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Baconhead :: Astro Sludge EP (Eat Concrete)

Reviews 11/06/2011 by igloomag

Carefully balancing dementia against a backdrop of augmented melodies for abandoned lounges, Baconhead’s blistering maze of high-energy tracks are as ripe as they’ll ever get. […]

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Five questions for Plastic Sound Supply

Profiles 11/06/2011 by igloomag

“Plastic Sound Supply is really just a tight-knit group of good people making original music with amazing design to wrap it up and present to […]

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Clem Leek :: Lifenotes (Drifting Falling)

Reviews 11/05/2011 by Gustave Savy

Lifenotes is a nice mixture of complex atmospheres and stripped back pieces. It has a long track list (sixteen), but they are all short tracks, […]

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Lyonel Bauchet :: The Secret Society (DiNDDL)

Reviews 11/05/2011 by igloomag

Rummaging through sequencer-based extracts, the gravity that pulls The Secret Society together is its affinity towards controlled experimentation. This direction, while keeping a coherent flow […]

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Damu :: Unity (Keysound)

Reviews 11/05/2011 by Greg Dutcher

Each of Unity’s elements, the percussion especially, arrives, states its case politely, then leaves, forming a pleasurable impression, but not a very memorable one. It’s […]

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V/A :: Frequencity (subVariant)

Reviews 11/05/2011 by igloomag

Though Frequencity doesn’t rely on any one particular audible path, it pushes through new branches of thought — as the cover-art depicts — to unveil […]

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Desire Records :: Vive la différence

Profiles 11/02/2011 by Robbie Geoghegan

Diversity runs hand in hand with Desire, the label explores a spread of sounds. Shoegaze follows industrial, electro follows ambient, indie follows synthwave. Just when […]

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Pauk :: Snailsʼnʼdragons (Enpeg)

Reviews 11/02/2011 by Pietro Da Sacco

A playful balance of Karsten Pflum and Penfold Plum (or shall we say Pflum’n’plum?) — crafty, upbeat and splattered with emotional piano solo’s next to […]

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Kemek :: Ultimately Always EP (Architects + Heroes)

Reviews 10/31/2011 by igloomag

Though most of this five-tracker is veiled in minimal fractures of analog-to-digital distortions, time is fully stretched exposing the raw nature of experimentation without losing […]

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Randomform :: Enfeld (High Grade Media)

Reviews 10/31/2011 by igloomag

Displaying extraterrestrial diversions, microscopic attention to detail and oblique movements, a peculiar vision of future worlds unveils itself, if somewhat subliminally. Darkened by fractured beats […]

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