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Dakim - 34 Fragments

Dakim, 34 Fragments, Dak, Senufo Editions, abstract hip hop, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), field recording, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta, Dakim---34-Fragments.jpgCD - Senufo Editions
From 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 ]


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Mark McGuire - Get Lost

Mark McGuire, Get Lost, Editions Mego, experimental, audio art, contemporary music, digital, art, Aurelio Cianciotta, Mark-McGuire---Get-Lost.jpg CD - Editions Mego
The 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 ]


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Francisco Lopez - Untitled # 275

Francisco Lopez, Untitled # 275, experimental, audio art, contemporary music, digital, art, Aurelio Cianciotta, Francisco-Lopez---Untitled.jpgCD - Unsounds
This 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 ]


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AAVV - Replace

AAVV, Replace, Degem, experimental, audio art, contemporary music, digital, art, Aurelio Cianciotta, AAVV---Replace.jpgCD - Degem
Degem
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 ]


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Gluid - Twee

Gluid, Twee, esc.rec, Paul De Jong, MiaMia, texture, audio art, free form, field recordings, psichedelia, digital, experimental, abstract, Aurelio Cianciotta, Gluid---Twee.jpgCD - esc.rec
Dutchman 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 ]


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Martin Tétreault + Le Quatuor De Tourne-Disques - Points, Lignes Avec Haut-Parleurs

Martin Tétreault, Le Quatuor De Tourne-Disques, Points, Lignes Avec Haut-Parleurs, Oral, Magali Babin, David Lafrance, Alexander MacSween, Nancy Tobin,  scratching, Bernard Falaise, Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide, experimental, audio art,  Aurelio Cianciotta, Martin-Tetreault.jpgCD - Oral
Even 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 ]


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Alexander Rishaug - Shadow Of Events

Alexander Rishaug, Shadow Of Events, Dekorder, electronic, abstract, drone, experimental, Neural,  Aurelio Cianciotta, Alexander-Rishaug---Shadow-Of-Events.jpgCD - 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 ]


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Roel Funcken - Vade

Roel Funcken, Vade, Ad Noiseam, abstract, experimental, electronica, dubby, breaks, wonky, glitch, beats, electro, dubstep, IDM, clubbing, music, Aurelio Cianciotta, RoelFuncken_Vade.jpgCD - 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 ]


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Loic Blairon - x\0

Loic Blairon,  x\0, w.m.o/r, Mattin, Cage, abstract, audio art, experimental, Aurelio Cianciotta, LoicBlairon_x0.jpgCD - w.m.o/r
Loic 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 ]


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v4w.enko - snd

v4w.enko, snd, Electroton, mini-CDr, Limited Edition, Abstract, Experimental, microsounds,  Evgen Vaschenko, audio-art, Aurelio Cianciotta, v4wEnko_snd.jpgmini-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 ]


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AAVV - Test Tone Anthology

AAVV, Test Tone Anthology, Medama, Cal Lyall, abstract, experimental, noise-rock, leftfield jazzy, digital, nightlife, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Shibuya, Aurelio Cianciotta, AAVV_TestToneAnthology.jpg3CD - Medama
Textures, 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 ]


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Frank Rothkamm - Ghost Of New York

Frank Rothkamm, Ghost Of New York, Rothkammusic, abstract, audio art, drone experimental, microsound, frequencies, ghost-trap, metafonia, poltergeist, work in progress, spiritismo,  Tetralogy, music, Aurelio Cianciotta, FrankRothkamm_GhostOfNewYork.jpg CD - Rothkammusic
The 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 ]


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Milosh - III

Milosh, III, !K7,  indietronica, post-soul, abstract, acoustic-digital, electronica, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, milosh_III.jpgCD -!K7
Gentle 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 ]


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abstract . ambient . experimental . noise . soundscapes

An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music

An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music, Subrosa, Li Ching Sung, Guy Marc Hinant, Dickinson Dee, Torturing Nurse, Wang Fan, Dajuin Yao, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Li Jianhong, Yan Jun, astract, ambient, experimental, noise, soundscape, Cina, musica, Aurelio Cianciotta, AnAntologyOfChineseExperimentalMusic-.jpg 4CD - Subrosa
Editor 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 ]


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abstract . audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

EVOL - Punani Rubberist

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Jacob Draminsky-Hojmark, Punani Rubberist, Evol, Entr'acte, Joe Gilmore, Excelsior Punani, eRikm, Tupolev Farmyard, Kazumoto Endo, 23 Cartas de Tamariz, abstract, audio art, experimental, glitch'ncut, Aurelio Cianciotta, Evol_PunaniRubberist.jpgCD" - Evol/Entr'acte
The 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 ]


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Heribert Friedl - Recherche

Heribert Friedl, Recherche, nonvisualobjectsCD - Nonvisualobjects
The 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 ]


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AAVV - Feeding The Transmitter

AAVV - Feeding The Transmitter, electronic drone, glitch ambient. sample, drone,  field recording, Michael Santos, Maps And Diagrams, Autistici, Poborsk, Pleq, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta,
VVAA_FeedingTheTransmitter.jpg 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 ]


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Dj Olive - Triage

Dj Olive, Triage, Room 40, abstract, trip-hop, texture, illbient, frequencies, abstract, ambient, drone, electronica, soundscapes,  Aurelio Cianciotta, DjOlive_Triage.jpgCD - Room 40
A 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 ]


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Richard Garet - L'Avenir

Richard Garet, L'Avenir, Winds Measure Recordings, Jacques Derrida, Hitchcock, quietismo, decostruzionismo, abstract, audio art, experimental, microsound, minimal, Aurelio Cianciotta,
RichardGaret_lAvenir.jpgCD - Winds Measure
After 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 ]


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Shinkei & Fourm - Hidamari / Metrics

Shinkei & Fourm, Hidamari, Metrics, White Line Editions, abstract, experimental, microsund, minimal, drone, field recordings, computer music, mini-cdr, design, Aurelio Cianciotta, Shinkei&Fourm_HidamariMetri.jpgCdr 3" - White Line Editions
A 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 ]


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Goh Lee Kwang - Draw Sound

Goh Lee Kwang, Draw Sound, Herbal International, abstract, audio art, experimental, electroacoustic, electronica Baudrillard, Aurelio Cianciotta, GohLeeKwang_DrawSound.jpgCd 3" - Herbal International
In 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 ]


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abstract . electronica . funk

Daniel Mercellus Givens - Egress

Daniel Mercellus Givens, Egress, Aesthetics, Fred Ones, Beans, Mike Ladd, Rusty Santos, Animal Collective, Ariel Pink, beatz, abstract, hip hop, spoken words, jazz, black music, dub, electronica, Mo Wax, Ninja Tune, Aurelio Cianciotta, DanielMercellusGivens_Egres.jpgCD - Aesthetics
Suspended 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 ]


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abstract . deep . electronic dance . minimal techno

Various Artists/ Klang Elektronik - Diamanten Und Raketen II

Various Artists, Klang Elektronik, Diamanten Und Raketen II, Klang Elektronik, selected by Roman Flugel, Alter Ego, Heiko Schäfer, M/S/O, Atanasios Christos Macias, Ata, Acid Jesus, Jorn Elling Wuttke, Anthony 'Shake' Shakir, Phage e Daniel Dreier, Oliver Ho, Eight Miles High, Carsten Jost, Dryer, Aurelio Cianciotta,KlangElektronik_DiamantenUndRaketenII.jpg CD - Klang Elektronik
This 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 ]


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He Can Jog - Middlemarch

He Can Jog, Middlemarch, Audiobulb, Aurelio Cianciotta, abstract, acoustic/digital, ambient, experimental, glitch'n'cuts, HeCanJog_Middlemarch.jpg CD - Audiobulb
With 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 ]


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Men In Speedos - At A Kalamazoo Near You

Men In Speedos, At A Kalamazoo Near You, Red Label Records, Twinkle Fingers, Uberbeard, Chooch, Daryl Campbell, Penny Nixon, abstract, electronica, soundscapes, Aurelio Cianciotta, MenInSpeedos_AtAKalamazooNe.jpgCD - Red Label
Red 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 ]


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Brandon LaBelle - Dirty Ear

Brandon LaBelle, Dirty Ear, Errant Bodies, CD, experimental, electronic, Non-Music, Abstract, Field Recording, Aurelio Cianciotta, BrandonLaBelle_DirtyEar.jpgCD - Errant Bodies
Field 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 ]


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Martin Neukom - Studie 18

Martin Neukom, Studie 18, Domizil, audio art, abstract, audio art, experimental, surround, 5.1, Ambisonics, DVD, Aurelio Cianciotta, MartinNeukom_Studie18.jpgDVD - Domizil
In "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 ]


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abstract . audio art . drone . experimental . laptop . microsound

Machinefabriek - Mort Aux Vaches

Machinefabriek, Mort Aux Vaches, Mort Aux Vaches, abstract, audio-art, drone, experimental, laptop, microsound, Rutger Zuydervelt, Aurelio Cianciotta, Machinefabriek_MortAuxVaches.jpg CD - Mort Aux Vaches
Very 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 ]


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Erratum #4. Sound Review. Noise + Art + Poetry

Erratum #4. Sound review. Noise + Art + Poetry, 3 CD, Erratum, abstract, acoustic/digital, audio art, experimental, free form, noise, Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth, AGF, Francisco Lopez, Phill Niblock, Jorg Piringer, Institute For Transacoustic Reserch, Brandon Labelle, Christina Kubish, Giovanni Fontana, Mc Luhan, Aurelio Cianciotta, Erratum.jpg3 CD - Erratum
An 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 ]


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abstract . audio art . experimental . industrial . noise

COH aka Ivan Pavlov + Cosey Fanni Tutti - COH Plays Cosey

COH aka Ivan Pavlov + Cosey Fanni Tutti, COH Plays Cosey, Raster-Noton, Ivan Pavlov, abstract, audio art, experimental, industrial, noise, Aurelio Cianciotta, Christine Carol Newby, post-punk, muzak, Stockhausen, Varese, CohPlaysCosey.jpg CD - Raster-Noton
It 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 ]


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@C - Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom

@C, CD - Cronica
This 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 ]


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Yuta Segawa - Motiondecomposition

Yuta Segawa, Motiondecomposition, Cnc Record, abstract, audio-art, experimental, free form, impro, laptop, Dotmov Festival, Japan, Sendai, music, Aurelio Cianciotta, YutaSegawa_Motiondecomposition.jpgCD - Cnc Record
Guitar 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 ]


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Fenin - Been Through

Fenin, Been Through, Shitkatapult, Eraldo Bernocchi, dubby, dub, beats, abstract, experimental, electronica, techno, Aurelio Cianciotta, Fenin_BeenThrough.jpg CD - Shitkatapult
Surround 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 ]


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abstract . deep . electronica . glitch'n'cuts . house

Various Artists - Now

Various Artists, Now, Underscan, abstract, electronica, deep, glitch'n'cuts, Funckarma, Somshit, 3tronik, Frank Bretschneider, Pytlik, Scanner, Star & Heroes, Aurelio Cianciotta, VA_Now.jpg CD - Underscan
This 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 ]


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abstract . deep . drone . experimental

Scorn - Stealth

Scorn, Stealth, Ad Noiseam, Mike Harris, abstract, deep drone, dub, elettronica, experimental, Neural, Aurelio Cianciotta, Scorn_Stealth.jpg CD - Ad Noiseam
Gloomy 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 ]


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