As a reviewer tasked with picking apart the numerous enigmatic strands of Actress’ fourth and potentially final record, it’s tempting to cross-examine it with that infuriatingly cryptic
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Results3438Pop Ambient 2014
Let’s be honest: 2013 was peppered with grotesque cover art. One might hope, therefore, that this year’s music would be served in more forgiving sleeves. Alas.
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Axel Boman: Family Vacation
Axel Boman isn’t a fan of the standard house kick. If it wasn’t obvious from listening to his past material – the flare to the masses
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Joe: Punters Step Out / Club Scared
He may not be the most prolific producer, but few survivors of the UK’s dubstep scene can rival the unerring hit-rate of Joe. Inventive and perplexing,
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Nina Kraviz: Mr Jones
Nina Kraviz was always destined for the spotlight. From the moment Radio Slave used his Fabric #48 mix to unveil her pulsating track ‘Pain In the
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Conforce: Kinetic Image
1. Excess Mortality
2. Spatiotemporal
3. Temporary Reversals
4. Semantic Field
5. Scientific Trajectory
6. Underwater Settlers
7. Formerly Programmed Decisions
8. Abundance Of Selves
9. Optimum Pace
10. Anti-adaptive State
DJ Koze: Amygdala Remixes #1
1. Magical Boy (Matthew Herbert Remix)
2. La Duquesa (Efdemin Remix)
Nils Frahm: Spaces
1. An Aborted Beginning
2. Says
3. Said And Done
4. Went Missing
5. Familiar
6. Improvisation For Coughs And A Cell Phone
7. Hammers
8. For – Peter – Toilet Brushes – More
9. Over There, It’s Raining
10. Unter – Tristana – Ambre
11. Ross’s Harmonium
12. Me (Bonus Track)
Connan Mockasin: Caramel
1. Nothing Lasts Forever
2. Caramel
3. I’m The Man, That Will Find You
4. Do I Make You Feel Shy?
5. Why Are You Crying?
6. It’s Your Body 1
7. It’s Your Body 2
8. It’s Your Body 3
9. It’s Your Body 4
10. It’s Your Body 5
11. I Wanna Roll With You
Various Artists: SMM: Opiate
“Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Once Was would be an extremely appropriate title for an album of wandering classical-ambient hybrids” thought James Leyland
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Akkord: Akkord
If Paul Woolford’s Special Request project was a red carpet event, flanked by flashing bulbs and screaming public, then Akkord’s debut long player is the stealthy
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Roly Porter: Life Cycle Of A Massive Star
1. Cloud
2. Gravity
3. Birth
4. Sequence
5. Giant
Objekt: Objekt #3
A1. Agnes Demise
A2. Agnes Infinitum
A3. Agnes Continuum
B1. Fishbone
B2. Fishloop 1
B3. Fishloop 2
B4. Fishloop 3
Hubie Davison: I Won’t Be There
1. Haven
2. I Won’t Be There
3. Mannequin Move
4. Yeh Sai
5. No Shirt, No Shoes
6. I Won’t Be There (Dayvision Rework)
Dadub: Untitled EP
1. Dadub ‘Mistresses March’
2. Dadub + Retina.it ‘Kykeon’
3. Dadub + Grun ‘Ergot Kernel’
DJ Rashad: Double Cup
1. Rashad feat. Spinn & Taso – Feelin
2. Spinn & Rashad – Show U How
3. Rashad feat. Spinn & Taso – Pass That Shit
4. Rashad feat. Spinn & Taso – She A Go
5. Rashad feat. Spinn & Taso – Only One
6. Rashad & DJ Phil – Everyday Of My Life
7. Rashad – I Don’t Give A Fuck
8. Rashad feat. Spinn – Double Cup
9. Rashad feat. Spinn – Drank, Kush, Barz
10. Rashad – Reggie
11. Rashad & Addison Groove – Acid Bit
12. Rashad & Manny – Leavin
13. Rashad feat. Spinn – Let U No
14. Rashad feat. Earl – I’m Too Hi