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Rui Ho – Becoming Is an Eventful Situation (2018)
Rui Ho‘s music is a tangle of styles & perspectives. Since the Chinese-born, Berlin-based producer’s 2016 debut, questions of identity have helped inspire an experimental club sound where Western...
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VA – Hunee: Hunchin’ All Night (2018)
Hunee’s frenetic, oft-shoeless DJ sets have netted him breathless fans in nearly every corner of the globe, due in part to his ability to travel through genres and decades with inimitable ease. Go to a...
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Toshio Matsuura Group – Loveplaydance: 8 Scenes from the Floor (2018)
Loveplaydance is the latest chapter in a collaboration which started over 25 years ago between Tokyo DJ Toshio Matsuura and London DJ Gilles Peterson. At the time, Matsuura was a member of the mutant...
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Christoph De Babalon – If You’re Into It, I’m Out of It (1997, Remastered 2018)
The timing couldn’t be better to reissue Christoph De Babalon’s brooding, groundbreaking album If You’re Into It, I’m Out of It. Ambient music is enjoying a widespread boom, dark drum ‘n’ bass has come...
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Alva Noto – Unieqav (2018)
Carsten Nicolai’s Uni album series was initially inspired by a live show at the Tokyo nightclub Unit, where he decided to adjust his material for the dance floor. The first two LPs, Unitxt and Univrs,...
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Borusiade – A Body (2018)
Borusiade has a radio show called The Dreamcatcher. One episode was a collection of her favourite songs. (It opened with Nico’s “Lawns of Dawns.”) Others were dedicated to “mixed feelings,” or...
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Recondite – Daemmerlicht (2018)
The very essence of Lorenz Brunner’s work is his intricate details. From the succinct compositions to the song titles which are expressed in the sound of each track and even the audio visual show the...
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Rival Consoles – Persona (2018)
Over the past decade, Ryan Lee West (aka Rival Consoles) has been crafting a brand of instrumental electronic music that has come off earnest, affecting and downright human. And with his latest LP,...
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Chrome Sparks – Chrome Sparks (2018)
Over the course of nearly a decade, Jeremy Malvin has refined a singular brand of electronic music that is bright and glittery yet highly expressive and emotionally resonant. The producer and...
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Confidence Man – Confident Music for Confident People (2018)
The party doesn’t stop on Confidence Man‘s irrepressibly upbeat debut Confident Music for Confident People. The Australian quartet – fronted by duo Janet Planet and Sugar Bones and backed by synth man...
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Goldmund – Occasus (2018)
Keith Kenniff’s recordings as Goldmund typically mine a pleasant yet poignant form of neo-classical music, mainly consisting of slow, delicate piano melodies with sparse amounts of effects or...
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µ-Ziq – Challenge Me Foolish (2018)
Aside from family duties and running his Planet Mu empire, Mike Paradinas has seemingly spent the majority of the 2010s going through his archives. He hasn’t released much new music during this period,...
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Sonae – I Started Wearing Black (2018)
Taking techno deep down the loneliest wormhole, with I Started Wearing Black, Cologne-based producer Sonia Güttler — aka Sonae —tracks the soft noise haunting the pulse of the modern world and...
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MIEN – MIEN (2018)
Tired of all the Western shouting and keen for a bit of Eastern serenity, MIEN – a transatlantic coalition of like-minded, psych-minded members of The Horrors, The Black Angels, Elephant Stone and The...
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Sofi Tukker – Treehouse (2018)
Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern’s brand of jungle pop — quotable pop hooks and snatches of Portuguese poetry set to club-friendly beats — might have emerged from the dying embers of the EDM...
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Muddersten – Playmates (2018)
The amusing cover art is a take-off on a 16th and 17th century Flanders and Netherlands tradition of still life themes known as vanitas (vanity) paintings that basically portray aspects not deemed...
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Die Wilde Jagd – Uhrwald Orange (2018)
Die Wilde Jagd (The Wild Hunt), brainchild of Sebastian Lee Philipp, is back 3 years after its debut with Uhrwald Orange (“Orange Clockwood”). The album wanders around the fringes of electronic and...
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Mr. Fingers – Cerebral Hemispheres (2018)
House music’s debt to Larry Heard, AKA Mr Fingers, is incalculable. Ever since the genre was in its infancy, he has crafted records that have spurned the formulaic, from 1986’s game-changing Can You...
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Jean-Michel Jarre – Original Album Classics Vol.2 (2018)
Celebrated as the European electronic music community’s premier ambassador, composer Jean Michel Jarre elevated the synthesizer to new peaks of popularity during the 1970s, in the process emerging as...
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Mouse On Mars – Dimensional People (2018)
Since the beginning, Mouse on Mars have brought in guest musicians, vocalists and lyricists to help shape their distinctive brand of IDM. On Dimensional People, collaboration doesn’t just play an...
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