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drone . experimental . minimal . soundscapes

Lugano Fell - Slice Repair

CD - Baskaru
Lugano Fell is a solo project by James Taylor, a founding member of the tech house duo Swayzak, a combo that for more than a decade has been active in the field of electronic-dance. Taylor - apparently - must have wanted to take a break to try a different approach, one even more abstract and cinematic, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:55 AM - Apr 26/2011
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audio art . experimental . microsound . minimal

Patricia Bosshard & Simon Grab - MRI

CD - Everest
With a limited edition CD, which contains a library of sounds with 80 samples, the experimental Swiss duo of Patricia Bosshard and Simon Grab debuts for Everest Recordings. All sounds are recorded using an MRI scanner (Magnet Resonance Imaging), a technology primarily known for its diagnostic and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:41 AM - Feb 12/2011
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audio art . experimental . microsound . minimal

Thorsten Soltau / Weiss - Rezykla

Mini-disc - Electroton
Already the title, "Rezykla", suggests the concept underlying these four refined, minimalist compositions. The two authors, Thorsten Soltau and Martin Weiss, each contribute two works in which they manipulates each other’s sounds. The exchanges transmute the rhythmic origins of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Dec 30/2010
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abstract . audio art . experimental . microsound . minimal

Richard Garet - L'Avenir

CD - 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 ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Jan 31/2009
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abstract . experimental . microsound . minimal

Shinkei & Fourm - Hidamari / Metrics

Cdr 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 ]

Posted at 05:33 PM - Jan 25/2009
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acoustic . experimental . minimal

Charlemagne Palestine - A Sweet Quasimodo Between Black Vampire Butterflies For Maybeck

CD - Cold Blue Music
With microtonal assonances reminiscent of the American minimalist tradition, Charlemagne Palestine excites us again with 'A Sweet Quasimodo...', playing on two different Yamaha pianos at the same time, with polished abstract soundscapes, dreamlike sound passages, trembling reverberations and shadow ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:26 PM - Mar 3/2008
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experimental . field recordings . minimal

Luigi Turra - Enso

CD - Smallvoices
Field recording, electroacoustic, evanescent resonances, minimal acts full of organic substances, atmospheres finely wrought in the void by impenetrable geometries, evoking zen gardens (graphically portrayed on the cover with a Roberto Zingales' photo). All these elements and even more is embodied in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:25 PM - Feb 12/2008
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ambient . experimental . field recordings . minimal

Michael Fahres - TheTubes

CD - Cold Blue Music
Highly imaginative atmospheres, experimental attitudes untangled in sensitive sequences, iterations and ellipses, marked from the first track, 'Sevan' by the Armenian Parik Nazarian vocal interventions, well set in chorus assonanting to the classic tenor singing. Here we find sonic scans more and more ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:25 PM - Feb 6/2008
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experimental . laptop . microsound . minimal

Simon Ho - Signal

CD - Cash
A very rarefied and minimal project by the Swiss musician and composer Simon Hostettler (aka Simon Ho), an artist used to research and stylistic contamination, always balanced between different fields. This is the first implementation of a completely digital approach, and he chose not to dilute the attention in a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Jan 8/2008
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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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abstract . electronica . experimental . minimal

Frank Bretschneider - Rhythm

CD - Raster Noton
Rhythm is always essential in its intrinsic conception. It's what you add to it (or don't) that makes the difference, and this is made all the more true these days, especially in dance music, by many low-quality productions with no original ideas. It's not enough to take out every element and reduce the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Sep 6/2007
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abstract . ambient . electronica . minimal . techno

Staatsballet Berlin presents: Shut Up And Dance! Updated

CD - Ostgut Ton/Kompakt
No, they aren't 'Shut Up And Dance', the famous combo from London: they're German. The Berghain Club commissioned to five producers five musical pieces for five choreographies for five different dancers of the Berlin Staasballet. Together with the label Ostgut Ton, distributed by Kompakt, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Sep 3/2007
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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 . ambient . experimental . impro . minimal

Yoshio Machida - Naada

CD - Amorfon
No electronic stuff, this time. Just an acoustic improvisation using different 'steel pans', very peculiar percussion instruments typical of the Caribbean, in Machida's first projects, turned into audio samples and processed with the Max/MSP software. In 'Naada', the result gives birth to more natural ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:45 PM - May 23/2007
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electronica . glitch'n'cuts . house . minimal

lusine_podgelism

CD - Ghostly International
A refined collection of remixes of the latest productions by Lusine (aka Jeff McIlwain), a producer from Seattle with a penchant for conjugating complex melodic iterations and glitch-house sounds. Balancing between the dancefloor and rarefied tracks, strongly cinematographic images permeate its ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:44 AM - May 8/2007
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experimental . free form . minimal

Perlonex, Keith Rowe, Charlemagne Palestine - Tensions

CD - Nexsound
Perlonex is an electro-acoustic trio founded in 1998 made up by Ignaz Schick, Jorg Maria Zeger and Burkhard Beins. On the occasion of the Perlonex's fifth live concerts anniversary they have involved for a commemorative live two other interesting musicians: Keith Rowe and Charlemagne Palestine. They ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:45 PM - Jan 26/2007
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experimental . minimal

Antonio Della Marina - Fades

CD - I Dischi Di Angelica
Loops with different lengths, mixed with a computer with a 432Hz carrier signal, a careful choice of chords reminiscent of the classical tradition and expressed in a minimal way, which is also a result of the author's research on alternative tuning systems and on harmonic structures. Fades was born in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:41 PM - Nov 27/2006
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