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Andrew Weathers :: Someone Else’s Summer (Visceralmedia)

Reviews 09/08/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Gazing hard at it, there is no depth in which to plunge, which seems to me the essential ingredient for a successfully crafted drone. [Release […]

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V/A :: iNDEX04 (DiN)

Reviews 09/06/2012 by Philippe Blache

The musical tendencies approach electronic space music, most of time hauntingly cinematic and hypnotically pulsating. iNDEX04 is an outstanding collection of previous DiN sound materials […]

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Mika Vainio :: Fe3O4 – Magnetite (Touch)

Reviews 09/06/2012 by Andy Gillham

Terror inducing atmospherics aside, Magnetite is a marvelous snarling visceral work. Fans of fearful heavy drone plus Tim Hecker, Keith Fullerton Whitman and Ryoji Ikeda […]

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Burnt Friedman :: Bokoboko (Nonplace)

Reviews 09/06/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Bernd Freidmann reaffirms his status as one of the most interesting genres-in-himself in electronic music. [Release page] This artist has gone increasingly beat crazy as the […]

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Mindbuffer :: PanFM: Chapter 2 (Enig’matik)

Reviews 09/06/2012 by igloomag

In the end PanFM: Chapter 2 is a thorough manifest of audio scribbling that not only augments and realigns the original, it comes across as […]

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Beatmakin Troopa :: If You Fall You Fly (Triangle Productions)

Reviews 09/06/2012 by Gustave Savy

Making use of all sorts of found sounds with varying degrees of processing applied to build an intricate sonic backdrop for the cool beats and […]

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Twiggy And The K-Mesons :: Technique (uvg212 / Daddy Tank)

Reviews 09/06/2012 by igloomag

Tethered to loose wires dangling from analog machinery, Technique is an unusual listening experience. Broken synthesizers, knobs and sliders cascade their audio interruptions in the […]

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Qebrµs :: ⊶⊑∷⌊∴⊹∵⌉∷⊒⊷ E_P (Self-Released)

Reviews 09/06/2012 by Pietro Da Sacco

Bending and altering similar tones throughout, time shifts in atonal algorithms, almost intentionally set as a series of experiments that feed off each other. [Release […]

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Yellow6 & Caught in the Wake Forever :: The Slow Manipulation of Dying Light (Hibernate)

Reviews 09/05/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

The Slow Manipulation of Dying Light comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. [Release page] Jon Attwood and Fraser McGowan are Yellow6 […]

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Mad EP and Shadow Huntaz :: Nightmare Scenario EP (Acroplane)

Reviews 09/03/2012 by Gustave Savy

Nightmare Scenario delivers sharp hard hitting vocal attacks coupled with some really low and dirty beats. It’s slow and dark with a fair bit of […]

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Solipsism :: Weaving Spiders (Herb)

Reviews 09/02/2012 by Philippe Blache

Weaving spiders is a magnificent and sonically meditative sound experience, colorfully ritualistic, spherical and deeply absorbing. The music takes advantages to visual-perceptual forms, tonal clusters […]

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