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C.H. District :: Conclusion (Tympanik Audio/M-Tronic)

Reviews 04/14/2011 by igloomag

Always one to fuse scorched melodies with glitched electro-automation, C.H. District uses his tools with extreme precision, somehow camouflaging chaos with order. [US info page] […]

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Odori :: Gathering Lines EP (Enpeg)

Reviews 04/11/2011 by igloomag

Each piece tells a bittersweet story that mixes mysterious drones, wobbling bass and secluded moods in one fell swoop of electricity. [Listen | Purchase] Gathering […]

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Eden Grey :: Tree Branches (Female Electronic Musician)

Reviews 04/11/2011 by igloomag

Raw mechanized noise flowing through digitized and crumbled spaces are ever apparent on Tree Branches, Eden Grey’s recent outing with Female Electronic Musician. [Info Page] […]

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Cory Allen :: Pearls (Quiet Design)

Reviews 04/10/2011 by Alan Lockett

Its delicate gossamer sound-design is balanced by an endowment of something weightier; accretions of subtle microsounds are offset with a certain liminal dissonance, a sense […]

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6APPEAL :: Dragon’s Eye Recordings

Reviews 04/09/2011 by Alan Lockett

A focus on the human side of artistic enterprise over narrow in-house style requirements has resulted in a catalogue that’s a veritable cornucopia of process […]

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Dryft :: Ventricle (n5MD)

Reviews 04/09/2011 by igloomag

All we can really know is that it’s all about feeling. This is not the time to postulate, discuss, or even dissect the sounds herein, […]

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Mobthrow :: s/t (Ad Noiseam)

Reviews 04/08/2011 by Gustave Savy

Dark brooding atmospheres that build up to immense barrages of sound are then tempered by deft and hauntingly beautiful snatches of melodies played on a […]

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Proqxis :: Parallax Utopia (Buried In Time)

Reviews 04/07/2011 by Greg Dutcher

An intensely cerebral album, full of cryptic beats and arcane melodies, abruptly issuing its message in a perplexing dialect. [Listen | Purchase] Full disclosure: I […]

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Undermathic :: 10:10PM (Tympanik Audio)

Reviews 04/06/2011 by James Knapman

Undermathic has crafted something in 10:10PM that is naturally compelling, intense and narrative without being demanding or exhausting, the ever-changing pacing and mood handled with […]

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