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Dakim - 34 Fragments
CD - Senufo EditionsFrom the San Francisco Bay Area in California comes Dakim Saadiq, also known under the moniker Dak as an abstract hip-hop producer and lo-fi experimenter. In 34 Fragments, varying the sound quality of his sources, Saadiq subjects his audio captures – collected along the many branches ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic/digital . experimental
Mark McGuire - Get Lost
CD - Editions MegoThe acoustic and electric sequences of this new production written by Mike McGuire are immediately dreamy, circular and iterated. Sounds and reworks (mainly of guitar) are unraveled in gentle drones, hanging in the balance between new-age and post-rock experimentalism, cleverly deconstructed ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Francisco Lopez - Untitled # 275
CD - UnsoundsThis is the second release on Unsounds for Francisco López, a sound-artist who doesn't require much of an introduction in the international digital-electroacoustic experimentation enclave. The two tracks, respectively 22 and 25 minutes long, were recorded at the Amsterdam MuzyQ Studios between ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings
AAVV - Replace
CD - DegemDegem Concretist music, abstract and environmental, juxtaposed together with hardly classifiable research and field recordings: this is the substance - in short - of fourteen different authors selected and edited by Degem, a label that every year releases a German ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . free form
Gluid - Twee
CD - esc.recDutchman Bram Van Den Oever, better known as Gluid, has already published a first solo cdr-album on esc.rec. For his second release he collaborated with Paul De Jong and MiaMia. Now Van Den Oever is back solo and with "Twee" the immersive and multiform sequences gain a musicality even richer in ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental
Martin Tétreault + Le Quatuor De Tourne-Disques - Points, Lignes Avec Haut-Parleurs
CD - OralEven with its ultra-minimalist conceptualization, this collection of very abstract and harsh sound elaborations - made by manipulating turntables – manages to function as a kind of "symbolic scratching". Designed by Martin Tétreault and produced by Magali Babin, David Lafrance, Alexander ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . drone . experimental
Alexander Rishaug - Shadow Of Events
CD - Dekorder Recorded in Oslo between 2006 and 2010, then mixed in Berlin, "Shadow Of Events" is the third solo album by Alexander Rishaug, a sound-artist prone to the use of field recordings, modulated together with various electronic devices and both traditional and non-traditional instruments. The sound ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . electronica . experimental
Roel Funcken - Vade
CD - Ad Noiseam“Vade”, the debut album by Roel Funcken, one of two founders of the combo Funckarma, reflects many starts and contemporary electronic envelopes, connecting diverse trends and attitudes, in a melting pot of stylistic practices suspended between dubstep, IDM and several other club influences. Leveraging a twisted ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Loic Blairon - x\0
CD - w.m.o/rLoic Blairon proposes a postulate. He listens and thinks he has no ideas to make music, but that people, through listening, can hold reality. Loic Blairon, in a way, says no to music - and it could not be otherwise, with a "work" based only on scattered tolls every minute. This "no" - finally - precisely defines the unilateral relationship that the "author" seeks to stabilize within and through ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . experimental . microsound
v4w.enko - snd
mini-CDr - Electroton"Snd" is a sound project by v4w.enko, the moniker of the Ukrainian researcher whose real name is Evgen Vaschenko, a multifaceted artist involved with electronic sounds, video streams, and algorithm manipulation. Electroton emphasizes that a sequence of instructions can trigger a simple process, a set ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . electronica . experimental . noise
AAVV - Test Tone Anthology
3CD - MedamaTextures, rhythms and audio layers mix in this work, following the many forms of an experimental and abstract electronica, in the first of the three volumes of this series of "test tones". It's an anthology that draws inspiration from the music scene of the SuperDeluxe, in Tokyo, a club that represents the more ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . drone . experimental . microsound
Frank Rothkamm - Ghost Of New York
CD - RothkammusicThe first release of the planned series of three CDs and a DVD, "Tetralogy" by Frank Rothkamm starts with "Ghost Of New York", a spectral and detailed study of metropolitan poltergeist, a work in progress that since the beginning appears inspired by strong symbolic references, cryptic entities and energy ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Milosh - III
CD -!K7Gentle melodies and indietronic patterns are veined with a very insistent downtempo melancholy and crystal clear sounds in this finely modulated work by Milosh, a Canadian classical and jazz composer. This is his third release, emblematic in its sensitive junctions, embedded in a tenuous electronic music, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . ambient . experimental . noise . soundscapes
An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music
4CD - SubrosaEditor Li Ching Sung and Guy Marc Hinant have come together to produce this anthology of Chinese experimental music, which includes 48 different artists whose works are divided across four engaging CDs. Moving beyond the names that are already internationally known (the same Li Ching-sung - aka ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts
EVOL - Punani Rubberist
CD" - Evol/Entr'acteThe fifth work in the 'EVOL's Punani' series, this is a 300-copy limited edition, sealed in stylized silver-transparent envelopes, including a CD and a booklet in the shape of a leaflet, along with individual black and white photo cards. The free form sound of the first track is "cut" and extremely inconstant, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Heribert Friedl - Recherche
CD - NonvisualobjectsThe hackbrett - or cimbalom - is a chordophone, trapezoidal in shape, with 90 to 125 metal strings. The bass strings are arranged in groups of 3 which are tuned in unison and are copper over-spun. The strings are stretched in an order that allows different groups to overtop the others on each side ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . glitch'n'cuts
AAVV - Feeding The Transmitter
CD -amp bit"Feeding The Transmitter" collects artists with backgrounds in ambient, electronic and glitch who share an interest in contemporary and experimental attitudes. The work is focused on very unusual rhythmic structures and click-n-bleep textures, often "stuffed" with samples and field recordings. Michael Santos, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . ambient . drone . electronica . soundscapes
Dj Olive - Triage
CD - Room 40A long time has passed since some non-mainstream scenes started talking about 'illbient', a word coined - in fact - by DJ Olive that better defined and promoted, during the early 90s, the new production trends in ambient music. Very rarefied sound passages, lying somewhere between hip hop ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . microsound . minimal
Richard Garet - L'Avenir
CD - Winds MeasureAfter opening the stylish white rectangular cardboard box, reading a subtle quotation - in English - from the philosopher Jacques Derrida about the difference - in his opinion - between 'the future' and 'l'avenir', there are many puzzling minutes of almost silence. Only by raising the volume of our sound ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . experimental . microsound . minimal
Shinkei & Fourm - Hidamari / Metrics
Cdr 3" - White Line EditionsA collaborative project; the result of similar intentions and musical strategies. Fourm and Shinkei both submit respective compositions to this work - two individual tracks of just over ten minutes, which are published on a mini-cdr, with an elegant artwork design in translucent paper and printed ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Goh Lee Kwang - Draw Sound
Cd 3" - Herbal InternationalIn a very atypical manner, this work magnifies a euro cent to the size of a CD 3”, before attaching it to a sophisticated booklet of nervous pencil sketches by the same author. There have been as many as 98 combinations of launches of the above mention coin, a fact reflected in the 98 micro-tracks on this ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . electronica . funk
Daniel Mercellus Givens - Egress
CD - AestheticsSuspended between dub and restless electronica, with flashes of jazz and spoken word, this new album by Daniel Mercellus Givens dispenses a handful of groove experiments following a 'black' and postmodern rhythmic tradition. Destructured sounds, full of cuts, jumps and narrative hyperboles ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . deep . electronic dance . minimal techno
Various Artists/ Klang Elektronik - Diamanten Und Raketen II
CD - Klang ElektronikThis is a selection made by Alter Ego's Roman Flugel based on the Klang Elektronik catalogue. The album consists of tracks which are not mixed, but often almost ‘juxtaposed’ in the search for a continuum – perhaps a questionable trick in terms of intrinsic consistency. All the productions included ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . glitch'n'cuts
He Can Jog - Middlemarch
CD - AudiobulbWith the anagrammatized moniker 'He Can Jog', sound artist Erik Schoster pays tribute to John Cage, master and seminal experimenter. Cage remains an essential point of reference, especially for those who still wonder about the complex compositional structures in contemporary music. It's not by chance, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . electronica . soundscapes
Men In Speedos - At A Kalamazoo Near You
CD - Red LabelRed Records is a label that has been based in Belfast since 1998. It is characterized by eclectic music expression, and was founded by Gawain Morrison and Shane McCourt - the embryonic nucleus of Men In Speedos – who where later joined by Derek Jones. Twinkle Fingers, Uberbeard and Chooch (their ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Brandon LaBelle - Dirty Ear
CD - Errant BodiesField recordings, very atypical sounds and effects, envelopes unraveled in a series of documentary micro-narrations, carefully divided into different settings and limited spaces. The nine "Dirty Ear" tracks can be seen as a hypothetical prototype of studies on mobility and broadcasting, harking back to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Martin Neukom - Studie 18
DVD - DomizilIn "Studie 18", a work by Martin Neukom, series of sounds are constructed in a regular pattern through space and parametric sound space. There are simple rules that generate the various pitches, frequency spectra, time and location of individual sounds. Although simple, these rules allow structure to emerge ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . drone . experimental . laptop . microsound
Machinefabriek - Mort Aux Vaches
CD - Mort Aux VachesVery dilated and ethereal atmospheres, micro-sonorities, "urgent" improvisations and thorny textures. Then, melodic snippets, drones, harsh and distorted sequences. Rutger Zuydervelt, aka Machinefabriek (a moniker that would mislead if associated with industrial attitudes) structures three long suites in this ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . free form . noise
Erratum #4. Sound Review. Noise + Art + Poetry
3 CD - ErratumAn anthological release, yet still very interesting, “Erratum # 4. Sound Review. Noise + Art + Poetry” was edited by the homonymous transalpine magazine and was compiled by Joachim Montessuis. This three-disc compilation brings together a consistent set of abstract and experimental sequences, which ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . industrial . noise
COH aka Ivan Pavlov + Cosey Fanni Tutti - COH Plays Cosey
CD - Raster-NotonIt remains surprising to recognize in this album booklet Christine Carol Newby, aka Cosey Fanni Tutti, in the clothes of a very stiff contemporary English gentlewoman, being embraced by the 'youngster' Ivan Pavlov. Although it seems ages since Throbbling Gristle and those vehement sessions of post-punk ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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@C - Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom
CD - CronicaThis atypical album is divided into four tracks of unusual and disparate lengths - the first lasts more than twenty minutes, the second and third are less than two minutes long, and the last stretches out to more than forty minutes. 'Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom' by Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . free form . impro . laptop
Yuta Segawa - Motiondecomposition
CD - Cnc RecordGuitar improvisations, sensitive and cyclical, which were recorded during a special event at the Sendai's "Dotmov Festival", and subsequently edited. The flow is a very contemporary harmony of chips and used interfaces: common musical instruments as flutes, horns, and harps at madrigal time. It is really not the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . electronica . experimental . techno
Fenin - Been Through
CD - ShitkatapultSurround dub atmospheres, "retrofuturistic" influences (especially noticeable in "Breakin", mimicking the typical style of "Popcorn" seminal proto-electronic hit) articulated in dense grooves. Techno sequences hybridized with reggae-roots tradition, linking the classic "toasting" with the new rhythmic modernity ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . deep . electronica . glitch'n'cuts . house
Various Artists - Now
CD - UnderscanThis is an interesting compilation by Underscan Recordings, a Berlinese label founded by the productive Ralph Pytlik and Markward Wagner, and it's the first release of the 'Now' series that connects a truly wide soundscape, with very fuzzy experiments spanning the different subgenres which converge towards ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Scorn - Stealth
CD - Ad NoiseamGloomy bases, vibrant drones and sharp beats, faithful to his own electronic imprinting, Mike Harris, five years after his latest studio album, is back with the Scorn moniker, calibrating obscure downtempo rhythms, oppressive and industrial sounds which deeply remodel the cornerstones of dub. Purged from ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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CD - Senufo Editions
CD - Editions Mego
CD - Unsounds
CD - Degem
CD - esc.rec
CD - Oral
CD - Dekorder
CD - Ad Noiseam
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