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3tronik: Verwirrung
(VA: Now 04, Underscan)
France-based Fabien Florin creates a slithering underworld of writhing textures and synth gleam in Verwirrung. |
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Ammoncontact: Like This Feat. Lil Sci
(With Voices, Ninja Tune)
Carlos Nino and Fabian Ammon drop more fresh, LA-spiced hip-hop on their latest With Voices. |
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Dabrye: Encoded Flow
(Two/Three, Ghostly)
Tadd Mullinix's twenty-track, hour-long collection is a veritable manifesto for visionary experimental hip-hop. |
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Det Gamla Landet: Kiruna
(Det Gamla Landet, AA)
Swedish group Det Gamla Landet ('The Old Country') creates timeless folk music with banjo, guitar, melodica, organ, and drums. |
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James Figurine: 55566688833
(Mistake Mistake Mistake ... , Plug Research)
Jimmy Tamborello ruminates on modern-day miscommunication during the instrumentally glorious 555666888333. |
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Jasper Leyland: Margin
(Margin, Stray Dog Army)
Norwich-based Jonathan Brewster creates a richly detailed setting from zither sounds in Margin. |
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Like A Stuntman: Stan Places
(Stan Places, Highpoint Lowlife)
Like A Stuntman merges a mini-arsenal of old and new instruments with drawling vocals on its latest EP. |
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The Mandelbrot Set: And The Rockets Red Glare, Bombs Bust In Air
(All Our Actions Are ..., Highpoint Lowlife)
The Mandelbrot Set's music teems with noise, melody, and epic structure. |
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Sancho: We've Missed You
(Mystery Year, Seed)
Mystery Year is a rickety mix of out-of-tune pianos, rustic strings, glockenspiels, toy harps, and broken electronics. |
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Voxbox: Disco! Porno!
(Voxbox, Tonecard Sounds)
Disco! Porno! (this version a remix stemming from a live show) is a prime exemplar of Nevin Hersch's pulsating robot music. |
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Badawi: I Said Oblivion
(Safe, Asphodel)
Reuel 'Raz' Mesinai conjures the deep mysteries of the Middle East and Arabia on his Asphodel full-length Safe. |
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Jessica Bailiff: Lakeside Blues
(Feels Like Home, kranky)
The trippy folk mantras on Bailiff's fourth kranky album suggest a 1970s session recorded at a remote mountainside cabin. |
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Bitcrush: Post
(In Distance, n5MD)
The emotional intensity of Mike Cadoo's Bitcrush style is effectively captured by the ambient-post-rock-shoegaze amalgam Post. |
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DJ Olive: Sub Bass Commandante
(Heaps As, The Agriculture)
Downbeat dubtronica, hip hop, and futuristic roots music come together in DJ Olive's 'roof music' sound. |
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Enduser: Not So Distant Drums
(Bollywood Breaks, Ad Noiseam)
The opening cut from Cincinnati-based Lynn Standafer's blistering homage to the Bhangra music of the Hindi film industry. |
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Loess: Creshiem
(Wind and Water, n5MD)
Throughout Wind and Water, delicate tones rise and fall like breath tones, spurred on by gently clicking tribal patterns. |
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Megatrend: Modrificasious Lives
(Let The Trend Be Your Friend, Downstream)
Megatrend's metal machine music distills elements from dub, ambient, electro, hip-hop, glitch, and trance into urban soundscapes. |
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Posthuman: One of These Days
(The People's Republic, Seed)
The third Posthuman album from Rich Bevan and Josh Doherty inhabits a middle ground between electronic and post-rock genres. |
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Solenoid: July's War Butterflies
(Supernature, Orac)
David Chandler
moves decisively into acidy dance territory with Supernature, his premiere full-length for Orac. |
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Spanova: Absentminded
(History Is Bunk Part 2, Hefty)
The second installment in the Chicago label's History Is Bunk collection includes this new head-nodder by Shin and Ken Tasaki. |
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