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Kappah :: Tribal Dances (Bedroom Research)

Reviews 02/04/2012 by Gustave Savy

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 […]

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Patscan :: Mollycoddlers EP (Acroplane)

Reviews 02/04/2012 by Robert Galbraith

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 […]

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Robert Lippok :: Redsuperstructure (Raster-Noton)

Reviews 02/04/2012 by Greg Dutcher

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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Tolouse Low Trax :: Jeidem Fall (Karaoke Kalk)

Reviews 02/04/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Weinrich has a sharp, structured mind for creating rhythms of complexity and duration. Rhythms alone would however soon grow tiresome if they didn’t have something […]

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Hadamard :: Jupiter Cycle 1 & 2 (Last Known Trajectory)

Reviews 02/04/2012 by Robbie Geoghegan

The Jupiter Cycles are the best work of Hadamard to date. Bartelink leads the listener through automated atmospherics, phantoms of electric pulses and inside his […]

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Smartguy Records :: Review batch

Reviews 02/04/2012 by Robbie Geoghegan

Since 1997 Smartguy Records has been releasing a veritable banquet of styles and genres. U.S. labels seem more comfortable releasing a spectrum of sounds. Don’t get […]

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Oxyd :: Liveforms (Signifier / Aliens Production)

Reviews 02/01/2012 by igloomag

Liveforms remains thoroughly engaged as it elevates thin veils of dark-ambient passages covered in nebulous sheets of chaotic beauty. Oxyd presents a darkened grove of […]

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Richard Devine :: Risp EP (Detroit Underground)

Reviews 02/01/2012 by Robert Galbraith

Music which has all but the rudimentary ties to humanity stripped out of it. The machines have a dialogue and language all of their own […]

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RURAL ROUTE :: 3View ~ 2012.1 (Standard Form)

Reviews 02/01/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

With this trio of releases, Standard Form wraps up its trip down the tertiary roads of numerous provinces, a couple of states, the Shetlands and […]

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Spheruleus :: Voyage (Hibernate)

Reviews 01/29/2012 by Alan Lockett

What makes this Voyage, indeed our (listening) voyage, resonate is not the literal of the littoral, of dock to deck to descent, but the figurative […]

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