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Dohnavùr :: You Can and You Shall (Werra Foxma)

Reviews 07/08/2020 by Tom Herdman

You Can and You Shall is very much a musical benchmark to my ears, finding solace within strong, yet simple builds and progressions. The hallmark […]

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Charm Days :: A Firefly Out Of Season (Sun Sea Sky)

Reviews 06/26/2020 by Pietro Da Sacco

A Firefly Out Of Season exudes summertime road trip appeal—windows all the way down, let the sunshine in during these strange times. Downbeat acrobatics and […]

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Tim Koch :: Scordatura (Self Released)

Reviews 06/20/2020 by Clint Anderson

You can relax and let this work simply rumble past you or focus in closely on seemingly infinite details teased out with patient audio engineering. […]

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HRYM :: Organik (Dyadik / Touched Music)

Reviews 06/06/2020 by Alexander Hosford

Organik is very crisp, a very modern sound with plenty of respect paid to earlier electronic works like that mentioned above and with real feeling […]

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4T Thieves :: Cities of the Future (Rednetic) — “Shimmering Sand” video premiere

Reviews 05/31/2020 by Tom Herdman

Quite a highly anticipated album among the scene. 4T Thieves follows through on his growing discography from his previous releases on Kahvi, Mahorka, and Rednetic. […]

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Dalham :: Alderson Loop (Castles In Space)

Reviews 05/03/2020 by Pietro Da Sacco

Following up from 2019’s Heat Death (also on Castles In Space) and 2018’s Janus (Pubic House), Alderson Loop stirs similar gauzy sound spheres, broken beats […]

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Quarantine Q’s :: Deadbeat

Profiles 04/20/2020 by Chang Terhune

Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat, is a Canadian transplanted to Berlin (as a musical technology educator) via the US techno scene. A veteran of the North […]

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Soul Flask :: The Cassandra Complex (Mahorka) — “A Smear Through The Shale” video premiere

Newswires 04/20/2020 by igloomag

April 22, 2020—Earth Day is the day on which the Soul Flask album The Cassandra Complex is released on Mahorka. “Most tracks have a direct […]

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Single Cell Orchestra :: Remember The Future (Celldom)

Reviews 04/16/2020 by Eric Sorenson

The exhortation in the album’s name—Remember the Future—helps me keep in mind the unbounded forward-facing optimism we felt in the warehouse raves in late-90s Oakland […]

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Eldorado Omega :: Beatkits (Self Released)

Reviews 04/06/2020 by Pietro Da Sacco

With Beatkits we see the Atlanta-based producer opening his modular machines with expressive, downbeat rhythms slithering all around us with an edgy quirkiness. An analogous […]

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