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Pausal :: Sky Margin (Own)

Reviews 01/16/2014 by Alan Lockett

The sky, regardless of marginalia, is hymned as winsome, as radiant, as before; but by adding new skin to the old ceremony, finding a natural […]

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Vatican Shadow :: When You Are Crawling EP (Hospital Productions)

Reviews 01/16/2014 by James Knapman

Vatican Shadow follows up his debut album Remember Your Black Day with a new EP of material that, if anything, is even better. Vatican Shadow’s […]

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Bombay Dub Orchestra :: Tales From The Grand Bazaar (Six Degrees)

Reviews 01/16/2014 by Nocturnal Ghost

BDO’s third album is a fine east meets west affair that shines with grace and individuality within genre districts flooded with sonic recycling. I have […]

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Coppe’ :: Void (Mango + Sweetrice)

Reviews 01/15/2014 by Leo Aboal

Void ventures into much darker terrain (for her) though, and for the first time the album actually sounds like it may have come at a […]

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Ricardo Donoso :: As Iron Sharpens Iron, One Verse Sharpens Another (Digitalis)

Reviews 01/15/2014 by James Knapman

As Iron Sharpens Iron, One Verse Sharpens Another takes the best elements of his previous two LPs and combines them to form a racy, atmospheric […]

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Kaeba :: Mirrorless EP (Self-Released)

Reviews 01/14/2014 by Andy Gillham

One half of Plaster whose finely sculpted electronics have recently graced a number of labels including Touchin’ Bass and Stroboscopic Artefacts. Kaeba is Gianclaudio H. […]

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ujif_notfound :: Aneuch (Electroton)

Reviews 01/13/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

As ujif_notfound, Kiev-based Gregoriy Potopalski is a white-hat hacker whose delicate manipulations on Aneuch conjure huge vistas seen through a pinhole. The opening, title track […]

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Burial :: Rival Dealer (Hyperdub)

Reviews 01/12/2014 by James Knapman

Burial’s output is becoming harder and harder to predict or track, and to so boldly eschew the expected dark, angst-ridden, minor key moodiness in favor […]

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Nickolas Mohanna :: Parallax View (Low Point)

Reviews 01/12/2014 by Owen Vince

Filled with even more densely layered electronics, ambient drone, and fractal samples. A rich and tightly focused experiment in modular analogue synths, ambient drone and […]

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Octavcat :: In Memory of Old Gear (Uncharted Audio)

Reviews 01/09/2014 by Sam Waks

The beauty of analog gear is in the errors, the unpredictability and no matter how fast digital emulation advances, that lusciously crackled timbre which coats […]

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