Psychic TV – Kondole / Dead Cat (2018)
Kondole/Dead Cat is an expanded edition of Psychic TV‘s Kondole album, which included material intended as film soundtracks. The only film that seems to have been completed is Dead Cat, which is...
View ArticleHMOT – Permanent Imbalance EP (2018)
HMOT does not muck around. The Russian producer, aka Stas Sharifullin, recently unveiled a track called ‘Hell Is You, Yourself’ and in a 2016 interview with The Quietus he blasted the power imbalance...
View ArticleLarry Polansky – freeHorn (2017)
Two distinct yet related sides of composer Larry Polansky are presented on this 32-minute release. A classic polymath, he’s issued material on New World Records, Artifact, and Cold Blue, and as a...
View ArticleNear Future – Ideal Home (2018)
Near Future is a collaboration between two people who, at first glance, seem to be at opposite ends of the electronic music continuum. On one end there is Blancmange’s Neil Arthur, whose strident,...
View ArticleNed Lagin – Cat Dreams (2017)
Whether one has been waiting 40 years for Ned Lagin to follow up his 1975 debut or not, his long-time-coming Cat Dreams is bound to surprise. Far more consonant than the often harsh bio-music of...
View ArticleMaster Wilburn Burchette – Psychic Meditation Music (1974, Reissue 2017)
California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostica News. On offer: Burchett’s seven-part,...
View ArticleLeon Vynehall – Nothing Is Still (2018)
Leon Vynehall received acclaim during the mid- 2010s for his joyous, backwards-glancing house tracks, but there’s always been much more to him than blissful club nostalgia. 2014 breakout release Music...
View ArticleGui Boratto – Pentagram (2018)
Brazilian producer Gui Boratto‘s fifth full-length, Pentagram, is another ambitious, varied set of melodic tech-house that takes influence from new wave, progressive house, and film scores. While the...
View ArticleSOPHIE – Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides (2018)
Since 2013, SOPHIE has carved out an instantly identifiable musical vernacular based on synthesized bubble sounds, brash treble, deep bass, and distended, anonymous vocals. Listening to early singles...
View ArticleX-Altera – X-Altera (2018)
As he was working on Three/Three, the long-awaited fourth album by his influential hip-hop production alias Dabrye, Tadd Mullinix began working on a different project that took inspiration from the...
View ArticleTangents – New Bodies (2018)
Australian quintet Tangents continue to display their “post-everything” approach to improvisation on their third full-length, New Bodies, which follows the adventurous yet accessible 2016 release...
View ArticleDriftmachine – Shunter (2018)
This fifth album from Berlin duo Andreas Gerth and Florian Zimmer has a bare-knuckle appeal that will be well-received by admirers of shop-floor industrial music — the kind that sounds more like a...
View ArticleHieroglyphic Being – The Replicant Dream Sequence (2018)
In 2016, Jamal Moss (Hieroglyphic Being) visited the Moog Sound Lab in London, an open-loan studio that contains a rare 2014 reissue of Moog’s System 55 modular synthesizer, originally produced in the...
View ArticleBruno Pronsato & L.A. Teen – A Face Wasted On the Theatre (2018)
German electronic lounge noire crooner Bruno Pronsato has formally teamed up with frequent collaborator, Israeli bass wizard Yonatan Levi, for his latest album, A Face Wasted on the Theatre. As you...
View ArticleHavana Cultura – Havana Cultura: ¡Súbelo, Cuba! (2018)
As one of U.K. radio and club culture’s worldliest and most seasoned DJs, Gilles Peterson’s long been fascinated with connecting the old and the new, and he takes that passion a step further with his...
View ArticleBlawan – Nutrition (2017)
Jamie Roberts has been experimenting since his last release as Blawan. In 2016 he debuted two new aliases, offering introverted and deconstructed takes on the textural techno he puts out on his own...
View ArticleBlawan – Wet Will Always Dry (2018)
Wet Will Always Dry is the blistering début album by Blawan. Arriving 8 years after his first move, ‘Fram’ for Hessle Audio – during which time he’s forged the Karenn duo with Pariah, set up his...
View ArticleVA – Polish Radio Experimental Studio Revisited 1998-2018 (2018)
The Polish Radio Experimental Studio closed down in 2003. Its afterlife, however, began already in 1998. It was then that Norwegian ambient masters Biosphere and Deathprod paid homage to a pioneer in...
View ArticleMax Corbacho – Nocturnes II (2018)
…Max Corbacho been crafting ambient-electronic soundscapes since 1998. This second chapter in his projected Nocturnes trilogy certainly lives up to its title, its seventy minutes evocative of the...
View Article36 – Circuit Bloom (2018)
Dennis Huddleston is the very model of consistency. Every six months or so, a new 36 collection appears, each one as solid as the last and each one reminding us of his unerring talent for crafting...
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