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Hundred Waters – Currency EP (2017)
Currency is a surprise release from Florida’s Hundred Waters, reportedly ahead of a proper full-length follow up to 2014’s beloved The Moon Rang Like a Bell. When presented with a release of this ilk,...
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Mary Lattimore – Collected Pieces (2017)
A few years ago, harpist Mary Lattimore ventured from her Philadelphia home and traveled across the country, making music at various stops along the way. But her resulting album, 2016’s At the Dam,...
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Melanie Velarde – Parcel (2016)
The third installment in RVNG Intl.’s Commend See series, Parcel, is Melanie Velarde‘s first proper solo album. The Berlin-based artist has a decades-long history with experimental music and art,...
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Max Cooper – Chromos (2017)
Everyone’s favourite computational biologist-turned -electronic music producer is back with what can only be described as one of the more fully realized EPs of 2017. Max Cooper’s Chromos is a followup...
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Loke Rahbek – City of Women (2017)
Echoing the growing influence Copenhagen’s Posh Isolation have had in recent years, label co-founder and creative instigator behind many of their acts Loke Rahbek steps out with a debut solo album on...
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Erasure – World Be Gone [Japanese Edition] (2017)
Erasure’s self-produced 17th studio album, World Be Gone finds the duo honing in on a reflective synth pop befitting the wind-down portion of the dance. Affected by the political upheaval of the period...
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Gorillaz – Humanz [Japanese Edition] (2017)
Gorillaz’ fifth album was intended to be a dystopian fiction. Damon Albarn envisioned a future in which America would suffer a disaster so seismic that the only possible response would be the party to...
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Omar-S – The Best (2016)
There’s no one quite like Omar-S. Alex O. Smith’s interests include video games, street racing, blaxploitation flicks and perfect one-bar basslines. Over his decade-plus run, the FXHE records boss has...
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Between Interval – Legacy (2017)
Ill-advisedly played at low volume as one’s engaged in some other, non-musical activity, Stefan Strand’s fifth Between Interval album might not sound all that different from other ambient-electronic...
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Sverre Knut Johansen – Secret Space Program + Contact (2017)
Similar to Sverre Knut Johansen’s 2016 full-lengths, Earth from Above (Spotted Peccary Music) and Antarctica (Origin Music), Secret Space Program presents a melodically rich instrumental song-cycle...
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Christoph Berg & Henning Schmiedt – Bei (2017)
Every improvised recording raises ‘Freedom vs. Determinism’ issues that have long been debated in philosophical circles. While on the one hand the musician involved might profess an unqualified belief...
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Dirtwire – Showdown (2017)
Spaghetti-Westerns and electronic music seem dichotomously opposed by their very nature. One is built on leather and six-shooters while the other is all about computers and modern tech. But if...
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Laniakea – A Pot of Powdered Nettles (2016)
By all accounts, Ian Johnstone was a man who gave freely of what he had to those in need, throwing open the doors of his house on Tower Gardens Road in Tottenham, north London to provide sympathetic...
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Kozmodrum – Gravity (2017)
When a band known for jazz-fusion covers of deadmau5, J Dilla and Planetary Assault Systems make an album, expect something flavourful. Kozmodrum definitely went for taste on their second LP, Gravity,...
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Kondi Band – Salone (2017)
Transatlantic dialogue takes a new twist on this collaboration between a Sierra Leonean thumb pianist and a North American DJ. It’s a heartening story. Sorie Kondi is a blind street musician from...
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Noga Erez – Off the Radar (2017)
…On her explosive new debut record Off the Radar, Israeli producer and electronic musician Noga Erez, who grew up in Tel Aviv enmeshed in sociopolitical tumult, delivers confrontation and release...
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Max Richter – Out of the Dark Room (2017)
Out of the Dark Room collects some 24 of Max Richter’s “most beautiful compositions for film” c. 2008-2015, issued in the wake of his string of major solo and score releases. So great is Richter’s...
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VA – Dys Functional Electronic Music (2017)
Repitch, the experimental techno label run by Nino Pedone (Shapednoise), Davide Carbone (D. Carbone) and Pasquale Ascione (Ascion), has been the place to find techno bombs. The 13 tracks on their last...
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Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones – Astrild Astrild (2017)
The Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones are returning with their 4th album called Astrild Astrild. Like all of the previous albums, the band recorded the seven pieces at home in Britanny during...
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Gunnar Haslam – Kalaatsakia (2017)
Gunnar Haslam used to study particle physics. These days, he makes music that might present a mathematics paper as sound. Though his 12-inches have been mostly club material, his albums have wandered...
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