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acoustic/digital . bastard pop . experimental . free form

Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic Materials

CD - Room40
Marina Rosenfeld is rather famous in the underground New York scene (and not only there) for her compelling combination of an atypical conceptual turntablism along with more avant-garde and original experimentation. In "Plastic Materials", too, some of the electro-acoustic structures typical of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:06 PM - Mar 23/2010
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acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . soundscapes

Nommo Ogo - Across Time And Space

CD - Record Label
Rather emotional and psychedelic electronica, with strong melodic ingredients and space-future influences. Nommo Ogo, a combo hailing from the glacial latitudes of Alaska recorded this album in the United States, in California, Colorado and Oregon, arranging plots that are unraveled - contrarily - in a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:21 PM - Mar 22/2010
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experimental . folktronica . free form

Roj - Transactional Dharma Of Roj

CD - Ghost Box
Straight from Ghost Box, a label based in Surrey, and characterized by sophisticated electronic vintage, we happily welcome "Transactional Dharma of Roj", a vivid album with Burroughsian cut-ups and inspiring and imaginative conjunctions which underlie a cultural and psychic revolution in the English ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:30 AM - Mar 16/2010
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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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audio art . experimental . free form

Piotr Kurek - Lectures

CD - Cronica
Tangled instrumental sequences, dense and fascinating, are improvised by Piotr Kurek, a Polish producer and electronic musician. This work reveals a precisely organised, multilevel sound structure, which throbs with avant-garde jumps, jazzy shards and raw ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:14 AM - Jan 28/2010
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drone . experimental . free form . noise

Audrey Chen + Robert Van Heumen - Abattoir

CD - Evil Rabbit
After an disquieting start, modulating on shrill guttural vocalizations and innervated with noisy and improvisational acts, Robert van Heumen intervenes on laptops and controller. He generates instrumental arrangements, selected by highly noisy drones, with supplemental clicks, hums, sudden ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:54 AM - Dec 2/2009
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audio art . experimental . free form

Denis Tricot / Eric Cordier - Orgue De Bois

CD - Prele
Narrow strips of wood, roughly five inches long, thin, connected to each other to reach a considerable length (up to ten meters), totally suspended by special rods, shape sinuous undulations, as sculptural instruments and architectural installations, artistic and musical. This construction by Denis Tricot and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:57 AM - Nov 24/2009
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acoustic/digital . experimental . free form

Tom Hamilton - Local Customs

CD - Mutable Music
The elegant and modulated instrumental interventions of Jacqueline Martelle (flute), Richard Cohen (clarinet), James Martin (trombone), Terry Kippenberger (bass) and Rich O'Donnell (percussion) are twisted with electronic harmonic sequences dictated by Tom Hamilton, in a work similar to electro- ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:08 PM - Sep 19/2009
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audio art . experimental . free form

DNE - 47 Songs Humans Shouldn't Sing

CD - Room40
The idea that it's impossible to sing some songs is persuasive. Do not expect - however - in these 47 small scores to face any 'synthetic' mixtures. The construction here is rather of avant-garde improvisations dating back to the second half of the 80s, when 'international post-punk' has almost ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:22 PM - Jul 30/2009
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audio art . experimental . free form . microsound

Phroq - Connections, Opportunities For Mistake

CD - Shiver Sounds
In this project Phroq, aka Francisco Meirino, uses malfunctioning minidiscs, cassettes and CD players in a work that investigates the glorious end of an amplification system. Together with continuous interferences and electrostatic noises - expressed in different forms and intensities - they reach the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:30 AM - Jun 24/2009
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bastard pop . experimental . free form . mashup

Frank Rothkamm - Frank Genius is Star Struck

CD - Flux
Following a multifarious talent, without either prejudices or gender barriers, Frank Rothkamm is back to bring his unique version of what today we could simply define as 'popular electronic music'. These kinds of sounds are well represented in 'Frank Genius is Star Struck' and they are also carefully ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:32 PM - Jun 6/2009
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audio art . experimental . field recordings . free form

Thanos Chrysakis - A Scar In The Air

CD - Aural Terrains
Ethereal, synthetic and very fragmented sounds, field-recordings, drones and elegant acoustic treatments. Athenian composer Thanos Chrysakis, meticulously organises the structures and atmospheres of the project 'A Scar On The Air', a continuation of the Inscapes series (already selected ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:19 PM - Apr 6/2009
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audio art . experimental . free form . noise

" "[sic] Tim Goldie - "Abjector"[sic]

2CD - Hibari
Harsh digital sounds intertwine with improvisations structured as a percussive matrix. With audio-abuse, distortions and an extreme use of the human voice, Tim Goldie severely tests both the taste and analytical skills of those less accustomed to radical electronic and experimental music. The double ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:15 PM - Mar 4/2009
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audio art . experimental . free form . microsound

Schurer - Parallax

CD - Domizil
Eccentric passages, modulated in equally atypical waveforms, occasionally sound crooked and elastic. They are followed by more muffled and grainy concatenations; a chromatic addition of effect and perceptive starts. Decidedly uncommon aural experiences are imbued with synthetic laments, tonal ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Jan 30/2009
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experimental . free form . impro

Claudio Parodi - A Ritual Which Is Incomprehensible (To The Smile Of Pauline Oliveros)

CD - Extreme
Claudio Parodi, inspired by the sounds of Pauline Oliveros (a sensitive composer and accordion virtuoso), takes up the theme of harmonic tuning procedures, producing a mix of assonant, gloomy, melancholic and fascinatingly repetitive sounds. The effects are realised by a limited number of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:46 PM - Jan 8/2009
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acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . impro . laptop

David Bartel - Deep Sound Channel 1

CD - Angry Vegan
Recorded at Brooklyn and Trenton (New York), Deep Sound Channel 1, for all its mixing of electronic bleeps, dub grooves and last generation clicks, certainly doesn’t surrender to strong electro-acoustic influences. The musician involved in this project (Adam Caine, Jeff Kaiser, Jacqui Carrasco) have ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:30 PM - Dec 15/2008
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experimental . free form . impro

Spyweirdos, Mourjopoulos And Floridis - Epistrophy At Utopia

CD - Ad Noiseam
Rethinking jazz in the advent of digital; connecting old energies with new subgenres of glitch post-avant-garde. This is not an easy project – it isn’t enough to put together "free form" veterans (John Mourjopoulos e Floros Floridis), adding only minimal "destructurations" and synthetic rhythms, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:12 PM - Nov 24/2008
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acoustic . audio art . experimental . field recordings . free form . impro

Kiko C. Esseiva - Sous Les Etoiles

CD - Hinterzimmer
Oblique, hollow melodies, horror-movie-style audio samples, suspended atmospheres, elegant iterations, intermezzo organ, voice experiments, and - unmistakably - a taste for a certain pure mental automatism, which pierces the free flow of creativity. There are strong references to the historical avant ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:42 PM - Oct 14/2008
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings . free form

Various Artists - Berlin Electronics

4 miniCD - Absinth
This album's artwork is immediately striking and very original: it is made of a foldable cardboard of good quality, hand shellacked by Renkel (with a dense acrylic bluish color), supplemented by four mini-cd's in a diamond shape. It seems almost a punishment – the cd's are identical, there is no further ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:00 AM - Oct 13/2008
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acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . field recordings . free form

Yoshio Machida - Hypernatural #3

CD - Baskaru
This is the third and final episode of the Hypernatural series, which is inspired by research into Far Eastern organic sounds. It is distinguished by sensitive audio "transparencies", obtained through the interweaving of recordings, which are often ethereal and abstract. Yoshio Machida is incredibly skilled ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:45 PM - Sep 26/2008
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experimental . free form . impro

Kenneth Gaburo - Maledetto Antiphony VIII

CD - Pogus
'Maledetto Antiphony VIII' is a project dating back to second half of the sixties. It is split into two tracks of dissimilar composition, which both experiment with complex interweaving and fascinating symbolic textual expressions within an improvisational framework. The author is Kenneth Gaburo, a radical ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:21 PM - Sep 18/2008
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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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abstract . acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . free form . noise

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

3 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 ]

Posted at 09:11 AM - Aug 27/2008
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audio art . experimental . free form . noise

Davor Mikan - Täushung

CD - Cronica Electronica
Graphic tools and granular synthesis: this is Davor Mikan's compositional horizon, with twisted, surly and abstract radical sonorities, but once more modulated to construct a narrative with strong emotional characteristics. This seems to be the result of the arrangements and their complicated structures, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:33 PM - Jun 13/2008
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acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . free form . impro

Maja S.K. Ratkje - River Mouth Echoes

CD - Tzadik
In a nutshell: acoustics with tenuous electronica, edited traditional music instruments, sensitive sonorities, highly calibrated but destabilizing. The performance is heartfelt and there's an extreme diversity within the passages, improvisation, and in the creative continuum of its elements. It is ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:52 AM - Jun 5/2008
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abstract . audio art . experimental . free form . impro . laptop

Yuta Segawa - Motiondecomposition

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 12:36 PM - Jun 4/2008
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audio art . experimental . free form

Frank Rothkamm - Just 3 Organs

CD - Flux
Since the early nineties Frank Rothkamm has crossed different music domains with sporadic releases. He was involved in artistic territories primarily devoted to the avant-garde with industrial or experimental influences. He can count on a traditional music background, so being comfortable in manipulating ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:23 PM - May 10/2008
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audio art . drone . experimental . free form . microsound

klangwart - Stadtlandfluss

CD - Staubgold
Klagwart duo (Markus Detmer and Timo Reuber) is based on both Cologne and Berlin. The two members are extremely balanced in using new combinations obtained from a well acquire catalog of sounds. It's a neverending work in progress, culminating here in 'Stadtlandfluss', an album produced after eight years ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:00 PM - May 6/2008
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acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . free form . soundtracks

Nemeth - Film

Thrill Jockey
This is the first solo album for Stefan Németh, a member of Radian and Lokai, co-founder of Mosz Records, who here releases for Thrill Jockey a project full of very rarefied and spacey atmospheres. Soundscapes created for artistic installations, short films and experimental videos, not designed to be ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:00 AM - Mar 11/2008
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abstract . acoustic . experimental . free form

Kapital Band 1 - Playing By Numbers

CD - Mosz
Behind the moniker Kapital Band 1 there's a duo formed by Martin Brandlmayr and Nicholas Bussman (also known as 'The Golden Boys' and 'Hair'), two musician very skilled in iterating sensitive sounds, dilating patterns and organizing improvisations. Their abstractions chase the possibilities inspired by ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Mar 10/2008
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acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . soundtracks

Felix Kubin Und Das Mineralorchester - Music For Theatre And Radio Play

CD - Dekorder
Extracted from Felix Kubin's radio and theater projects, published by Dekorder, an eclectic label based in Hamburg at its 22nd release, for the first time these tracks see the light on a CD. They are undoubtedly very atypical materials, which fully reflect the complex personality of this artist, influenced by the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:18 PM - Feb 29/2008
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experimental . field recordings . free form . impro

Tanake - 3ree

CD - Ebria / Fratto 9 Under The Sky
Improvised audio-abuse and extreme poli-instrumentalism recorded live, without either overdubbing or editing, but modulating live radio field recordings (some funny samples of the right wing Italian leader maximo Berlusconi). A work with a radical outcome but also equipped with historical coordinates. It's ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:52 PM - Feb 13/2008
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acoustic . experimental . free form

Daniel Lentz - On The Leopard Altar

CD - Cold Blue
Complex assonant vocalism exercises, mindful of 'polite' inspirations, mediaeval interlacings, reworked in new acoustic research contexts. The work of Daniel Lentz can be placed with the above unusual parallelism between trobadoric suggestions and avant-garde performances. He's a mature musician ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:18 AM - Feb 11/2008
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experimental . free form . laptop

Zaum - I Hope You Never Love Anithing As Much As I love You

CD - Amazon Records
Improvisational sequences, great technical skill shown through tangled sound structures, multiplicity in rhythms, imaginative 'polymorphism' and 'codes' used in the collision-juxtaposition of active elements on several levels, searching for new connections, programatically shying away from rehashing with the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Dec 27/2007
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acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . impro

Roam The Hello Clouds - Near Misses

CD - Scape
Trumpets, drums, samples and electronic effects articulated in a minimalistic and experimental cut-and-paste. Jazzy frequencies, rebuilt in more contemporary forms, thanks to the help of Dave Miller's laptop, together with Laurent Pike and Phil Slater, skilled in combining in a more conceptual and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Nov 28/2007
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