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Gastón Arévalo :: Rollin Ballads (Oktaf)

Reviews 09/08/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Rollin Ballads is classically ambient, a watercolor wash of palpable, agreeable texture beneath which themes emerge and recur, amounting in a graceful, nine-movement suite beautifully […]

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Body 11 / Die Gesunden :: Double review (Medical)

Reviews 09/07/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

Medical Records need little introduction on Igloo, but their latest duo of artists might. Body 11 is Tim Stickelbrucks, a German artist who was inspired […]

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Bule / Hunab :: Hera (Apparent Horizon)

Reviews 09/07/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

A longing gaze back to the structures of Electronica is linked with smudges of Dub and Industrial to produce a hazy and soulful sound. A […]

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Conquering Animal Sound :: On Floating Bodies (Chemikal Underground)

Reviews 09/06/2013 by Andrew Danso

A seminal second record by the Scots, full of interesting detail and powerful songwriting. It’s hard not to feel that if Björk were to start again, […]

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Five questions for Crackling Claps

Profiles 09/06/2013 by igloomag

London, England’s Crackling Claps pushes low-end frequencies to no apparent end and has done so for just over a year. Label operator Wine Not (WN) […]

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Polysick :: Witness (MinimalRome)

Reviews 09/04/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

Coming from a House of blackened floors and decaying morals, Polysick brandishes a drum machine like a butcher’s cleaver. There are too many definitions of […]

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Matmos :: The Marriage Of True Minds (Thrill Jockey)

Reviews 09/04/2013 by Andrew Danso

It’s all here, intended for some sort of psychological poke at electronica. John Cage would have loved this. Quite literally, experiment and study is at […]

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DENOVALI SWINGFEST 2013 :: 27 tracks free download festival sampler

Newswires 09/03/2013 by Nocturnal Ghost

In early October, Denovali Records will host their Experimental Music Festival called DENOVALI SWINGFEST for the 6th time in Essen (Germany). The festival will happen on October […]

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Jon Hopkins :: Immunity (Domino)

Reviews 09/01/2013 by James Knapman

Immunity takes things even further, those calm, classical moments becoming buried even deeper beneath aggressive blankets of hyper-advanced sound design and fizzling techno. When they […]

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LGBT Rights for Russia Now!

Newswires 09/01/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

“They’re so tired of shooting protest singers,” Elvis Costello once sang, “that they hardly mention us.” And yet what can they do but keep singing—or […]

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