More and more labels are turning to tapes. I remember my initial reaction: “Why?” Price being the obvious reason. But, the return to cassettes has […]
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Idleness, Endlessness, and 10 Years of Dragon’s Eye
Dragon’s Eye Recordings celebrates its 10th anniversary with the release of Idleness, Endlessness by label head Yann Novak. It explores labor, leisure and engagement over two hour-long […]
Dronny Darko & protoU :: Earth Songs (Cryo Chamber)
This music breathes. It whispers from the pulsating depths of boundless panoramic dreams, percolates effortlessly through the speakers, creating a window of sorts, a way […]
Guilio Aldunucci :: Spazio Sacro (Time Released Sound)
Without knowing anything about Aldinucci’s relationship to religion, his reenactment of its length and breadth on Spazio Sacro evokes feelings of both wonder and dread. As […]
Samantha Grace Edwards :: Graceland (Beartown)
Puntastic title aside, this one-act sound playlet brings down a proper, dirty brick chill onto even the most clement day. Out of a damp pedestrian underpass […]
The Laborer :: The Changing Tide (Wist Rec)
Ambient micro-tonalism with slow moving and abundant manipulated textures, sporadic noisy frequencies, miniature-like sound sculptures whose original source mainly comes from acoustic instruments, field recordings. […]
IAEA Headquarters :: Storm 21 (Clean Error)
The dissection of slanted mechanical sound effects and Autechrean landscapes are seemingly carried by atoms. Clean Error have been on a consistent mission of processing […]
Daniel Lercher :: Missa Brevis (Chmafu Nocords)
Sine tones crawl along the nave, round the apse and ascend to meet Lercher midair, at the pipe organ. A “short mass” commissioned by Austrian […]
Lone :: Lemurian Re-Issue (R&S / Magic Wire)
Layering samples on old tape and making music on all manner of quaintly out-of-date appurtenances—one of the many musical children to which Boards of Canada […]
Fis :: The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now (Loopy)
A veneer of unkempt noise and disorder is attended by intimations of hyper-timbral detail and hermetic design. There’s definitely something in the water in Wellington […]
Joe Drive :: Anamorphic Age (Kooaad Muzik)
Below some of those ashen elements lies warmth, subtle movements and shifts that elevate this inaugural 12” on KOOAAD into something more. I’ve been covering […]
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Bitbasic :: The Cosmological Constant (Glitchpulse)
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Yu Miyashita / Yaporigami :: IDM Collection 21-25 / The Structure of Silence (The Collection Artaud)
Morphtables :: Absurdance (Mestnost)
Vijunns :: 1991 (Hyperreal Projects)
S. Salter :: Ara EP (Plusha)
Marco Simioni :: MSdrift++ EP (Fear of Silence)
