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Syclops – Pink Eye (2018)
Will dance music ever truly appreciate the might and majesty of a Maurice Fulton production? Or is there something about the low-key, press-shy way he conducts himself that will always make widespread...
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Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of [Japanese Edition] (2018)
As Oneohtrix Point Never, Daniel Lopatin is an expert at giving fleshed-out melodies the backseat while allowing the parts that compose them ride shotgun. If you’re not already familiar with his work,...
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Roland Kayn – A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (2017)
Twenty-two movements, 14 hours and 16 CDs worth of spangling cosmic sound play: this premiere release of the magnum opus by German composer Roland Kayn is a colossus and a marvel. Roland who? In a...
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All India Radio – Space (2018)
Keyboardist and guitarist Martin Kennedy just about has it all. He’s been in two well-loved Australian bands, Pray TV and All India Radio. He can grab Steve Kilbey from the Church at a moment’s notice...
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Dustin Wong + Takako Minekawa + Good Willsmith – Exit Future Heart (2018)
Tokyo-based duo Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa were passing through Chicago while on tour last year, and decided to take a few hours to jam with the Windy City trio Good Willsmith (Natalie Chami — aka...
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Shy Layers – Midnight Marker (2018)
JD Walsh’s debut album as Shy Layers, two years ago, came laced with déjà vu. He was hardly shy about his influences: There were hints of Arthur Russell in the vocals, African highlife in the guitars,...
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Soccer96 – Rewind (2018)
Dan Leavers (aka Danalogue) and Max Hallet (aka Betamax), are super busy on the newly revitalised London jazz scene. Leavers has produced Snapped Ankles, Alabaster DePlume and Ibibio Sound Machine;...
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DJ Lilocox – Paz & Amor EP (2018)
In dance music, small and localized scenes rarely stay intact for long. The favela sound of funk carioca, once picked up by Diplo, spread well beyond Rio; moombahton quickly left DC and grew into a...
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Jim O’Rourke – Steamroom 30-40 (2016-2018)
American post-classical composer Jim O’Rourke has been a key component in the increasing overlap of the American and European experimental music avant-garde, working in everything from jazz and rock...
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The Secret Initiative – The Secret Initiative Anthology (2018)
There was a renaissance in techno at the end of the aught decade. After years of redundancy in the scene, the minimal & tech house hype that swept the globe was finally waning. Meanwhile, a few...
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Klein – cc EP (2018)
The South London electronic musician Klein is clearly comfortable playing roles. Her 2016 EP Lagata was written from the perspective of “a Nigerian ruler from a fictional film,” while in February she...
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Chris Merrick Hughes – Eirenic Life (2017)
You may not recognise the name, but Chris Merrick Hughes’s back catalogue precedes him. A member of Adam & The Ants before co-writing Tears for Fears’s ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’ and...
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oOoOO & Islamiq Grrrls – Faminine Mystique (2018)
There’s a disorienting quality to Faminine Mystique, the purposely “difficult-to-digest” collaboration between bedroom producer-songwriters oOoOO & Islamiq Grrrls, that will be familiar to anyone...
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Coil – Coil Presents Black Light District: A Thousand Lights in a Darkened...
During the transitional period in which Coil’s primary leadership, Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson and John Balance, reorganized their creative direction by taking on new membership in the group through...
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Tsembla – The Hole in the Landscape (2018)
NNA present The Hole In The Landscape, the latest full-length album by Tsembla. Based in Turku, Finland, Tsembla is the solo alias of musician Marja Ahti, a frequent collaborator of the Kemialliset...
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Project Pablo – There’s Always More at the Store EP (2018)
Montreal-based DJ/producer Patrick Holland (aka Project Pablo) delivers another solid EP of groovy house with There’s Always More at the Store, his second for Ninja Tune’s Technicolour imprint. After a...
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Morcheeba – Blaze Away (2018)
After a five-year hiatus, British trip-hop pioneers Morcheeba return with a new album Blaze Away. Their ninth album should please Morcheeba fans. Take the song “Find Another Way”, for example. It rolls...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records Presents Boombox 3: Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro...
Soul Jazz Records’ new Boombox 3 compilation continues their story of the first rap records to be put onto vinyl. It is a jam-packed collection of original independent old school hip hop, created with...
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Professor Rhythm – Professor 3 (1991, Reissue 2018)
…Professor Rhythm’s 1991 recording Professor 3 is a vivid reflection of urban South Africa as apartheid was ending. Thami Mdluli’s production project had young and old dancing to a sound that sought to...
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Ant’lrd & Benoît Pioulard – Deck Amber (2018)
Naturally, the first thing you notice about this excellent, hour-long collaboration between Ant’lrd (Colin Blanton) and Benoît Pioulard (Thomas Meluch) is the striking mode of presentation: a...
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