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Friday, 01 June
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**Housed in a very posh lenticular hologram sleeve** Simmering soul and tricky electro for the dance from SBTRKT and his trusty vocal spar, Sampha. 'Hold On' is a gingerly stepping House groove with yearning vox and glassy-eyed melody, sharing a sensitive pop soul with Jamie xx's best. 'Ride To Freedom' is a skilled exercise in twirling, swinging Electro with a nod to Chicago Footwork, and the mysterious Sisi Bak Bak (if rumours are to be believed - a new alias for non other than Thom Yorke) offers the most interesting moment with a brittle, heady re-groove of 'Hold On'.
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**35 minutes of material spread over 4 tracks** **35 minutes of material spread over 4 tracks** Mi Ami is the five year old project of exotic punk-gone-House types Daniel Martin-McCormick (Ital) and Damon Palermo (Magic Touch). 'Decade', their first release since last years 'Dolphins' for Thrill Jockey, signifies a suitably decadent sea-change to their sound in keeping with respective solo projects. Basically they've ditched the guitars and drums for a hypnotic, electronic blend of Deep House and Disco filtered through their sly post-punk sensibilities. For our $, it's their finest collaborative work y… Read more
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San Fran's Dave Aju steers Circus Company on one of their freshest rides since the Nicolas Jaar album with his sophomore LP. There's a distinctly rich and expressive musical consistency to 'Heirlooms' largely thanks to his use of vintage recordings and instruments inherited from his late father. It's still sophisticated party music, but it's also one of those "dancefloor" albums that's just as comfortable on headphones and sunk into the couch, wending its way through ten subtly morphing and spaced-out productions poised with a cool funk and tingling sense of psychedelia. He's joined by fellow Circ… Read more
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Proving they're still alive and still on point, here's another winner from the mysterious Various camp, showing their darker, more soulful side with the silky vocal cut 'Moving On'. Somehow this reminds us of early Leila, all woozy, slightly f*cked up and sort of delicious in its reimagining of digital soul music. For those who miss the dancefloor-heavy end of the label though there's 'Bolts' on the flip that shows a rare Drexiyan electro bent and a new twist in their evolving catalogue.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER
RECOLLECTION GRM
LP // £15.99
SOUNDTRACKS / LIBRARY / EARLY ELECTRONIC
Cat. Number: REGRM001
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GUY REIBEL
Granulations-Sillages / Franges du Signe
RECOLLECTION GRM
LP // £15.99
SOUNDTRACKS / LIBRARY / EARLY ELECTRONIC
Cat. Number: REGRM002
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Pantha Du Prince and his pal, Stephan Abry ease off with this mondo-chilled new collaboration as Ursprung. The pair have previously collaborated: Abry - a former member of German experimental group Workshop - contributed "sound sources played on prepared instruments" to Herr Du Prince's 'Black Noise' album, but it's the first time they've been credited side-by-side. Their title translates to "origin" in English and rings true with their stripped down approach to arrangement and playing. At a guess, Abry is responsible for the lushly languid guitar lines which percolate through the sonorous bass pul… Read more
FENNESZ / BRANDLMAYER / DAFELDECKER
Till The Old World's Blown Up And A New One Is Created
m=minimal
LP // £14.99
Cat. Number: MM-011LP
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DAVID THOR JONSSON
RADIO BONGO
LP+CD // £12.99
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
Cat. Number: BROADCAST01
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After releasing on practically every Dubstep label in the game, Truth drop two halfstep heavyweights on Tempa. 'Last Time' plays out a darkly seductive, highly pressurised jungle vibe hinging on swollen subs and darting breaks under cinematic synth arcs. Working with vocalist Yayne, 'Dreams' comes as close as it gets to Kryptic Minds' hallowed halfstep dramas.
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Chicago art-rockers Volcano! Have been dormant (ha, geddit?) for a while now; their last full length was way back in 2008, but from the sound of Pinata, they’ve not lost any of their hyperactive charm. The opening, eponymous track begins with the intensity of legendary electronic upsetters Silver Apples, and gives the perfect introduction to their stop-start wyrd rock experience. The pop formulas are still just about present – there’s vocals, drums and guitar but the band are smart enough to reframe them with the kind of slick muso knowledge that made us all fall in love with Dirty Projectors. T… Read more
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Review to follow shortly…Friday, 08 June
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It's hard to believe that 'The End of Music' is only the second album from Swedish dream poppers De La Mancha. I guess it makes sense, given that part of the band's core duo is none other than Dag Rosenqvist, who's been quite busy under his Jasper TX guise for the last few years. Along with childhood friend Jerker Lund, however, he is responsible for some of the most gorgeous ambient pop music this side of Iceland, and 'The End of Music' is the band's finest document to date. Emerging from the esteemed Karaoke Kalk imprint, this showcases the band's ability to compose mini-symphonies i… Read more
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**2 hours worth of prime Johnny Jewel music inspired by European cinema noir and avant-classical composition and concepts by Cage, Ligeti, Satie, Feldman. Its' *not* his rumoured unused soundtrack to Nicolas Refn's 'Drive', but could well be used for your next intercounty mission or autobahn cruise** "Three years in the making, Symmetry - the project that began as a conceptual tangent between Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mirage, & Desire's more abstract sides - finally sees its release... Themes For An Imaginary Film is two hours of claustrophobic cinematic bliss compiled for Paint… Read more
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"O'Jays road manager, Don KIng prison chauffeur, window washer, house painter, Ink Spot, Domino, producer, engineer, label owner, guitorgan technician, and one-time steward of a coveted Jet Magazine delivery route, Lou Ragland is Cleveland's Eastside success story. Though suffocated by Lake Erie's nitrate rich waters and burning oil from a Cuyahoga River fire, between 1967-1977 Lou Ragland produced the most thoughtful, hopeful, and downright soulful work to come out of the Forest City. Bookended by his dynamic albums Hot Chocolate and Understand Each Other, I Travel Alone gathers period si… Read more
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Justin Broaderick (Jesu, Palesketcher, Techno Animal, Napalm Death) remerges as JK Flesh for one of his heaviest albums in years. Appearing on 3by3, the label who tasked him with those bloodied remixes of Cloaks, he moves away from the shoegaze visions of last year's brilliant Palesketcher album, and the dramas of Jesu to burrow deep into stark, subterranean Dubstep rhythms mixed with rusted guitar noise and guttural howls. Like his buddy The Bug's brutalised dub, or Distance's axe-wielding halfstep, 'Posthuman' is all about visceral distortion and bruising bass weight, from the quaking kicks and … Read more
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Dark/chill wave types Light Asylum have been teasing us with EPs and odd tracks for ages now so it's great to see the full album finally emerge. It's been worth the wait too as it combines the spine tingling minimalism of Silk Flowers with the glassy neo-goth stylings of Zola Jesus to emerge with something propulsive and engaging. The duo of synth jockey Bruno Coviello and vocalist Shannon Funchess might not be creating the most original sounds around, but their 80s revivalist moves feel totally without irony and the tiresome Brooklyn smirk, and that in itself is a triumph. Instead of engag… Read more
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A dub head through and through, Kevin Martin takes the art of versioning seriously, hence this whole album of King Midas Sound remixes by the great and good of underground music. Seriously, the contributor list reads like a who's-who, and shows you just how much Martin is respected by his peers. The biggest surprise is probably the appearance of Scritti Politti ringleader Green Gartside, who re-vocals 'Come And Behold' in his oft-copied, never-bettered whiteboy soul croon. Other favourites? Kuedo's chrome-plating of 'Goodbye Girl' in shiny, celebratory, Severant-style form is a winner, w… Read more
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