Reviews

Eyeliner :: High Fashion Mood Music (Crystal Magic)

Reviews 10/17/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

A counter-revolution to the lo-fi nostalgia for cassette wobble and vinyl crackle, vaporwave, as this burgeoning genre has been dubbed, celebrates the state-of-the-art, the hi-def, […]

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Celer :: Rags of Contentment (Dronarivm)

Reviews 10/16/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Ragas of calm, resignation to luscious ennui and irrepressible resolve. The record apparently brings to mind Nepal and Eno’s Discreet Music for Will Long, and […]

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GENETIC MUSIC / NO EMB BLANC :: Profile and reviews

Reviews 10/15/2012 by Robbie Geoghegan

Consistently Genetic Music, and No EMB Blanc, have released fresh new artists and acts. Genetic perpetually brings the unheard to ears and this ever changing […]

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Bronze Age :: Antiquated Futurism EP (Bed of Nails)

Reviews 10/15/2012 by James Knapman

Bronze Age looks to the past and drags it kicking and screaming into a chaotic, thumping, post-industrial present with the début three-track Antiquated Futurism EP, […]

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Displacer :: Foundation (Hymen)

Reviews 10/15/2012 by Pietro Da Sacco

A mixture of solids, liquids and opaque gases, each piece rattles effortlessly as a series of ingredients melt together in a fuzzy subatomic layer. Submerging […]

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Tineidae :: Lights (Tympanik Audio)

Reviews 10/10/2012 by Eric Sorenson

Listened to start to finish, through headphones and at volume on speakers, there’s not a track out of place, nor, to Tineidae’s credit, is there […]

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Yagya :: The Inescapable Decay Of My Heart (Kilk / UltraVybe)

Reviews 10/10/2012 by James Knapman

The simple fact of the matter is that The Inescapable Decay Of My Heart was never intended to be heard as an instrumental record and […]

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KWJAZ :: KWJAZ (Not Not Fun)

Reviews 10/10/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

An uneasy-listening analogue bubblebath, more remnants of the recent past but stretched, dubbed and arranged with consummate skill into delicious alienations of the familiar. Another […]

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Wes Willenbring / Markus Mehr / Slow Dancing Society :: 3view (Hidden Shoal)

Reviews 10/07/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

A true quality imprint, Perth-based Hidden Shoal Recordings doesn’t release reams of material but rather important material. Four, five or six times a year, cultivating […]

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Arthur Dent & Deeper Than Space :: Drift (Architects + Heroes)

Reviews 10/07/2012 by Philippe Blache

Drift is a very convincing effort made of meticulously elaborated sound tapestries. Fractal-molecular electronic soundscapes in total immersion. [Release page] Architects + Heroes Records are […]

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