As Tropa reconfigures his audio machines and software, it’s becoming more apparent that he’s capable of propelling himself further into the past in order to […]
Reviews
Steve Roach :: Quiet Music: The Original 3-Hour Collection (Projekt)
If you gaze deeply into this music, you really won’t find much to do that. Despite the earnest effort, and although pretty, it is hardly […]
Known Rebel :: Hollow (Tympanik Audio)
These fully formed sonic escapades tap straight into the heart—broken up by interspersed vocal samples and crumpled digital debris—that has Known Rebel scraping the finest […]
Marco Resmann :: Watergate 10 (Watergate)
Watergate 10 is more reminiscent of DJ Spooky’s plundering a century’s worth of sound archives on Rhythm Science (Sub Rosa) than a conventional club mix, […]
JEAN-CLAUDE ELOY :: 4View (Hors Territoires)
Jean-Claude Eloy (b. 1938) is the greatest composer of the past half-century I never heard of. A profound engagement with the Japanese Gagaku orchestra—imperial courtly […]
Stormloop :: Snowbound* (Glacial Movements)
There are no great shifts to the glacial isolationist ambient paradigm here, but a consummate execution of a programmatic template. A little more than this, […]
Hanetration :: Tenth Oar EP (Self-Released)
Pealing away at the edges, twenty-nine minutes briskly float away as distressed electronic crackles, horns, reversed loops, fractured vocal samples and tangled strands cascade in […]
Breathing life into minimal Europa (Anna Logue)
Anna Logue is a label with an undeniable ear for quality synth wave and minimal pop. The German imprint has illustrated this across a spread […]
Kappah :: Tribal Dances (Bedroom Research)
The album is a sampling wonkfest of jerky beats, odd sounds, meaty synths and solid bass. There are influences from all over the place, Indian […]
Patscan :: Mollycoddlers EP (Acroplane)
Mollycoddlers is one of those releases that doesn’t attempt to be the life of the party with gimmicks and tricks. It is more interested in […]
Robert Lippok :: Redsuperstructure (Raster-Noton)
Working more like character studies of the individual sounds therein than “songs” with structures and interrelated parts. This is a subtle distinction, much easier heard […]
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