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Five questions for Home Normal

Profiles 03/12/2012 by igloomag

Ian Hawgood of Home Normal stopped by the virtual doors to respond to igloomag.com’s Five questions profile. Learn more about this multi-faceted, independent label as […]

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Pete Swanson :: Man With Potential (Type)

Reviews 03/11/2012 by James Knapman

It’s not often one can legitimately use the word “unique” to describe a new album these days, but in the case of the mind-bending Man […]

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Mendel Kaelen :: A Secret Birth (Twisted Tree Line)

Reviews 03/11/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

A Secret Birth—guess whose—is based on late nineteenth-century Swiss composer Charles Haenni’s setting of Stabat Mater, a Marian hymn which has been varied by dozens […]

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Bitwise :: Better Luck Next Time (System)

Reviews 03/09/2012 by igloomag

Elements of clean-cut techno, downtempo and ambient are smothered with a layer of instrumental pop, loosened synths, emotive strings and lyrical lava-flows that form wide […]

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Noiko :: Honey (Etalabel)

Reviews 03/09/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Small specialist Polish imprint Etalabel is dedicated to debuting young, domestic electronic artists and packaging them with an eye on quality. Refreshigly, its owner’s philosophy is that […]

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Rudawoda feat. O. Lubencov :: Wiatr (Turbinicarpus)

Reviews 03/09/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

This mutely eloquent soundtrack to perniciousness, improvised live on analogue synthesizer and bass guitar, conveys a scene of post-Soviet dilapidation and exudes bitter abjection. [Release […]

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Subject / Human Dance :: The (Almost) Insanely Happy EP (EE Tapes)

Reviews 03/09/2012 by Robbie Geoghegan

EE Tapes peer down a number of avenues—looking at electronics, industrial, synth wave and more. For some twenty-five years the label has been releasing sounds […]

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Lubomyr Melnyk :: The Voice of Trees (Hinterzimmer)

Reviews 03/09/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

The sheer physical performance of the pianist is awesome, but would not be more than a footnote if it weren’t such a triumph. Its flight […]

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Perispirit :: Spiritual Church Movement (Digitalis)

Reviews 03/08/2012 by James Knapman

For a record as borderline obliterated as this there’s a strange warmth that envelops Spiritual Church Movement, much like the sable trimming surrounding the oddly […]

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Sean Byrd :: Always Was (Plastic Sound Supply)

Reviews 03/07/2012 by Eric Sorenson

The emotional swells and transitions Byrd builds into his tracks sometimes lead to moments of pure transcendence, too, as on the album’s aptly-titled closer “Something […]

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