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Chrisma :: Chinese Restaurant & Hibernation (Medical)

Reviews 01/21/2011 by Robbie Geoghegan

It’s amazing to hear what this married couple were making over thirty years ago. The range explored by Chrisma is pretty incredible. The album doesn’t […]

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Borghesia :: Ljubav Je Hladnija Od Smrti & End Of Your Garden/De Må Være Belgiere Split LP (Dark Entries)

Reviews 01/21/2011 by Robbie Geoghegan

Dark Entries are moving further into the realms of synth wave obscurity. The San Francisco imprint has trekked across the Atlantic for its latest pair […]

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V/A :: The Reconstruction of Fives (n5MD)

Reviews 01/17/2011 by igloomag

The reconstruction, however, is a mixture of form with shoegaze and ambience balanced against the shadow’s of sharply organized electronic noise; a virtual plateau of […]

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Alan Lockett’s Top picks from twenty-ten

Reviews Tops 01/17/2011 by Alan Lockett

A summary of Alan Lockett’s top fifteen selections of twenty-ten including helpful links to audio and visual media. 36 :: Hollow (3six) One of three […]

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Xurba :: Xurbatronics System 3: Remixes (Electric Studios)

Reviews 01/14/2011 by igloomag

Subtle melodies crash against waves of up-front emotional tear jerkers; one might even recall to mind Toytronic heavyweights including Gimmik and Abfahrt Hinwil as the […]

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Alexander Schubert :: Plays Sinebag (Ahornfelder)

Reviews 01/14/2011 by TJ Norris

Though in the end Plays Sinebag never flies into bantering cliché, instead becoming a mad dash through an acoustic wilderness with a feverish gusto. A […]

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Wascal :: Overstep / Don’t Forget (Louse)

Reviews 01/14/2011 by Craig Hitchings

Overall, then, this release does more than a fair job of representing the Bristol underground dance sound on more levels than one, offering up some […]

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Access To Arasaka :: void(); (Tympanik Audio)

Reviews 01/14/2011 by Paul Lloyd

void(); is a combination of intricate, frenetic, glitchy beatwork and dark creeping atmospheric ambience. Sometimes perfectly cinematic and quite beautifully conceived, sometimes dark and ominous, […]

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Meat Beat Manifesto :: The Most Music Ableton Live mix

Features 01/12/2011 by igloomag

A ravaging dub-infested dose of heavily drenched rhythms, off-center funk-breaks and creative sampling summed up in a 60-minute Ableton Live jam-session by Jack Dangers of […]

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Invisible Allies :: Hyperdimensional Animals (Native State)

Reviews 01/12/2011 by Jus Forrest

Invisible Allies is a collaboration between well known West Coast downtempo aficionado Bluetech and Philadelphia electronic mastermind KiloWatts. Jus Forrest investigates the audio fabric of […]

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V/A :: Sampler Vol. 1 (Architects + Heroes)

Reviews 01/12/2011 by igloomag

Offering an onslaught of multi-dimensional electronics and not always sticking with one. Perhaps this is the intent with the focus of a “sampler” being a […]

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