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26 OCT 2016

ALTARS ALTARS | Small Hours (Home Normal)

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The work of Moritz Leppers, the man behind the Altars Altars moniker, makes music using a variety of instruments running through his faithful old reel to reel machine. Much has been made of reel to reel in recent years it has to be said, but when you come across an artist who uses its limitations and beautiful randomness to such effect, it always stirs something deep within me. It is very refreshing to hear someone who makes simple, melodic, and inherently soulful ambient music, and it is a reminder of how rare it is to listen to such music and[…]

25 OCT 2016

SHIFTED | Appropriation Stories

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Shifted‘s debut for Hospital Productions following an album for sublabel Bed Of Nails in 2013. Integrating his more searching work as Alexander Lewis and his increasingly introspective work asShifted while eloquently addressing his past, ‘Appropriation Stories‘ is a comprehensive statement of intent and Brewer‘s finest, most mature work to-date. Guy Alexander Brewer is involved in several projects taking in techno, noise and experimental electronics overlaying a once-hidden past in drum’n’bass. Having shunned his previous work inCommix, more recently Brewer has learned to look back, even making sideways stabs into breakbeat territory with his Covered in Sand alias. The process grows more intricate[…]

24 OCT 2016

GUILIO ALDINUCCI | Goccia (Home Normal)

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In 2012, Giulio released Tarsia on Nomadic Kids Republic to critical acclaim. It was a slow burner , but seemed to hook people with its clever entwining of encapsulating melody and delicately place field recordings. His follow-up Goccia, takes a rather thunderous step in the direction of a bang-on classic with one of the most complete, catchy, and ambitious albums heard in a long time. Far more straight-up rhythmic that his previous releases, Goccia balances organic layers with some fantastic melodic synth hooks, flying straight through a maze of frequencies from drones, bleeps, bloops, background music, jingles, jangles, gut-punching subs, and[…]

20 OCT 2016

MONOLAKE | VLSI (Imbalance Computer Music)

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Robert Henke is back with a new album under his Monolake alias. Instead of simply being a collection of tracks, it has a deeper story. Here it comes: * In the late 1970s, a series of significant enhancements in technology further accelerated the evolution of the digital age. Graphical interfaces, networked computers and new software tools allowed to design and manufacture integrated circuits with tens of thousands of functions on one chip; a process called Very Large Scale Integration – VLSI. The structures became so complex, that for the first time computers were needed to build the next generation of[…]

18 OCT 2016

PETER BRODERICK | Partners (Erased Tapes Records)

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Veteran Erased Tapes recording artist Peter Broderick set to release new studio album Partners on 19th August 2016. For close to a decade, Portland’s Peter Broderick has cut his own unpredictable path through the world of contemporary music. So far, his wanderings have led him from solo works into the realms of film, dance and documentary scores, as well as art installations. Now Peter takes that unpredictability one step further. For his latest album, a series of voice and piano recordings, he experiments with chance, surrendering an entire song’s composition to the roll of dice. As he explains below in an email[…]

17 OCT 2016

LEGIAC | The Voynich Manuscript (Dronarivm)

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After last year’s sophomore release, The Faex Has Decimated, on Tympanik Audio, the Legiac project is back, but this time on the Russian based Dronarivm label, where the new album feels more at home. This time, the electronic duo of Roel Funcken and Cor Bolten take on a more meditative approach to their mildly glitch-infused, modular explored sounds, weaving in ambient textures, field recordings, and vast soundscapes. Discover LEGIAC | The Voynich Manuscript (Dronarivm)

15 OCT 2016

MIKE & RICH | Expert Knob Twiddlers (vinyl reissue)

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A collaboration between Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) and µ-Ziq (Mike Paradinas), Expert Knob Twiddlers was made back in 1994. Richard edited the tracks into shape later in 1996 with his new Apple Mac computer and it was released later that year on Rephlex, the label he co-owned and which released the first two albums by µ-Ziq. This new reissued version has been carefully cleaned up, re-edited and remastered from the original DAT tapes, put into a more fitting order and, more excitingly, seven new bonus tracks and alternative versions have also been added. The album was recorded over a[…]