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drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . post rock

Jasper TX - The Black Sun Transmissions

CD - Fang Bomb
Claustrophobic settings, dark patterns in the background, disguised melodies, rather diluted and sidereal threads. In this manner begins "The Black Sun Transmissions" by Dag Rosenqvist, aka Jasper TX, a Swedish musician accustomed to hybrid multi-instrumentalisms, drones and improvisations rooted in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:17 AM - Oct 5/2012
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audio art . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Alfredo Costa Monteiro + Ben Owen - Frêle à Vide

CD - Contour Editions
Harsh frequencies, superimposed in layers, obtained thanks to the feedback of a Walkman and emissions produced using short and medium-wave radios. These are some of the techniques employed by Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Ben Owen in "Frêle À Vide", a cooperative project in which several microphones, mixers, a turntable arm and several self-built accessories come together, alongside an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:50 PM - May 12/2012
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audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Noish - Free SS 15

CD - Free Software Series
Inspired by "Noise & Capitalism", a book and audio-cd by Mattin & Anthony Iles - a sharp and tendentious reflection on the political role of noise - this fifteenth implementation of the Free Software Series features another radical sound activist, Oscar Martin, aka Noish, an experimenter whose work is as "cryptic" as the aforementioned text, but still ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:45 PM - Apr 6/2011
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ambient . audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

AAVV - Clicksandcuts Five / Paradigm Shift

CD - Mille Plateaux
In the last decade the "clicks and cuts" aesthetic has permeated many areas of music, invading other contexts and influencing even those dance genres that are not "minimalist" in decisive ways. Artists recording on Mille Plateaux don’t seem particularly affected by this "popularization" however: the label is still focused on "glitches", airy scores and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 25/2010
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audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Michael Sellam - Scratch

CD - Artkillart.Tk
Scratch is presented in the guise of an installation incorporating the world's fastest industrial robot, modified, according to Michael Sellam's concept, to interact precisely with the vinyl surface of specially selected records to produce particular sounds. The record is simply placed on a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 23/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

@C - Music For Empty Spaces

CD - Baskaru
Non-places, uninhabitable spaces on the edge of several fascinating layers and fractures and delicate and extremely sensitive aural presences.These are the aesthetics of a parallel universe in which abstract experiments live, along with field recordings, ghostly melodies, environmental drones and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 4/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Mika Vainio - Aineen Musta Puhelin [Black Telephone Of Matter]

>CD - Touch
Multifaceted sound implementations, abstract and formally impeccable, arranged in unstable fractured sequences, congealed in rhythmic and granular turns. "Black Telephone Of Matter" is the fourth solo album by Mika Vainio, an experimenter mostly known for having founded Pan Sonic with Ilpo ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:04 PM - Feb 26/2010
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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.jpg

CD" - 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 ]

Posted at 12:35 PM - Dec 22/2009
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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 ]

Posted at 12:50 PM - Aug 12/2009
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drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Atom™ - Liedgut

CD - Raster-Noton
Trapped by his own genius, auto-induced to predominantly wear Senor Coconut's exotic clothes, Uwe Schmidt, aka Atom Heart, aka Atom ™, aka Lassigue Bendthaus now with his first release for Raster-Noton, is still able to surprise. 'Liedgut' is an estranging album, romantic and austere at the same time, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:09 PM - Jun 22/2009
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audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . laptop . noise

Pato - clip_clap_crisis

CD - Free Software Series
In clip_clap_crisis Rubén Patiño, aka Pato realizes an extreme audio-abuse. He's a sound-designer from Barcelona, a city that he says should be placed – in terms of its atmospheres - between Orwellian settings in '1984' and fake Disneyland ones. His attitude to sound is well-rooted in the underground ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:29 PM - May 26/2009
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experimental . glitch'n'cuts . laptop . techno

Blevin Blectum - Gular Flutter

CD - Aagoo
A long while has passed since the time of Blectum From Blechdom, the digital duo composed of Kevin Blectum and Blevin Blechdom, which formed at Mills College between the end of the 90s and the beginning of this decade. Nonetheless, even if their careers are now separate, they still elaborate laptop ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:54 PM - Jan 17/2009
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abstract . acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

He Can Jog - Middlemarch

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 ]

Posted at 01:47 PM - Dec 2/2008
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audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . microsound

Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern

CD - Raster-Noton
As if dragged out of time in a world of infinite numbers, data and multi-dimensional abstract geometries, Ryoji Ikeda's 'Test Pattern' explores the intricate relationships between auditory microstructures, signals and electronic pulses. This piece is a conversion of algorithmic models from an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:26 PM - Nov 19/2008
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ambient . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . microsound

Michael Santos - The Happy Error

CD - Baskaru
Extremely delicate harmonic passages, "clicky", dense and slightly "gummy" acoustics, interwoven with expanded patterns, with an almost oneiric quality in the juxtaposition of crackle and melody, finally combining to give a melancholic and fluctuating character. Textures are sensibly organized and diluted ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:31 AM - Nov 15/2008
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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 . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . microsound

Silvia Fassler & Billy Roisz - Skylla

CD - Mego
The sonorities, on the whole very invasive and digital, as well as the crackles, drones, intermittences, fluxes and skipping frequencies, together with other refined forms of auditive microemergencies, give merit in 'Skylla' for the rigorous application to Silvia Fässler and Billy Roisz, who are not new to the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:36 PM - Jun 25/2008
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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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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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audio art . drone . experimental . field recording . glitch'n'cuts

Robert van Heumen - Fury

Robert von Heumen, Fury, They Would Get Angry Sometimes, Creative Sources, audio-art, experimental, drone, glitch'n'cuts, Farm Security Administration, California, migrants, Aurelio Cianciotta, RobertVanHeumen_Fury.jpg

CD - Creative Sources
"Fury (after Anger)" is a new project by Robert von Heumen made up of two recordings: the title track, split in four different tracks, and "They Would Get Angry Sometimes". The former has been commissioned by the Sonic Circuit Festival in Washington and the latter has been composed from a performance at ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:01 PM - Apr 9/2008
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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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audio art . experimental . field recording . glitch'n'cuts . microsound . soundscape

Ignaz Schick / Dawid Szczesny - The View Underneath

CD - Non Visual Objects
Ethereal atmospheres lightly veined with 'jazzy' attitudes with a noir penchant but very conceptual in the abstract electronic sequences. The sound design of this duo melts Ignaz Schick's skepticism towards digital technologies and interest towards objects which can emit peculiar sounds with the creative use of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:54 PM - Mar 24/2008
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acoustic/digital . ambient . audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Autistici - Volume Objects

CD - 12 K
Rarefied and abstract digital soundscapes, acoustic iterations ('Broken Guitar', 'Discarded Violin') and bleeps come to us from David Newman, aka Autistici, for the 12K label directed by Taylor Deupree. Extremely sensitive constructions full of melody, crackle attitude and very contemporary styles, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Mar 23/2008
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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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audio art . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . microsound

selected by Jorge Haro - Suda001 [Extreme Noise - Extreme Nature]

CD - Sudamerica electronica
A very calibrated mix, with fifteen tracks, all rigorously experimental and digital, this one by Jorge Haro for Sudamérica Electrónica, a label founded in 2004 and co-directed with Jorge Castro, who is also the producer (with the moniker Fisternni). It is a very coherent project for its sounds and, as rightly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Jan 11/2008
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field recordings . free form . glitch'n'cuts

Etre - I Don't Take My Head...

CD - Riz(h)ome
A really long title ('I don't take my head to see HIGHER because the sky is landing over my neck') for the third and last CD that wraps up the 'voice trilogy', a project by the Italian Salvatore Borrelli, also known as Etre, dedicated to the artists Angus MacLise and Jackson Pollock, the first, an original drummer who ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:57 AM - Nov 27/2007
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abstract . drone . experimental . free form . glitch'n'cuts

@C & Vitor Joaquim - De-Tour

CD - Feld
The result of the collaboration of Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela and Vitor Joaquim, three extreme digital experimenters, the ideal setup for creative improvisations, the different experiences of this ensemble, who toured Germany in 2005, are the foundations from where new montages and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:58 PM - Oct 15/2007
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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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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . laptop

Andrey Kiritchenko - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Staalplaat
Sound layers, underlined by an equivalent sum of transparent surfaces in the beautiful artwork by CS, in this limited edition (as it's traditional for the 'Mort Aux Vaches' series) made even more exclusive by the elegant plastic package. It's a release, this one by Andrey Kiritchenko, an Ukrainian electronic ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Sep 18/2007
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electronica . free form . glitch'n'cuts . post rock

Kingfisherg - Maverick Mouth

CD - Carte Postale
Tenuous electronica by Kingfisherg (aka François Boulanger), who releases his second album (but the first one was a mini) for Carte Postale Records, a Belgian independent label specialized in electronica, post-rock and leftfield pop. Digital samples, painted with melodies and calibrated dissonances that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:31 AM - Aug 27/2007
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acoustic/digital . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . impro

Burkhard Stangl / Taku Unami - I Was

CD - Hibari Music
This album was recorded partly in Cristoph Amann's studios in Wien and partly from live acts at the Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo, in 2003 and 2004, then edited by Taku Unami herself, who designed all the musical structures in the interaction between computers and objects, seconded by Burkhard Stangl ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:10 PM - Aug 18/2007
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experimental . glitch'n'cuts . minimal

Signal - Robotron

CD - Raster Noton
The Signal are Olaf Bender, Frank Bretschneider and Carsten Nicolai, practically the founders of this prestigious label themselves, born in 1999 by connecting their previous experiences with Raster Music and Noton.archiv.fur.ton.und.nichtton. This is their second album together, coming after 'Centrum', an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:33 AM - Aug 15/2007
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acoustic/digital . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Mem1 - Alexipharmaca

CD - Interval
Cello and electronica, a very delicate electroacoustic hybrid by Mem1, a duo composed of M. Cera, a media artist and sound manipulator, and Laura Thomas-Merino, a cello player from Los Angeles. This is their second extended release (their first one, 'Improvisations + Edits', released in 2004, isn't sold ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:00 PM - Aug 7/2007
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electro . electronic dance . glitch'n'cuts

Mochipet - Disko Donkey

CD - Daly City
Born in Taiwan but living in California, David Wang, aka Mochipet, after recording for Tigerbeat6, BPitch Control, remixing for Schematic and Detroit Underground and taking part to several other productions for other labels, has founded his own label: Daly City. He's now promoting, under this ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:17 AM - Jun 29/2007
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