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TLC Fam – Isbethelo seGqom (2017)
Gqom is tribal house music for those who prefer to hear influences from their Zulu ancestors, not a sample pack they found on the Internet. If there was any doubt, we can start with the genre name...
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Zombie Zombie – Livity (2017)
French outfit Zombie Zombie first appeared to much critical acclaim with their A Land for Renegades album almost a decade ago, resulting in many remix offers and festival appearances. Disappearing from...
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Meat Beat Manifesto – Impossible Star (2018)
Meat Beat Manifesto were far more prolific throughout the 1990s and 2000s than they were during the 2010s — 2018’s Impossible Star is only their second full-length of the decade, following Answers Come...
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Sly & Robbie meet Dubmatix – Overdubbed (2018)
In reggae, all roads lead to the “Riddim Twins”, Sly & Robbie. They’ve been revered as style-defining icons for years, and together and individually have a massive influence on the genre. They are...
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Hanz – Plasty I EP (2018)
Plasty I is the first in a series of two EPs from North Carolina-based producer Hanz, following Tri Angle’s 2016 vinyl issue of his Reducer full-length. The release continues much in the same vein as...
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Matthewdavid – Time Flying Beats (2018)
During the late-2000s heyday of the Los Angeles beat scene, artists pushed sound in ways that frequently suggested hyperbolic visions of distance: We were somehow traveling into space and exploring new...
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De Lux – More Disco Songs About Love (2018)
More Disco Songs About Love is the third LP from Los Angeles alternative dance duo De Lux (Sean Guerin and Isaac Franco). While their previous albums made influences such as LCD Soundsystem and Talking...
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Laraaji – Vision Songs, Vol. 1 (1984, Reissue 2018)
Laraaji is a master of countless instruments, and his music has explored numerous styles and moods, but he’s probably best known for his hypnotic instrumental works utilizing hammered dulcimer and...
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Schlammpeitziger – Damenbartblick auf Pregnant Hill (2018)
Releasing records on and off since 1993, Jo Zimmerman has found another new home on the eternal home for musical explorers Bureau B. His first Schlammpeitziger album since 2014’s What’s Fruit? finds...
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Konx-om-Pax – Refresher EP (2017)
Just as some master chefs have turned their backs on exotic ingredients for the reliable joys of locally sourced product, there has been a recent tendency in the more outré genres of electronic music...
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The Thing with Five Eyes – Noirabesque (2018)
The Thing with Five Eyes is the follow up to the disassembled projects The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation. Founder and main composer Jason Kohnen brought The...
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Bill Nelson – Dreamy Screens: Soundtracks from Echo Observatory (2017)
Esoteric Recordings’ imprint Cocteau Discs, dedicated to the work of Bill Nelson, release 3 disc boxed set limited edition collection – Dreamy Screens: Soundtracks from the Echo Observatory. The set...
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Pep Llopis – Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes (1987, Reissue 2017)
…in Valencia Pep Llopis, a former prog rocker mourning the dissolution of his band Cotó-En-Pèl, was putting together an album of salt-fresh, Mediterranean-breezed proto ambience that would have fit...
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Jon Brooks – Autres Directions (2017)
On his third album for Clay Pipe Music, Jon Brooks (Advisory Circle/Ghostbox) takes inspiration from experiences, feelings and emotions garnered from time spent in Brittany and Normandy. …Autres...
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Hampshire & Foat – The Honeybear (2018)
After the success of Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Warren Hampshire and Greg Foat retreated back to the Isle of Wight to start work on long discussed concept album based on a fictional children’s book...
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Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs – YMFEES (2018)
Speaking to The Wire recently, Dimitris Papadatos described his Jay Glass Dubs project as “rewriting” the history of dub. Perhaps in his parallel world Leslie Winer is a star. Her 1990 debut album,...
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Nils Frahm – All Melody (2018)
It’s hard for Nils Frahm to resist the pull of a good concept. For 2011’s Felt, the German pianist draped a heavy cloth over the strings of his instrument — a gesture of respect for his neighbors that...
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Nightmares on Wax – Shape the Future (2018)
When thinking of veteran artists on Warp Records, you probably recall IDM legends like Autechre, Plaid or Aphex Twin, but the smoked-out beats of Nightmares on Wax have been there since the very...
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Johnny Jewel – Digital Rain (2018)
Like a film noir director shooting lamp-lit city streets at midnight drenched in rain, Johnny Jewel is enamored of the look and sound and feel of water. Dried out in L.A., the Chromatics mastermind has...
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Silvia Kastel – Air Lows (2018)
Silvia Kastel’s work has been circulating through cassettes for a few years now, but her involvement in music stretches back much further than her first release. In 2009, she founded Ultramarine, a...
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