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LUSSURIA
American Babylon (Gatefold Vinyl Edition)
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
2LP // £16.99
Cat. Number: HOS-383-LP
*One of the most crucial despatches from the mighty Hospital Productions yet - deluxe gatefold 2LP, initial copies pressed on clear wax with a master and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy* Hospital Productions present a very necessary vinyl edition for one of the most affective industrial/ambient collections in their catalogue, and one of the label's most sought-after. Over the course of three cassettes (limited to just 99 copies) issued in 2012, Lussuria ("Lust" in Italian) drip fed these eight tracks of opiated, phantasmic SM atmospheres into the musical bloodstream, du… Read more
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**A killer set from Morphosis, a must for fans of Sun Ra, Dariush Dolat-Shahi, Alice Coltrane** Exploratory Lebanese imprint Annihaya presents a stunning debut album opus by Rabih Beaini (aka Morphosis) under his birth name. As Rabih was born in Lebanon (but now based in Berlin and with strong ties to Venice, Italy) it is fitting he shares 'Albidaya' - meaning "The Beginning" in Arabic - with a label from his home country, who provide acute context for its mixture of electronics, psych rock, folk and jazz with their previous releases from Raed Yassin and noted Arab-o-philes, Sun City … Read more
**Mighty side of electro-acoustic guitar doom featuring Peter Rehberg and housed in jacket designed by Stephen O'Malley** Blackest Ever Black's deep furrow of new releases in 2013 hits a huge rock in the soil courtesy of Viennese trio Shampoo Boy's fearsome 'Licht'. Combining the uncompromising talents of Peterlicker's Christian Schachinger and Peter Rehberg (Pita, boss of Editions Mego) with Christina Nemec (Chra/SV Damenkraft), 'Licht' manifests an excoriating blend of nerve-shredding noise and choking doom atmosphere evoking the intensity of Rehberg's aktions in KTL with Stephen O'Malley, or the… Read more
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*With Download Code Redeemable from the Label* A1. Gemini A2. Reach For The Dead A3. White Cyclosa A4. Jacquard Causeway B1. Telepath B2. Cold Earth B3. Transmisiones Ferox B4. Sick Times B5. Collapse C1. Palace Posy C2. Split Your Infinities C3. Uritual C4. Nothing Is Real C5. Sundown D1. New Seeds D2. Come To Dust D3. Semena Mertvykh
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*30 minute EP follow-up to Miles' recent 'Faint Hearted' album for Modern Love, mastered and cut by Matt Colton, initial copies on transparent wax* An addendum of sorts to his recent 'Faint Hearted' album, Miles' returns with a half-hour EP more squarely aimed at the floor with four darkened, robust variants. 'Blatant Statement' is up first, slowly emerging from a rough alignment of metallic percussion and abrasive stabs not a million miles removed from the kind of racket you'd most likely associate with Vatican Shadow, before the almost-clipped rub of those super-warm bass stabs shifts the perspect… Read more
Following last year's one-off hook-up with Blackest Ever Black, which showcased storming versions from Regis and Monoton, Desire Records go it alone on their second volume of Ike Yard remixes. Tropic of Cancer get top billing with their take on the NY post-punk minimalists' 'Half A God': they offer up a cold-to-the-touch, marbled slab of sepulchral, introspective dub, Camella Lobo's phantasmal vocal presence and reverbed guitar beckoning you into a colour-bled zwischenwelt; deadly sparse and unforgiving, at times it sounds like it could be a lost instrumental sketch from Hannett… Read more
James Blake’s uncommissioned Harmonimix of ‘Changes’ finally gets an official release courtesy of Mala’s own Deep Medi, three years after it first started getting heard and turning heads at dances. It remains one of Blake’s most effective and affecting productions, sticking close to the trudging halfstep lean of the source material but placing most emphasis on the bombastic brass, strings and vocal samples that figure only as scene-setters in the original. What starts out as minimal, discombobulated dancehall, nudged along by eski drum clicks, swells to a rousing, quasi-symphonic,… Read more
Deft dancefloor excursions from Laurel Halo, instrumental all the way and taking inspiration from UK club gear, continental techno and digital dancehall. ‘Throw’ sounds like a Bok Bok production routed through Jammy’s studio circa ‘85, irie piano chords peeling off a grimy snare attack, all extraneous crenellations sanded off for maximum club impact. ‘Uhffo’ is on a kind of introspective, quasi-tropical house tip, daubed with glassbowl percussion and deep blue comedown synths; this wouldn’t have sounded out of a place on an Irdial B-side back in the day, and we mean that as a com… Read more
Conrad Schnitzler's one and only album with his sohn, Gregor, is a truly remarkable blip on the history of electronic music. Created and originally released as a private pressing in 1981, it touches down from the austere space music of Conrad's '70s period, making concession to both the NDW and Industrial waves crashing in from his own country and the rest of the world. This is almost certainly due to the influence of his son, Gregor, who is credited with creating at least half the album and all of the bonus tracks (which aren't on the cheeky Creel Pone bootleg I own!), but you get the … Read more
Geir Jenssen (aka Biosphere) presents two ultra vivid and dynamic field recordings of the "Lighthouse of the Mediterranean" - an active volcano on the northern coast of Sicily. Made on July 19th 2012 at 9:30pm by the edge of Stromboli's crater, 924m above sea level, both pieces ironically sound as though they were captured underwater, but in fact document the active volcano spitting molten rocks and ash into a night sky against a gentle breeze. This surreal feeling of elemental, geological motion and morphosis is emphasised further in a swirling B-side Dub where the famed sound desig… Read more
**Includes download code redeemable from the label** 'La Chimie' sees the return of the mighty él-g, collecting nine avant oddities from rare releases and a radio show . Equal parts rhythmic electronics, vocal lunacy, field recordings, pop and (inner)space music, the logic behind these pieces remains brilliantly elusive and yet instinctually in-touch. Proceeding last year's wonderfully beguiling 'Mil Pluton' LP for Lorenzo Senni's Hundebiss Records, 'La Chimie' collates four tracks from Èl-G's cassette for Newcastle's NO=FI Recordings including the warped, para-dimensional collage 'Good Service', alon… Read more
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**Limited to 500 copies only, pressed on white vinyl. Comes with a free download dropped into your account free of charge on Monday, 20th May** Public Information collect diverse reinterpretations of F.C. Judd's pioneering electronic music from Leyland Kirby, Pye Corner Audio, Chris Carter, Peter Rehberg, Bandshell, Ekoplekz, The Boats, Mordant Music, Holly Herndon and many more. The groundbreaking, experimental originals are chopped, sliced and refried into wonderfully abstract shapes in keeping with F.C. Judd's vision, ranging from instrument builder Ian Helliwell's fra… Read more
**Includes digital download code redeemable from the label** Amazing return from Alex Zhang Hungtai's Dirty Beaches; a sprawling double header opus of labyrinthine darkwave pop, knackered electronics and chamber experiments. We're usually impressed by his work but this one is really something else, feeding forward the traces of dilapidated rockabilly, blues and garage that informed his brilliant 'Badlands' into a deeply captivating new sound more akin to Suicide, Andy Stott or Loren Connors. Crafted over the course of winter 2012 while living between Montreal and Berlin, it'… Read more
**White vinyl in clear poly sleeve** James Blake 'fesses up a steppin' dub and exclusive new tune on 1-800-Dinosaur - the new imprint coined by him and his manager, Dan Foat. His 'Voyeur (Dub)' cuts a sharp line for the 'floor with driving 4/4 rhythm and plush, dramatic harmonic rendering giving way to wobbly electro bass while streamling synthlines light up the sky crimson. The exclusive B-side, 'And Holy Ghost' affords room for Blake's more avant and experimental tendencies - those that we first fell for and which have since been pushed back in favour of pop ambition - dallyin… Read more
LUBOMYR MELNYK
ERASED TAPES
LP // £25.99
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
Cat. Number: ERATP048LP
**Extremely Limited Clear Vinyl Edition - 250 copies only for the world** Erased Tapes illuminate the sorely overlooked work of Continuous Piano Music pioneer, Lubomyr Melnyk, on five pieces in collaboration with the label's stars, Peter Broderick and Nils Frahm. As reputedly the fastest piano player in the world, Melnyk conceived and developed a signature style of rapid notes and note-series, sustaining speeds of over 19.5 notes per second in each hand, and also holds the record for most number of notes played in one hour with 93,650 individual notes. Of course, that's imp… Read more
PYE CORNER AUDIO
Superstitious Century (Second Pressing)
Boomkat Editions
12" // £9.99
Cat. Number: BKEDIT005
**Second pressing on bright Yellow vinyl - edition of 250 individually numbered copies** The Head Technician cruises up with his first 12" maxi single, presented on our occasional Boomkat Editions series. Since Type's reissue of his 'Black Mill Tapes' last year, PCA has had praise coming from all angles: whether it's for his slick-but-sleazy, Carl Craigian lustre, the BoC-like melodic hooks, or his beautifully full bodied analogue production; he's really hit a collective soft spot dead on. We were keen to hear him attempt something slightly more club-wise, and, … Read more
Walton waves his debut album on the horizon with the teched-out and deadly R&Bass functions of his Brandy-sampling 'Baby' and the Zomby-esque trap lean of 'Can't You See'. As one of Hyperdub's youngest and possibly underrated producers he more than proves his place with both cuts; 'Baby''s a pedigree slice of dynamic feminine pressure, nuff vocals for the gyal, shuddering robot sounds for the blokes and a straight up killer groove for anyone who can't be arsed with those daft stereotypes. Whilst not quite as anthemic, his 'Cant See You' B-side has the touch of a killer beat-builder in the m… Read more
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**Long-awaited solo debut from Napalm Death founder Nicholas Bullen. Initial copies on blue vinyl - cut at Dubplates & Mastering** Type surpass themselves with this incredible solo debut of visceral electro-acoustic and concrète composition by Birmingham's OG extremist, Nik Bullen. Since starting Napalm Death aged 13 with Miles Ratledge and subsequently coining the Grindcore genre with their debut album 'Scum' in 1986 (at which point he left the group), Nik has tended to a key role in his home city's experimental music scene over the last quarter century to arrive at an aesthetic… Read more
Following two well-received, self-released vinyl drops in 2012, Greater Manchester’s hitherto shadowy steppers Akkord wander blinking into the headlights of Fabric’s Rob Booth-curated Houndstooth imprint. What you get is their most fully-realised offering to date, a pacey four-track EP that kicks off with ‘Navigate’, which blossoms out of Kryptic Minds-style filmic dread into a pert tech-house jacker, setting you up nicely for ‘Compound’, a well-lubricated, dancefloor-aware breakstep cutter, sheathed with ominous drones in a Darqwan or early Loefah style, and equally suited to soundtracking a rave or… Read more
Yung Delroy whips it proper with a highly anticipated follow up to his 'Heart & Soul' and '4 Club Use Only' bangers for L.I.E.S. On his 3rd 12" he lives up to an assumed role as ambassador for raw, kicking' old skool Chi-house house values with fervent relish. A-side he percolates the dusty, sticky zaps, claps and booty beats of 'White Owl' at an uncompromising 140bpm designed to really get the juices going, whilst on the B-side he nudges the tempo down for a tweakier, fruitier groove called 'The Fast Lane' and picks it up again with the gruff dancefloor grammar of 'Drop Dead' - another s… Read more
**2013 REPRESS** The return of Levon Vincent!!! It's over 18 months since he dropped the masterful 'Double Jointed Sex Freak', and aside from a couple of low key remixes on Moodmusic and UQ we've been left starving for new material. As expected, his production is super right and tight, built for soundsystems capable of handling his signature bass weight and those massive kicks. Spanning the A-side 'Man Or Mistress' haughtily minces up to a teasing square bass before stealthily unleashing an almighty synthline for macho movers and the ambiguous Adonis inside you. By the tra… Read more
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**Double gatefold LP - Includes digital download code redeemable from the label** Mount Kimbie look likely to expand their audience greatly with this, the follow-up to their 2011 debut Crooks & Lovers, and their first for Warp. Unlike its home-spun predecessor, 'Cold Spring Fault Less Youth' was recorded at a proper studio, and as such there's a thicker, creamier production than before, not to mention a much greater emphasis on live instrumentation, particularly drums and percussion. While ordinarily this wouldn't bode well, in reality it gives the album an earthiness and c… Read more
*2013 reissue pressed on 180gm Virgin Vinyl, comes with a download code redeemable from the label* Julia Holter is one of the most singular artists we've encountered from the current groundswell of American indies. Leaving Records is possibly an unusual home for her latest, but then again, what's "usual" about Sun Araw, Matthewdavid or Dem Hunger? Her high concept fifth release, 'Tragedy' is based on the Ancient Greek play 'Hippolytus', and mixes elements of synth work with droning neo-classical strings, cloud-like ambience and dreamily surreal vocals, almost like an amalgam of Robe… Read more
Easily the most anticipated 12" in the 'Think & Change' collection from Nonplus... Joy Orbison's masterful teaser 'Big Room Tech House DJ Tool Tip!' shapes up a very canny blend of junglist bass shapes, pads and sample stabs in a rolling tech-house template, making explicit the perceived connections between both styles. Equally in demand, Kassem Mosse's killer techno-stepper 'IP Mirror' lands on the flip, pivoting off ricochet kicks and dry cowbells in a trippy cyber techno soundscape. Recommended!
**Timely reissue of an exalted electronic classic, presented on vinyl for the first time and including download code redeemable from the label** Way back in 1998 Isan issued this fresh new template for melodic instrumental electronica. Borrowing ideas from classic Kosmische and the canniest Canterbury pop before it, and offering a frothier option compared to the increasingly complex and austere arrangements of the Skam cabal or Rephlex and Warp-style IDM, 'Beautronics' was, and still is, a triumph of analog subtlety and naif sensitivity and was no less than a staple part of our… Read more
*Includes a download code redeemable from the label* Ghost Box co-convenor Julian House is back to haunt your waking dreams with a new album of imagined library cues, test-tones, telly themes and yellowed sound-postcards from a 70s childhood you may or may not have endured. This is his first solo album as The Focus Group since 2007's We Are All Pan's People, though of course in 2009 there was the magickal, expansive Broadcast collaboration Investigate Witch Cults of The Radio Age. In the best possible sense, it's a return to business as usual: a deviant collector's collage of er… Read more
'Gone Feral' is the deliciously discordant and frayed new glimpse of (James) Holden's upcoming album 'The Inheritors' for Border Community. Leaving the lite-fingered trance a mirage in the past, he appears to have mutated into a far more intriguing beast with a taste for visceral dissonance. The melodies could be from an aquapiezo symphony recorded in a Chernobyl pond while the rhythm is daringly primitive yet elegant, like new Wolf Eyes attempting a waltz, and luckily enough you get them both included as separate 'Drumtool' and 'Synthtool'. Very cool beans.
Loefah's School label cuts to the 'floor with two buff-but-rugged swingers by Manchester's Paleman. With measuredly restrained and efficient production values the 19-year old juices optimal swing from woody snares and fat round bass hits and not a lot else, leaving loads of room for dancers to carve up or tuck into their groove. A-side 'Half Out' steps and rolls with that fine balance of nonchalant swagger and insistent, get-down gorilla swing, whereas 'Chapel' wears a more upfront and menacing tribalist tech vibe with its dread subs and sheer, cyber-dubbed sound design.
*Killer album of fractured, lo-fi mutations, from submerged House to tape dub and beyond...* JFM is the work of Toronto-based sound and visual artist Jesse Matthews aka JFM. Armed with a trusty sampler and spangled mind, JFM hole-punches chunks of reality into busted and surreal loop grooves recalling the work of everyone from Muslimgauze to Bugskull and Nate Young, rubbing frictional layers of location recordings from contrasting alien environments with a thick soup of FX creating charmingly awkward interzones of mutant disco, house and avant oddness where his mind and sampler run unimpeded. There's a lot o… Read more
*A timely, nicely priced reissue of Slint's mighty 'Spiderland', available once again on vinyl* With an impact that belies the Kentucky combo's mayfly like existence, Slint set about cheery picking elements from Punk, New Wave and classic Rock then reassembled them so as traditional notions of pitch, rhythm and timbre didn't apply. Predicting the Post Rock of Tortoise by almost half a decade, the likes of 'Nosferatu Man' and 'Don, Aman' show just how heavily the likes of Mogwai and godspeed you black emperor! are indebted to their sound. Including the classic heartbreak squall of 'Goo… Read more
IANNIS XENAKIS
RECOLLECTION GRM
LP // £16.99
SOUNDTRACKS / LIBRARY / EARLY ELECTRONIC
Cat. Number: REGRM007
**Debossed jacket and printed inner designed by Stephen O'Malley. Vinyl cut by Rashad at D&M** Recollections GRM collect four pieces by one of the 20th century's most important avant-garde musicians and thinkers for one of their most anticipated editions: Iannis Xenakis' 'GRM Works 1957-1962'. Xennakis co-founded the GRM in 1958 (the same year he designed the Philips Pavilion for the Brussels World Fair) and created a peerless body of work uniting studies in mathematics, architecture, engineering and musical theory/composition, pushing the boundaries of new music in the post-war ye… Read more
Koen Holtkamp of Mountains embarks a lush solo voyage for the ever-impressive Barge Recordings, following on from his excellent 'Field Rituals' album for Type a couple of years back. Crafted from voltage controlled modular synthesizers and sequencers, 'Liquid Light Forms' unfoilds with slow seeping trickles of sparkling, morphing light-sound which build into veritable floods of pulsating harmonic sequences in key with the best of Emeralds' output. 'Battenkill' is the wonderfully expressive and euphoric A-side piece bound to impress lovers of really grand Kosmische gestures, whilst 'H… Read more
*Includes download code redeemable from the label* Dalhous deliver an engrossing debut for Blackest Ever Black. 'An Ambassador For Laing' is the Edinburgh-based duo, Marc Dall and Alex Ander's 2nd LP together - they've previously recorded one as Young Hunting - and continues to exchange their more melodramatic inclinations for richly filmic atmospheres and intricate, rhythm-driven and song-like arrangements hinting at a dreamy jazz noir and IDM-esque feel. Employing a rigorously refined palette of keys, harp, vibraphone, guitar, woodwind, strings and synthesizer, processed in layers o… Read more
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Brokenhearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia
Sublime Frequencies
LP // £17.99
Cat. Number: SF013LP
**First vinyl issue, housed in tip on-style thick card jacket** This otherworldly disc is comprised of unprocessed field recordings of an assortment of insects – mostly cicadas and dragonflies. Apparently it’s these latter beasties that make up the most distinctive element of these truly surreal soundscapes: according to Alan Bishop’s liner notes, there’s a folk tale behind the so-called Broken-Hearted Dragonflies, indigenous to Burma. These creatures emit a bizarre screeching sound upon finishing mating, only to drop dead to the gr… Read more
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Pearson Sound shares four lean, moody and experimental riddims on his eponymous imprint. Up front he unleashes the strafing, darkside synthlines and fractured steppers flux of 'REM' and a daedly body swerve entitled 'Gridlock' laced with proper subbass pressure and almost Anthony Shakir-style percussive edits. Down town, 'Figment' figures Mr. Kennedy at his most reflective, jettisoning the beats in place of Popol Vuh-style chorales and piquant synth sparkle, and almost acting as an intro for the rugged, filtered 'ardcore tessellations of 'Crimson (Beat Ritual). Really strong twelve...
Bullion debuts his strange soul duo Blludd Relations with Jesse Hackett (Gorillaz/Owiny Sigoma Band) on homebrewed label, Deek Recordings - also home to his Nautic trio with Young Turks' Tic and Blue Roses' Laura Groves. It's a very welcome entry from one of our favourite UK pop-and-soul-smiths, blending those falsetto vocals which have become increasingly prevalent over the last few years with a rich palette of instrumentation and subtle studio chicanery in a breezy meeting of balearic pop, dub, and electronics. Comparisons bear up with everyone from Junior Boys in the blissful blu… Read more
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Hardy perennial Kel McKeown aka Kelpe drops his fourth album, also the first full-length on his own recently minted Drut label. It's business as usual really - squelchy, tactile electronica informed by library music, hip-hop, soundtracks, kosmische and beyond - though the Londoner does pursue an even warmer, more analogue-centric sound, and generally comes over as more accomplished, than ever before. Fans will be pleased with the spoils: 'Astrolomy' offers a nice line in suspenseful, cinematic jazz-funk, as if Weather Report had been commissioned to score Blow Out, while 'Beaks Of Eagl… Read more
Gorgeous solo follow-up to the heart-rendingly Grouper-esque 'Horrorism' from LA's lonely soul, Lee Noble. With 'Ruiner' Lee shows that's he's really toned his pop songwriting flex with nine sensitive, slow and yet nimbly arranged tunes. We might still struggle to make out what's he's saying, but the sentiment comes across stronger than ever as the glossolalic yearn of 'December ∞' has similar impact you might imagine from Thom Yorke with acute SAD, and 'Rewilding' could be a mid-op Julianna Barwick crooning to herself in the bathroom before undergoing surgery. But Lee's voice isn't the only big att… Read more
*Hilo Edition of the original Novel Sound release, essential gear from Levon Vincent* If you've checked his releases for Deconstruct or Novel Sound already, you'll be aware that this man has a peculiar, totally special style of arrangement and execution. While innately understanding of the functions of NYC and classic house music, he's also making an indelible mark on the style with an almost avant-house streak of idiosyncracies like the spacious metallic reverbs coated of both cuts, and the tension of sensuous house warmth vying with industrialized EBM vibes for your attention. Essential twelve.
*2012 Re-Press* That difficult second album then. Not content with having to follow-up on the success of his staggering debut, the kind of uncontrollable hyperbole electronic musicians have rarely had to deal with and the small matter of keeping his identity concealed from all but his closest friends (and some of those apparently don't even know), Burial has just gone and produced an album that appeared on first listen to satisfy even our most unreasonable expectations and, on repeat play, surpass them. "Untrue" is a much more emotive beast than its eponymous predecessor, a mood augmented … Read more
**Transparent Vinyl** Heavy Industrial Techno stomps from these well known producers working incognito. Frontside 'Introduction To Evil' sets the scene with crushed bleeps and bilious acid bass, while 'The Oven' applies gloomy-as-owt dungeon atmospheres to lamping 4/4 kicks and caustic noise. Flipside 'A Skull In The Cellar' tills a sodden rut of clenched and stoic Industrial throbs sounding like Blawan's darkest nightmares. RIYL Mondkopf, Ancient Methods, Tommy Four Seven, Gesaffelstein.
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*Seventh Vinyl edition - this time on white transparent vinyl* Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite… Read more
*Vinyl Reissue* Don't pretend you haven't heard it - Jose Gonzalez's Sony endorsed classic 'Heartbeats' is everywhere. From the Sony Bravia advert to any 'heartfelt' Channel 4 advertisement, you know it - and it's not even Gonzalez's song, yep that's what I'm getting to, it's the Knife, who have now (in a very timely fashion) seen it fit to release their latest album. Quite surprisingly for those unfamiliar with the Knife's back catalogue, this is very much an electropop affair, all vintage synth arpeggios, drum machines and effected vocals markedly distant from Gonzelez's Simon … Read more
**Comes housed in a gatefold sleeve** Excerpts from three site-specific live performances by Paul Purgas and James Ginzburg, recorded last year. In what has become the dominant theme of Emptyset's work, the cavernous architecture of the different settings - Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station in Snowdonia, Ambika P3 in London, and Chislehurst Mine in Kent - becomes a component of the music itself, the duo's bowel-shaking low frequencies responding to every nook, curve and surface texture of these man-made caves. When you think of the uses these spaces have historically been put to (chalk and flint m… Read more
COVERED IN SAND (SHIFTED)
Heaven's Gate Suicide (W/ Vatican Shadow Remix)
Mira
10" + 7" // £12.99
NOW: £7.49
Cat. Number: MIRA003
**10" & 7" with full colour, stickered jacket designed by Juan Mendez aka SIlent Servant, with a Vatican Shadow remix** Avian Records' Mira sibling presents Shifted's new project, Covered In Sand, with a stunning Vatican Shadow remix in tow. Detached from pure dancefloor functionality and conformity, Shifted allows himself a greater freedom of expression under this new moniker. His head cut 'Heaven's Gate Suicides' works at a very canny 100bpm slowfast tilt, harnessing rampant kick drums to needling hi-hats and screeching monotone noise with a bl… Read more
**Hand-stamped label and jacket** The Dark Sky trio make an unexpected yet successful detour into deep house avenues for the label wing of New York's Mister Saturday Night parties. With a lightness of touch and experimental bent not normally found in the often staid and hermetic genre, they nimbly realign the sound with classy vision, resulting breezier European styles reminding of Lawrence with 'In Brackets', while '5AM swings wide' with almost 2-stepped garage flair. Flipside, the sparkling-but-dusty jazz percussion and quicksilver edits of 'Voices' recalls classic Pepe Bradock and Shake, but … Read more
FOUR TET
Rounds (Special Anniversary Edition)
Domino Recording Co
2LP + CD // £18.49
Cat. Number: REWIGLP88
*10th Anniversary Edition - double gatefold vinyl, includes a bonus CD free inside plus download code redeemable from the label*
