Reviews

Maps and Diagrams :: Lights Will Call On You / The Town Beneath The Sea (Nomadic Kids Republic)

Reviews 06/02/2012 by Alan Lockett

‘My personal journey through music started over 12 years ago, I have travelled a lot musically myself over that time in my own work and […]

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Squarepusher :: Ufabulum (Warp)

Reviews 06/02/2012 by Craig Hitchings

Squarepusher has long been a favorite of mine. Ever since I first heard the line, “Let the bass kick,” I was hooked. And even though […]

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Dictaphone :: Poems From A Rooftop (Sonic Pieces)

Reviews 06/02/2012 by James Knapman

Underground jazz flecks, piano, field recordings, fuzzy radio signals, glowing guitars and Stolze’s lyrical violin create a fresh but oddly uneasy atmosphere and a palpably […]

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ESA :: Themes Of Carnal Empowerment Pt. 1: Lust (Tympanik Audio)

Reviews 06/02/2012 by Jus Forrest

It doesn’t disappoint either, and as you may come to expect, it’s immensely energetic, awash with static rough-edged stabs of soundtrack—a laser gun surely capable […]

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Batida :: Batida (Soundway)

Reviews 06/02/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

An action-packed, succinct thirty-five minutes, it’s one of those rare dance records that sounds just as great at home because there’s just too much going […]

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Rich Batsford :: Valentine Court (Mouflon Music)

Reviews 06/02/2012 by Jus Forrest

An enchanting weave of minimalist movement, the result in the ideal world of course, being the tracking of one artful leading lady in a full-length […]

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Vocoder :: Cuadro Sinóptico (Dark Entries)

Reviews 06/02/2012 by Robbie Geoghegan

Josh Cheon has outdone himself with this re-release. The tracks sound as good today as when I first heard them coming across cyberspace care of […]

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Distal :: Civilization (Tectonic)

Reviews 05/29/2012 by Gustave Savy

The new breed of bass music is pretty much epitomized by this album, understated but ready to deliver the pressure when it needs to. Plenty […]

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Kabutogani :: Cymma (Electroton)

Reviews 05/29/2012 by Alan Lockett

Ultimately, all five of Cymma’s exhibits can be seen as tooled with a similar glitch-driven hyper-funk sensibility, and, with varying degrees of precision, incision and/or […]

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Coppice Halifax :: Multi-review (Milieu Music)

Reviews 05/29/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

In contrast to a number of other artists who release untold amounts of studio material, Coppice Halifax displays a real duty of care to his […]

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Alpha Bubbah :: Undo Undone (nonine)

Reviews 05/27/2012 by Philippe Blache

Undo Undone delivers well executed instrumentation’s with fruitful luminous ideas, deep basslines, achieved harmonic progressions, powerfully emotional energies centered on soundtracky ambiences and nice free-jazzy sounding experiments. Alpha […]

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