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Dubcon – Martian Dub Beacon (2016)
Dubcon is the symbiotic project between long-time collaborators cEvin Key (Download, Skinny Puppy, PlatEAU) and Ryan Moore, a former member of The Legendary Pink Dots, who nowadays is an acclaimed dub...
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Autechre – AE_LIVE (2015)
Electronic duo Autechre have outdone themselves, quantity-wise. Known for both their generous output as well as their radically abstract approach to the glitch sect of electronic music, Sean Booth and...
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Takahiro Kawaguchi & Utah Kawasaki – Amorphous Spores (2015)
Before listening to Takahiro Kawaguchi and Utah Kawasaki’s Amorphous Spores, one first experiences Hirozumi Takeda’s beautiful design for the album. The photographs that adorn the packaging are...
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Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante – The North Green Down [Limited Edition] (2016)
Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante first issued “The North Green Down” in early 2011 on the Lidar label, who pressed to a limited-edition CD that quickly sold out. Bolstered by a previously unreleased...
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Tim Hecker – Love Streams (2016)
After a year that saw, heard and, uh, smelled Tim Hecker working on a variety of projects like the score to The Free World and his perfume-oriented project “Ephemera,” the Canadian electronic musician...
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Massive Attack – Ritual Spirit EP (2016)
Last week, Massive Attack launched an iPhone app called Fantom which contained snippets of four songs. They’ve now released Ritual Spirit, an EP containing all four tracks, on Virgin/EMI. Fellow West...
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nonkeen – the gamble (2016)
There aren’t very many bands that can claim that they started in primary school and still maintain their original line-up, but nonkeen are one of the few that can. Nils Frahm, Frederic Gmeiner and...
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Surgeon – From Farthest Known Objects (2016)
The UK producer Anthony Child, better known as Surgeon, traffics in toughness. He’s long represented one of the most forbidding corners of the techno scene; just consider the name of his turbulent duo...
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Pierre Bastien – Blue As an Orange (2016)
Rabih Beaini’s boundless Morphine Records present a brilliantly unexpected album from mechanical music maven Pierre Bastien, his first since the last of three LPs for Rephlex in 2012. Active since the...
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VA – Brawther & Alixkun Present: Once Upon a Time in Japan (2015)
The sound of Japan’s early house music scene has only reached the Western hemisphere in the last few years. Even then, we only catch it in glimpses: An RBMA Radio show dedicated to pioneers like...
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Dag Rosenqvist – The Forest Diaries (2015)
A low hood of mist descends over The Forest Diaries. It’s an atmospheric place, shrouded in tonally-dense flora and lightly touched by the fresh dew of the morning. Loose moss clings to the side of a...
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Daniel Wohl – Holographic (2016)
Daniel Wohl is a gifted alchemist in sound. His new album, Holographic, seems like the product of some wild-eyed professor mixing up aural compounds in a laboratory. The vast catalog of sounds Wohl has...
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Kenneth Kirschner – Compressions & Rarefactions (2015)
Compressions & Rarefactions is the fourth solo release on 12k from New Yorker Kenneth Kirschner, who is widely known for epic-length compositions that challenge the forms of modern composition. The...
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Robert Scott Thompson – Pale Blue Dot (2015)
Pale Blue Dot is electronic musician Robert Scott Thompson‘s esteemed debut for Anodize. Recorded at the Resonance Observatory in Atlanta, Georgia in 2015, the seventy-eight-minute collection offers a...
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Woo – Awaawaa (2016)
The brother duo of Woo describes an alternate history of rock music, had it winced at the bright lights of the stage, eschewed the spotlight’s elevation of the masculine and all it’s attendant human...
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Ecovillage – Jesus of Nazareth (2015)
For centuries classical composers have written works inspired by religion; while the practice is no longer as prevalent as it once was, there remain contemporary composers (Arvo Pärt and John Tavener...
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Autistici & Justin Varis – nine (2016)
When they’re successful, collaborations catalyze the contributions of each participant into something greater than might have produced by the artist alone. Those involved surrender some degree of...
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Irezumi – Thirty (2016)
Thirty comes with a dedication to Irezumi‘s late brother, and without wanting to fixate too much on the detail it does perhaps account for the album’s oft-hymnal tone. It’s an exceptionally lovely...
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Capac – Sea Freeze (2015)
Naming their debut album Sea Freeze was a good move, because it seems as though it took quite a while for UK-based electronic collective Capac to thaw out. The quartet have spent most of their career...
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A Pleasure – Jream House + Remixes (2015)
The debut album by New York producer Mark Hurst, aka A Pleasure, was made using “a process of numerical transposition” to turn the names of some of his favorite composers and groups into drum patterns....
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