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VARIOUS / 14 TRACKS - 14 tracks dug up: Finders Keepers , Boomkat / 14 Tracks

VARIOUS / 14 TRACKS

14 tracks dug up: Finders Keepers

Boomkat / 14 Tracks

MP3 Bundle // £6.86

14 TRACKS COMPILATIONS

Cat. Number: bundle_103

Over the last 5 years Finders Keepers has been on a relentless mission to unearth largely unheard gems from across the musical spectrum. Expertly curated, conceived and executed by Andy Votel, Dom Thomas and Doug Shipton, the label has methodically sunk its teeth into disparate cultural and historical strands, from the 'Anatloian Invasion' of Selda, Ersen and Mustafa Ozkent, to the incredible widescreen arrangements of Jean-Claude Vannier, the electronic experiments of Bruno Spoerri and the myriad Welsh-language gems compiled on the two 'Welsh rare Beat' collections . Even a young Vangelis has made an appearance on the label in… Read more
AIRHEAD & JAMES BLAKE - Pembroke, Brain Math

AIRHEAD & JAMES BLAKE

Pembroke

Brain Math

MP3 Release // £1.70

DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY

Cat. Number: MATH06

Airhead and James Blake on a dope 10" for Brainmath! Riding a crest of adulation and praise for his 'Air & Lack Therof' 10" and a remix of Untold's 'Stop What You're Doing', James Blake pits his electro-acoustic enhanced and jazz-informed approach with Airhead on two efficiently sparse and clever tracks. Both 'Pembroke' and 'Lock In The Lion' take cues from the early dubstep minimalism of Loefah, Kode 9 or Pinch whilst also mirroring the loping hiphop/IDM swing considerations of Slugabed or Mount Kimbie. They create a brilliant slow-fast tension from achingly well-placed drums and a deft use of silence that even reflects more a… Read more
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DEEP CHORD PRESENTS :  ECHOSPACE - The Coldest Season, Modern Love

DEEP CHORD PRESENTS : ECHOSPACE

The Coldest Season

Modern Love

CD // £5.99

NOW: £2.95

BASIC CHANNEL / DUB TECHNO

Cat. Number: LOVE033

Re-press now in stock. After four sellout twelves and a barrage of critical acclaim - Deepchord's full length Echospace excursion "The Coldest Season" is at long last available on CD and Download - featuring material not featured on the EP's and different versions of familiar tracks - all expertly blended and mastered by Rod Modell for your enjoyment. Produced using nothing but vintage analog equipment : Roland Space Echo, Echoplex, Korg tape delay, vintage signal processors, noise generators, Sequential Circuits 8 bit samplers & numerous analog synthesizers - this project goes back to the heady days of Berlin-based proto dub/te… Read more
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PETER BRODERICK - Float, Type

PETER BRODERICK

Float

Type

CD // £5.99

NOW: £3.95

HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT

Cat. Number: TYPE027

Finally re-pressed! After a bit of a break the Type label return with this long awaited album from the enigmatic Peter Broderick, an artist who has already been courted by more high profile labels than we care to mention. By the time you'll have finished playing through this incredible album once you'll already feel like you've somehow known this music all your life. Broderick has an inimitable ability to score work that's both technically complex and effortlessly archetypal, so much so that listening to it now im convinced I've heard this music in films, adverts, documentaries - I just can't place exactly where or when. Piano, … Read more
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SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU - The Black Book Of Capitalism, Type
Sylvain Chauveau is one of those artists we hear mentioned a great deal, yet he has proven strangely elusive when it comes to tracking down his work. Best known (and easiest to get hold of) is his seminal Fat Cat album 'Un Autre Decembre' which set him up as one of the world's premier exponents of the electronic/classical sound, but Sylvain had already been releasing records long before that album hit the shelves. 'The Black Book of Capitalism' originally appeared in 2000 on the French DSA imprint and sadly never hit UK shores, but Type (Sylvain's new base of operations) have managed to put together a gloriously remastered and … Read more
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VARIOUS / 14 TRACKS - Techno: in perpetual motion, Boomkat / 14 Tracks

VARIOUS / 14 TRACKS

Techno: in perpetual motion

Boomkat / 14 Tracks

MP3 Bundle // £6.86

14 TRACKS COMPILATIONS

Cat. Number: bundle_104

The rate of expansion and mutation in Techno today may not be as virulent as it was 20 years ago, but things happen more incrementally nowadays, with producers constantly refining and reducing the formula to a sleek and well-oiled rhythmic machine designed to provide a gymnastic and mental release for thousands of dancers everywhere, every weekend. Tracks from Sigha, Frozen Border and Function-Regis signify the assimilation of garage and house swing, while the talented Horizontal Ground encourages fresh electro-acoustic experimentation and Van Rivers and Delta Funktionen uphold the essence of purified, synthline-driven traditio… Read more
1000NAMES - Paradise Rings, Team Acre

1000NAMES

Paradise Rings

Team Acre

MP3 Release // £1.70

BEATS / DOWNTEMPO / WONKY

Cat. Number: TEAMACRE003

Spiralling cosmic hiphop jet fuel from Casio Blaster and 99 Mistakes. 'Paradise Rings' is their first drop for Team Acre, a label who are really zoning off a whole side of the electronic hiphop and wonky rhombus right now. The title cut burns up disco samples and fluttering electronic synths over killer lop-sided kick/snare beats, nudged and gritted with enough ruff bite to keep our attentions. But even more successful is 'Saturn Race' on the flip. An arpeggiated lead synthline bobbles through sci-fi samples, zig-zagging through the rhythm buffeted by clipped handclaps and sluggish drums for that dancing-into-a-cosmic-headwind-… Read more
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VARIOUS / WELTRAUM DISK - Willkomman Im Weltraum, WELTRAUM DISK
*Incredible find this - early electronic obscurities and synth futurism, hand-picked by a mysterious curator and ackaged in a sublime silk-screened sleeve...* Mindblowing compilation of obscure early electronic recordings, exotica and synthy-futurism trawled from the personal archives of a number of early electronic enthusiasts. The background to this LP is particularly murky but a few dips into the internet should reveal the tracks come from a wide range of sources, from behind the Iron Curtain to Asia and America, covering eighteen extraordinary and unimaginable fusions from a time when everybody had their eyes on the skies. … Read more
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BADAWI / SHACKLETON - El Topo / Dstry All Prfts (Shackleton Mix), THE INDEX
First product from the new Badawi and Dave Q-curated Index imprint is one of Raz Mesinai's finest, backed with a brilliantly gloomy Shackleton reinterpretation. In his Badawi guise, Mesinai has flirted with the dubstep scene via brilliant remix hook-ups with Kode 9 and that stupendous remix of Shackleton's 'The Rope Tightens' (a true Skull Disco essential!) on the limited 'Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals' LP. With the Jodorowski referencing 'El Topo' Badawi creates a desolate scene with dry, emaciated percussion and hollow bass counting the time while towering, repetitive riffs cast an ominous shadow of psyched… Read more
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GINZ - Wetwipe Riddem / Oreo, EARWAX

GINZ

Wetwipe Riddem / Oreo

EARWAX

MP3 Release // £1.49

DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY

Cat. Number: EAR013

Tectonic's 'Earwax testing ground rolls out the nuclear-sexy dubstep of Ginz and Kool Money Kwame's 'Wet Wipe Riddim' and 'Oreo' double header. Both cuts are a testament to the welath of talent in Bristol, with 'Wet Wipe Riddim' almost toppling Joker for sheer radioactive exuberance and outright filthy effect. That mutant soul sample and breezeblock beats should certify this cut on the floor for a while to come. Flip over and we get the ragged funk grind of 'Oreo', setting a staggered halfstep rhythm with Afro-lilting melodies and rudely off-kilter chords to make us wile out big time. In comparison to Ginz's polished beats with… Read more
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DONAEO / SKREAM - Riot Music (Shy FX / Skream Mixes), DIGITAL SOUNDBOY

DONAEO / SKREAM

Riot Music (Shy FX / Skream Mixes)

DIGITAL SOUNDBOY

MP3 Release // £1.95

DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY

Cat. Number: SBOY027

Blazing tunes from Donaeo and Skream for Digital Soundboy. We've been fully infected with Donaeo's original mix of 'Riot Music' which manages to sidestep expectations with a 130 bpm amen roll-out jammed with sirens, soul chords and his distinctive vocals. The is the sort of cut you reserve for special occasions, those times when your 4/4 house set needs a half-timed junglist party injection! On the flip Skream steps out of his usual tempo setting with a 150bpm hardcorejunglist exercise, building up a sweat with punishing breakbeats and a juicy purple synth breakdown to ensure brukkin' effect in practically any situation; rallies, raves, fêtes, funerals, any-f*ckin-where!
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GOLDMUND - The Malady Of Elegance, Type
The second, and highly anticipated album from Keith Kenniff under his Goldmund guise follows the artist's recent stint of releases as Helios, and finds him returning to the beautifully economical and organic sound world offered up by solo piano music. As with Peter Broderick's recent solo piano musings on his Docile mini LP, this isn't the work of an extravagant virtuoso, but rather a composer plotting routes, and finding narratives between the key strokes, slowly meditatively creating an air of understated melancholy and atmosphere. From the very beginnings of the introductory composition 'Image-Autumn-Womb' you'll be sucked i… Read more
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TAPE & BILL WELLS - Fugue, IMMUNE

TAPE & BILL WELLS

Fugue

IMMUNE

MP3 Release // £4.95

HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT

Cat. Number: Immune008

Having spent last year recording collaborations with Maher Shalal Hash Baz plus Barbara Morgenstern, Stefan Schneider and Annie Whitehead, Bill Wells kicks off his 2010 working alongside Swedish minimalist post-rockers Tape. Wells always seems able to make the most of his joint projects, and Fugue doesn't buck the trend. Here the Scottish composer seems to slot alongside the Berthling brothers and co. with the utmost synergy, playing the piano, Rhodes and melodica parts as well as co-writing the music. Gently circulating melodies open up through the beginnings of 'Fugue 1', establishing a tentative and ambiguous tone that build… Read more
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PETER BRODERICK - 4 Track Songs, Type

PETER BRODERICK

4 Track Songs

Type

CD // £7.99

NOW: £4.50

HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT

Cat. Number: TYPE044CD

In his earliest days as a recording artist, Peter Broderick assembled two CD-Rs based on sketched recordings committed to tape with old, worn-in microphones. The discs were labelled "4 Track Songs" and got bundled off to Type Records' headquarters. This was a first taster of the work that was just around the corner for Broderick, and the music gathered together for these two volumes encompassed all areas of Peter's work; you can hear the building blocks of both the Float and Home albums in these sketches, accounting for the full breadth of the young polymath's creative endeavours - as a composer, pianist, guitarist, violinist… Read more
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MOKIRA - Persona, Type

MOKIRA

Persona

Type

CD // £7.99

NOW: £3.95

BASIC CHANNEL / DUB TECHNO

Cat. Number: TYPE047CD

There's been a huge buzz doing the rounds about this release over the last few weeks, and judging by the volume of queries we've had about it we can only assume that you lot are already aware of the sheer brilliance of the latest and most anticipated album from Andreas Tilliander yet. 'Persona' is an intense and multi-layered exploration of reduced dub, drone and hauntological elements realised on a truly epic scale, referencing everyone from William Basinski to Thomas Koner, Mika Vainio, Vladislav Delay, Tim Hecker, even Akira Rabelais along the way. Opening track "About last step and scale" edges into existence with an almos… Read more
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ON (SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU AND STEVEN HESS REWORKED BY DEATHPROD) - Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night, Type
*For all intents and purposes, this is the great 'lost' Deathprod album* 'Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night' seemed to go fairly unnoticed by the great listening public when it was initially released on a small cd-only pressing by the French DSA label back in 2004, but has since become the stuff of legend. To many this has become one of the great 'lost' death ambient albums, and an all too-rare full-length excursion from one of the most revered producers of the century - Helge Sten, aka Deathprod. As a producer, Sten molds the source material into the kind of menacing analog atmosphere established on his classic 'Morals & Do… Read more
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SVARTE GREINER - Kappe, Type

SVARTE GREINER

Kappe

Type

CD // £7.99

NOW: £3.75

HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT

Cat. Number: TYPE033

Erik Skodvin, the crown prince of nefarious Nordic doomscapes, returns with another incredible dark ambient grimoire for the Type label. Kappe finds the Deaf Center member peering yet deeper into the sonic abyss, concentrating his efforts on four lengthy compositions, each one following its own distinct subterranean tributary. 'Tunnel Of Love' opens the set with a blurry swell of dense tones and funereal howling before eventually throwing in a metallic clamour that cuts through the murk in a brilliantly discordant fashion. Disfigured guitars hum and fray in the background, but it's not until 'Where Am I?' that more substantia… Read more
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VARIOUS / 14 TRACKS - 14 Tracks: Roska's Kicks & Snares, Boomkat / 14 Tracks

VARIOUS / 14 TRACKS

14 Tracks: Roska's Kicks & Snares

Boomkat / 14 Tracks

MP3 Bundle // £6.86

14 TRACKS COMPILATIONS

Cat. Number: bundle_102

Over the last two years the productions of Roska, aka Wayne Goodlitt, have helped define the rhythmic make-up of UK dance music in the early 21st century. His ruggedly syncopated riddims on the Roska Kicks & Snares imprint and a slew of prominent remixes for artists from Martyn to Ghosts On Tape have ensured his ubiquity in underground circles and an increasing profile further afield with DJs like Kode 9, Cooly G and Bok Bok spinning his tracks worldwide. The tracks in this selection span his two alter egos, from the tuff house programming of his Roska beats to the more percussive and Afro-tribal influences of the Uncle Bakongo… Read more
LOSCIL - Endless Falls, Kranky

LOSCIL

Endless Falls

Kranky

MP3 Release // £5.99

CLICKS / GLITCH

Cat. Number: krank141

One of Kranky's longest standing artists, Scott Morgan returns for a fifth album for the label, and it's quite superb, even by Loscil's already high standards. Regular Kranky followers will no doubt find themselves suitably bewitched, but this music's equally likely to appeal to followers of BJ Nilsen, Stephan Mathieu, Kyle Bobby Dunn and Celer. Endless Falls is bookended by recordings of rainfall, something which mirrors the droplet-obscured sleeve. This sort of imagery is a handy visual metaphor for ambient music of this variety: in the photograph a form of interference displaces the content of the picture as its true subj… Read more
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WILLIAM FOWLER COLLINS - Perdition Hill Radio, Type

WILLIAM FOWLER COLLINS

Perdition Hill Radio

Type

CD // £7.99

NOW: £3.50

DARK AMBIENT / DRONE / METAL

Cat. Number: TYPE046CD

Lovers of Dark Ambient's shadowy recesses take note: this latest Type release brings the haunted New Mexican soundworld of William Fowler Collins to the world - and it's one of the most relentless collections of dense and harrowing midnight music you'll likely have the pleasure of hearing. Flicking through this record - skimming the surface of these crumbling, derelict sonic constructions - feels like intercepting a shortwave broadcast from the hereafter. It all points towards something sinister and most unwholesome, but to give all this context, it's worth noting that Collins' talent has been incubating for some time: his CV … Read more
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VIRGO - Virgo, Rush Hour

VIRGO

Virgo

Rush Hour

CD // £12.49

TECHNO / HOUSE

Cat. Number: RH-TX1CD

YESSSS! That's what we're talking about mate!!! Rush Hour have done the world a huge favour, reissuing Virgo's seminal self-titled album as a double vinyl, CD and digital set newly mastered and sounding better than ever. 'Virgo' is a revered artefect of Afrofuturism that doesn't sound quite like anything that came before or after it. The duo comprised of Merwyn Sanders and Eric Lewis, also known as Ace & The Sandman or M.E, and not to be confused with the other Virgo of Vince Lawrence and co. For any original house heads this reissue is a dream come true, providing another chance to re-engage with tracks like 'Ride' and 'Do You… Read more
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JACK SPARROW - Terminal / Torment, TECTONIC

JACK SPARROW

Terminal / Torment

TECTONIC

MP3 Release // £1.49

DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY

Cat. Number: TEC037

Jack Sparrow ups his game with the 'Terminal' 12" for Tectonic. All well tuned ears should be hunting down the the title track, Shackleton-inspired fusion of spooked atmospherics and gloomy bass with tribal percussion for the dancefloor shakers. On the flipside 'Torment' skulks on a halfstep tip with overcast industrial ambience and crushing halfstep beats. One for fans of Ramadanman or Skull Disco heads.
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IAN HAWGOOD / VARIOUS - Slow Films In Low Light, Home Normal
*Beautiful interpretations of Hawgood originals delivered by The Remote Viewer, Danny Norbury, Library Tapes, Hannu and others...* The Home Normal label boss Ian Hawgood released an album in 2008 called 'Soundtrack To A Film In My Head Which Will Never Get Made'. This album is a companion piece to that (now deleted) body of work, which calls upon a host of Hawgood's friends and colleagues to contribute remixes based on his original tracks. The assembled artists include The Remote Viewer, Danny Norbury, Hannu, Library Tapes and Chihei Hatakeyama representing a multicultural yet in many ways like-minded bunch. Federico Durand get… Read more

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HELIOS - Caesura, Type

HELIOS

Caesura

Type

CD // £7.99

NOW: £3.75

HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT

Cat. Number: TYPE042

His full-length follow-up to the Eingya album, Keith Kenniff's Caesura finds the Type veteran exploring electronic arrangements to an even greater depth than ever before, blending an incredibly detailed approach to beat making with exquisite harmonies and instrumental melodies derived from an array of acoustic arrangements. Caesura is the sound of electronica grown up: no longer is the sound palette restricted to a few soft synths and plugins - here Kenniff takes guitars and recordings of percussive found sounds, blending them all together in a highly organic and textured mix of synthesis, sampling and conventional composition… Read more
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ELEH - Location Momentum, Touch

ELEH

Location Momentum

Touch

CD // £11.99

ELECTRONIC

Cat. Number: TO80

*The long awaited Touch debut from Eleh - one of the most fascinating and mysterious projects in contemporary electronic music* Ever since we heard our first Eleh record back in 2006 we've been completely blown away by the precise architecture and conceptual realisation of one of the more mysterious recording projects in electronic music. A succession of eleven vinyl-only releases on Important and Taiga followed, marking the enigmatic figure behind the name as a purveyor of exceptional drone music, exploring analog synthesis with a particular emphasis on the physicality of sound from the very lowest registers of the frequency … Read more
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HELIOS - Eingya, Type

HELIOS

Eingya

Type

CD // £5.99

NOW: £3.50

HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT

Cat. Number: TYPE011

Finally re-pressed! Having hit the shelves running with last year's piano-sodden 'Corduroy Road', the hard-working Keith Kenniff has slipped out of his Goldmund guise to reassume the Helios mantle and put together this lambent LP of expansive instrumentation and froth-flecked electronics. A student at Berkley College of Music in Boston, Kenniff's style may benefit from a firm understanding of what is required under-the-bonnet in terms of technical considerations, but never does he let the more austere elements of formal musical training encroach on the utterly sublime compositions that stretch as far as the eye can see. Openin… Read more
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