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Midday Static & Faex Optim :: Double review (Self-Released/Carpe Sonum)

Reviews 07/09/2017 by Pietro Da Sacco

Combining the latest albums by Midday Static (Verichrome, Self-Released) and Faex Optim (Look Around You, Carpe Sonum) creates an utterly sublime and nostalgic reality. Verichrome […]

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Midday Static :: Ektachrome (Self-Released)

Reviews 04/19/2017 by Pietro Da Sacco

References, contrasts and comparisons aside, Midday Static fine tunes his sound with Ektachrome, an album that is lively and condensed in a thick kaleidoscopic downbeat […]

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Dalham :: Waves (Public House Recordings)

Newswires 04/19/2017 by Alan Lockett

Via a variant of woozy tape-saturated electronica that’s at once caustic and caressing, it boldly blurs signifiers of new brutalism and beautiful places. News of a […]

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PBS’73 :: Rainbow TV (Eyesix)

Reviews 12/21/2016 by Pietro Da Sacco

Rainbow TV is a breathtaking audio snapshot that captures, contains and contorts those mid-70’s public broadcasts. Whenever I’m looking for nostalgic electronics, faded psychedelic bits and […]

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Faex Optim :: Start with the River (Kahvi)

Reviews 07/08/2016 by Pietro Da Sacco

Collecting tranquil interludes gone astray, broken childhood samples, psychedelic undertones and kaleidoscopic colors colliding in blissful accord. As much as I try to hold back […]

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Boards Of Canada Remix Odd Nosdam’s Sisters

Newswires 02/27/2016 by Alan Lockett

Berkeley beat broker Odd Nosdam’s Sisters just dropped, prompting Boards of Canada to post a remix of the title track (below). The Odd Couple and Odd ‘dam have exchanged […]

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Faex Optim :: Mercury EP (Kahvi Collective)

Reviews 10/03/2015 by David Ferguson

Minimal yet metaphysical, Mercury is indeed a magnum opus of the imagination and psyche at the full command of substance—designating the origin of all that […]

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DAVID ELSEWHERE :: Amalgamix 2015

Features 09/06/2015 by igloomag

“I try to take opposing sounds such as a very beautiful piece and mix it on top of gritty heavy beats. Often times I will […]

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Boards Of Canada :: Hi Scores EP (Reissue) (Skam)

Reviews 10/09/2014 by Giancarlo Sandoval

Hi Scores proves that Boards Of Canada were skilled sound designers from the start. In their debut EP for Skam, Boards Of Canada signaled a […]

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Dalhous :: Will To Be Well (Blackest Ever Black)

Reviews 09/25/2014 by Alan Lockett

Will To Be Well’s combination of stirring lyricism and smudged harmonics tilts the dark v. light face-off of the debut light-wards, yet a river runs […]

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