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Publication of the October issue enables textura subscribers to win CD copies of a number of exceptional Experimedia releases: Jeremy Bible's I Am Very Uncomfortable Most of the Time; Vector and Shpwrck by Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry; Asymmetrical Head's Feeling Sorry for Inanimate Objects; Illusion of Safety'sThe Need to Now; and Koen Park's Everything in Shadow.

Chaz Knapp's Vie comme un Parasite Faisant la fete (Phantom Channel); findlay_hunter_rennie: s/t (Concrete Moniker); Ran Slavin's Nocturnal Rainbow Rising (Crónica)

NOVEMBER 2008, NO. 50

Articles
2008 Ten Favourite Labels
Ten Questions with Celer
Ten Questions with Deadbeat

Albums
Anzio Green: Autumn Honey (Symbolic Interaction)
Ariel Abshire: Exclamation Love (Darla)
Osman Arabi: Burning Sigils (FracturedSpaces)
Arastoo & AEMAE: Ostrakon (Isounderscore)
Asymmetrical Head: Feeling Sorry for Inanimate Objects (Experimedia)
Benoît Pioulard: Temper (kranky)
Bohren & der Club of Gore: Dolores (Ipecac)
Matt Borghi: December Impressions (Hypnos Secret Sounds)
Cubenx: The Cold Swells (Static Discos)
Anders Dahl: Doorbells (Bombax Bombax)
Greg Davis & Sébastian Roux: Merveilles (Ahornfelder)
Deadbeat: Roots and Wire (Wagon Repair)
Feu Follet: Paradis Paysan (Gruenrekorder)
Formication: Ghosts (Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium) (Harmful)
Generic: Torture (FracturedSpaces)
Stefan Goldmann: The Transitory State / Voices of the Dead (Macro)
Gultskra Artikler / Lanterns: Berezka / Monkey Lament (Other Electricities)
Hauschka: Ferndorf (FatCat)
Hexes & Ohs: Bedroom Madness (Noise Factory)
Koen Holtkamp: Field Rituals (Type)
I Am Robot And Proud: Uphill City (Darla)
Illusion of Safety: The Need to Now (Experimedia)
Integral: Rise (Tympanik Audio)
Koen Park: Everything in Shadow (Experimedia)
Akira Kosemura: Tiny Musical (Schole)
Koushik: Out My Window (Stones Throw)
Library Tapes: A Summer Beneath the Trees (Make Mine Music)
Lineland: Logos For Love (Audio Dregs)
Mamiffer: Hirror Enniffer (Hydra Head)
Melodium: Cerebro Spin (Audio Dregs)
Melodium: My Mind is Falling to Pieces (Arbouse)
Moon: Tales of Long Dead Ladies (Interregnum)
Oppressed By The Line: Soft Focus (Drifting Falling)
Pillars and Tongues: Protection (Contraphonic)
Rumpistol: Dynamo (Rump)
Kamran Sadeghi: Through Thickness (Dragon's Eye)
Sans Serif: Tones for LaMonte (Hypnos Secret Sounds)
Signal Deluxe: Motyl (Abolipop)
Skogen: Skogen (Bombax Bombax)
Saul Stokes: Villa Galaxia (Hypnos / Binary)
Matthew Sweet: Sunshine Lies (Shout! Factory)
Tapage: The Institute of Random Events (Tympanik Audio)
Thursday / Envy: Split (Temporary Residence)
Windy & Carl: Songs for the Broken Hearted (kranky)

Compilations / Mixes
Kuniyuki: Kuniyuki Remixed (Mule Musiq)
VA: An Taobh Tuathail Volume II (Psychonavigation)
VA: Chaos Restored 2, Mixed and Messed With by Justin Martin (Buzzin' Fly)
VA: DFPRMX (Concrete Plastic)
VA: Message from a Subatomic World (Hypnos)
VA: Pero es olor en el cuarto del piano fue el primer ... (Si No Puedo Bailar, No Es Mi Revolución)

EPs
Canyons!: Trapdoor / Diamonds 3" (hellosQuare)
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: Landscape in Metamorphoses (Gruenrekorder)
Cubenx: Can't Throw A Stone (InFiné)
Dokuro: The Black Room (Aphonia)
Fraction: Superstition (InFiné)
Lee Holman: Travelling (Mowar)
Ikonika: Millie / Direct (Hyperdub)
King Midas Sound: Cool Out / One Ting (Dabrye rmx) / Lost (Flying Lotus rmx)(Hyperdub)
Michael Lambright: Allumwandlung (Michael Lambright)
Library Tapes: Fragment (Kning Disk)
Lilienweiss: Seasons (Octoberman)
MRK1: Get Out Clause / Infection (Earwax)
:papercutz: Ultravioleta rmx's (Apeginine)
Spencer Parker: Chiho (Buzzin' Fly)
Poratz: 28.50 (Electroton)
Spartak + John Chantler: Split 3" (hellosQuare)
Andy Vaz: Different Times (Yore)
Andy Vaz featuring Alton Miller: Different Hours Revisited (Yore (Japan))

DECEMBER 2008, NO. 51

Article
Backtracking with orchestramaxfieldparrish

Albums
Alva Noto: Unitxt (Raster-Noton)
Amplifier Machine: Her Mouth is an Outlaw (12k)
The Antripodean Collective: Funcall (Extreme)
A Setting Sun: Empty Sound (Moodgadget)
Pierre Bastien: Visions of Doing (Western Vinyl)
Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry: Vryashn (Gears of Sand)
Byetone: The Death of a Typographer (Raster-Noton)
Celer: Discourses of the Withered (Infraction)
Celer: The Everything and the Nothing (Infraction)
Celer: I Love You So Much I Can't Even Title This (Self-released)
Celer: Nacreous Clouds (and/OAR)
Chartreuse: No More Paths to Sounder Sleep (Thor's Rubber Hammer)
Milton Cross: Light in the West (Digitalis)
dot tape dot: Repainted (spa.RK)
EOC: Information Warfare (Ai Records)
Erstlaub: I Am The Line Drawn In The Sand Between The Living And The Dead (Highpoint Lowlife)
The Foreign Exchange: Leave It All Behind (Hard Boiled)
Gods Of Electricity: Sundiving (Faith Strange)
Gregory And The Hawk: Moenie And Kitchi (FatCat)
Robin Guthrie: 3:19 Bande Originale Du Film (Darla)
Helios: Caesura (Type)
Ezekiel Honig: Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band (Anticipate)
Ryoji Ikeda: Test Pattern (Raster-Noton)
Kontakte: Soundtracks to Lost Road Movies (Drifting Falling)
Luomo: Convivial (Huume)
Menahan Street Band: Make the Road By Walking (Daptone/Dunham)
Motorcitysoul: Technique (Simple Records)
Lisa Nordström: 7 States of Passion (Kning Disk)
The Postmarks: By-The-Numbers (Unfiltered)
Jonas Reinhardt: Jonas Reinhardt (kranky)
Sasse: Toinen (Moodmusic)
Terminal Sound System: Constructing Towers (Extreme)
Robert Scott Thompson: Frozen Light (Aucourant)
Kemialliset Ystävät / Sunroof!: Split #19 (FatCat)

Compilations / Mixes
Matthew Dear: Body Language 7 (Get Physical)
VA: Basswerk Sessions Vol. 3 (Basswerk)
VA: Cosmic Balearic beats Vol. 1 (Eskimo)
VA: Saturday, I'm In Love (Diynamic)
VA: What We Did & What We Do (Mixed by Oliver Koletzki & Florian Meindl) (Stil Vor Talent)

EPs
The Bug: Ganja / Flying (Ninja Tune)
Jimmy Edgar: Nothing is Better (Moodgadget)
D. Gookin: When You're Lonely Everybody's A Celebrity (Moodgadget)
Hearin' Aid Presents D-Frost Beats: //dATA-BWoY (Eat Concrete)
Le Technique: Le Technique (Moodgadget)
Mr. Messiah: The Dublab 7-inch (Automation)
Nudge: Infinity Padlock (Audraglint)
Pendle Coven: Iamnoman EP (Modern Love)
VA: Vacant Passages Volume 1 (Drifting Falling)
Ben Watt: Guinea Pig (Buzzin' Fly)

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