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Brainwaltzera – Poly-Ana + Aescoba EP (2017)
The anonymous producer, whose work has has already received online approval from legendary british IDM auteur Aphex Twin, offers up his debut album. Brainwaltzera’s debut LP Poly-ana follows quickly on...
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Souns – Aquamarine (2017)
Better known for his series of dance floor-friendly electronic singles, Michael Red has adopted the moniker Souns to release nine affecting ambient and avant-garde pieces as Aquamarine, the first...
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Biosphere – Shenzhou [Reissue with bonus album] (2017)
The remastered triple-LP release includes a nine-track bonus album, called “The Samphire Tower”, that was originally commissioned as a 2005 sound installation for a coastline tower in Dover. Biosphere,...
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Pierre Henry – Polyphonies (2017)
Musique concrète has radically changed our experience of music and its development led in various ways to modern electronic music. At the heart of this idiom was the music of Pierre Henry. To mark what...
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Palta – Universel (2017)
With his debut album as DJ Sports, Milán Zaks was the first in Aarhus, Denmark’s Regelbau collective to make a splash beyond the crew’s homegrown network of DIY labels. But his brother Natal Zaks, best...
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Minco Eggersman – Kavkasia (2017)
Kavkasia came into being when Amsterdam-based composer Minco Eggersman and his wife undertook a road trip to Georgia (‘Kavkasia’ is Georgian for ‘Caucasus’). An album-length ode to the region, it’s a...
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VA – Diggin in the Carts: A Collection of Pioneering Japanese Video Game...
In the last few years, there’s been a resurgent focus on Japanese music from the ’80s, a period in which the nation’s socioeconomic circumstances were transforming. In musical terms, this was borne out...
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Aaron Dilloway – The Gag File + Switches (2017)
The Gag File is the long-awaited sequel to Aaron Dilloway‘s acclaimed Modern Jester, although the prolific artist is always busy with collaborations and limited releases. Mirroring his live...
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Moebius – Musik für Metropolis (2017)
Moebius fur Metropolis is the posthumous LP release from the late Dieter Moebius who died in 2015. Both a founder member of Cluster (with Conrad Schnitzer and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and Harmonia (with...
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Hypnobeat – Prototech (2017)
Founded by James Dean Brown, German trio Hypnobeat was made up of members Pietro Insipido, Victor Sol and Tobias Freund. Later, Brown went on to form Narcotic Syntax, and continued to channel...
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M. Craft – Blood Moon Deconstructed (2017)
When an artist who originally put out an album goes out and issues the same set of music as a ‘deconstructed’ one, it can usually mean one of two things – he really loved those songs, but while...
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PTU – A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day EP (2017)
Trip has gleefully swerved off the beaten track with this new EP. PTU, a Russian duo, aren’t much bothered with functionality and formulas. A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day does contain dance music...
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The Transcendence Orchestra – Modern Methods for Ancient Rituals (2017)
When Anthony Child & Dan Bean recorded Modern Methods for Ancient Rituals, they dragged their assortment of electronic and acoustic instruments to a secluded barn in the countryside and recorded,...
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Ahnnu – Special Forces (2017)
That the Los Angeles producer Leland Jackson tends to get lumped in with the so-called beat-music scene is partly a question of proximity: When the Richmond, Va., native moved out to LA, early in the...
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Shanghai Restoration Project – R.U.R. (2017)
When Dave Liang first put together the Shanghai Restoration Project, it was an electronic take on 1930s Chinese jazz: sweet, swinging vocal pop with catchy hooks and a borderline kitschy warmth. Like...
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Radio Slave – Feel the Same (2017)
Eight years ago, Matt Edwards told Resident Advisor that he had no plans to make a Radio Slave LP, preferring to keep his most famous alias for remixes and 12-inches. It’s not clear why the...
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ORI – 1986 (2017)
Some artists remain hidden, not by choice, and become settled musical references in their own scene. Israel-born Ori Alboher quickly established himself in his hometown of Jerusalem as part of the...
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Thor & Friends – The Subversive Nature of Kindness (2017)
Thor Harris formed percussive chamber ensemble Thor & Friends — with Peggy Ghorbani (marimba) and Sarah “Goat” Gautier (marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, organ) — following a five-year stint touring...
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RMFTM – Subversive III: De Spelende Mens (2017)
Self-proclaimed insurgents at the outer limits of space rock and industrial noise, RMFTM release the third instalment of their ‘Subversive’ trilogy. RMFTM lay out an unsettling ambient backtrack...
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bvdub – Heartless (2017)
Heartless is the new album from Brock Van Wey’s epic ambient guise bvdub. It’s the prolific producer’s 4th full-length for the Oakland-based imprint, following A History of Distance, Born in Tokyo and...
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