Consumer Electronics – Dollhouse Songs (2015)
Last year, Consumer Electronics, the power electronics duo of ex-Whitehouse member Philip Best and his wife Sarah Froelich, bolstered by producer Russell Haswell, released one of the most brutal,...
View ArticleKode9 – Nothing [Japanese Edition] (2015)
Kode9, also known as Hyperdub label head Steve Goodman, always creates multilayered tracks that sound built from another era or planet entirely. From his work driving the early dubstep scene to the...
View ArticleDanny L Harle – Broken Flowers EP (2015)
Danny L Harle is a real person. It may seem odd how that simple fact is newsworthy, but in the rubberized world of PC Music, humanity is unexpected. After all, the British label has exhibited a...
View ArticleDaniel Menche & Mamiffer – Crater (2015)
Since ending the iconic post-metal band ISIS in 2010, frontman Aaron Turner has focused on Mamiffer, his collaborative project with Faith Coloccia. Now the duo have release Crater, a new album made...
View ArticleUnderworld – Second Toughest in the Infants [Super Deluxe Edition] (2015)
Second Toughest in the Infants wasn’t actually Underworld‘s sophomore album, but it was their second full-length since progressive house DJ Darren Emerson joined the core lineup of Rick Smith and Karl...
View ArticleLeon Lowman – Syntheseas: Recordings 80-82 (2015)
Multi-talented autodidact musician and devoted painter Leon Lowman became interested in synthesizers when he heard ELP’s “Lucky Man” in 1970. At that time Lowman was working for various recording...
View ArticleDeadbeat – Walls and Dimensions (2015)
Walls & Dimensions marks Scott Monteith’s tenth full-length release as Deadbeat. Reportedly, this album apparently arose in the wake of multiple tragedies in Monteith’s life that included both...
View ArticleKiasmos – Swept EP (2015)
Erased Tapes’ Kiasmos make an unlikely sound. The duo comprised of Iceland’s award-winning composer Ólafur Arnalds and Bloodgroup’s electronic wiz Janus Rasmussen pitch up somewhere between club and...
View ArticlePort St. Willow – Syncope (2015)
Back in 2012, a little-known act going by the name of Port St. Willow released a debut album called Holiday. It turned out to be the work of one man, Nicholas Principe and it was so beguilingly...
View ArticlePatrick Cowley – Kickin’ In EP (2015)
Released simultaneously with Muscle Up, Dark Entries’ second volume of Patrick Cowley‘s gay porn soundtracks from the ’70s and early ’80s, sister label HNYTRX also unearthed “Kickin’ In,” a 12-minute...
View ArticleMark Van Hoen – Nightvision (2015)
Nightvision is Mark Van Hoen‘s first album under his birth name since the preceding The Revenant Diary in 2012 — the producer issued You’ll Be Safe Forever (2013) and After the Rain (2014) as Locust....
View ArticleGermany Germany – Willow (2015)
Hailing from the seemingly sleepy city of Victoria, BC — although its quietly growing electro scene has been expanding for years — electro-indie-pop producer Germany Germany cements his growing...
View ArticleRabit – Communion [Extended Edition] (2015)
Eric Burton produces a dark, genre-transcending sort of electronic music, yet has recently been lumped in with the new wave of grime, alongside the likes of Visionist and Filter Dread. Unlike those...
View ArticleDanny Wolfers – Swan Song of the Skunkape Original Soundtrack (2015)
Formed late this year, Danny Wolfers’ Nightwind Records has proved an immediate outlet for the Dutch artist to slip out short run cassettes and low key digital releases under all new aliases like Saab...
View ArticleBasic Soul Unit – Under the Same Sky (2015)
Stuart Li, the man behind Basic Soul Unit, has been releasing tracks regularly for over a decade, only finally putting out a full release in 2012. His sophomore LP, Under the Same Sky, cements his...
View ArticleSPC ECO – Dark Matter (2015)
Dark Matter is the sixth full-length album by SPC ECO, a project centered around former Curve guitarist Dean Garcia and his daughter Rose Berlin, with contributions from numerous guest musicians. While...
View ArticleBruce Ditmas – Yellow Dust (2015)
As an artist whose name has become mutually synonymous with the instrument he plays Bruce Ditmas is a very unique heavy musician from one of those special tightknit communities that tried (and almost...
View ArticleLuke Haines – British Nuclear Bunkers (2015)
“This is an emergency broadcast from the BBC. Information of a possible nuclear strike against this country has been received.” Having spent much of his solo career excavating Britain’s recent past –...
View ArticleMamman Sani Abdoulaye – Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 (2015)
Experimentation in early electronic music in the Sahara from the singular Mamman Sani. Dreamy organs and droning melodies reinterpret ancient folk tradition into sublime fantastical soundscape. Never...
View ArticleSaffronKeira – Synecdoche (2015)
Exercising his artistic prerogative, Eugenio Caria’s elected to use literary and linguistic terms for a number of titles on his fourth SaffronKeira album, metonymy, syntagmatic, and synecdoche among...
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