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DALGLISH :: 3View

Profiles 01/01/2014 by Alan Lockett

‘What we have said makes it clear that music possesses the power of producing an effect on the character of the soul.’ (Aristotle, The Politics, […]

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Olaf Hochherz and Tim Blechmann & Manuel Knapp :: Double review (Kwanyin)

Reviews 01/01/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Two handmade, personalized packs housing the “Mini Kwanyin Series,” the 2010 outgrowth of “guerrilla” Chinese experimental art association Sub Jam, probably the most interesting, loosely-organized […]

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Jaap Blonk :: Polyphtong (Elegua)

Reviews 12/29/2013 by Philippe Blache

Polyphtong is a beautiful drone-based / spoken words experimental project whose musical attempt is to play on smoothly resonances, slight harmonic variations, repetition of short […]

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Rapoon :: Seeds in the Tide: Volume 02 (Zoharum)

Reviews 12/27/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

One of the most significant living figures in contemporary electronic music. I wouldn’t hesitate to call Robin Storey one of the most significant living figures […]

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Atlantis :: Electra’s Discovery (Handstitched)

Reviews 12/27/2013 by Alan Lockett

Studied lo-fi sci-fi archaeologies at the edges of a path trodden by Boards and electronic thrift-store diggers like Ekoplekz, it taps into a similar vein […]

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Saltland :: I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us (Constellation)

Reviews 12/26/2013 by Nocturnal Ghost

A true gem that shines gracefully with a cinematic sense and provides an absorbing forty-minute long listening experience. Nowadays it’s always nice to bump into […]

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Hitoshi Kojo :: High Tide Mirror (Shining Day/Omnimomento)

Reviews 12/26/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

A singular sound, most recently enjoyed on Animala Corolla by Jüppala Kääpiö, basically the same song under a different mantle. Both sound like the first sounds ever made by […]

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The volume settings folder :: Folder #01 (Self Release)

Reviews 12/21/2013 by Philippe Blache

Folder #01 delivers a bunch of profoundly introspective dialogues between timbral droning chords, languorous melodies and hypno-ish rumbling electronic effects. Prolific and genuinely inventive craft […]

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Jeff Talman :: Sea of Curves (New Domain)

Reviews 12/21/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Water is of course much heavier than air or even no-air, but that doesn’t alter the fact that beneath this Sea of Curves is unveiled […]

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Day Before Us :: Misty Shroud of Regrets (Rage in Eden)

Reviews 12/21/2013 by Alan Lockett

Misty Shroud of Regrets is predominantly neo-classical-informed ambience, whose mournful lyricism is aligned with a certain strain of transcendent Old European pessimism. Day Before Us […]

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Bastian Void and Sima Kim :: Double review (Chemical Tapes)

Reviews 12/21/2013 by Alan Lockett

The two twirled here are one of retro-futurist synth purism from Bastian Void, the other of postclassical-ambient texturalism from Sima Kim. Two new doses of […]

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