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Ignatius :: Hudibrastic & Smug Ruins EPs (Buried In Time)

Reviews 02/22/2017 by Pietro Da Sacco

Ignatius blends (these) interconnected noisy streams into mangled glitch sandstorms and electrical distortions. Ignatius certainly knows a thing or two about modular equipment, on both […]

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Autechre :: Incunabula, Amber, Tri-Repetae (Warp)

Reviews 02/19/2017 by James Knapman

As cynical one might feel about reissues, however, they can sometimes be nothing short of stellar, absolutely warranted, and in the case of much out […]

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TAPE :: Transmissions 10

Features 02/18/2017 by Andy Gillham

In the true dichotomy that is the tape release world, we’ve continued to trawl the digital world to search out some of the finest tape […]

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V/A :: Covert II EP (De:Tuned / Touched Music)

Reviews 02/15/2017 by Robbie Geoghegan

From sweaty floor to Saturday armchair, Covert II will provide. There’s always a certain amount of media fanfare about the prospect of a “supposed” Aphex […]

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Goodbye, but not farewell :: Femur Mix

Features 02/15/2017 by Robbie Geoghegan

I was lucky enough to get behind the turntables there in November of 2015, a mangled and mashed warm up mix before Alessandro Parisi and […]

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Nearfield :: G5 (Brainstormlab)

Reviews 02/10/2017 by Pietro Da Sacco

Distinctive, late 90’s IDM hues are in full force—robust percussion, distant melodies and heavy bass jabs scatter throughout each piece. Belarus-based Nearfield continue to shuffle, […]

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Robert Rich :: Premonitions / Vestiges (Vinyl-on-Demand / Soundscape Productions)

Features 02/10/2017 by Darren Bergstein

Robert Rich’s restless spirit still retains a collagist’s wicked sense of the surreal, how to both jostle and juxtapose sounds and enhance the molecular divisions between […]

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Murkok :: So Little Music (Shimmering Moods)

Reviews 02/10/2017 by Philippe Blache

A beautifully evocative album in the downtempo and dream ambient genre. Loyal to its stylistic trademark, Shimmering Moods Records are back with three new releases to […]

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Xerxes The Dark :: Transmutation (Kalpamantra)

Reviews 01/26/2017 by Philippe Blache

Transmutation is a nocturnal, deep, quiet and ominous blackened ambient release which definitely figures among the most accomplished ones published by Kalpamantra in terms of lugubrious […]

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Xurba :: Haze de Absentia Dulciora (Electric Studios)

Reviews 01/26/2017 by Pietro Da Sacco

Here we have selected ambient works—panoramas spanning across arid landscapes. Shaping trance-induced sonic windows, Haze de Absentia Dulciora soars at a cruising altitude of 37,000-ft. Xurba (aka […]

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