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Samo Sound Boy – Begging Please (2015)
Electronic music has thrived over the last decade in Los Angeles, with labels like Innovative Leisure, Friends of Friends and Body High mining the best of the city’s offerings. The least well-known of...
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Jamie xx – In Colour [Japan Edition] (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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Active Child – Mercy [Japan Edition] (2015)
It’s been four years since the release of Pat Grossi, aka Active Child‘s last album You Are All I See, and in a press release he said his time away has been a huge inspiration for the material on...
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The Chemical Brothers – Born in the Echoes (2015)
“The future? I’ll see you there!” These words come in the middle of the latest album from London dance music survivors the Chemical Brothers. It could be a sly nod to their influence on this decade’s...
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Secret Pyramid – The Silent March / Movements of Night (2014)
Vancouver drone experimenter Secret Pyramid (a.k.a. Amir Abbey) originally released his album The Silent March back in 2011 as a cassette for Nice Up International. Now, three years later, it’s getting...
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M.E.S.H. – Piteous Gate (2015)
As can be expected from any release on Bill Kouligas’ PAN imprint, Piteous Gate — the debut full-length from Berlin-based producer James Whipple — completely obliterates and re-constructs what can be...
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RP Boo – Fingers, Bank Pads and Shoe Prints (2015)
Repetition is perhaps the defining feature of electronic dance music. It is a deal breaker for many people. Whether or not a listener can embrace the repetition inherent in the genre is probably the...
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Moullinex – Elsewhere (2015)
Not to be confused with Moulinex, the French household appliance manufacturer, Moullinex (with two ‘l’s) is the alias of Portuguese DJ and producer Luis Clara Gomes. Gomes has been working in the...
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Guyer’s Connection – Portrait (1983, Remastered 2014)
Tibor Csébits and Philippe Alioth formed Guyer’s Connection in Basel, Switzerland when they were only 14 and 15 years old. At the time they were in a new wave rock band called “Kurtzschluss” which they...
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Tove Styrke – Kiddo (2015)
With a title like Kiddo, you might expect this LP to be Tove Styrke’s first. In fact, it’s her second effort – her eponymous debut was released in 2010, which came off the back of her stint in Swedish...
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Gossamer – Automaton (2015)
“Gossamer” is defined as something having a light, thin, or delicate quality, and while Los Angeles- based producer Evan Reiner’s debut full-length under the Gossamer moniker fits these descriptions,...
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Pekka Airaksinen - Buddhas of Golden Light (1984, Reissue 2015)
Pekka Airaksinen is best known as the founding member of The Sperm, a batshit ’60s Finnish ensemble that combined garbled improv, zoned minimalism, and Artaudian theatrical hijinks in a fashion that...
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Years & Years – Communion [Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Almost all forms of music seek to speak, from time to time, of love, and from time to time of sex. But pop music stands alone in its obsession with their convergence point, where they become...
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Laraaji – All in One Peace (2015)
Experimental new age king Laraaji recently got spiritual with a show at Vancouver’s Planetarium, but those who missed out on that performance will soon be able to space out at home with a new set of...
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The Orb – Moonbuilding 2703 AD [Japanese Edition] (2015)
Approaching 28 years in the game, and on their sixth incarnation as a band, The Orb make a welcome return with Moonbuilding 2703 AD – their first original album for quite some time, not counting the...
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Fatima Yamaha – What’s a Girl to Do? EP (2015)
Few could have predicted that What’s a Girl to Do, an electro instrumental released to little fanfare in 2004, would end up on the album of a Kanye West collaborator, voiced by rising R&B star...
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Tyondai Braxton – HIVE1 [Japanese Edition] (2015)
Wrapping your head around Tyondai Braxton‘s HIVE1 is like trying to catch a fly with your hands: It feels as if you could just reach out and grab it, but every time you lunge, it darts away. Braxton’s...
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MS MR – How Does It Feel (2015)
Three years after making a name for themselves with the single “Hurricane,” on How Does It Feel MS MR balance where they’ve been and where they’re going. The formerly anonymous duo revealed the names...
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Mas Ysa – Seraph (2015)
Before Thomas Arsenault even had a note of music available online, he turned eyes and ears with gripping, show-stealing solo performances while opening for Deerhunter in 2013. He appeared to fit the...
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Mocky – Key Change (2015)
If you aren’t familiar with Dominic “Mocky” Salole, you’re definitely familiar with some of his collaborators. For over a decade, he’s worked with the likes of Feist, Chilly Gonzales, Jamie Lidell and...
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