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Skanfrom :: Postcards (Suction)

Reviews 10/09/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

Minimal and stark in one breath, lush and inviting in the next. Crisp percussion thawed with lovingly constructed machine melodies. Perhaps I shouldn’t have agreed […]

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Premiere :: Charlatan’s “Switchblades (Black Hat Remix)”

Newswires 10/02/2014 by igloomag

Igloo Magazine’s exclusive premiere of Charlatan’s “Switchblades (Black Hat remix)”—from the album Local Agent out now in Umor Rex. Black Hat’s recent Thought Of Two […]

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Enkephalin :: Cloud Surfer EP (Kaometry)

Reviews 09/28/2014 by Pietro Da Sacco

Cloud Surfer doesn’t venture too far off the beaten path but does allow for an expansive array of carefully woven sounds to forage into the […]

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Lorenzo Senni :: Superimpositions (Boomkat Editions)

Reviews 09/27/2014 by Kit Mauldin

Superimpositions is cannier, burrowing inward to locate our limbic triggers, note by note. “Pure appreciation.” Desperate plea or empty promise? In an era of sky-high […]

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Lunar Lodge / Mai Mai Mai :: LL/MMM (Love Blast / Instruments of Discipline)

Reviews 09/25/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

A vacuum of distortion and drone draws air from lungs, horror pouring from blurred thump and fuzzed out fear. Instruments of Discipline. If you’re wondering […]

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Defrag :: Lost Lands EP (The Irrational Media Society)

Reviews 09/14/2014 by Pietro Da Sacco

Defrag deploys melodic bells, whistles, subtle chants, 8-bit triggers, and broken amen breaks venturing into distracted and often frenetic lost lands. Not afraid to eradicate […]

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V/A :: Birds of a Feather 7-12 (Flaming Pines)

Reviews 09/07/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Twelve birds in a modified birdhouse are way better than two in the bush. Flaming Pines has just wrapped up its beautifully beaky Birds of a […]

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In Sync :: Storm Evolution I & II (Last Known Trajectory)

Reviews 09/06/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

Storm Evolution I & II sees a wonderful marriage of past and present. The first foundations of electronic music employed to build new sounds and […]

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Rawmance & Toisvesi :: Double review (La Beauté Du Négatif)

Reviews 09/06/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

Cerebral synthesizer sounds and body electronics beautifully explored, without pandering to the ever growing herd. Who’d be a record label boss? Almost any half drunken […]

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