Reviews

Instant Movie Combinations :: For the Travellers Sadly Walking in Ever Mist (Cold Graey)

Reviews 11/05/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Each is a drone exquisitely painted with a broad brush of many, slowly shifting colors. Instant Movie Combinations have created three shimmering backgrounds For the […]

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Headnoaks :: System Neuroscience (BlackRed)

Reviews 11/04/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

Headnoaks’ audio expression (also) gazes into the past, the warmth of 90s Techno and IDM alongside the videogame nostalgia of early Rephlex. Leipzig’s BlackRed cut […]

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Yves De Mey :: Frisson (Archives Intérieures)

Reviews 11/03/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

This album length extended player has the narrative flow of free-standing but interlocking short stories with more sense of place than state of mind. Limiting […]

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V/A :: Friendly Integration V2 (Detroit Underground)

Reviews 11/03/2013 by Pietro Da Sacco

A couple dozen tracks sees the forward thinking audio-art boutique that is Detroit Underground pushing ahead Volume 2 in the Friendly Integration series. A well-balanced display […]

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Hecq :: Horror Vacui (Hymen)

Reviews 11/03/2013 by Pietro Da Sacco

Among the cataclysmic beats, atmospheric debris, noisy elements and brushed electronics, Hecq manages to once again display unconventional yet coherent music that defies categorization. Hecq […]

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Boris Divider :: Aeon (Drivecom)

Reviews 11/02/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

Intimate soundscapes that ascend into the sublime. There are obvious echoes of Vangelis in here but Boris amplifies their captivation, looping the listener into a […]

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Diaphane :: Lifeforms (Ant-Zen)

Reviews 11/02/2013 by Andrew Danso

Diaphane is the solo project by Regis Baillet, a member in the electronic and experimental duet, Ab Ovo. Lifeforms is Baillet’s second solo record, beginning […]

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DMX Krew & Elec Pt 1 :: Double review (Abstract Forms)

Reviews 11/02/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

Abstract Forms, and its sister sub Abstract Acid, have called on a veteran of electronics and a rising name in machine music. Ed Upton (aka […]

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Phylum Sinter :: Escape Key (hopskotch recs)

Reviews 10/29/2013 by Pietro Da Sacco

Cross-pollinating Global Goon styled funk with a side of Aphex Twin entanglement, Phylum Sinter keeps a consistent pace throughout these glitched percussive extracts in a […]

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John 3:16 :: Visions of the Hereafter (Alrealon Musique)

Reviews 10/29/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Gerber grinds out Gehenna-gaze guitar that blurs the line between the blessings and the curses in a very personal theodicy, not trying to reconcile the […]

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