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Thursday, 09 May
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BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY
Excavated Tapes 1992-1999, Vol. 1
Astro:Dynamics
Cassette // £6.49
Cat. Number: ADCASS05
Astro:Dynamics leans further into the leftfield with an engrossing new album of haptic machine music from Best Available Technology, fresh from smart drops on Opal Tapes and Further. For this release, the first in a proposed series, the Portland, Oregon-based producer - real name Kevin Palmer - delved deep into his archive and unearthed a cache of drum machine experiments recorded between ‘92 and ‘97. Though sparse and unfinessed, the music culled from those tapes isn’t mindlessly primitive, nor is it limited in scope. With its chattering breaks and dawn-… Read more
Thursday, 31 January
**Includes free download code redeemable from the label** Bomb Shop present enveloping tape collages by two local, Berlin-based international sound artists: Adam Thomas aka Preslav Literary School (UK), and Will Gresson (NZ). Both artists operate between the fields of drone and neo-classical to subtly contrasting effect. Gresson's piece 'The Last Tram' is the darker of the two, capturing a cold mid-winter atmosphere of mechanical drones and buckling metallic scree seemingly free of human interaction yet poignantly reflecting his studies on the relation… Read more
Thursday, 13 December
*Just in time for Xmas, FM3 deliver the fourth iteration of the hugely popular Buddha Machine. This fourth version has been made in neon/day-glo colours and features completely new loops!* The Beijing-based duo of Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian are back with Generation Four of the world's funnest, friendliest pocket loop player! The new Buddha comes in 4 eye-catching neon colours and sees the duo return to the quiet, kinetic tones which made their original machine an overnight sensation. Buddha Machine 1, 2 and 3 have won consistent praise in media worldwide, from sources a diverse as Pitc… Read more
Thursday, 25 October
**Edition of 500** Von archives, where have you been all our lives?! Part of our introduction to this fine Italian boutique imprint is this awesome documentary-cum-sound experiment pairing Carlos Casas' footage and field recordings made in the classic Russian Vezdekhod tank with a deconstructed soundtrack by Dominick Fernow aka Prurient (aka Vatican Shadow). The all-terrain Vezdekhod tank is the primary mode of transport for most folk in Siberia. Carlos Casas captured a seemingly bum-bruising journey in one of these things somewhere in the tundra of Chukotka Region, Northeastern Siberi… Read more
Thursday, 13 September
BILLIE RAY MARTIN
Five Takes (A Song About Andy)
Disco Activisto
DVD // £12.99
Cat. Number: DAREC1203DVD
Berlin-based avant-garde singer/artist BRM presents a homage to Andy Warhol in 'Five Takes'. Starting out predominantly electronic, with glitching, detailed production offered by producer/soul singer Waterson and subtly underlining her Billie's classic croon, each take progressively sheds those synthetic layers through the process, revealing an final take where the rollign drums, fluttering organ and location recordings being us closer to a "reality". Recommended.
Tuesday, 14 August
Striking debut release by London's Midnight Davis, landing on the discerning Five Easy Pieces imprint. 'Aftershocks' is much more melancholic than anything previously on the label, channelling the ghosts of British indie, pop, and rave into dubbed-out and dystopian electronic scapes. The likes of James Blake, Cloud Boat and Holy Other are all apt comparisons for this sound, in as much that they express that unique bedroom spirit, but Midnight really stakes out his own take on that aesthetic with 'Aftershocks', from the dank and isolated '90s Trip-Hop gloom of 'Letting It Flow' to the l… Read more
