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V/A :: We Want You To Understand The Future Vol. 1 (ProForm Series)

Reviews 11/20/2011 by Robbie Geoghegan

The cues are taken straight from Chicago, with labels like Trax, DJ International and Westbrook coursing through these Finnish veins. The record offers up four […]

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MOOGFEST :: Asheville, NC (2011)

Features 11/15/2011 by Robert Galbraith

Robert Galbraith summarizes Moogfest 2011 as Thomas Fang (portfolio) offers a visual archive of the festivities. [Moogfest October 28th-30th, 2011] Asheville North Carolina’s annual Moogfest […]

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Obfusc :: Midnight Dome (Boltfish)

Reviews 11/15/2011 by igloomag

Lost in waves of low-tones and memories from childhood, these foggy windows reveal early 90’s era Warp fragments; bass-beats, subtle melodic bursts, underwater meanderings, manipulated […]

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Mark Archer (Altern 8) :: Frequency Remixes (Balkan Vinyl)

Reviews 11/15/2011 by David Ferguson

[Release page] A play-by-play summary of the vinyl edition for March Archer’s Frequency Remixes on Balkan Vinyl. “Frequency (Luke Vibert remix)” :: After an 18-second […]

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Patch :: Western Slope (Cartesian Binary)

Reviews 11/15/2011 by igloomag

With such an abundance of sliced analog frequencies — twenty-one to be exact — Patch derives fragmented ambient sheets and dilutes them to create what […]

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Timo Maas feat. Brian Molko :: College 84 (Rockets & Ponies)

Reviews 11/15/2011 by Gustave Savy

Having made more then a dalliance into the outright mainstream from time to time in his DJ and production exploits, but he definitely knows how […]

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Global Goon :: Carbon (Upitup)

Reviews 11/14/2011 by igloomag

Robotic slabs spliced around theremin-styled wobbles and video-game tendencies float to the surface of Carbon and although the album contains a distinctive flow, it’s equal […]

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John Heckle :: Hard Sleeper/Ancient Deep (Signals)

Reviews 11/14/2011 by Robbie Geoghegan

Heckle adopts aspects of techno into his sound, introspectives of industrial and colours of ambient into his music. [Release page] The aged sound of House […]

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Pascal Savy :: Liminal (FeedbackLoop)

Reviews 11/13/2011 by Alan Lockett

Liminal is an epithet normally associated with the avant end of electronic experimentalism, like the lowercase abstractions of Steve Roden or the near-silent studies of […]

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Skytree :: Crystal Consciousness (Skytree Music)

Reviews 11/13/2011 by igloomag

Stopping at every constellation and gaining momentum, this album doesn’t adhere to any linear formula and instead offers its listeners fractals of light reflecting kaleidoscopic […]

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