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RURAL ROUTE :: 3View ~ 2012.1 (Standard Form)

Reviews 02/01/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

With this trio of releases, Standard Form wraps up its trip down the tertiary roads of numerous provinces, a couple of states, the Shetlands and […]

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Spheruleus :: Voyage (Hibernate)

Reviews 01/29/2012 by Alan Lockett

What makes this Voyage, indeed our (listening) voyage, resonate is not the literal of the littoral, of dock to deck to descent, but the figurative […]

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Five questions for High Grade Media

Profiles 01/28/2012 by igloomag

Atlanta-based High Grade Media takes a few moments to reply to igloomag.com’s Five questions. Learn more about this highly motivated record label, its beginnings and […]

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Dalek I :: Compass Kum’pas (Medical)

Reviews 01/26/2012 by Robbie Geoghegan

Compass Kum’pas was first released in 1980, getting a few re-issues in the latter years of the decade. Seattle’s Medical Records has come to blow […]

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The Beautiful Schizophrenic & Yui Onodera :: Night Blossom (Whereabouts)

Reviews 01/26/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

This collaboration between Portugal’s Beautiful Schizophrenic, aka Jorge Mantas, and Japan’s Yui Onodera, who previously made beautiful music with Celer, opens with unobtrusive ambient grace. […]

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Variant :: Falling Stars (echospace [detroit])

Reviews 01/25/2012 by James Knapman

Twenty-five minutes in and the feedback blossom and blooming strings dissipate, leaving the calmer swell of the delicate pads and sea-salt spray, but very soon […]

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Publicist / Tussle :: Split Infinitive (Voltaire)

Reviews 01/25/2012 by Robbie Geoghegan

With electro disco having dried up over the last few years, Voltaire are, in a way, breaking with the norm. For those looking for an […]

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Lyr :: Lyr (From A Tree)

Reviews 01/25/2012 by igloomag

Static noise is interwoven through clicks’n cuts, manipulated guitars, tribal tentacles, crumbling techno, post-industrial washes and an extreme focus on the obscure craft of darkened […]

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The Exaltics / Gosub :: The Exaltics Meets Gosub (Solar One Music)

Reviews 01/25/2012 by Robbie Geoghegan

The Exaltics serve up two warming Electro tracks, toeing the line between detached and inviting. Gosub tears down any welcoming aspects, instead establishing an uneasy twosome of […]

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Artifact :: Archaic Line (Deadplate)

Reviews 01/24/2012 by Gustave Savy

More good—forward looking bass heavy music from Bristol and London, a collaboration which seems to be all the rage at the moment. Artifact delivers this mutant […]

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