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abstract . electronica . experimental . noise

AAVV - Test Tone Anthology

3CD - 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 ]

Posted at 05:12 AM - Jul 29/2010
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acoustic/digital . electronica . ethnic . experimental . free form

Mice - World Tour

CD - Ecosono
As a combo whose typical sounds are very wobbly and crooked, permeated with electronic, experimental and jazz influences, "Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble", traveling 30,000 miles by ship around the world, have created a successful series of concerts, collaborating with and connecting ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:12 AM - Mar 8/2010
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drone . electronica . experimental

Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968

CD -Type
Repeated melodies, drones and coagulated atmospheres, dark aural fluctuations, with a bias towards the mystical and evocative. In "Alphabet 1968", Marc Richter (pseudonym: Black To Comm) takes these ingredients and leads the listener through an imaginative digital pilgrimage, poised somewhere ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:52 AM - Mar 2/2010
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electronica . industrial . noise . techno

Sturqen - Piranha

CD - Kvitnu
Intricate rhythmic sequences, hovering techno-trance fascinations and noise attitudes are contaminated with an energetic and chaosmotic mood in "Piranha", the latest release by Sturqen. The recording is imbued with a dark, electronic feel, heavy with collisions that could be fitted to industrial dance ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:45 AM - Feb 22/2010
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abstract . acoustic/digital . electronica

Milosh - III

CD -!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 ]

Posted at 06:55 AM - Jan 17/2010
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ambient . electronica . experimental

The Smiling Buddhas - LO

CD - Base
This work comes in an eco-friendly package, with a hardcover that pulls out the cd as if it was origami (Swedish Jakebox's patent) and has a stencilled "window" as a cover that contains a Tibetan inspired picture. The Smiling Buddhas present their first production on CD; 'Lo', a vibrant, hypnotic, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:00 AM - Aug 3/2009
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drone . electronica . experimental

Monoton - Eight Lost Tracks

CD - Oral
Since the early eighties, Konrad Becker (seminal media activist and author of the 'Tactical Reality Dictionary') has thoroughly tested sounds extracted from meta-mathematical structures, natural constants and patterns in his 'Institut Für Wissenschaftliche Sensation' project. Following an automatic ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:53 AM - Jul 13/2009
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audio art . electronica . experimental

VVAA Pioneers - The Beginning Of Danish Electronic Music

CD - Ljud
This is a collection of historical recordings, dating back primarily to the sixties-seventies, with a selection that accomplishes meticulous research into early Danish electronic avant-garde. This CD collects experiments done with the help of seminal analog instrumentation, in studios where it was easy ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:24 AM - Jun 30/2009
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audio art . electronica . experimental

Mikhail - Morphica

CD - Sub Rosa
Morphica comes in a package that certainly does not pass unnoticed (a 17x24 cm envelope, silver-metallic, transparent even, coming with a hexagonal cardboard CD container that opens as a 'bud'). The first of the three CDs is called 'Electronics', and when listening it is clear that the artwork has been ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:47 AM - Jun 26/2009
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ambient . electronica . impro

Israel M - Nareah

CD - Aagoo
Mexican Israel Martinez composes rarefied experimental electronic music, and he's careful in unravelling consistent and very sensitive sequences inspired by the minimalist canon. These sequences are quite iterated and melodic, and their development seems to be independent from both analog and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:49 PM - Jun 18/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . electronica . experimental

Ethan Rose - Oaks

CD - Baskaru
To create these minimal sound ellipses Ethan Rose uses an old Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. The sounds are often velvety, ambient and symphonic, and are manipulated using computers and other electronic devices. They are also intertwined with more traditional acoustic instruments such as flute, clarinet, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:24 PM - Mar 27/2009
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audio art . drone . electronica . experimental

Sudamericaelectronica 02

DVD + CD - Sudamerica Electronica
Sudamerica Electronica, a new label based in Buenos Aires, articulates most of its research around the concept of 'extreme noise and extreme nature', enchantments that, in the DVD - this is a double release which also includes a CD - convey the experimental sense of radical and contemporary frequencies ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:53 PM - Feb 3/2009
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abstract . ambient . drone . electronica . soundscapes

Dj Olive - Triage

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Feb 1/2009
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abstract . electronica . funk

Daniel Mercellus Givens - Egress

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 11:00 PM - Jan 14/2009
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abstract . electronica . soundscapes

Men In Speedos - At A Kalamazoo Near You

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 03:24 PM - Dec 1/2008
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acoustic/digital . audio art . electronica . experimental . free form . glitch'n'cuts

A_dontigny - Geisteswissenschaften

CD - No-Type
Aim&execute; Dontigny is based in Quebeq and is certainly a compositor who can't be easily categorized. He is the founding member of the free noise collective Napalm Jazz, and the animator for the No-Type label, which has released his second album. This is a work that brings together a decade ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:45 PM - Sep 16/2008
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audio art . electronica . experimental . field recordings . glitch'n'cuts

Critikal - Graphorrhea

CD - Graphorrhea
Different electronic experiences converging into a single 'ensemble', a project wanted by Andrey Kiritchenko, Jeff Surak and Jonas Lindgren (then substituted by Dmytro Fedorenko and Tobias Åström), all of them very skilful electronic experimenters as well as able to remanipulate each other’s sounds in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:03 PM - Jun 18/2008
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audio art . electronica . experimental . noise

Various Artists - An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 5

2CD - Sub Rosa
Even if the euphoric nomadic and post-structuralist philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari inspire the Sub Rosa label, it is still keen on anthologies like this fifth one, dedicated to noise and electronica. This is only to underscore that it is not possible nowadays to publish such a work, only relating to music and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:03 PM - Jun 3/2008
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drone . electronica . experimental

Philip Jeck - Sand

CD - Touch
This album is dedicated to the passing of Phyllis May Jeck, and the notes resonate in an extremely sensitive way, inspired by a resigned quietness, yet at the same time molded from a strong inwardness. Even if they're elegiac, the tones reflect the devotion to daily simplicity. Jeck, in his radical and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:26 PM - Jun 2/2008
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electronica . ethnic . experimental . field recording . glitch'n'cuts . microsound

Mahmoud Refat - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Mort Aux Vaches
Mort Aux Vaches series artworks are more and more sophisticated. This artwork has been commissioned to Piotr Mordel, graphic designer founder of the atypical "The Club of Polish Losers" in Berlin, Dialog magazine contributor, and skillful here in associating elaborate drawings to a "precious" lettering, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:04 PM - May 8/2008
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abstract . electronica . experimental . techno

Fenin - Been Through

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 ]

Posted at 06:10 PM - Apr 24/2008
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ambient . deep . electronica . soundscapes

Pridon - Apnea Eina

CD - Low Impedance
Pridon a.k.a. Petros Voudouris structures a quiet and enjoyable electronica, influenced by many different styles including techno, electro, IDM, dub and even an ounce of seventies psychedelia. This tissues are then carefully reassembled mixing different "spices", but nevertheless the accessible moments are not ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:59 PM - Apr 5/2008
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electronica . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Qebo - Wroln

CD - Low Impedance
Alex Retsis and George Aggelides are back with the moniker Qebo, after a long hiatus, and in their second album, named 'Wroln', the tangled digital structures become even thicker, permeated by a glitchy aesthetic which is pervasive both in the experimental circle and, these days, in the clubbing ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:20 PM - Mar 27/2008
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abstract . deep . electronica . glitch'n'cuts . house

Various Artists - Now

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 ]

Posted at 06:05 PM - Mar 21/2008
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ambient . electronica . experimental

Carter Tutti - Feral Vapours Of The Silver Ether

CD - Conspiracy International
This is the second album after changing the old moniker (Chris & Cosey) for this duo who, together with Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson, formed the famous Throbbing Gristle combo. The adjective 'feral' in the title notwithstanding, the dilated atmospheres in the eleven tracks of this project are never ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:36 PM - Mar 17/2008
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ambient . electronica . experimental . post rock

Arms And Sleepers - Black Paris 86

CD - Expect Candy
Quiet and elegant intertwining of cinematic ambient weaves, rhythms, experiences unstably balanced in the beats heavily cut. It's a snug electronica, even with melodic treatments, subdivided by Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic in very elegant sequences, gentle, in the tradition of a groove structure contamination that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:08 PM - Feb 4/2008
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electronica . experimental

Dorninger - 8K

CD - Base Records
This is an experiment starting with 8 etherogeneous electronic tracks composed by Wolfgang Dorninger, released as an album. The project starts from then on, dissecting the music with different methodologies. The complete title becomes 8K=8K+-(G)<>(A)<>(N), where G = Granular Modification, A = Analog and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:42 PM - Jan 27/2008
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ambient . electronica

Sun Electric - Lost & Found (1998-2000)

CD - Shitkatapult
Helped by Thomas Fehlmann, as the executive producer, the duo made by Max Loderbauer and Tom Thiel helped define the ambient-techno genre in the past decade. Halfway between experimentalism and neo electro-pop influences, when many different paths seemed possible, the separation between ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:13 AM - Dec 28/2007
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electronica . experimental

Snog - The Last Days Of Rome

CD - Hymen
What's piquing our curiosity, aside from the apocalyptic title 'The Last Days Of Rome' and the confusing art-cover, made by Chris Wood and Richard Grant (who craftily subverted the Cadillac SUV ad), is this new change of route of David Thrussell, aka Snog, very skilled in perpetuating the channels of pop and of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:28 PM - Dec 17/2007
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deep . electronica . minimal . techno

Uusitalo - Karhunainen

CD - Huume/Audioglobe
With the 'Uusitalo' nickname, Vladislav Delay agitates a refined mix of dub and minimal techno influences in a superb production characterized by crystal-clear sounds and crisp 4/4 beats, seasoned with oblique glitch and click'n'cut sounds. An artist with many facets, Sasu Ripatti (this is his real name, hidden behind ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:00 AM - Oct 29/2007
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ambient . drone . electronica . experimental . soundscapes

The Missing Ensemble - Zeropolis

CD - Low Impedance
Silent architectures, barren urban landscapes, empty and corrupted spaces, a general dystopic vision of the future of our cities seems to pervade the inspired 'Zeropolis' project, made by The Missing Ensemble (Daniel De Los Santos, John Sellekaers and Mathias Delplanque). Skilled in manipulating drones and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:14 AM - Oct 4/2007
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ambient . drone . electronica . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Nad Spiro - Tinta Invisibile

CD - Geometrik
With the Nad Spiro moniker, Rosa Arruti experiments with electronic concatenations, drones and hypnotic melodies, full of click'n'glitch elements. Subdued ambient atmospheres in the space airs and the sound-design reminiscent of her recent collaboration with the director David Lynch. Dilated in their ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:27 AM - Oct 2/2007
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electronica . glitch'n'cuts . minimal techno

Retina.it - Semeion

CD - Hefty! / Audioglobe
Cuts and frequencies by Lino Monaco and Nicola Buono, also known as Retina.it, a combo with original technoid roots (in the notorious Neapolitan scenes and, for some time, together with Rino Cerrone) which then evolved towards more experimental and glitchy combinations, always with rhythmical ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:36 AM - Sep 25/2007
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drone . electronica . experimental

KTL - 2

CD - Editions Mego/Family Affair
Composed, recorded and mixed between December 2006 and March 2007 by Peter Rehberg - Sunn O))) and Stephen O'Malley, the first impressions of this project, published by Mego, are of obscure and disquieting structures (as much as the accompanying artwork), with poetic electronic sounds, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Sep 22/2007
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electronica . experimental . industrial

Test Dept - The Unacceptable Face Of Freedom

CD - Some Bizzare/Audioglobe
This is a reprint of the historical second album by Test Dept, an original combo from London which has been active since the very early Eighties, which saw, aside from the 'dark' and 'synth pop' waves, the first steps of the industrial culture. It was an original idea whose goal was, with the use of waste ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Sep 19/2007
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