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Max Eastley - Installation Recordings (1973 - 2008)

2CD - Paradigm Discs
An essential retrospective of Max Eastley's sound installations, a prolific artist who's been active since the late sixties. The oldest works presented here were made in 1973, the year when, in addition to gallery exhibitions and collaborations with Thomas Koner and film director Peter Greenaway, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 2/2010
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ambient . drone . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Francisco Lopez - Amarok

CD - Glacial Movements
Extremely dilated drones, yet not too immaterial, redundant in their progressive slips of many sound layers. Microtones, someone calls them, but there's nothing minimalist in such a soundscape. Just consider the title, "Amarok", the name of a giant wolf in Inuit mythology, a people obviously accustomed to the extremes of an uninhabitable nature, where the sea and the abyss are clearly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 22/2010
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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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Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano

CD - Someone Good
Akira Kosemura creates fascinating miniatures in form of delicate piano elaborations, pop and classical at the same time, gentle and repeated, with light backgrounds of natural sounds and measured clicks. Pants, scratches, light percussions of string instruments, discrete field recordings that reinforce the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:38 PM - Feb 1/2010
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RTX - Radio Tower Xchange

CD- Rixc
Sound waves broadcast in space and captured by powerful antennas. A steamy repetition creating an environment open to different contributions, pervaded by the energies of the artists themselves, who were invited to focus their attention on those deceitful mechanisms that are always in play at the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:31 PM - Jan 29/2010
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abstract . ambient . experimental . noise . soundscapes

An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music

4CD - Subrosa
Editor Li Ching Sung and Guy Marc Hinant have come together to produce this anthology of Chinese experimental music, which includes 48 different artists whose works are divided across four engaging CDs. Moving beyond the names that are already internationally known (the same Li Ching-sung - aka ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:53 AM - Dec 31/2009
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Robert Hampson - Vectors

CD - Touch
Three dense and acousmatic tracks, in which Robert Hampson displays unconventional attitudes in very imaginative ways, are devoted to the construction of complex soundscapes. The plots are constructed with great care for the pauses; the ones in 'Umbra' - quote from Latin referring to the darker area ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:23 AM - Nov 15/2009
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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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acoustic/digital . experimental . folktronica . soundscapes

Nole Plastique - Escaperhead

CD - Nexsound
Strange hybrid sound jumps, somewhere between pop, glitchy folktronics, psychedelia and more contemporary soundscapes are some of the specific ideas that meet in the work of atypical composers like Andrei Kiritchenko. The owner of the Nexsound brand is also a digital experimenter and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:54 AM - Jan 9/2009
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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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Janek Schaefer - Alone At Last

CD - Sirr
Oneiric sequences, field recordings and tonal harmonies, disruptions and modulated restarts. Sensitive settings, audio fragments, sound excerpts from an old Spanish movie. A virtuoso flamenco guitar and delicate yet invasive drones, like entering the core of a sophisticated abstract map with multiple ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:19 PM - Sep 17/2008
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Various Artists - Favourite Places

CD - Audiobulb
Non-imaginary places, strictly related to the authors' dreams and intimate thoughts. They are "favourite places" because "there are places in the world where we come back later", "places that retain something precious feeding us". Ten sound artists were involved, starting with Taylor Deupree and his "space" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:28 PM - Jun 6/2008
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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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Steve Peters - Three Rooms

CD - Sirr
Tactile iterations, delicate abrasions (this is the title of the first track), meeting of surfaces and materials in an old warehouse in Santa Fé, New Mexico, where nails, dust, revolving doors, metal, glass and wood gave birth to recordings of physical experiences, but also to mental environments, placing the listeners ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:26 PM - Oct 18/2007
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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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Dunaewsky69 - Xquisite. Xcerpt

CD - Kvitnu
From electronic Ukraine, supported by Dmytro Fedorenko's label (Kotra) and with Zavoloka as the author of the artwork, here's this 'Xquisite. Xcerpt', the second project of Dunaewsky69 (Olexandr Gladun), an artist from Kiev who's also the author of 'Contiguity', an album made in 2004 and released ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:07 AM - Aug 6/2007
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drone . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

curated by David Cotner - Otherness

CD & Booklet - Sonic Arts Network
This is the ninth implementation of the series curated by the Sonic Arts Network, a British organization dedicated to studying, spreading and pondering non-conventional sound experiences. This time the task was assigned to David Cotner, a Californian contemporary experimental music ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:21 PM - Jul 30/2007
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Netherworld - Morketid

CD - Glacial Movements
The aesthetic in the six dilated and elegant tracks forming this new project by Netherworld, the alias of Alessandro Tedeschi, founder of Glacial Movements, is purposefully very rarefied and well-inserted in the inexhaustible river going from ambient to drone music which, in its more or less isolationist ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:07 PM - Jun 23/2007
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Amiina - Kurr

CD - Ever/Audioglobe
Enthralling sequences by the Amiina in 'Kurr', the debut album of an Icelandic quartet of female musicians who artfully compose dream-like and melodic textures, simple but fascinating, rarefied and shy, as is, to us, the spirit of those who live in those intriguing Nordic lands (which have already given ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:01 PM - Jun 21/2007
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ambient . electronica . soundscapes

Emanuele Errante - Migrations

CD - Apegenine
Very intimate sounds that evoke natural landscapes, these by Emanuele Errante in 'Migrations', confirming, after his previous experiences with the moniker Mais and the 'Absolute' EP (for Maetrixsolution), true post-ambient attitudes. These are experiments and iterated electronica that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:37 PM - May 16/2007
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acoustic/digital . ambient . drone . soundscapes

Radium 88 - Only Science Can Tell Us The Truth

CD - Latek
Extremely melodic electronic elaborations, these by Tim Thwaites, Matthew Clare, Jema Davies and Clare Hunt, also known as Radium 88. They're imbued with melancholy and drone ambient sounds, following a rarefied spatial surreal mood, not without gentle trancey influences, synth-pop or ethnic allusions, very ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:10 AM - Apr 20/2007
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Various Artists - Incidental Amplifications

CD - Room40
Intrinsic presences of the urban landscape, fictitious sounds penetrate our existences, a melting pot of environments, technologies, human natures and frequencies. During the last few years, as an expression of a sociology closely tied and slave to the powers, we saw a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:42 AM - May 3/2006
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Pawel Grabowski, The Beautiful Schizophonic, James Eck Rippie, Paulo Raposo - Product

CD - Cronica Electronica
This release by the Portuguese label Cronica Electronica is a very interesting collection of experimental productions, esoteric and diluted in their sequences, abstractions with an environmental slant and dream-like in the tracks by Pawel Grabowski, a Polish-born ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:35 PM - Apr 14/2006
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Refractions

$Various Artists, Refractions, Disasters By Choice, Wide, refractions.jpg$ CD - Disasters By Choice / Wide
The italian label Disasters By Choice celebrates its tenth birthday with an extremely interesting collection of remixes, with artists the likes of Murcof, Fibla, Isan, Alog, Flotel and Encre, together with some of their usual collaborators who remix Slow Motion, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:27 PM - Apr 12/2006
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