Alive and kicking with a vamped edge of something edging electro, Richard Bailey (a.k.a. Proem) has a way with beats that gives an appropriate spirit […]
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Enduser :: From Zero (Mirex, CD)
Armed with the amen break and his trusty sampler, Lynn Standafer is making an effort to put some emotional content back into the desiccated state […]
V/A :: Sample + Hold, Sampler V.1 (Unschooled, CD)
Some of the digitally complex tracks on this sampler include Decomposure’s “Skytrain:” Activating the future sound of transportation with enormous effect, the atmospheric construction yields […]
Traject :: Strengir Hrynja (Spezial Material/Baked Goods, CD)
Gisli Thor Gudmundsson disappears behind the name of Traject and delivers a record that maps the geology of Iceland to a series of intricate and […]
Tortoise :: It's All Around You (Thrill Jockey, CD)
Perhaps more standard in Tortoisian terms than 2001’s experimental yet structured Standards, the Chicago-based quintet’s fifth full-length, It’s All Around You, returns to formlessness with […]
MICROVIEW :: Volume 11 By TJ Norris
>>> Key . Frozen In Time (10 Below) . . On Thin Ice (Playable) . . . Icebreaker (Solid) . . . . Sonic Ice […]
Mum :: Nightly Cares (Fatcat, 7″/CD3)
Before they returned with the release of their new album Summer Make Good, the follow up to 2002’s critically acclaimed Finally We Are No One, […]
V/A :: Switches (Audiobulb, CD)
Quite possibly with the help of the website design and previous cover art, I always envisioned the music released on Audiobulb to be composed by […]
The Rip-Off Artist :: New Clear Days (Inflatabl Labl, CD)
Having recorded for Mille Plateaux, Sub Rosa and Tigerbeat6, The Rip-Off Artist (Matt Haines) releases work on his very own new project, the Inflatabl imprint. […]
V/A :: Crude Conception (Refinery, CD)
Styles on the CD range from introspective grooves such as Deceptikon’s “Cut & Revision” to the abstract journeys of Mikrosopht’s “Cedilla Spits;” even flexing some […]
Loscil :: First Narrows (Kranky, CD)
It’s not until “Cloisters,” the final track of First Narrows, that I really hear the live instrumentation that Scott Morgan has begun to weave into […]
















