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Balance / Lucianno Lamanna :: Double review (Scudiera / Subsound)

Reviews 06/11/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

There’s a revival of techno in Italy and Lamanna, and like-minded musicians, are at the coal face. Psychological, at times bordering on serpentine, a deep […]

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Red Stars Over Tokyo :: Deconstructing Happiness (Testtoon)

Reviews 06/10/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

Contrasts melt, comparisons jar as a strange sense of composition is somehow maintained in this immensely absorbing album. Jeroen Lauwers is a staple of Testtoon […]

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Endfest / Layup :: Double Review (Endless Illusion)

Reviews 06/10/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

Looking over Endless Illusion’s back catalog it’s fair to say that the label took educated risks with its first vinyl outings. This latest pair, lesser […]

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R.R. Hearse :: Call Of Oedipus (1981 – 2013) (June)

Reviews 06/10/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

R.R. Hearse fits into no category previously explored. Grainy, it’s a record that some will find difficult to grapple with. Nevertheless it’s a bold move […]

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Clara de Asís :: Uno Todo Tres (Éditions Piednu)

Reviews 06/04/2016 by Stephen Fruitman

Uno Todo Tres fills the mind with ‘is not’ everythingness, transported by the frail waver of the single sound that de Asís, a Spanish electroacoustic composer living […]

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David Morley :: The Origin of Storms (De:Tuned)

Reviews 05/30/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

Ambient music with a rich and textured techno depth. Inspired by Conrad Schnitzler, Morley draws on a soft and serene selection of sounds, swirling them […]

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Quixosis :: De Fiúcher (Self-Released)

Reviews 05/22/2016 by Pietro Da Sacco

Flowing through brush-stroked ambient realms, industrial landscapes of dub and debris, shattered glass and an abstract drone, here we have Quixosis delivering primal contours from a far […]

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Honzo :: Melancholia (Arboretum)

Reviews 05/22/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

This is dark, lonely music; terrifying in one respect and cruelly honest. And within this rawness, this discord, there are wonderful moments. One of the […]

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Ben Rath :: Forgiveness (Sound In Silence)

Reviews 05/21/2016 by Philippe Blache

Forgiveness explores melancholic and grey textural drone ambiences with a dialogue between processed sounds (notably taken from the piano and the electric guitar), looped electronic […]

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Ian Boddy :: Tone Science (DiN)

Reviews 05/14/2016 by Philippe Blache

The album contains a succinct collection of undulating and abstract soundscapes with a rather experimental and anti melodious shape, also reminiscent to some sort of avant […]

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