Synth

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Lè Travo :: Erring and Errant (Dark Entries)

Reviews 02/02/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

Bollen quakes with the angst and anger that characterized the music of 80s synth wave. There is a pervasive sadness accompanying this frustration, but there […]

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ANNA LOGUE Rec. :: Marc Schaffer igloomag mix

Features 01/31/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

The head honcho of Anna Logue has got behind the turntable to deliver an hour showcase of his awe-inspiring imprint. Popularity is a fickle […]

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Nils Quak & Dino Spiluttini :: Modular Anxiety (Umor Rex)

Reviews 01/22/2014 by Philippe Blache

This split album provides a natural musical variety around meditatively calm texturally drone sequences, distorted chordal noises and heuristic developmental experiments which demonstrate a great […]

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Ricardo Donoso :: As Iron Sharpens Iron, One Verse Sharpens Another (Digitalis)

Reviews 01/15/2014 by James Knapman

As Iron Sharpens Iron, One Verse Sharpens Another takes the best elements of his previous two LPs and combines them to form a racy, atmospheric […]

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Anton Maiovvi :: Monoceroticism (Flight Recorder)

Reviews 01/01/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

He started out with Italo and Hi-NRG influenced sounds, but since those beginnings the Bristol born musician has shifted into the realm of soundtracks and […]

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Victrola / Big Ben Tribe :: Double review (Dark Entries)

Reviews 12/30/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

Big Ben Tribe and Victrola are from the same time, and same land, but their use of the synthesizer couldn’t have been more different. Whilst […]

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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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Franz Underwear :: Cattolica ’81 (Bordello A Parigi)

Reviews 12/26/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

To date a decent portion of the Dutch label’s output has been dedicated to Spaghetti Dance. But the Bordello is always seeking out artists with […]

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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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Automatic Tasty :: Sentimentalist’s Choice (Central Processing Unit)

Reviews 12/21/2013 by Robbie Geoghegan

There seems to be a thawing in the Central Processing Unit output. In spite of the drop in temperature outside Sheffield Bleep’s label has decided […]

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