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Die Wilde Jagd – Die Wilde Jagd (2015)
While Bureau B is best known for keeping Krautrock icons like Cluster and Faust alive, the Hamburg- based label signs its fair share of new artists as well. Die Wilde Jagd is one recent example that...
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John Atkinson – Asasin în Lege (2015)
Though Aa (Big A little a) member John Atkinson created Asasin în Lege (Killers Inc. in the English-language version) as an instrumental soundtrack for an investigative documentary about organized...
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Ytamo – Mi Wo (2016)
…After hearing the pianist perform in Japan ten years ago Lawrence English knew he found something special in the Japanese artist, and with his self-proclaimed “avant pop” label Someone Good back in...
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VA – Larry Levan: Genius of Time (2016)
It’s the norm now, but at the birth of modern dance music in the ’70s, DJs, producers and remixers were rarely the same person. As influential as his Loft parties were, you’d be hard-pressed to find a...
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Flabaire – It’s Just a Silly Phase I’m Going Through (2016)
Parisian DJ and producer Ralph Maruani’s debut album as Flabaire, It’s Just a Silly Phase I’m Going Through, is house music at its core, but it’s got an experimental edge that transcends the genre....
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Mueller & Roedelius – Imagori (2015)
Music continues to pour out of krautrock figurehead Hans-Joachim Roedelius, who, at 80, shows no sign of pulling back from his work anytime soon. Still, Imagori comes at a difficult time for him,...
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Radioson –радиосон (2015)
This latest release from the always provocative Helen Scarsdale Agency engages on multiple levels, though a brief history lesson is necessary for one to gain a better appreciation of Radioson‘s...
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AJ Cornell & Tim Darcy – Too Significant to Ignore (2016)
It would be very reductive to call Too Significant to Ignore, an electronic spoken word album, though, de facto, this description would be true and fitting. From the very beginning, it’s obvious that...
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Orson Hentschel – Feed the Tape (2016)
Düsseldorf-based experimental composer Orson Hentschel openly acknowledges the influence of classical minimalism and Steve Reich in particular on his debut album Feed the Tape. Yet while that might be...
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Moderat – III [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
What, exactly, traumatized Moderat so badly during their first recording sessions that they named their 2003 EP the German equivalent of “At the Cost of Health,” and then took six years to follow it...
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS (2016)
Composer, performer, and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith‘s new album EARS is an immersive listening experience in which dizzying swirls of organic and synthesized sounds work together to create a sense...
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Three Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling (2016)
…If you try and play both the electronic and rock sides of the instrumental landscape then you end up putting yourself on the same page as luminaries like Pink Floyd and Radiohead. Yet Three Trapped...
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The Field – The Follower (2016)
The Field‘s fourth record, Cupid’s Head, was the first to come packaged in black instead of cream-coloured album art. The change heralded a similar progression in Axel Willner’s music: much of the...
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Leon Vynehall – Rojus (Designed to Dance) (2016)
Following the word-of-mouth success of Leon Vynehall‘s joyous 2014 debut LP, Music for the Uninvited, the British house producer returned with an equally triumphant sophomore full-length in 2016. Rojus...
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Com Truise – Silicon Tare EP (2016)
New Jersey’s Seth Haley sci-fi synth aficionado has returned with a five-track prelude to the last chapter of his Com Truise odyssey, Silicon Tare. The EP forms the third part of his sci-fi concept,...
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Starwalker – Starwalker (2016)
Starwalker‘s self-titled debut lives up to the promise of the Losers Can Win EP, as well as its members’ CVs. It’s no surprise that a collaboration between Air’s Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Bang Gang’s...
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Bibio – A Mineral Love (2016)
Bibio’s Stephen Wilkinson is no stranger to revisiting and updating the past on his albums, whether it’s the history of music in general or just his own. On Silver Wilkinson, he returned to the...
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Sasha – Late Night Tales Presents Sasha: Scene Delete (2016)
Seeing the words Sasha and LateNightTales (a label famous for its compilations and mixes) together, it’s easy to jump to conclusions; namely, that Scene Delete is a mix full of dusty trance bangers...
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Ash Koosha – I AKA I (2016)
Following the critical success of his 2015 debut GUUD, Iranian sonic experimenter Ash Koosha moved to Ninja Tune for the release of 2016 follow-up I AKA I. A software designer who works with virtual...
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VA – Larry Levan: Genius of Time (2016)
It’s the norm now, but at the birth of modern dance music in the ’70s, DJs, producers and remixers were rarely the same person. As influential as his Loft parties were, you’d be hard-pressed to find a...
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