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Nad Spiro - Atomic Spy

CD - Geometrik
Dark, twisted, cerebral resonances filled with electronic retreats and industrial audio emergencies are mixed with drones, percussive electroacoustic insertions and clotted vocal breaks. The whole generates maudit suggestions and shocking and claustrophobic atmospheres that maintain a great charm ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:30 AM - Mar 18/2013
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audio art . electronica . experimental

Toad Blinker - Sculpture

12" - Dekorder
This luxurious edition has sprung from the elaborations of the Toad Blinker combo (musician Dan Haurhurst and animator-illustrator Rueben Sutherlan). The release is a 12'' vinyl with "zoetropic" images in a pure psychedelic style, something we haven't seen at the office for time ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:07 AM - Jul 24/2012
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ambient . electro . electronica

AAVV - Mindfield

CD - Psychonavigation
Psychonavigation is an Irish label based in Dublin, stylistically focused between ambient, electronica and electro. Head honcho Keith Down is also - in this case - the curator of “Mindfield”, an interesting collection dedicated to a certain "mentalism", that crosses several musical genres and heralds calibrated, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:29 AM - May 1/2012
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electronica . free form

Vega - Wormsongs

CD - Artek Sounds
Here we find a vocal stuttering, a sort of gibberish where a series of hardly decipherable words are emitted, winning us over. We are talking about "Sermon On Wings And Tergal Lobes", the first track of "Wormsongs", a not-easily decipherable album, suspended between lyricisms and noise, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:23 AM - Apr 21/2012
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ambient . electronica . experimental . noise

Martin Neukom - Studien 5-7

CD - Domizil
S basic elements of each auditory event: the oscillations. The feedback and non-linear filters, frequency distortion, granular synthesis work, crackle and various kinds of noise, combine to generate a continuous flow that is both engaging and fascinating: it could work as an ideal soundtrack for ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:21 AM - Jan 12/2012
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audio art . electronica . experimental . soundscapes

Marcus Fjellström - Library Music 1

CD - Kafkagarden
In "Music Library 1" Marcus Fjellström takes inspiration from classic music libraries - collections of sounds that were used in sixties and seventies movies and low cost television productions. The result is a lovely mash-up between classic ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:40 PM - Oct 20/2011
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electronica . impro . soundscapes

Nicola Ratti - 220 Tones

CD - Die Schachtel
Analog synthesizers, a Farfisa organ, turntables, a tape recorder, a CRT TV: all devices that have no reason to exist without electricity. The relationship between the instruments and the electric continuum is precisely the research ground upon which are unraveled the seven distinct tracks that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:56 AM - Jul 21/2011
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electronica . experimental . soundscapes

AAVV - Electric Carpets [Part 2 Of 2]

CD - Record Label Records
Abstract sound design and experimental atmospheres meet a fusion style, mixing electro-acoustic beats and creating an artificial and frantic post-IDM pastiche. Record Label Records, a record label founded in 1996, is headed in a rather unconventional way by Robbie Martin, aka Fluorescent Grey, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:06 AM - May 26/2011
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electronica . experimental . industrial

Black Lung - The Soul Consumer

CD - Ad Noiseam
New implementations by David Thrussell, who once again renews his personal approach to production, on the one hand remain faithful to the artist’s reputation, while also proving him an oblique talent, equally at home whether melding acid and hard techno vibrations, or ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:22 PM - Feb 26/2011
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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 ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Oct 16/2010
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electronica . experimental . industrial . soundscapes

Lowness - Undertow

CD - Ant-Zen
Dark ambient sounds, subtle and powerful in their krautrock influences, modulated in highly experimental passages, make Scott Sturgis' comeback particularly fascinating. Sturgis is a producer from Seattle better known as Converter, an important power noise project and the forefather of a certain kind of Ant-Zen sound. The music now, moving on from his period of industrial and rhythmic sequences, evolves through subdued ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Oct 9/2010
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electronica . experimental . house

Autistici - Detached Metal Voice / Early Works Vol. 1

CD - Audiobulb
Shortly after releasing his second album, Complex Tone Test, David Newman, a British composer and sound designer better known under the moniker Autistici, is back at work with a new project. In Detached Metal Voice, from the first volume of the "Early Works", a body of noisy audio data, imperfections and interferences seem to be arranged in quite rarefied ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 16/2010
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drone . electronica . experimental

Semuin - Circles And Elephants

CD - Ahornfelder
Provinces, the seminal 2005 album with which Jochen Briesen, using the moniker Semuin, triggered his personal research, was a collaboration with Anne Laplantine (aka Angelika Koehlermann), and was mastered by Greg Davis, another well-known musician in the niche areas of experimental-electronic sound. Since then a lot has happened and now, in the same ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:05 AM - Sep 9/2010
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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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