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Stephen Lopkin / DimDJ :: Split EP (Endless Illusion)

Reviews 01/28/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

An unlikely pairing of North and South, but a definite winner. Just before the new year was rang in Endless Illusion put out there third […]

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V/A :: Various III (030303)

Reviews 01/28/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

So what are you getting with this third compilation? You’re getting what 030303 have been doing since the doors opened, expanding the acid and braindance […]

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Pinkcourtesyphone & Gwyneth Wentink :: Elision (Farmacia901)

Reviews 01/28/2016 by Stephen Fruitman

The finest kind of acoustic-electronic collaboration, only nineteen minutes long but destined for endless repeat. When I reviewed Pinkcourtesyphone’s Foley Folly Folio, I thought it was […]

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The volume settings folder :: Folder #05 (Self-Release)

Reviews 01/24/2016 by Philippe Blache

Devoted to effective memories articulated to narratives and self-reflective mind travels. Nostalgic, sometimes emotionally overwhelmed ambient airs which open on a vast feeling of quietness. […]

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2VIEW :: Ancestral Voices / Fenton (Samurai Horo)

Reviews 01/24/2016 by Alan Lockett

The year has seen a stream of bold outings from Samurai Music‘s experimental d’n’b arm, Samurai Horo–the likes of ASC, Fis, Synth Sense, Ena, and Pact Infernal lately […]

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December / Kaumwauld :: Half Cuts 1 (In Paradisum)

Reviews 01/24/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

There’s been a rise in sludge techno in the last few years, industrial essences and experimentation, outsider electronics and a touch of Chicago. The boundaries […]

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Frank Bretschneider :: Isolation (Line)

Reviews 01/23/2016 by Chris Taylor

The finest moments break free from a sense of additive composition. Mobiles of sonic material are suspended, spinning slowly while the listener watches its rotation, […]

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DJ Krush :: Butterfly Effect (Es-U-Es / Vinyldigital.de)

Reviews 01/23/2016 by Stephen Fruitman

In an interview, Ishi referred to the profound effect the 2011 earthquake and tsunami had on him, on all his countrymen. “You know, you can lose […]

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Keith Berry :: Elixir (Invisible Birds)

Newswires 01/23/2016 by Stephen Fruitman

Busy being birthed: A new recording by philosophical ambient minimalist Keith Berry (The Golden Boat, A Strange Feather, Towards the Blue Peninsula), titled Elixir, is […]

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Federico Durand :: A Traves Del Espejo (12k)

Reviews 01/23/2016 by Fabrizio Cacciamali

The music is as beautiful as it is introspective, like a small window of antique glass looking right into Federico’s soul, allowing the listener to […]

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