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Rapoon – Song from the End of the World (2016)
Of course every Glacial Movements recording is by definition chilly, but that aspect is pushed to an even greater extreme on Robin Storey’s Rapoon outing. In certain moments bone-chilling winds howl...
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Jameszoo – Fool (2016)
Brainfeeder Records has always been on the cutting edge of experimental, post-modern jazz. Flying Lotus’ Cosmogramma is a modern classic, Thundercat’s The Golden Age of Apocalypse has some of the best...
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Marta Mist – Scavengers (2016)
Representing the first transmissions in a while from Leeds trio Marta Mist, Scavengers consists of two longform pieces, each just over twenty minutes. Taking stately repeated violin figures as a...
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Bill Converse – Meditations/Industry (2013, Reissue 2016)
Initially released as a 90-minute cassette in 2013 under the moniker WWC, Bill Converse‘s debut album was given an abridged vinyl issue by Dark Entries in 2016. Edited down from spontaneous jam...
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Cristian Vogel – Classics Remastered 1993-1998 (2016)
Cristian Vogel is a composer and music producer, known for his DJ sets and live performances as well as his studio composition and production (having worked with artists such as Radiohead, Maxïmo Park,...
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Africans with Mainframes – K.M.T. (2016)
Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being, returns for a new second album on Soul Jazz Records, after last year’s debut The Acid Documents, this time under the name Africans with Mainframes. Hieroglyphic...
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Jake Meginsky – Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes (2016)
When he’s not working under his moniker Vapor Gourds, Jake Meginsky crafts meticulously disorienting music under his own name. After last year’s brilliant Vandals on Open Mouth and Vapor Gourds’...
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Driftmachine – Colliding Contours (2016)
Driftmachine don’t play modular synths so much as perform exorcisms on them. The duo — consisting of Andreas Gerth and Florian Zimmer — build overwhelmingly anxious, even scary, atmospheres on their...
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Oneirogen – Plenitude EP (2015)
Oneirogen is the brainchild of Mario Diaz de Leon who once played guitar for the legendary metalcore act Disembodied. Under the banner of Oneirogen he plays hallucinating experimental music that ranges...
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Kit Wilmans Fegradoe – Issa (2015)
Considering that it’s the debut album by a composer who’s a mere twenty-three years old, Issa impresses as a preternaturally poised and mature work by Bristol-based Kit Wilmans Fegradoe. The concept...
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Jochen Arbeit, Günter Schickert & Schneider TM – ASS (2016)
Three Berlin-based avant-garde guitarists have teamed up for this album. Their names are Günter Schickert, Jochen Arbeit, and Dirk Dresselhaus. Dresselhaus has been recording under the moniker of...
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Lucy – Self Mythology (2016)
Since Luca Mortellaro established his Stroboscopic Artefacts label in late 2009 the Italian’s profile has become equally formidable as the heavyweight he spars with like Chris Liebing, Speedy J, Marcel...
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Ubre Blanca – The Sadist EP (2015)
Sinister, portentous, unsettling… From the artwork’s red skull to each isolated synth motif, the John Carpenter/Claudio Simonetti trappings of the Glasgow duo’s third EP The Sadist are as inescapable...
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Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld – Nerissimo (2016)
Nerissimo is the Italian superlative for black (ie. the blackest). So for the first and quite possibly the last time in the careers of Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld they’ve found their paths crossing...
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Young Magic – Still Life (2016)
Still Life, the third full-length by Brooklyn-based Young Magic, is easily the globally conscious dream pop group’s most personal statement to date. The album was inspired by lead songwriter and...
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Digitalism – Mirage (2016)
If Mirage looks like an Alan Parsons or Pink Floyd album from the ’70s mixed with a bit of Underworld’s usual minimalism, there’s good reason. This elaborate and excellent album borrows elements from...
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Mark Pritchard – Under the Sun (2016)
Discerning an aesthetic thread through the Mark Pritchard discography was tough in 1996. Twenty years later, forget it. Around 2013, he evidently tired of thinking up a new alias with each...
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Bayonne – Primitives (2016)
Though not the first album by experimental musician Roger Sellers, Primitives marks the debut of Bayonne, an alias for his more electronics-based songcraft. Rooted in techniques used in his solo live...
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New Order – Complete Music (2016)
Complete Music features extended mixes of all 11 tracks from 2015’s Music Complete. For a band of magnitude and history like New Order‘s the lines between “indie,” “dance” and “mainstream” always get...
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µ-Ziq – RY30 Trax (2016)
Planet Mu boss is releasing another album of archival µ-Ziq material on his label. The prolific Mike Paradinas unearthed another lost album from the ’90s, Aberystwyth Marine, back in February. This new...
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