His stock-in-trade is a form of knowingly atmosphere-laden minimal electronica with a downtempo dynamic, but invariably this is spiked with something somehow off-kilter, malfunctioning, be […]
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SUDETEN CRECHE :: Synchronized soundscapes
Just before Sudeten Creche hit the road to tour Europe for the first time in decades I managed to catch up with them for a […]
Hammock :: Longest Year EP (Hammock Music)
In all five songs, the intensity and purpose that grounded their previous work is stripped away, leaving bare sheets of sentimentality. [Listen & Purchase] One […]
Maps And Diagrams :: A Pulsating History (BEKO DSL)
Vibrant and consistent, both show Martin’s continual relevance in the continually changing landscape of the style he was centrally involved in developing. [Free digital download] […]
V/A :: Nine (Nonine)
Mixing sonic voids of metallic noise with leftfield samples, the obscure silence buried deep in the core of this compilation is somewhat unsettling and at […]
V/A :: Kollektion Fall 2010 (Katabatik.org)
The Kollektion seems to break down into three movements: a panicked chase leads into a steady run, which, somehow, stumbles into a falling dream. Katabatik […]
Sickboy Milkplus :: Tweencore (Cock Rock Disco)
Sickboy has produced a near vomit inducing barrage of sound that simultaneously makes you laugh at the ridiculous contradiction of the sound sources and the […]
Chrisma :: Chinese Restaurant & Hibernation (Medical)
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 […]
Borghesia :: Ljubav Je Hladnija Od Smrti & End Of Your Garden/De Må Være Belgiere Split LP (Dark Entries)
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 […]
V/A :: The Reconstruction of Fives (n5MD)
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 […]
Alan Lockett’s Top picks from twenty-ten
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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Netherworld :: The Hermit (Glacial Movements)
Bitbasic :: The Cosmological Constant (Glitchpulse)
rheom :: _ 729.root (Polygon Network)
Yu Miyashita / Yaporigami :: IDM Collection 21-25 / The Structure of Silence (The Collection Artaud)
Morphtables :: Absurdance (Mestnost)
Vijunns :: 1991 (Hyperreal Projects)
S. Salter :: Ara EP (Plusha)
Marco Simioni :: MSdrift++ EP (Fear of Silence)
