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Soundtracking the Void
In Honley Civic Archives Volume 1, Thomas Ragsdale distils a gaseous, wispy atmosphere that leaves control in the hands of the listener. (read more)
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The Tides Are In Our Veins
Floridian Post-Rockers Tides of Man return with brand new instrumental release ‘Everything Nothing’. (read more)
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Nomadic music and the convergence of style – Tengger Cavalry
Sometimes, the tropes of contemporary Western culture can combine with the music of other eras and nations to turn up unexpected results. (read more)
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Bring back my old jeans, pop-nostalgia and Elan Noon
Napinco encounters songwriter Keenan Mitag-Degala’s project Elan Noon and new album ‘Have A Spirit Filled’. (read more)
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Kotä: Selected Works of Experimental Music and Art Expo
The Russians aren’t coming. But you can go to them. And should. (read more)
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Resisting Cosy Nostalgia at the Science Museum (Radiophonic Workshop, live)
Traversing a temporal and cultural fault-line between then and now (read more)
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CAN: Unreleased Material. The Can Project: Barbican and Glastonbury Sets
New releases, biography readings and gigs by the Can Project usher in a spring/summer of CAN related events (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Mirrors for Psychic Warfare
Scott Kelly’s new project Mirrors For Psychic Warfare touches down in Camden’s Unicorn. (read more)
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Overwhelming and Almost Annihilating Awe: Dark Matter (Lustmord)
Lustmord draws upon an audio library of cosmological activity to confront us with deep, cosmic time (read more)
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Sonic Space Opera via a Magic Machine (An Endless Sporadic)
Eclectic and Experimental, An Endless Sporadic’s sonic space opera recalls the great Zappa (read more)
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SHXCXCHCXSH SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (Yes, really)
Genuinely memorable music, if a difficult name to remember – Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH release SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Battles
Battles score a Warp-speed groove through the NOS Primavera faithful. Photos (read more)
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Vivid and Almost Dangerous: A Trip To The Space [Between] (Frank Behnko)
Atmospheric experimental analogue synthesis, without the navel-gazing self-regard (read more)
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Experimental Doom, Post Hardcore, and What Sounds Like Dustbin Lids (Birushanah)
Japanese post-hardcore experimental brilliance this may be, but please stop banging those hubcaps. Birushanah reviewed (read more)
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De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu (Troum & Raison d’être)
De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu is not an album whose complexity or power can be instantly grasped. It requires some time and effort. (read more)
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White Light, Infinity and a Love of Life (Swans Remasters)
Swans continue their remastered reissues series on Mute / Young God Records (read more)
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A muscular form of ambient: Near Dark (Gideon Wolf)
Emotional complexity and implied narrative – Gideon Wolf’s ambient electronica has heart (read more)
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Handmade, Limited, New. The Next Swans Album… in YOUR Hands
Swans handmade 2xLive CD, The Gate, Limited to 2500 Copies! Available now. (read more)
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Exclusive track: Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux (Asphyxia)
Listen to Asphyxia : Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux – released 14th August. (read more)
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Looking up in Awe. Jaga Jazzist discusses Starfire
Building a new instrument? No. I haven’t through about that, but it might be interesting…. (read more)
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Defiantly and Successfully Indulgent : Xerrox vol.3 [ALVA NOTO]
If the previous volumes were more concerned with technique and texture, this volume’s emphasis on emotion is clear from the start. (read more)
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Big bangs, pulsars, black holes and supernovas [Fujako]
Off-key gamelan clangs, swarming keyboards and pitch-slowed kickdrums hammer that recurring distopian atmosphere home (read more)
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Misanthropic roots record for the rootless savage [Thomas Koner]
As a leading musician within forward-thinking electronic music circles Koner’s work around his theme presupposes an exploration into the primitive nomadic elements of being human. (read more)
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Cannibalisation: recycling of recyclings of recyclings [Asmus Tietchens : Fahl]
Does the strategy of infinite recycling accrue a new aesthetic or degrade the existing one? (read more)
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High Definition sonic adventures: Joe Snape in 24-Bit
aysayers love to make sweeping judgements about 24-bit sound reproduction. The physical capabilties of the human ear provide a favourite taunting point. What is the point of a technology which can reproduce sounds at a (read more)
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Our ‘songlines’ are contained in our technology, we are technological beings [Cristian Vogel]
ith releases spanning two decades, Cristian Vogel is widely recognised as one of the more thoughtful and inventive producers of his time. In the 1990s he produced extremely innovative techno and electronic music released on (read more)
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Unconscious Archives #13
An international line up of live audiovisual improvisations producing tangible sound and visceral vision, corporeal signals and audience interference. (read more)
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Video: Wildhearts and Napalm Death in Mutation
Video: Mutation, the collective helmed by Ginger Wildheart, is streaming “Relentless Confliction,” from the band’s forthcoming debut Error 500 (released via Ipecac, Oct. 28) (read more)
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Polar Bear London Gig
On October 4 Polar Bear will play a headline show at Bishopsgate Institute, their only London date of 2013. The band will be performing entirely new material. (read more)
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Guapo – to play again!
Guapo and Stars in Battledress to play Thursday 25 April @ Corsica Studios, London. Tickets here. (read more)