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Psychic Reality – Chassis (2015)
Leyna Noel’s first album as Psychic Reality was called Vibrant New Age, but the music sounded more like fuzzy new wave, or maybe lo-fi disco. Pulsing with rattling beats, blurry neon synths, and Noel’s...
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Róisín Murphy – Hairless Toys (2015)
Where there’s disco, there’s an intoxicating darkness. Roisin Murphy’s first album in 8 years embraces that dichotomy on intimate late-night tales, both personal and in an imagined voice of the 1980s...
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Beatriz Ferreyra – GRM Works (2015)
…It was in the late ’90s, near the end of her life, for example, that BBC Radiophonic Workshop member (and Doctor Who theme composer) Delia Derbyshire received some recognition for her electronic...
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Michel Redolfi – Pacific Tubular Waves / Immersion (2015)
Michel Redolfi‘s pioneering, underwater expositions are next up for reissue in the illuminating Recollection GRM series. Both pieces in Pacific Tubular Waves / Immersion were inspired by the...
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VA – Traces Three (2014)
Things don’t get much more binary than before and after, and the advent of digital technology has imposed a replication of its essence upon the development of electronic music. Look beforehand and you...
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VA – PC Music Volume 1 (2015)
PC Music Volume 1 is anti-physical music for an anti-physical time. Like everything that A. G. Cook’s London-based label’s released since 2013, these 10 songs are invocations of the hyperreal, created...
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Espectrostatic – Escape from Witchtropolis (2014)
For his second Espectrostatic album, Alex Cuervo took a slightly different tack: where the project’s self-titled first album could have been a collection of themes to different movies, Escape from...
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K-X-P – III, Pt. 1 (2015)
For their third album, Finnish quartet K-X-P – whose Twitter biog describes them as Original-Electronic-Motorhead-Space-Trance-Spiritual-Rock-Meditation-FreeJazz-Godz (!) – have decided to capture the...
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Black Devil Disco Club – Black Devil Disco Club (1978, Remastered 2015)
Aphex Twin’s 2004 reissue/reworking of the super obscure 1978 Black Devil Disco Club heralded the rediscovery of Bernard Fevre as an unsung electronic music pioneer. Subsequent BDDC releases like...
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offthesky – Light Loss (2015)
There’s much to admire about Jason Corder’s latest offthesky release. One of its strengths is its unpredictability: each of its five pieces takes the listener to a different place, and it’s impossible...
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Chra – Empty Airport (2015)
Christina Nemec (Comfortzone) presents an unheimlich vision of future ambient music with Empty Airport, further to her aktions with Peter Rehberg and Christian Schachinger in Shampoo Boy. Also...
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Inside Life (2015)
Like Bruno Sanfilippo‘s work in general, Inside Life straddles multiple genres. With minimalist piano playing the nucleus, the album’s seven settings are heavily informed by his classical training, but...
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Primitive Motion – Pulsating Time Fibre (2015)
The first three quarters of Pulsating Time Fibre features much of the Brisbane-based duo’s signature quirk and kitsch – the beat machine, simplistic synth and cute melodies we’ve come to expect as part...
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Hot Chip – Why Make Sense? (2015)
With few lyrics, ubiquitous sampling, and a beat that takes over your body, dance music has always provided an easy route for escape. It’s meant to rinse your brain of worries. Now 15 years past their...
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Mt. Wolf – Red EP (2015)
Fans of Mt. Wolf have been waiting in earnest for the release of their latest effort, Red, and for good reason. Following the departure of lead vocalist Kate Sproule, many wondered where the band would...
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Bernard + Edith – Jem [Rough Trade Edition] (2015)
Rough Trade exclusive with a bonus CD featuring a China Dub Version and 3 new tracks. No, they aren’t the sweet octogenarian couple a few houses down sat on their little stone bench in their backyard...
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Gacha – Send Two Sunsets (2015)
In the fractured, constantly evolving world of electronic music, it’s tempting to prioritize the shock of the the new: the post-ironic zap of PC Music, the maximalist eclecticism of Hudson Mohawke, the...
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Copy – Chalice Agenda (2015)
Copy entered the Portland music landscape in an era when indie-rock bands and laptop artists seemed to be facing off like two lame gangs from West Side Story. Then here was this dude with a keytar in...
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Alio Die & Lorenzo Montana – Holographic Codex (2015)
Recorded in 2013, Holographic Codex presents sixty-four minutes of deep ambient soundscaping courtesy of Italian artists Alio Die (real name Stefano Musso) and Lorenzo Montanà, both of whom bring years...
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Holly Herndon – Platform (2015)
Holly Herndon follow-up 2012’s Movement with Platform, an album that she describes as “a rupture, a paradisic gesture.” On the album, Herndon opened her process to her collaborators, including Dutch...
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