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DJ Sports – Modern Species (2017)
A modern species is sort of what DJ Sports is. He and his Regelbau crewmates approach dance music in a way that didn’t really exist ten years ago. Their sensibility is loosely shared by a global...
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Run Dust – Leisure Village (2017)
Luke Calzonetti, otherwise known as Run Dust, has gone through many guises and styles before arriving at his latest. From skitz-grind outfit Child Abuse to jazz to painting. Leisure Village is his...
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Shinichi Atobe – From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art (2017)
It might not feel like it now, at a time when the internet has rendered so many mysteries of the era moot, but from the mid 1990s until not long after the turn of the millennium, Berlin’s Chain...
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Com Truise – Iteration
Iteration is only the second proper full-length from Com Truise, and according to mastermind Seth Haley, it’s the conclusion of the story line that began with 2011’s Galactic Melt, involving a robot...
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Goldie – The Journey Man [Deluxe Edition] (2017)
…featuring bonus disc “The Instra Suites”. The Journey Man is the third colossally ambitious double album from drum’n’bass pioneer Goldie, following his indisputable classic Timeless and its eternally...
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Hidden Orchestra – Dawn Chorus (2017)
Some merely adopt a consistent theme, idea or story, while others make such consistent preoccupations an inextricable part of the music itself. The latter is true of Hidden Orchestra’s third LP, Dawn...
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Ikonika – Distractions (2017)
Following two well-spaced and well-received full length albums of innovative bass music, Ikonika is back after a four-year break with Distractions, an collection that builds on that solid foundations...
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UMFANG – Symbolic Use of Light (2017)
A strange discipline rules UMFANG’s work. Her spartan take on techno recorded live in single takes often feels like a riddle with no clues. The Kansas-bred, New York-based DJ and electronic musician...
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Julia Bloop – Roland Throop (2017)
Named after a pair of enigmatic low-frequency sounds that originated in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, the mysterious Julia Bloop project is itself located in Brooklyn, New York. Roland Throop is the...
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Radioactive Man – Luxury Sky Garden (2017)
Keith Tenniswood is a pillar of London’s electronic music underground. After learning his craft as an engineer in Sabres of Paradise’s studio, he made music alongside Andrew Weatherall as Two Lone...
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Tambour – Chapitres: Vinyl Edition (2017)
Montreal composer Simon P. Castonguay has partnered with Moderna Records to repackage excerpts from his two exceptional EPs, Chapitre I (released in 2015) and Chapitre II (2016). These recordings,...
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Leyland Kirby – Memories Live Longer Than Dreams (2009, Reissue 2017)
The synthetic lustre of Memories Live Longer Than Dreams already appeared deliciously cracked and damaged the first time around, and in 2017 its phosphorescent glow remains a beacon of shelter for...
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Ekoplekz – Bioprodukt (2017)
Nick Edwards has released dozens of albums and EPs as Ekoplekz (among other pseudonyms), but the ones that come out on Planet Mu tend to feature his most accessible material. On 2017’s Bioprodukt, he...
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Keosz – AVA (2017)
Keosz is a multi-genre one man project founded in 2008 by Slovakian artist Erik Osvald and AVA is his second album on Cryo Chamber. Clocking in at 55 minutes, AVA appears to be a concept-driven album...
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Dronny Darko – Abduction (2017)
In keeping with its title, Dronny Darko‘s Abduction calls to mind a nightmarish, sci-fi-tinged realm where vulnerable humans are wrenched from their regular lives and dragged by merciless entities into...
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Dronny Darko – Neuroplasticity + Spira Igneus (2016)
Oleg Puzan aka Dronny Darko is an ambient driven, drone influenced artist from Kiev, Ukraine. Neuroplasticity, Dronny Darko’s second solo full length album on Cryo Chamber is an introverted journey....
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Laurel Halo – Dust (2017)
The stark minimalism of 2013’s Chance of Rain was both an artistic leap and an abrupt stylistic transition for the American electronic artist. Ditching the vocals that had in part characterised debut...
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Island People – Island People (2017)
…An ambient project in the works for three years, Island People consisting of mastering engineer Conor Dalton; Silicone Soul member Graeme Reedie; David Donaldson, who won a Grammy for his soundtrack...
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Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society – Simultonality (2017)
Joshua Abrams makes music about time and patience — music that, as he put it, “offers the possibility of slowing down.” With his group Natural Information Society, he crafts simple loops, primarily...
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Max Corbacho – Nocturnes (2017)
The panoramic landscape photographs adorning Max Corbacho‘s Nocturnes serve a purpose that goes beyond mere decoration. In this case, the images, captured by the artist himself, are intended to reflect...
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