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Wascal :: Overstep / Don’t Forget (Louse)

Reviews 01/14/2011 by Craig Hitchings

Overall, then, this release does more than a fair job of representing the Bristol underground dance sound on more levels than one, offering up some […]

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Access To Arasaka :: void(); (Tympanik Audio)

Reviews 01/14/2011 by Paul Lloyd

void(); is a combination of intricate, frenetic, glitchy beatwork and dark creeping atmospheric ambience. Sometimes perfectly cinematic and quite beautifully conceived, sometimes dark and ominous, […]

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Meat Beat Manifesto :: The Most Music Ableton Live mix

Features 01/12/2011 by igloomag

A ravaging dub-infested dose of heavily drenched rhythms, off-center funk-breaks and creative sampling summed up in a 60-minute Ableton Live jam-session by Jack Dangers of […]

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Invisible Allies :: Hyperdimensional Animals (Native State)

Reviews 01/12/2011 by Jus Forrest

Invisible Allies is a collaboration between well known West Coast downtempo aficionado Bluetech and Philadelphia electronic mastermind KiloWatts. Jus Forrest investigates the audio fabric of […]

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V/A :: Sampler Vol. 1 (Architects + Heroes)

Reviews 01/12/2011 by igloomag

Offering an onslaught of multi-dimensional electronics and not always sticking with one. Perhaps this is the intent with the focus of a “sampler” being a […]

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Reef Project :: Adrift (System)

Reviews 01/10/2011 by Chris Bolszo

Thee-O uses quite a varied electronic production style over the range of tracks on Adrift; from fully ambient, downtempo and minimal, to hip hop, IDM, […]

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V/A :: One On Twoism Volume 4 (Twoism)

Reviews 01/10/2011 by Greg Dutcher

It all has to do with the recollection of memories, the imprecise and confusing nature of memory itself, and that longing everyone has to travel […]

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Benjamin Finger :: For You, Sleepsleeper (How Is Annie)

Reviews 01/09/2011 by Jus Forrest

For You Sleepsleeper often becomes busy and cluttered, while in part it remains beautiful in its construction, home to acoustic bordering on classical influences, and […]

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AUDIOBULB :: 3view 2011.1

Reviews 01/09/2011 by Alan Lockett

2010 was a busy year for Sheffield’s favourite purveyors of exploratory electronica, Audiobulb. This round-up finds curator David Newman giving voice to a typically wide-ranging […]

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