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Smurphy – A Shapeless Pool of Lovely Pale Colours Suspended in the Darkness...
The title of Jessica Smurphy‘s new album came from a sentence that the Mexico City producer stumbled across in J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: “If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times...
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Hama – Torodi (2015)
With his Torodi LP, Niger electro synth composer Hama creates a whole factory of sounds with just one instrument: a keyboard. On songs such as the standout “Tagout” and the title track, the...
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Zhala – Zhala (2015)
Robyn protégé Zhala, the debut signee to Konichiwa Records, has been bubbling under the surface since last year’s Grammis performance and Prophet EP. Like Naomi Pilgrim, Zhala toured with Lykke Li –...
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Thomas Brinkmann – What You Hear (Is What You Hear) (2015)
Thomas Brinkmann is renowned for audio works that hover amongst forms such as techno, minimalism and ambient. Alongside such pioneering works as ‘Klick’, ‘Variations’ and last years duo with Oren...
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Rüdiger Lorenz – The Syntape-Years 1981-83 (2015)
Rüdiger Lorenz is a german electronic Synthesist and inventor of several modular synthesizer systems. In the likes and manner of Conrad Schnitzler, Edgar Froese, Dieter Moebius and Hans Joachim...
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Luke Abbott – Music for a Flat Landscape: Official Soundtrack of The Goob (2015)
Music for a Flat Landscape comprises the score that Luke Abbott wrote for British film The Goob by writer and director Guy Myhill. Already the recipient of an award from the Stockholm Film Festival,...
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Maurice Louca – Benhayyi Al-Baghbaghan (2014)
Benhayyi Al-Baghbaghan (Salute the Parrot) signals a departure for Maurice Louca from his first solo album Garraya — in which he composed electronic music unaccompanied — into the realms of acoustic...
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Varg – Ursviken (2015)
In the last year or so it has been thrilling to watch the growth of Stockholm’s underground experimental electronics, which arrived fairly out of nowhere with the appearance of Northern Electronics in...
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Jakob Skøtt – Taurus Rising (2014)
Besides drumming for Causa Sui, co-owning El Paraiso Records and designing visuals and artworks for Amon Düül II, Earthless, Manual, Skøtt has recently found time to develop a solo career too. The...
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General Magic & Pita – Fridge Trax Plus (2015)
Vienna experimental institution Editions Mego celebrate its roots with Fridge Trax Plus, a 20th anniversary reissue of General Magic and Pita’s influential Fridge Trax material. General Magic is Ramon...
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Jamie xx – In Colour (2015)
All minimalism centers around movement. Look at architecture, art, and literature: Their minimalist incarnations strive to open up space where the viewer or reader can be free. In the context of dance...
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Jaga Jazzist – Starfire (2015)
At its best, Norwegian experimental jazz ensemble Jaga Jazzist sounds like no other group in the world. Its complex ensemble arrangements hearken back to the halcyon swing of Duke and Count Basie,...
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Maribou State – Portraits (2015)
Maribou State was formed in London in 2011 by former classmates Chris Davids and Liam Ivory. The duo quickly established their emotive, midtempo sound, blending pitch-shifted vocals and warm, rolling...
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Matthew Herbert – The Shakes (2015)
Matthew Herbert is a man of many talents. With a back-catalogue spanning two decades, ranging from minimalist house to disco-infused electronica, he’s shown himself to be an artist with range. And...
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Voices from the Lake – Live at MAXXI (2015)
Italian techno producers Donato Dozzy and Neel release their second album as Voices from the Lake. Live at MAXXI arrive via experimental hub Editions Mego in June. The album was recorded on October 25...
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Son Lux – Bones (2015)
Founded by producer-composer Ryan Lott in 2007, Son Lux “works at the nexus of several rarely-overlapping Venn Diagrams” (Pitchfork). With the recent additions to the band of guitarist-composer Rafiq...
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Opal Onyx – Delta Sands (2014)
Delta Sands is a place where lightly plucked cello can dance on the same plane as gentle rains of synthesizers. There’s a peace, not a tension, between these two schools of instruments. Both float...
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Bitchin Bajas – Transporteur EP (2015)
On last year’s self-titled double LP, the Chicago- based trio Bitchin Bajas — which began as an offshoot of psych-rock ensemble Cave — paid expert homage to the zone-out music of the 1960s and ’70s,...
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Afiara Quartet & Skratch Bastid – Spin Cycle (2015)
Ever since the groundbreaking fusion experiments of the Kronos Quartet, the string quartet has perhaps unexpectedly emerged as a primary proving ground for the fusion of classical and contemporary...
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Moritz von Oswald Trio – Sounding Lines (2015)
The Moritz von Oswald Trio opens a new chapter. There’s a new configuration to the project, with Tony Allen joining original members Moritz von Oswald and Max Loderbauer. Allen, the legendary drummer...
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