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SND / DOPPLEREFFEKT / ELEH
Festival Elecronica En Abril: 2003-2012
La Casa Encendida
Deluxe 2LP Box Set // £19.99
Cat. Number: LACASABOX
**Beautifully packaged boxed/double LP pressing including exclusive, previously unreleased material from Eleh, Thomas Koner, SND, Dopplereffekt, Farben, Matmos, NSI, Maja Ratke and much more. Comes pressed on two gorgeous semi-opaque/white LP's housed in a special printed canvas box with cross-woven fibres creating different colourways depending on the angle of view** Madrid's Festival Electrónica en Abril celebrates ten years of commitment to modern electronic music with a collection of ten exclusive tracks from Eleh, SND, nsi., Dopplereffekt, Thomas Kön… Read more
*Strictly limited copies only* Four Tet hits the 'floor with two solid grooves for his Text label. 'Jupiters' embarks on a wave of cascading, twirling synths clearing the air for a pressurised, pirouetting piece of kosmische Garage, whilst 'Ocoras' pushes into bleeping, swinging Dub techno terrain with a hypnotic, heads-down tilt. Strong twelve - limited copies!
Laurel Halo's 'Quarantine' is one of the most compelling debut albums we've heard this year. Ever since she revealed the hyper-fused kinetics of 2010's 'King Felix' EP, there's been a certain weight of expectation on this unique artist, which has evidently been fulfilled with the likes of her technofied 'Hour Logic' and 'Spring' EPs, plus the criminally overlooked ambient holo-spaces of the 'Antenna' cassette for NNA Tapes. Yet, if you still haven't been convinced of her skills, a newly established connection with the esteemed Hyperdub and the utter brilliance of this album - from the sounds t… Read more
**Edition limited to 500 copies on 140g black wax** Camella Lobo's cultish Tropic Of Cancer make a very welcome return with an exquisite 12" on Rome, Italy's Mannequin imprint. Their flawless formula of starched drum machine, plangent jangle and wrist-slitting synth romance is resolutely unchanged and that's completely fine by us. Title track 'Permissions Of Love' is achingly gorgeous, Camella's opiated glossolalia following the sanguine contours of a dystopian, droning lead synth and a nightshift drum machine pattern made for bedsits and cruising light industrial zones at 4am. O… Read more
OK, hands up if you really weren't expecting this! And down again. Two of the world's most distinguished electronic musicians have drawn upon their shared passion for the sensuality and groove of late '80s / early '90s NYC House to hatch a genuine anthem for unsuspecting and open minds. DJ Sprinkles, aka Terre Thaemlitz, is a now Tokyo-based producer who, among so much other stuff, released the hugely loved, genre-defining "Midtown 120 Blues" album back in 2009. Mark Fell is the South Yorkshire-based sonic genius known for groundbreaking work as half of SND and is surely one… Read more
**Debut release from a new imprint -The Death Of Rave - curated by us and featuring a seminal piece of sound art by 2008 Turner prize-winning artist Mark Leckey. Limited edition of 500 copies only cut at D&M Berlin, no repress** The video installation Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) is one of the best known and loved works by London-based artist and Northern English emigre, Mark Leckey. A phantasmic and transcendent collage of meticulously sourced and rearranged footage and sound samples spanning three decades of British subculture - from Northern Soul thru '80s Casuals and pre… Read more
**Gorgeously printed edition of 550 copies with silk-screen jackets** Beautiful split side featuring a new, 20 minute Eleh piece 'Empty Summer Endless', and the filigree subtlety of Duane Pitre's 'Feel Free Installation'. Trying to describe an Eleh track often inevitably leads to us saying the same thing, so we'll simply say it's another immense, immersive excursion into the near-subsonic abyss. Duane Pitre's side meanwhile, is best described by the label (if you ask us; it's lovely): "Feel Free is a new composition by Duane Pitre that currently has three possible manifestations: solo performa… Read more
*Much needed reissue of this early computer music classic, recorded between 1977 and 1980 and one of the first albums to feature music produced almost entirely with digital synthesizers. Remastered from the original tapes and cut to vinyl at D&M Berlin - made in an edition of 700 copies only, initial copies come on strictly limited white vinyl* Digitalis dig deep to unearth and reissue one of the first albums to be produced almost exclusively on digital synthesizers. The work of Canadian composer and video artist, Jean Piché, his densely layered and harmonically rich 'Heliograms' was pieced tog… Read more
APHEX TWIN
Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Limited 2012 Triple Vinyl Edition)
1972
3LP // £34.99
Cat. Number: IF11
*Richard D. James's masterpiece originally released in 1994, long out of print and highly sought after on vinyl, now reissued on this gorgeous, official North American triple LP gatefold edition, pressed up on 180gm vinyl* "Aphex Twin's 1994 masterpiece Selected Ambient Works Volume II includes barely anything resembling a beat or any sign of typical song structure, yet the album continues to garner adulation generally reserved for holy music. People have been testifying on its behalf for nearly two decades, as if it were capable of curing… Read more
Seminal Detroit House LP remastered and reissued for 2012! Under the aegis of Paperclip People, Carl Craig birthed this ultra-classic in 1996, giving life to the likes of 'The Climax' and 'Throw', which are, of course, included on this pressing. No need to bang on about this, it's just ESSENTIAL.
CEDRIC STEVENS / LEYLAND KIRBY / MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL / FENNESZ
The Syncopated Elevators Legacy
Discrepant
2LP // £14.99
Cat. Number: CREP003
**Limited edition of 500 on 180g vinyl housed in double gatefold jacket featuring exclusive work from Fennesz, Leyland Kirby, Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Sylvain Chauveau and more** Discrepant Records collect nine highlights of Cédric Stevens' oeuvre 1997-2005, backed with new and exclusive revisions by Leyland Kirby, Burning Star Core, Fennesz, Motion Sickness Of Time Travel, Sylvain Chaveau and My Cat Is An Alien. Whilst he's best recognised to raving throngs as Acid Kirk, Cédric Stevens most intriguing music wa… Read more
**Includes the full album on a bonus CD** Big new album from Robert Henke, putting aside the autumnal ambient shades of his recent work in favour of his darkest, most dancefloor-friendly release in ages. The title track, which also opens the album, sets the punchy tone, and finds the German reconnecting with his junglist roots, creating a sub-heavy roller that feels like a more supple, sophisticated update of late 90s techstep. Recorded and mixed entirely in - of course - Ableton live, the album's sound world is richly detailed, full of manipulated recordings of vintage cymbals and hi-hats, metal pl… Read more
*Vinyl Finally Available*Two years since he helped establish the Tri Angle sound with that arresting eponymous debut, oOoOO returns to the label with his second single proper. Still obsessed with R&B rhythms and wistful Pop, on 'Our Loving Is Hurting Us' he's also joined by Berlin-based vocalist Butterclock to accentuate his forlorn sound. Whether it's lovesick emotion or narcotic overload, we're not sure what's burdened his heart, but it makes for a wickedly nervy listen. Best comes first, with the blank-eyed, hollow swagger of 'TryTry' and its disquieting, strafing vocal cadences arr… Read more
Girl Unit returns to the Night Slugs mothership with an EP hefty enough - six tracks - and rewarding enough to be described as a mini-album. We'd almost forgotten how good this fella is, and 'Ensemble (Club Mix)''s boogiedown synths and deadly drum programming instantly set us straight. 'Cake Boss' is quite simply mental, seeming to re-imagine 909-bashing techno brutalism according to the jagging, stop-start demands of a grime dance, and 'Plaza'' is a ghetto-electro bouncer for the jeeps, while 'Double Take' strips away the feelgood synths and pushes the same rhythmic template deep into 'floor-… Read more
**Debut release on this new imprint brought to you by FInders Keepers, Pre-Cert Home Entertainment and Boomkat, "Voices Of Packaged Souls" was the first album recorded by Suzanne Ciani, originally pressed up as a private edition of just 50 copies and now available in this limited run of just 1000 housed in screenprinted silver foil sleeves faithful to the original pressing** Dead-Cert is a brand new reissue venture with a focus on genuinely rare archival curiosities of early computer music, Art-Trash, non-pop and vinyl voyeurism which deserve to be heard beyond the closed ranks… Read more
NNA Tapes proudly yield a split side between world-renowned electronic music composer Keith Fullerton Whitman and multi-instrumentalist composer Eli Keszler. Both artists approach the record from unique yet complementary angles. New York City's Keszler has amassed a vital and critically acclaimed arsenal of experimental, diffuse and highly disciplined work both solo, and as part of Red Horse with Steve Pyne over the last half decade. Here, he proves to be just as equally adept with frenzied, almost impossibly-detailed percussive workouts as he is with inquisitive noise sculp… Read more
*Strictly Limited Copies Back in Stock* Will Bevan and Kieran Hebden play nice with a one-sided collaboration on Four Tet's Text Records. There's no surprises on 'Nova', just one piece of beautifully dusted and romantic dancefloor sweetness. Burial's drums are reserved, tight and grooving, while Four Tet's chords and giddy vocal treatments make for a tenderly naif effect, heard best at the mid-way breakdown and beachside outro...
**Initial stock on strictly limited purple vinyl! These tracks are available on vinyl for the first time, cut to double disc at D&M, with productions by Clams Casino, Friendzone, Marlee B, Keyboard Kid and more** After cutting out their own corner of the 'net with a slew of mixtapes and remixes for These New Puritans and Peaking Lights, Oakland, CA's Main Attrakionz aka 20 y.o.'s Squadda B and Mondre Man offer their most substantial physical product with '808s & Dark Grapes II' pressed on double wax. Chances are you've read/heard their sound lumped in with the "Cloud Rap" #tag by … Read more
*Six tracks of KILLER body-working rhythmic dynamism and uniquely contoured edits from the mighty Pomassl* Franz Pomassl presents new, original material and tracks from his 2007 CD 'Spare Parts' on vinyl for the first time. The Austrian electronic innovator and craftsman has near-peerless, incredibly diverse credentials - from releases on Raster Noton and Sex Tags Mania to collaborating with Kodwo Eshun - and it's this duality of hi-end conceptual electronica and more base, grooving instincts which lie at the core of his music. Released through his long-running Laton imprint, 'Surplus Ships' br… Read more
Finally re-pressed!
The Norfolk dreamer behind the very popular 'Holkham Drones' LP has the honour of becoming the first person not called Gold Panda to release on Gold Panda's Notown imprint. On day release from the Border Community he's brimming with jammy krautrock and electronic dancefloor grooves on 'Modern Driveway'. The title track works his signature shoegazy melodies into a cool, swinging rhythm with tidy Funky inflections, while the loping chug of 'Hand Drawn Maps' is one for the Balearic daydreamers. He's at his lovliest on the frothing bumble of 'Carrage' and the syrupy wend of 'Meeting Hill' should satisfy the sweetest toothed Ghost Box fans. Ace twelve.
Bristol-affiliated Hackneyite Bass Clef presents his best album to date - and on Punch Drunk, no less. Following a low-key string of releases including the ace Ekoclef project with Ekoplekz, on 'Reeling Skullways' he adopts a "no samples" policy, using only raw modular synth ingredients to fashion his most involving, sensitive and timeless body of work yet. The lysergic title is lifted from a Brian Aldiss sci-fi novel and neatly reflects its physical/mental, body/machine journey manifested in nine notions of Martian Detroit Techno, psychoactivated Chi-house and cosmic electronic groove. B… Read more
THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS
Keep It Low (Andy Stott / Patten / JD Twitch Remixes)
Warp
12" // £7.99
Cat. Number: WAP335
*Includes a KILLER remix from Andy Stott, plus essential reworks from Patten and JD Twitch* The new single from Warp pop outfit Hundred In The Hands exceeds our expectations, thanks largely to what is honestly some of the heaviest sub-bass we've heard all year; wistful vocals, airy synth lines and ringing guitar complete the picture. The real draw is the remixes: Andy Stott breaks down and reconstructs the track according to the precise, airtight aesthetic of his landmark Passed Me By and We Stay Together LPs, using the original's vocal judicio… Read more
Finally available again... It's hard not to be bowled over by the joyful productions of Floating Points over the last six months or so. He's quickly become one of the most talked-about producers operating within the parameters of boogie house and electronic soul in the UK and quite rightly caught the ears of everyone from Gilles Peterson to Mary Anne Hobbs. 'Vacuum Boogie' is the second release on his delightful Eglo imprint and by far the best thing from the producer yet, kicking off with the ecstatic soul of the title track, sucking dub house styles in a boogie disco vortex with enough ro… Read more
*Vinyl comes as a limited edition pressing on red vinyl housed in red inner bag and embossed sleeve* Hype Williams' Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland have released a lot of albums in the last couple of years - few of them better than their untitled 2010 effort for Carnivals - so you could be forgiven for not keeping count. But the truth is that this record, their first for Kode9's Hyperdub, is one of their most haunting and vividly realised to date. Copeland's sighing vocals are worth the price of admission alone, particularly when riding DIY footwork rhythms ('12… Read more
**Limited edition of 300 including two inserts** The first release on Ricerca Sonora is a new album by the important American Avant-Garde figure Philip Corner. A contemporary of John Cage, Corner studied composition with Henry Cowell and Otto Luening and musical analysis with Oliver Messaiaen. He was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, founder (with James Tenney and Malcolm Goldstein) of the Tone Roads Ensemble, the resident musician and composer for the Judson dance theatre, and co-founder of Gamelan Son of Lion with Barbara Benary and Daniel Goode. 'Italian Air: Win… Read more
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Luke Abbott's debut album of Kosmische electronics is the best thing Border Community have released in years. Well, since Holden's 'The Idiots Are Winning, at the very least. It puts to use Abbott's beloved collection of boutique analogue equipment in 12 delicately structured and warmly effervescent arrangements ideal for intimate headphone and after-hours sessions. With roots in the gently rolling pastoral experiments of Cluster and antecedents also found in the brilliant Gavin Russom & Delia Gonzales album or acres of IDM from Isan to AFX and Wauvenfold, his music displays an intuitive m… Read more
*Limited copies back in stock* Dave Huismans revisits two tracks from his 'Fever' LP with proper remix reinforcements. Face up he gives 'Aquatic Family Affair ' an extended Re-Cut, rolling that slinky-but-bumpy breakbeat for longer while sustaining the warm and woozy chords for classily delayed gratification. Flip over and there's a jack-skippin' Head High (aka Shed) rework of 'Wasteland' pumped up with shifty New Jersey House syncopation designed to boost the dance. Killer tunes!
*Strictly limited copies - What's this? A five-track EP from Floating Points?! This is probably the most substantial and also darkest FP dispatch to date, and though a couple of numbers have been kicking around on dubplate for a while, it's good to have all in one place and sounding this spruce. 'Myrtle Avenue' is an out-and-out epic at 10 minutes long, using the time to go super-deep; it's fundamentally a stripped house groover, but with clustered drum-swing and warm, boogie-funked keys very much in the vein of Theo. It really goes at its own pace and is unpressured by the demands of the da… Read more
Two years since 'Splazsh' topped a stack of annual polls, Actress presents his 3rd, and most coherent album, 'R.I.P' - his 2nd for Honest Jon's. Despite being a vital cog in the machinery of underground UK dance and electronics since at least 2004 (when he released his 'No Tricks' debut), it's fair to say that it's only in the last few years he's made the shift from cult concern to acknowledged auteur of some repute. His work with Damon Albarn's DRC Music, beside a legendary DJ set at Sonar and killer remixes of Shangaan Electro, Panda Bear and Radiohead all certify the fact; so expectations are no dou… Read more
MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
Spectrum Spools
2LP // £19.99
Cat. Number: SP016
Rachel Evans continues her pursuit of the synthesised sublime on a new album for John 'Emeralds' Elliott's Spectrum Spools imprint. Fans of her jaw-dropping Seeping Through The Veil Of Unconscious LP, and its follow-up Luminaries & Synastry, will feel right at home with the time-space-warping mantras of this fine effort, the self-titling of which suggests that Evans considers it to be her definitive artistic statement to date. While the utopian drift of 'The Dream' is all well and good, we've always been more drawn to the darker side of MSOTT's output, a… Read more
At this point everyone's got their own view on the Yank's co-opting of dubstep, but you should know in advance that Atlanta beatsmith Distal is no Skrillex clone, he does come after all co-signed by Pinch's rearview-wobbling Tectonic label. Rather than hit the post-'Spongebob' chainsaw bass mode, Distal instead blends Atlanta's signature electro-indebted bass-heavy 'dirty south' sound with the rolling minimalism of Martyn, 2562 or Pinch himself. This rare rap focus gives a stark individuality to Distal's sound, and tracks like 'Preach On Hustle', 'Rattlesnake' and 'House Party Five' are an entry … Read more
*Senking returns to Raster with another double-headed set of slowed-down, rugged and dark transmissions.* Senking's 2nd EP follow-up to 2010's heavyweight 'Pong' LP sees him add chiming harmonies and even vocals to his abyssal bass contours. With gargantuan A-side 'The Dance Hall Walk' he lasers warped and glooming features into a hulking iceberg sculpture, perching a blunted text read by Michael Cramm over unshakeable, plunging bass ballast. This will sound shocking on a big rig! B-side's 'Closing Eyes' swipes away any extraneous sounds to leave a desolate scape of plangent, ringing tones skidding acr… Read more
7even is a label we normally associate with reliably powerful, techno-crisp dubstep, so this has to count as their most adventurous and surprising offering yet. Why? Well, there are vocals, and pretty good vocals at that - particularly impressive is the strung-out, sub-heavy boy-girl duet 'You Live In Me', which sounds like Portishead might if they'd grown up raving at FWD. The same vocal partnership also lights up 'Stop', an uptempo techno stepper, while on 'Forest' the human voices recede into the shadows, allowing us to focus on the low-slung breaks and enhanced bottom-end - it's no exaggerati… Read more
M=Minimal has the honour of posthumously releasing the final work completed by seminal synthesist, pupil of Joseph Beuys and founder of Kluster and Tangerine Dream; Conrad Schnitzler. Finished four days before his death in late summer 2011, 'Endtime' defines a seamless 36-track, 70-minute moire of pulses, blips, arcing tones and fluid synthlines characteristically devoid of simplistic melodic resolutions. Like the rest of his massive body of work, he imposes a stoically functional yet poetic form of grammar upon the cold abstraction of his machine's vocabulary to convey its most hone… Read more
"Sigur Rós return with their sixth studio album, their first since 2008. The eight songs on this 54-minute album feel like an alternative musical path the band didn’t take after 2002’s untitled ( ) album. Frequently bereft of formal structures, and for large stretches of time more atmospheres than songs, the work – which the band have described as sounding “like an avalanche in slow motion” – offers a counterpoint to Sigur Rós’s steady yet unconscious migration towards public acceptance (either via ‘sound-bed’ ubiquity or use as emotional shorthand in this or that movie). “Valtari” is a more “st… Read more
*Three pieces from the Rotating Assembly's Craig Huckaby (brother of Mike), produced by Theo Parrish and Pirahnahead* From instrumental killer 'S.T.F.U.' to this ace, Theo Parrish's crucially contrary Sound Signature label presents three pieces from Rotating Assembly member Craig Huckaby (yep, brother of Mike). On 'Black Music' a close mic'd Huckaby lays esoteric narrative over Parrish's Weldon Irvine-sampling production, while the flip features a tripping, percussive Pirahnahead production set to the dubbed-out poem 'Squirrel', which is also included in a capella. Dope artwork, lyrics on rear of sleeve, limited copies!
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
Alga Marghen
LP // £15.99
SOUNDTRACKS / LIBRARY / EARLY ELECTRONIC
Cat. Number: PLANA-P ALGA038
**Limited edition of 380 copies of these incredible, seminal recordings** For your pleasure and enlightenment, Alga Marghen have pressed up two seminal, radical and previously unreleased realisations by Charlemagne Palestine. These 'Two Electronic Sonorities' are both products of his influential and personal Golden Research period in the 1960s, and with hindsight now confirm how advanced his approach to sound was for that time. The incredible 'Crown Chan' was first created for a dance by Gus Solomon in 1970 and Palestine clearly relished the opportunity to challenge th… Read more
*Housed in die-cut jacket** Arriving to much hype and fanfare, Laurel Halo assumes the King Felix moniker to inaugurate Mute's Liberation Technologies sub-label. The 'Spring EP' clears her cache of the last few years work, rending a dreamily synthesized fusion of Motor City memes, mid-'90s UK IDM and modern hyper-swerve with a post Ambient-Techno aesthetic. Of course, that sounds pretty freaking convoluted, but this really isn't a simple sound; it is diffuse, kinetic and evocatively melodic, executed with a cool compositional skill which stands her aside from the crowd in a surreal, … Read more
**Lathe-cut clear square flexi disc with screenprinted insert housed in die-cut holographic cover** Limited edition one-shot ace from No Fun's Carlos Giffoni for the very promising Key Lime High label from Italy. 'Little Mornings' follows in a similar vein to Software's 'Evidence' 12", starting out with a ditty sung in Spanish before flipping breaking into a stream of mind-bending modular electronics. Very cool stuff + killer packaging = tip!
**Limited, hand-stamped white label edition** Highly disciplined master of visceral intensity, Daniel Menche, presents a one-off album for Touch's great white label series. Daniel's work is gladly accepted by both noise and more "musical" spheres, releasing on a wealth of labels including Important Records, Editions Mego and Sub Rosa among many others. Taken as a whole, they capture and play with a timeless sense of drama and direct emotional rawness that's hard to ignore. For Touch, 'Quanta Of Light' offers two absorbing tracts; masses of sound whose cryptic structures use loudness to … Read more
KELAN PHILIP COHRAN & THE HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE
Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Honest Jon's Records
2LP // £11.99
Cat. Number: HJRLP65
At Eighty Five, jazz legend Philip Cohran is doing pretty well. Keeping busy in his adopted hometown of Chicago he’s still a regular sight around town, and by the sounds of this latest album, recorded last summer, he’s not lost any of his edge. Cohran is still best known for lending his expertise to Sun Ra’s Arkestra, most notably contributing zither to ‘Angels and Demons at Play’. Over the last umpteen years however his focus has been on his Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, where he (accompanied by no less than eight of his fami… Read more
**Hand-stamped white label** Blank Mind - the label what dropped those maaad soca bits from Adrian Lenz/Sandman - do y'all a favour by pressing up two long-out-of-print, late '90s Juke aces from 'The Honorable' DJ Clent. Face up it's the weirdly wired '3rd Wurle' from Clent's 1st 12" on Dance Mania; an hydraulic Ghetto pumper with wheezee horns and glute-pummelling bass. Face down, 'Hit It From The Back' plays inside-out with herky-jerky claps and needling hi-hats locked on a percolating bassline. Original's would cost you a good deal more than this = don't be daft: cop dat!
FAR OUT MONSTER DISCO ORCHESTRA / THEO PARRISH
Vendetta (Theo Parrish / Kirk Degiorgio Mixes)
Far Out Recordings
12" // £8.99
Cat. Number: FOMD07
**Limited edition of 500** Far Out finalise phase 1 of their remix sessions with reinterpretations of rich Brazilian/UK source material from Kirk Degiorgio, Theo Parrish, and M&M's John Morales. A-side is given to Degiorgio's sleek and stylishly paced Techno overhaul of 'Vendetta', while B-side features a radio edited version of Theo Parrish's plush 'Keep Believing' remix and that fabulously fruity disco remix by John Morales.
ALAN LAMB / OREN AMBARCHI / VARIOUS
The WIRED Lab: WIRED Open Day 2009
TAIGA
2LP // £21.99
Cat. Number: TAIGA19
**Limited, hand-numbered edition of 500 copies housed in heavy duty, tip-on style double gatefold jacket manufactured at Stoughton** On 'The Wired Lab' the impeccable Taiga Records document the extraordinary results of an evening spent outdoors in South West Australia with five sound artists "playing" Alan Lamb's purpose built wire installations. Lamb first pioneered the use of telegraph wires for composition in the 1970s after discovering an unused 1km stretch of abandoned wires on a farm in the great Southern region of Western Australia, and subsque… Read more
CHROMATICS
Kill For Love (Limited Vinyl Edition)
ITALIANS DO IT BETTER
2LP // £14.99
Cat. Number: IDIB38LP
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*Edition of 500, initial copies on transparent orange vinyl. Cut at D&M, Berlin* KPLR have only gone and made the best release on Digitalis in 2011. This year we've been increasingly wowed by the stream of rogue, under-the-counter post-Techno coming out of the States and the UK. But one release in particular, KPLR's mind-bending 'Tek No Muzik' 12" for Crazy Iris stuck in the mind like a piece of dislodged solder. By taking a playfully abstract approach to hardware manipulation, unafraid of ceaseless repetition and finely attuned to the nuance of his machines, KPLR has cultivated a rare connection with elec… Read more
