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Pas Musique and Rapoon - Composed Reality

Zoharum Blending field recordings from places as far afield as Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Brooklyn and Indonesia, Robert L Pepper and Robin Storey (also known as Pas Musique and Rapoon respectively) brought Composited Reality to the world on cassette and USB stick in 2018. Now Zoharum have issued a CD edition, and it shimmers with a haze of imaginary and real landscapes made artificial flesh, its coherence constructed into a miasma of hallucinatory […]

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Pas Musique and Rapoon – Composited Reality

  • Album review
  • Linus Tossio
  • Pas Musique
  • Rapoon
Published 17/12/2019
Kungens Män - Hårt Som Ben

Riot Season Finding a welcoming home at Riot Season, Stockholmers Kungens Män‘s umpteenth LP, and their second album for the label, Hårt Som Ben (Hard As Bone) positively oozes out of the speakers, dripping with lysergic guitar sking and a stoner (post-)rocker’s earch for the had-nodding rhythmic chug. Channelling their illustrious Swedish forebears Träd, Gräs Och Stenar as much as the heady noodlings of fellow astral travellers from […]

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Kungens Män – Hårt Som Ben

  • Album review
  • Antron S. Meister
  • Kungens Män
Published 17/12/2019
Chantal Dumas - Oscillations Planétaires

empreintes DIGITALes Commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur in 2017 and broadcast first in July 2018, Oscillations Planétaires evokes the larger geological cycles of planet Earth, from the eruptions of geysers and volcanoes to the motion of the tides and onwards to the formation of mountain ranges and the tectonic movements of the continental plates themselves.

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Chantal Dumas – Oscillations Planétaires

  • Album review
  • Chantal Dumas
  • Linus Tossio
Published 16/12/2019
Holly Golightly live December 2019

London 12 December 2019 Stepping onto the stage at The Lexington for the final date of their European tour, Holly Golightly and her band look tired but ready to go. Holly welcomes the audience and notes that, as there is an election party scheduled to follow their gig – which was booked months before the vote had been called, of course – that the set will have to […]

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Holly Golightly (live at The Lexington)

  • Holly Golightly
  • live review
  • Richard Fontenoy
  • The Lexington
Published 16/12/2019
Daniel Lopatin - Uncut Gems OST

Warp For his original soundtrack to Josh and Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems, Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) has pulled out all the faux chorale tricks, conjuring an electronic soundtrack that positively bulges with analogue synths that lay the groundwork for a maze of synthesized and sampled voices which are not averse to interjecting “huhs!” and other Ennio Morricone-esque and sub-Magma vocalisations at suitably dramatic moments.

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Daniel Lopatin – Uncut Gems OST

  • Album review
  • Daniel Lopatin
  • Linus Tossio
Published 16/12/2019
Throbbing Gristle - TG Now

Mute Sometimes they come back. Throbbing Gristle were never really away. The albums that came out of the charnel house at Industrial Records threw multiple spanners in the works as the ’70s drew to a close. The world TG inhabited then was as grey as their followers and they made no effort to alleviate the suffering. TG were punk, perhaps, but the music turned away from the stop-start […]

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Throbbing Gristle – Part Two: The Endless Not / TG …

  • Album review
  • Loki
  • Throbbing Gristle
Published 09/12/2019
Scanner Modulisme session

Robin Rimbaud, best-known as Scanner, has been pushing the boundaries of soundscaping since he first brought intercepted unencrypted mobile phone conversations to the world of the avant-garde on his self-titled debut album in 1993.  More than a couple of decades and tens of releases on, he provided Philippe Petit‘s Modulisme platform with a session and talks about it and his immersion in modular synthesis as part of Freq‘s […]

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Modulisme: Scanner

  • interviews
  • Modulisme
  • Robin Rimbaud
  • Scanner
Published 07/12/2019
Aman Mahajan - Refuge

Taken from his forthcoming Refuge LP on Subcontinental Records, contemporary pianist Aman Mahajan‘s “More Than You Know” video premiered below showcases the album’s range of solo piano pieces.

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Aman Mahajan – “More Than You Know” video premier

  • Aman Mahajan
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Published 07/12/2019
Piksel - Places

Modularfield A squeal of metal and a wave of drone introduces Piksel‘s Places and throws you headlong into a dramatic situation with no time to prepare. Like the slow movement of enormous creatures, wings beating in subterranean isolation, things grind and shriek, and the oppressive drone pushes everything before it.

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Piksel – Places

  • Album review
  • Mr Olivetti
  • Piksel
Published 07/12/2019
Normil Hawaiians ‎- Return Of The Ranters

Upset The Rhythm Waiting there patiently for over thirty years, Normil Hawaiians‘ third album Return Of The Ranters finally got the airing it deserved in late 2015, thanks to Upset The Rhythm. An act that kick started a re-issue campaign to get all their recordings back into print, finally re-addressing the group’s bad luck story with a vengeance.

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Normil Hawaiians – Return Of The Ranters

  • Album review
  • Michael Rodham-Heaps
  • Normil Hawaiians
Published 05/12/2019
Fantasy Orchestra - Empty Boat

The video for “The Empty Boat” was made with pinhole photographs accompanying a cover of Caetano Veloso‘s 1969 song, with Kate Stables of This Is The Kit joining Anglo-French ensemble The Fantasy Orchestra.

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The Fantasy Orchestra’s “The Empty Boat” video premier

  • premier
  • The Fantasy Orchestra
Published 05/12/2019
Kaputt - Carnage Hall

Upset The Rhythm Upset The Rhythm really seems to be cornering the market in literate if slightly eccentric indie pop these days. It takes me back to the halcyon days of C86 in the way that each new band that releases something on the label is bringing their own skewed vision of what passes for post-punk or indie guitar (for want of a better term). Carnage Hall from […]

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Kaputt – Carnage Hall

  • Album review
  • Kaputt
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 01/12/2019
The Residents - The Warner Bros Album

Cherry Red / MVD Audio / New Ralph Too When we last left our heroes in the early 1980s, they had just staggered bloodied but unbowed from the triumphant disaster that was The Mole Show, an interlinked series of albums and associated live tours that detailed the epic and deranged saga of the conflict between two opposing peoples, the Moles and the Chubbs. It would therefore make sense, would it not, to […]

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The Residents – Not Available / A Nickel If Your …

  • Album review
  • David Solomons
  • The Residents
Published 27/11/2019
Stuart Chalmers and Taming Power​ - Collaborations I​-​IV

Blue Tapes Stuart Chalmers has created a lot of interesting soundscapes with minimal means. Live he’s a walkman wizard, dealing out an aesthetically beautiful seance of strange and slippery shapes, tangling up dialogue with wah-scarred short-wave.

reviews

Stuart Chalmers and Taming Power​ – Collaborations I​-​IV

  • Album review
  • Michael Rodham-Heaps
  • Stuart Chalmers
  • Taming Power
Published 26/11/2019
Lightning Bolt live November 2019

London 13 November 2019 Lightning Bolt, once hilariously described to me as “a really talented drummer and bass player showing off” are back in London following the release of their ridiculously enjoyable album Sonic Citadel. Playing two sold out nights in The Underworld, it’s extremely comforting to see upon entering that they’re back where they belong, playing on the floor in a sweaty rock club.

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Lightning Bolt (live at The Underworld)

  • Lightning Bolt
  • live review
  • Stuart Low
  • The Underworld
Published 26/11/2019
Philippe Petit - Do Humans Dream Of Electronic Ships

Turntablist, BiP_HOp and Pandemonium label owner, radio host and more, self-professed “musical travel-agent” Philippe Petit has been a tireless bastion of electronic and experimental music, having released more than fifty albums over the last decade alone, some featuring a cast of co-conspirators including Lydia Lunch, Edward Ka-Spel, James Johnston and Eugene S Robinson. His latest venture is Modulisme, a platform / label / radio programme to promote modular […]

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Philippe Petit session, interview and a Modulisme introduction

  • features
  • interviews
  • Modulisme
  • Philippe Petit
Published 25/11/2019
New Model Army live November 2019

London 14 November 2019 It’s weird being at the Electric Ballroom. Not that it’s a particularly weird venue in and of itself; I mean, it’s actually a good one. No, what’s weird about being at the Electric Ballroom is that we’re here to see New Model Army. In November. .

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New Model Army / Yur Mum (live at the Electric …

  • Dave Pettit
  • Justin Farrington
  • live review
  • New Model Army
  • The Electric Ballroom
  • Yur Mum
Published 23/11/2019
James Murray - Embrace Storms

Slowcraft / KrysaliSound James Murray set up Slowcraft Records back in 2011 to enable him to release his drifting passages of ambience, as well as highlighting other artists with a similar approach. His latest, Embrace Storms, numbered and limited to 150 copies and released in association with KrysaliSound, is a further variation on the theme of distance and dissolution.

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James Murray – Embrace Storms

  • Album review
  • James Murray
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 20/11/2019

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