ghost

SDS is back with what feels like his most emotionally exposed and atmospherically lucid album to date. Cinematic ambient-gaze specialist Drew Sullivan (Slow Dancing Society) […]

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Xumla :: Statix (Audiobulb)

Reviews 07/23/2014 by Philippe Blache

An impressive, delicate, moving, carefully conceived and intensely creative album that will ravish enthusiastic fans of modern classical / dream pop artifacts of Alva Noto, […]

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Retape & Guillotine :: Double review (030303)

Reviews 07/22/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

030303 have been quiet in the last year. The DJ collective has been busy with gigs, festivals and meeting the needs of Acid hungry crowds, […]

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Shaped timbres, unyielding low-end, simmering extraterrestrial electronics and calm ambient sheets all tend to unravel succinctly. Dystopia by Trdlx Rummaging through dark dub infiltrated corridors—not […]

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Claire :: Perfume (Acoustic Division)

Reviews 07/18/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

Complex when it needs to be, harsh and floor centered when the desire arises and absorbing from needle drop to run out. A lack of […]

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The Transhumans :: Theory and Practice of Domination Vol. III (Transhuman)

Reviews 07/18/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

Four gritty, sweat streaked, angry Techno convulsions are the offering. I’ve been covering the Theory And Practice Of Domination series since the first volume last […]

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Verslo Rizikos Rezervas :: Nebelipk (Bordello A Parigi)

Reviews 07/16/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

New Wave retrospection is at the core, Modern Romantics with an Eastern European tongue. My knowledge of Lithuania is pretty limited. I know the capital, […]

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Ocoeur :: A Parallel Life (n5MD)

Reviews 07/16/2014 by Pietro Da Sacco

Ocoeur trails a path more invested in glitch-dynamics and tangled ambient sheets on A Parallel Life. Franck Zaragoza (aka Ocoeur) revealed Light as a feather […]

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Joux Joux vs Gerald Fiebig & Alexander Möckl :: Private Transport (Angstroehre RMX) (Attenuation Circuit)

Reviews 07/16/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Strokes against the grain, raising pleasant hackles and the level of distortion while adding dabs of what seems like nocturnal pneumatic roadworks. Private Transport (Angstroehre RMX) […]

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Fatima Al Qadiri :: Asiatisch (Hyperdub)

Reviews 07/14/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Al Qadiri’s take is indeed spare and spacious but not so very bass rich, a pop music westernized with melodramatically sweeping and bleating synths and […]

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