The synth pop flourishes of Neud Photo’s early productions have been purged from Dreamz with stern percussion and lancing lines taking their place. A record […]
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Resting Cell :: Cellular Memory (Virtual Urban)
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Storming The Studio :: 40 Years of the Future Worlds of Jack Dangers (Part 3)
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Quarantine Q’s :: Deadbeat
Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat, is a Canadian transplanted to Berlin (as a musical technology educator) via the US techno scene. A veteran of the North […]
Soul Flask :: The Cassandra Complex (Mahorka) — “A Smear Through The Shale” video premiere
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith :: The Mosaic of Transformation (Ghostly International)
The album is sonically gorgeous, but also very coherent and tight—clocking at under forty minutes with never a moment spent in self-indulgence. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith […]
WE FORFEIT (Mix 21) :: 20 Y(Ae)rs of Electronica 1996-2016
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Eli Neuman-Hammond :: New Songs (Self Released)
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V/A :: Carebots (Bass Agenda) — charity compilation
Bass Agenda Recordings will release a charity compilation titled Carebots on May 15, 2020. Sold as a digital release via their Bandcamp page, the proceeds […]
V/A :: Mobile Strategies: Battery-Powered Sonics (Clan Analogue)
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Single Cell Orchestra :: Remember The Future (Celldom)
The exhortation in the album’s name—Remember the Future—helps me keep in mind the unbounded forward-facing optimism we felt in the warehouse raves in late-90s Oakland […]

















