Metronomy – Summer 08 [Japan Edition] (2016)
Despite their impressive ascent to mainstream success in the UK with their last couple of albums, it appears that success isn’t such a big concern for Metronomy‘s frontman/founder Joe Mount. Now a...
View ArticleSteven Julien – Fallen (2016)
Listening to the likes of Kenny Dixon Jr and Larry Heard, it’s easy to think that they didn’t set out to write house tracks, but that their music fits into the larger continuum of black music and just...
View ArticleVince Clarke & Paul Hartnoll – 2Square (2016)
To say someone’s reputation goes before them is a phrase that can be used freely with the partnership of Vince Clarke and Paul Hartnoll. Clarke, the pop genius has been a powerhouse behind Depeche...
View ArticleNorthumbria – Helluland (2015)
On previous releases, Ontario-based duo Jim Field (guitar) and Dorian Williamson (bass) presented an oft-massive attack that was so huge it threatened to engulf the listener. By comparison, Helluland...
View ArticleCabaret Contemporain – Moondog (2015)
French band Cabaret Contemporain invites the two swedish singers Linda Olah and Isabel Sörling to give a tribute to the composer Louis Thomas Hardin, better known as Moondog. The seven musicians are...
View ArticleMarcus Whale – Inland Sea (2016)
Marcus Whale has made an impressive artistic statement with his debut solo album. The bulk of the Sydney vocalist and producer’s catalogue covers his work in local groups Collarbones (with Travis Cook)...
View ArticleJherek Bischoff – Cistern (2016)
With well over a decade as a multi-instrumentalist sideman, arranger, producer, and songwriter/ composer under his belt, Jherek Bischoff follows his acclaimed solo breakthrough, Composed, with Cistern....
View ArticleMSTRKRFT – Operator (2016)
MSTRKRFT‘s third outing is a U-turn to back to their 2006 debut, The Looks. On Operator, the Canadian duo of Jesse F. Keeler and Alex “Al-P” Puodziukas ditch the booming Justice-lite of their sophomore...
View ArticleJamie Isaac – Couch Baby (2016)
Recently, Archy Marshall (aka King Krule) and Loyle Carner have started a trend of former BRIT School attendees stepping into the limelight and shrugging off their alma mata’s reputation for producing...
View ArticleCicada – Farewell (2016)
Farewell is early works of Taiwanese female fronted chamber ensemble Cicada who played with Olafur Arnalds, Rachel Grimes, Balmorhea. Farewell described how someone who went through the cycle of a...
View ArticleCicada – Ocean (2015)
Cicada‘s Ocean arrives accompanied by a blurb from Rachel Grimes, a not insignificant detail considering that she was formerly a member of Rachel’s and now releases quality neo-classical music under...
View ArticleHONNE – Warm On a Cold Night [Deluxe] (2016)
Smoldering synths? Check. Enticing velveteen vocals? Check. Promise to bring sexy back and/or create electronic music with a soul? Check. And there you have the essence of HONNE, well, not just HONNE,...
View ArticleS Olbricht – For Perfect Beings (2016)
The past few years have seen a steady stream of under-the-radar electronic output coming from Farbwechsel, a label based in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. One of the collective’s most prolific...
View ArticleNite-Funk – Nite-Funk EP (2016)
When combined, Nite Jewel and Dâm-Funk can arguably be considered a supergroup, as both artists have forged their own solid paths in the underbelly of the electronic music scene. It was only a matter...
View ArticleJohn Roberts – Plum (2016)
In a dance-music scene that regularly churns through phenoms and fads, John Roberts exists as almost a meditative presence. He was once one of those phenoms himself: his 2010 debut, Glass Eights, on...
View ArticleKlaus Schulze’s U.S.O. – Privée (2016)
Klaus Schulze‘s U.S.O.Privée originally was released 2000 as part of the strictly limited and long exhausted (wooden) boxset Contemporary Works. U.S.O. are Razoof Lear aka Uwe Lehr, Klaus Schulze and...
View ArticleHarmonia – Musik Von Harmonia (1974, Remastered 2015)
The debut Harmonia album is at once a product of their source bands and a fine new twist on them, resulting in music that captures what for many is the Krautrock ideal, or more accurately, the motorik...
View ArticleEric Feremans – The Antwerp Killer (1983, Remastered 2015)
One of the rarest vinyl horror soundtracks of all time, 1983’s The Antwerp Killer consists of remarkable homemade electronic experiments created by a wunderkind synth designer for a smart-talking...
View ArticlePan Sonic – Atomin Paluu (2016)
Influential Finnish experimental electronic duo Pan Sonic (Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen) officially dis- banded at the end of 2009, but several recordings from their final years have surfaced since...
View ArticleHype Williams – 10 / 10 (2016)
Hype Williams — the eternally mysterious outfit that gave us Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland — has returned with a new album. Titled 10 / 10, the album was uploaded without notice to Bandcamp with no...
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