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The Trash Company – Earle Hotel Tapes 1979-1993 (2013)
Completely inscrutable and incredible outsider bedroom synth-funk from the Trash Company, the project of a heretofore mostly well-kept secret of Richmond, VA resident Max Monroe. The Trash Company...
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Figure Study – Figure Study (2013)
Figure Study is the Manhattan-based duo of Nathan Antolik and April Chalpara. They formed in 2009, after meeting through the Wierd Records weekly party, where they would play their first concert soon...
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Emerald Web - The Stargate Tapes 1978-1982 (2013)
Sharing social circles and spiritual ideologies with artists such as Iasos, Connie Demby and Deuter, whilst splitting label release schedules with Laraaji, Laurie Spiegel and Wendy Carlos, the unique...
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Anne Guthrie & Richard Kamerman – Sinter (2013)
Erstwhile Records has rolled out a sub-label, ErstAEU. The label’s first three CDs are all the product of American-born duos, and all of the participants are in their 20s or 30s. Conventional...
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VA – Daora: Underground Sounds of Urban Brasil (2013)
Daora is a 32 track collection of the freshest hip-hop, leftfield beats, afrobeat and dub-influenced sounds from Brasil from Mais Um Discos, a UK based label that has become renowned for cherry...
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Conforce – Kinetic Image (2013)
Conforce (the ever evolving Dutch entity of many monikers) has taken an unchartered step away from the club-friendly sound of his previous material to produce Kinetic Image, a furtive waltz with ten...
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East India Youth – Total Strife Forever (2014)
Total Strife Forever, the first LP by Bournemouth born sonic experimentalist William Doyle who records under the evocative name of East India Youth, is the sort of debut album that could only really be...
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Drexciya – Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller IV (2013)
Around the time Kevin Costner was conceiving 1995’s Waterworld, the overblown film project that would entail him having webbed feet and chugging his own piss, two African-American sci-fi freaks were...
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Charles Cohen – Music for Dance and Theater (2013)
Final part in the Charles Cohen trilogy on Morphine Records. Featuring various works made for Dance & Theatre productions between 1976 & 1988. Eleven tracks in total – lovingly spread over...
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Harold Budd – Wind in Lonely Fences 1970 – 2011 (2013)
Harold Budd‘s music exists in that misty place between ambient, new age, and minimalist composition, where everything is gentle and nothing lasts for long. Over the past 40-plus years, he’s released...
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Botany – Lava Diviner (Truestory) (2013)
The bizarrely clunky title of Spencer Stephenson’s debut as Botany reflects the LP’s similarly bonkers concept, which narrates the tale of a fictional sect awaiting a volcano eruption. While that...
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The Crystal Method – The Crystal Method (2014)
Because of their strong link to the technology of the day, electronic musicians are constantly fighting against time to keep their music from sounding too dated as various pieces of tech — and even...
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Neil Rolnick – Gardening at Gropius House (2013)
Rolnick‘s music is quite clearly anti-modernist in the sense that it avoids the stereotypical gestures of avant-garde atonality. Anything goes these days, and the moments of jazz or salon-music...
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Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Dreamzone EP (2013)
Frontier-annihilating Finn (and part-time tram driver) Jaakko Eino Kalevi strides boldly into our ears on Dreamzone, his debut for Weird World, continuing the noises we’ve heard on efforts like Töölö...
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Painted Palms – Forever (2014)
Made up of cousins Reese Donahue and Chris Prodhomme, San Francisco duo Painted Palms began when the two were living thousands of miles away from each other and would exchange ideas for the band...
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Leo Kupper – Electronic Works & Voices 1961-1979 (2013)
Electronic Works & Voices highlights Leo Kupper‘s earliest unique compositions produced during the ’60s when he was ardently seeking out structures distinctly applicable to purely electronic...
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Lawrence English – Lonely Women’s Club (2013)
Recorded over the course of several very late nights spent with his newborn daughter back in 2011, Lonely Women’s Club is about minimal as it gets, essentially amounting to 40 minutes of one-chord...
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Harold Budd – Budd Box (2013)
In the popular imagination at least, Harold Budd is most feted for his collaborative works, teaming up with Brian Eno on 1980′s Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirrors LP and 1984′s essential The Pearl and...
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Out Cold – Invasion of Love (2013)
Towards the tail-end of the noughties, Bolton-born Simon Aldred released two albums as Cherry Ghost. Despite a Later… with Jools Holland appearance, a short-lived placing in the Top 10 of the album...
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Oliver Wilde – A Brief Introduction to Unnatural Lightyears (2013)
Bristol-based independent label Howling Owl Records have been churning out some incredible releases over the past year. From the Spectres to The Naturals, the label is widely regarded as putting...
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