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Valance Drakes :: Struggle Experienced Internally (Detroit Underground)

Reviews 01/15/2016 by Chris Taylor

Bold, pitched percussion loops lay down the basis for each of these tracks, slowly filling with more density, adding a sense of tension and development […]

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Akira Rabelais :: The Little Glass (Self-Released)

Reviews 01/14/2016 by Stephen Fruitman

A briny, seaweed-laden music box, the peal of a bell and its reverberation biting into its own tail, singing glasses, star bells and smoothly lurching starfish […]

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3View :: Hakobune & Dirk Serries, Chihei Hatakeyama and Chihei Hatakeyama & Dirk Serries

Reviews 01/09/2016 by Stephen Fruitman

Creeping up from noisy roots to a remarkable, idiosyncratic and gentle, clinging ambient ivy. As Vidna Obmana (“optical illusion” in Serbo-Croatian), Belgian mega-artist Dirk Serries […]

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Year’s End Mood Shimmers

Newswires 01/06/2016 by Alan Lockett

Ultra-prolific Shimmering Moods present their final releases for 2015, so quick heads up before we get too far into 2016, in the spirit of news rather than […]

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x.y.r. :: Mental Journey To B.C. (Not Not Fun)

Reviews 01/01/2016 by Alan Lockett

Vladimir Karpov floats fetid Formanta-mini (‘vintage Soviet keytar‘) loops and neo-vaporwave wibble over soft primitivist machine rhythms backlit with a mezzotint of remote insect drone […]

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T e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 :: 神秘的情人 “Mysterious Lover” (Tokyo Exchange)

Reviews 12/31/2015 by Ben Steed

Crisp, tranquil and alluring, this album is a must for those seeking escapism into a realm of limitless magic and mysterious love. Anonymous deep ambient […]

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Lunar Abyss & Uhushuhu :: Double review (Zhelezobeton)

Reviews 12/21/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

Double review for Lunar Abyss and Uhushuhu. Aikana Uni by Lunar Abyss Lunar Abyss :: Aikana Uni (Zhelezobeton) A forest, boisterously Amazonian, at night, on a […]

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William Basinski & Richard Chartier :: Divertissment (Important)

Reviews 12/12/2015 by Alan Lockett

William Basinski & Richard Chartier’s signature styles mesh, coupling across an indeterminate void of shortwave signal and electronic noise filtered against and through each other. Important […]

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Jean-Claude Éloy :: Le minuit de la foi / The Midnight of The Faith (Hors Territoire)

Reviews 12/12/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

Eloy proffers an array of dampened, eerie sounds, like a great digestive system. The belly of the beast? Although arising only momentarily, the denouement almost […]

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Aderlating :: Hell Follows (Black Plague Productions)

Reviews 12/09/2015 by Philippe Blache

An epic soundtrack which explores the dark era of faith and which shows a fascination for the fantastic, the strange and the existential decay. Two […]

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