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Friday, 12 March
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Available for the first time since its original release more than thirty years ago, Odyssey Of The Oblong Square can be regarded as one of Steve Reid's most sought after albums. Issued via Reid's own Mustevic Sound imprint in 1977, the album featured a line-up of bassist David Wertman, percussionist Mohammad Abdullah, trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah and Saxophonists Arthur Blythe and Charles Tyler. By now Reid's music surely needs no introduction to contemporary audiences. The legendary jazz drummer and band leader has been more prominent than ever in recent years, collaborating with Four Tet's Kieran Hebden on a succession of Domi… Read more
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Tara Burke's work as Fursaxa has always explored the more interesting outer edges of free-folk, sidestepping the default singer-songwriter tendencies that come with the turf and instead embarking upon a series of dark, witchy albums populated by bedroom-recorded bouts of accordion, dulcimer and ethereal vocals. The lo-fi DIY aesthetics of old are out the door for this latest release, however; Mycorrhizae Realm marks Burke's first studio-based solo album, and it seems to have come about from her work as part of The Valerie Project (the group assembled in tribute to the Czech cult film, Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders). She's j… Read more
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Andrea Parker's Aperture imprint pays on the promise of its potential with a brilliant collaboration between Mira Calix and Seefeel's Mark Clifford. The tracks were all crafted intermittently between 1994 and 2004 over a succession of caffeine and nicotine fuelled night sessions, using whatever tools they had to hand and recorded onto a variety of formats, from to floppy discs to Dat Tapes and zip drives. When the pair revisited the material they decided the best method of presentation was raw and naked, no overdubs and very little post-production meddling, lending the album a deliciously haphazard and of-the-moment sense of ti… Read more
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Planet Mu present a rather special album of Beach Boys/Brian Wilson/Beatles influenced electronic pop from The Internal Tulips. Despite becoming haven for dubstep rave mutants in recent years, Planet Mu has still held an affection for music of a more delicate disposition, think Sunken Foal or a little further back, Julian Fane, for more melodic morsels. The Internal Tulips are actually two Mu veterans aka Lexaunculpt (Alex Graham) and Electric Company (Brad Laner), which should raise a few eyebrows with those who've followed this stuff for long enough. 'Mislead Into A Field By A Deformed Deer' exercises their well-honed laptop … Read more
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A double-sized transmission from the Paw Tracks mavericks, who with this two-disc opus release their eighth album in as many years. The sprawling format gives some sort of representation of the band's live persona, rambling through extended jams and long-form compositions that draw on avant-garde synth odysseys and shambling electro-tinged improv. The opening tract spills way over the half-hour mark all by itself, rummaging through expert synth modulations and fluttering, meditative banks of droning signals. What comes next tends to be more fragmented and even more hallucinatory in tone, adding vocals and occasional half-for… Read more
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A trio formed by Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Ros Murray in London last year, Trash Kit are a band who put a different slant on garage rock, incorporating African rhythms and percussion styles, and the odd stretch of South East Asian folk dance (well, they have a track called 'Filipino Boy') into their brand of no-wave, consequently bringing to mind The Slits. The band's sound is mercilessly dismantled, stripped down to an essence of punchy, very skeletal guitar and bass workouts, with a djembe-augmented drum kit and some colourful, implicitly jazzy use of sax and violin. The vocals are often sung as a group or are just pl… Read more
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A trio formed by Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Ros Murray in London last year, Trash Kit are a band who put a different slant on garage rock, incorporating African rhythms and percussion styles, and the odd stretch of South East Asian folk dance (well, they have a track called 'Filipino Boy') into their brand of no-wave, consequently bringing to mind The Slits. The band's sound is mercilessly dismantled, stripped down to an essence of punchy, very skeletal guitar and bass workouts, with a djembe-augmented drum kit and some colourful, implicitly jazzy use of sax and violin. The vocals are often sung as a group or are just pl… Read more
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Planet Mu's armour-plated dubstep ensemble follow their seminal first LP with an addendum of sorts, collating rarities and unreleased cuts produced around those album sessions. 'Cloud Seed' is built from that same sort of controlled dancefloor aggression and appreciation of darker sci-fi moods and aesthetics, blending stunning moments of cinematic dystopia like 'Remains Of The Day' and 'Shinju Bridge' with their reworks of neo-classical compositions from John Richards and Gabriel Prokofiev released on the Non-Classical series. There's a healthy amount of vocal tracks too, from the slo-mo robo-daggering riddim set for Warrior Qu… Read more
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Planet Mu's armour-plated dubstep ensemble follow their seminal first LP with an addendum of sorts, collating rarities and unreleased cuts produced around those album sessions. 'Cloud Seed' is built from that same sort of controlled dancefloor aggression and appreciation of darker sci-fi moods and aesthetics, blending stunning moments of cinematic dystopia like 'Remains Of The Day' and 'Shinju Bridge' with their reworks of neo-classical compositions from John Richards and Gabriel Prokofiev released on the Non-Classical series. There's a healthy amount of vocal tracks too, from the slo-mo robo-daggering riddim set for Warrior Qu… Read more
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Releasing music for well over a decade now, Donnacha Costello has frequently proven himself as an electronic producer of considerable talent, delivering music for such labels as D1, Force Inc and Mille Plateaux. In fact, his 2001 release on the latter label, Together Is The New Alone, is something of an oft forgotten masterpiece. Before We Say Goodbye is more in-keeping with Costello's recent, techno-based preoccupations however, taking cues from the classic, formative sounds of the genre. You'll hear the impact of Detroit and Chicago running through these tracks, but also the influence of classic Warp-style ambient textures… Read moreFriday, 19 March
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On his second album for Kranky, academically-inclined synthesist Jonas Reinhardt expands the language of his kosmische, minimalist pursuits (as brilliantly set out on his eponymous analogue opus) to incorporate broader, band-like dynamics that call upon a greater array of instruments, lending a propulsive, full-blooded krautrock feel to certain pieces. The album sounds consumately polished without ever coming across as over-produced, and gets off to a great start, quite literally wearing its influences on its sleeve: opening track 'Mumma Deed Family Clone' is a two minute hunk of primal electronic warmth (that presumably doffs… Read more
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The construction of this latest opus from C. Spencer Yeh's Burning Star Core comes from the collaging of sixty-six live recordings, captured over the course of an eleven year-period. The editing time for this monstrous undertaking was fairly substantial too, taking up two further years of on-and-off assembly. In addition to Yeh himself, the list of contributors takes in an expansive cast of notable noise and improv artists, including Hair Police's Mike Connelly, Trevor Tremaine and Robert Beatty, plus Mike Shiflet and Lambsbread among others. You could hardly think of this as being a live album given the intense levels of wo… Read more
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Tucked into the slipsteam of the 'Minimal Wave' compilation comes Angular Records' equally awesome collection of obscure continental synth-pop 'Cold Wave And Minimal Electronics Vol.1'. Comparisons between the two comps are apt and inevitable as both documents share a number of artists - Linear Movement, Bal Pare and Stereo - and cover the same niche seam of early electronic pop from a network of subterranean DIY synth operators. Angular have done a sterling job still, with Pieter Schoolwerth of NYC's Wierd Records and Angular's Joe Daniel spending two years collating the seventeen dystopian gems within, showcasing yet more nam… Read more
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