Ticking all boxes and more, the debut full-length offering from Russia-via-Brittany based duo UVB76 comes as a warning to the creatively worn-out 4/4 purists and stale-minded heads: future lies in the hybrid and the unpure, the bastardized and the non-eugenic ; future is a cross-bred dog howling at the moon.
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Results1141Taylor Deupree remasters Emily A. Sprague ‘Water Memory / Mount Vision’ for release on RVNG Intl.
Modular synthesist, songwriter and sound designer Emily A. Sprague has announced the release of a new project, her first for Brooklyn-based record label RVNG Intl. ‘Water
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Bibio: Ribbons
Bibio’s tenth album is a collection of pretty things, a box of treasures and faded photographs that softly trace the outlines of a rare and precious musical vision.
Logos: Imperial Flood
Over the course of 9 bleak tracks ‘Imperial Flood’ carves something of a tense horror mystery…each track is poised at the precipice of being club-ready, yet slyly avoiding it. One little nudge would be enough: this LP is a weapon in the hands of a shrewd DJ, but an enigma to a less-capable one.
Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano: Serenitatem
In a genre where individualism prevails, it is restoring to hear ambient music where collaboration rewards the listener with such elegant results.
Mana: Seven Steps Behind
Seven Steps Behind has just the right level of bizarreness that infatuates rather than repulses and it’s that’s fickle balance between order and chaos, beauty and ugliness that make it so intriguing.
Khotin: Beautiful You
In a world full of divisive words, shouting, barracking, and the endless cacophony of online communication, this record valorizes the quiet gesture.
Jan Jelinek & Asuna: Signals Bulletin
Occupying the parallax between Berlin and Kanazawa, Jan Jelinek and Asuna set their sights on far-off stars, creating over the course of a three year period bright, celestial works whilst remaining thoroughly grounded in deeply human production.
An Absolute Music: In conversation with Japanese composer June Chikuma
Hot on the heels of a new release on Freedom To Spend, we caught up with Japanese artist and composer June Chikuma about ‘Les Archives’, absolute music, and why the beat always comes first.
Sonmi451: Nachtmuziek
Continuing their reign of solid releases, the label stride onto their 13th with a rare new recruit in the form of Belgian producer Sonmi451.
Meitei: Komachi
‘Komachi’ is the producer’s beatific ode to his recently passed Grandmother, a woman he saw as representing a traditional Japanese sense of beauty, sophistication and tranquility that is gradually disappearing.
Shlohmo: The End
Shlohmo’s third album is an elevation of his mood-driven beats from beyond the realm of introspective headphone listening, to a level of gravitas and urgency that demands a larger space than your skull to reverberate into.
Smallpeople: Afterglow
Smallpeople deliver gorgeous bridges between lofty house and vibrant dance floor burners, a way to celebrate life, providing give-a-toss who’s watching me dance music.
Kilchhofer Anklin: Moto Perpetuo
‘Moto Perpetuo’ tends to blur the lines between musical composition and studio production. By crafting pieces that rely on the entire stereo field, Kilchhofer Anklin rewards close listening.
Com Truise shifts direction in ‘Persuasion System’ LP on Ghostly International
LA-based producer Com Truise marks a shift in his musical direction in forthcoming mini-LP ‘Persuasion System‘, scheduled for release via Ghostly International in May 2019. ‘Persuasion System‘
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Xeno & Oaklander reflect on the mythology of their ‘Hypnos’ LP
To celebrate the release of their fifth album, Brooklyn-based synth-pop duo Xeno & Oaklander tell us about the origins of their album ‘Hypnos’ and the affiliation it has with ancient Greek mythology.















