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Jega – 1995 (2016)
Well revered by the electronica faithful and named as an influence on Radiohead’s Kid A album, Mancunian Dylan Nathan aka Jega has released only three albums since 1998, and nothing had been put on the...
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Kristoffer Lo – The Black Meat (2016)
Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Kristoffer Lo keeps moving, in recent years, between different genres. He is a member of the successful art-rock group Highasakite (where he doubles as a guitarist and...
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Tangerine Dream – The Official Bootleg Series Volume Two: Palais des Congrès...
Part Two of Tangerine Dream’s remastering and reissuing choice live concerts rolls on, and this latest set picks up nicely where Part One left off. For this outing, the two shows follow chronologically...
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Caroline K – Now Wait for Last Year (1987, Remastered 2015)
Caroline Kaye Walters was a pioneer of minimal synth music starting in the late ’70s. She played alongside Nigel Ayers in cult act Nocturnal Emissions and founded Sterile Records, which released music...
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Fingers Inc. – Another Side (1988, Remastered 2015)
Larry Heard’s productions remain the gold standard for dance music and Another Side, his sterling 1988 collaboration with vocalists Robert Owens and Ron Wilson, is no exception. For all the...
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Audion – Alpha (2016)
Alpha is only the second proper full-length by Audion, the pseudonym Matthew Dear has reserved for his harder-edged, club-focused techno tracks since 2004. He’s released an enormous amount of Audion...
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Imaginary Softwoods – Annual Flowers in Color (2016)
Former Emeralds member John Elliott release new solo album under his Imaginary Softwoods alias. Annual Flowers in Color is comprised of demos and unreleased works made between 2011 to 2015, covering...
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[MIIIIM] – [MIIIIM] (2015)
Earlier this year, we were thoroughly impressed by Mansfield Reformatory, an EP issued on the Norwegian label Sparkwood Records by Ohio-based Michael Iannone under the [MIIIIM] name, but if anything...
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Cyril Secq & Orla Wren – Branches (2016)
Branches is a record that sways as it plays, and as it advances the music is slightly buffeted by elements beyond the melody’s control. The repeating guitar-shaped melodies have strong roots, and that...
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Weval – Weval (2016)
Weval are a young Amsterdam duo who feel as much like a product of the Kompakt music scene as an addition to it. After putting out the bright and lush debut EP Half Age on Amsterdam-based electronic...
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Dan Lissvik – Midnight (2016)
As half of the group Studio, a producer for bands like Young Galaxy, and a prolific remixer, Dan Lissvik has been a behind-the-scenes force for many years, creating a warm-hearted, sunkissed sound...
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Samaris – Black Lights (2016)
Black Lights was written and recorded separately over the course of a year with the band split across three different countries – Þórður Kári Steinþórsson jumped into Berlin’s techno scene, Áslaug Rún...
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Disclosure – Moog for Love EP (2016)
The British electronic duo Disclosure have been relatively quiet since the release of last year’s Caracal, an album that didn’t quite set the world alight as most of us had expected it to, but was a...
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VA – Structures and Solutions: 1996-2016 (2016)
Long-running UK techno label Blueprint is celebrating 20 years with a compilation of unreleased tracks from some of techno’s biggest and most influential names. Titled Structures and Solutions: 1996 –...
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Trevino – Front (2016)
Knowing that the Mancunian behind the muffled four-on-the-floor-inspired house and techno personality Trevino, Marcus Intalex, is a sideline golf enthusiast allows us to join the dots far more easily...
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Odonis Odonis – Post Plague (2016)
On their early albums and EPs, Odonis Odonis‘ shape-shifting combinations of sounds meant they could sound like a completely different band from one song to the next. Usually, this was a feature, not a...
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Peter Baumann – Machines of Desire (2016)
Peter Baumann, former Tangerine Dream member and founder of New Age label Private Music, returned from musical retirement in 2016 with Machines of Desire, his first full-length in over 3 decades. The...
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Bassnectar – Unlimited (2016)
Bassnectar‘s twelfth studio album Unlimited spans 15 tracks, of which over half are collaborations with artists including G. Jones, The Glitch Mob, Hailo, Gnar Gnar, Luzcid, and Levitate, the latter...
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Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space / Remixes (2016)
Albums of remixes or reimaginations of tracks featured on albums which have already found some success always strike me as a tricky business. Difficult to make into coherent freestanding collections...
View ArticleSarah Davachi – Dominions (2016)
Sarah Davachi has a thing for antiquity. The composer and multi-instrumentalist makes extensive use of electronics that went out of production before she was born, such as the Buchla synthesizer and,...
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