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Nils Frahm – Encores 1 EP (2018)
For the past two years, Nils Frahm has been building a brand new studio and making music at Funkhaus in Berlin. Out of that time came not only his 7th album, the universally acclaimed All Melody, but a...
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Littlebabyangel – GADA (2018)
In a 2016 interview, LuckyMe co-founder Dominic Flannigan described the Glasgow label’s strategy toward releases, saying, “We are quite slow at putting out records. Part of that is because we sign...
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Express Rising – Fixed Rope 2 (2018)
Fixed Rope was the first Express Rising album to be recorded by the trio lineup of Kevin Blagg, William Suran, and leader Dante Carfagna, who initially used the moniker for his solo recordings. On the...
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TIGUE – Strange Paradise (2018)
If Tigue‘s three percussionists sound particularly in sync on Strange Paradise, the Brooklyn-based group’s follow-up to its 2015 debut album Peaks, it’s attributable, at least in part, to how long...
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MGUN – Axiom (2018)
In conversation with RA‘s Angus Finlayson a few years ago, MGUN, AKA Manual Gonzales, portrayed himself as being distant, though not cut off, from his peers in Detroit. “I don’t like to get ideas from...
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Little Snake – ENTER EP (2018)
Calgary-based producer Little Snake might not be on the radar of many people, but he’s about to be. His latest release ENTER — his first on label Brainfeeder — takes its inspiration from Gaspar Noé’s...
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VA & Modeselektor – Modeselektion Vol. 04 (2018)
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything from Berlin’s Modeselektor, not counting the output cooked up in conjunction with Apparat and released together under Moderat. Now that Gernot Bronsert and...
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The Residents & Renaldo and the Loaf – Title in Limbo + 4 Daze (2017)
This re-release on the Klanggalerie label does not just offer a remastered edition of the 1983 album as it includes “4 Daze” as a bonus disc. “4 Daze” presents the original jam recordings from 1981...
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Ben Vince – Assimilation (2018)
Does any other form of music have the same existential resonance as solo saxophone? While a single musician on piano or guitar can fill up every sonic space, a saxophonist’s mission is to strike a...
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Tim Blake – Caldea Music II (2002, Remastered 2017)
…Tim Blake first came to prominence as a member of Gong, where his synthesiser experimentation and mastery was demonstrated on albums such as Flying Teapot, Angel’s Egg and You. He would also join...
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VA – Patina Echoes (2018)
The story of UK dance music is a story of mutation: of soundsystem culture and breakbeat hardcore colliding to create jungle and drum ’n’ bass; of American house that spawned its mutant UK garage; of...
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SW:SVN – AMB1805 EP (2018)
Despite being a low-key artist, SW. has managed to elevate a niche genre to serious heights. Last year’s Apollo reissue of Stefan Wust’s 2016 Untitled album, an ambient-techno masterpiece, even managed...
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Birds of Passage – The Death of Our Invention (2018)
The Death of Our Invention heralds the return of Alicia Merz’s Birds of Passage project after four years of silence. Yet despite a lengthy interval that suggests some degree of alteration in...
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Terminal Sound System – The Endless Sea (2018)
…Australian Skye Klein’s project has much in common with Trent Reznor’s, even if its music is a little less harrowing and brutalizing by comparison. Klein’s been perfecting his particular...
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Jon Hassell – Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) (2018)
Over the last few years, Jon Hassell has re-released his 2 most celebrated and groundbreaking albums — 1980’s Fourth World, Vol. 1 and 1981’s Dream Theory in Malaya — bringing the oft-overlooked...
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Hilary Woods – Colt (2018)
Hers is a story which involves a ‘90s Irish rock band that found more success overseas than at home (JJ72), a teenager bass player who and her impassioned exploration of greener pastures in the form of...
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Proc Fiskal – Insula (2018)
Proc Fiskal‘s music is filled with rapid, choppy beats and playful, sometimes cartoonish samples, as well as melodies inspired by Japanese video game music. His music closely resembles instrumental...
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Chancha Via Circuito – Bienaventuranza (2018)
Contrary to reputation, music in Buenos Aires is not confined to tango. The city has developed a thriving “digital cumbia”’ scene that imports freely from South and Latin America and blends their...
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Kiefer – Happysad (2018)
Imagine that you left your old ’80s Casio keyboard sitting in your parent’s basement for 30 years, and one day it hums to life and starts pumping out hypnotic, half-decayed melodies that sound like...
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Eartheater – IRISIRI (2018)
In 2015, Guardian Alien member Alexandra Drewchin dropped a pair of cassettes for the Hausu Mountain imprint, the highly acclaimed Metalepsis and RIP Chrysalis. The material on those releases, which...
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