Fresh off a remix on Public Release’s latest EP, Vancouver-based producer Khotin turns up on the San Franciscan label again with his new solo effort, ‘Aloe Drink’. Like its title suggests, the present batch metes out four organically-grown chill house groovers, both mildly bracing and revitalising as can be; recommended for when the scorching sun’s turning the city into an open-air oven. Stream Force Of Nature’s revamp within.
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Results1101Pom Pom: Untitled
On this new release for Ostgut Ton, you’d think Pom Pom would be ready to step out of the Vantablack shadows covering their album covers. Nope: Pom Pom decides to luxuriate in it, and ‘Untitled’ is no exception to the rule.
Premiere: Mateis E. Aqir – Chimbo Ra
Mapping a serene ambient utopia where nature reigns supreme, Mateis E. Aqir‘s debut 12″ on Seattle’s Jungle Gym Records makes for the kind of sonic odyssey you’ll have
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Jon Hassell announces new album ‘Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)’
Composer, trumpet player and musical conceptualist Jon Hassell has announced the release of his first album in nine years, “Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)”. The release
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Skee Mask makes his return to Ilian Tape this Spring with ‘Compro’ LP
A staple of the Zenker bros-run Munich gang, Skee Mask makes his return to Ilian Tape this spring with ‘Compro‘, his second full-length after his acclaimed 2016-released debut
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Origin Peoples line up new Madteo cassette ‘Unrescuable Dense Musik of the Blah Blahs’
Hot on the heels of his ‘Confessions of a Permanent Alien Opium Beater‘ tape, released last year via Origin Peoples, dancefloor occultist and leftfield hoodoo priest Madteo
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First Listen: Hear a first extract from Michael Vallera’s forthcoming record, ‘All Perfect Days’
Wrapping your ears around Michael Vallera‘s forlorn melodies and smouldering guitar riffs often feels like being drawn into all-devouring emotional quicksands. By turns conjuring up flickering
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Traumprinz continues to confound with two new triple LPs as DJ Healer & Prime Minister Of Doom
Whether these are new Traumprinz projects, the beginnings of a new label and A&R journey, or even an elaborate April Fools prank is unknown. If it is the latter, then a full standing applause is due! Read on to enter All Possible Worlds
Gigi Masin: KITE
KITE is simply an album that doesn’t need to do anything beyond exist in its own little vacuum; it isn’t a profound new age revelation, but it’s great because it doesn’t try to be.
Premiere: Terminal Sound System – Verses
Debuted in 1999, the long-haul musical journey of multi-talented Australian artist Skye Klein has seen him traverse eras and styles with a consistence that’s well worth
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Wolfgang Voigt readies sixth GAS album ‘Rausch’
Wolfgang Voigt’s renowned ambient project GAS is to return this year with the release of a new album entitled ‘Rausch‘. Due for release May 18 via
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S.O.N.S: Shin-Okubo One Night Stand
Cinematic yet danceable, undecidedly appealed by Everestian heights all the while traveling the infra-world with eagle vision, this new outing further asserts S.O.N.S as a sure-handed producer with an unparalleled knack for crafting this subtle melange of micro-organic technoid scapes and extra wide-angle compositions.
Nachtdigital unveil 2018 lineup: Beatrice Dillon, Blawan, Demdike Stare, Rroxymore, Huerco S.
Nachtdigital Flex features an exciting selection of established talents alongside newer and lesser-known artists including Blawan, Demdike Stare, Objekt, Beatrice Dillon, Optimo, Rroxymore, Ben UFO and Huerco. S amongst many others.
Francis Harris: Minor Forms
Francis Harris returns to his imprint Scissor & Thread to present his first solo material in three years. His new EP, the eagerly awaited ‘Minor Forms’, features two original tracks from Harris’ own hand, complemented by two remixes from IDO co-founder Valentino Mora, who delivers his first reworks ever since shifting monikers.
Rafael Anton Irisarri: Sirimiri
Shrouded in melancholic vapours and forlorn harmonics, Irisarri’s new album for Umor Rex presents four majestic extended cuts as so many viewpoints on an untouched phantasmal valley. Drawing its name from the Basque word for ‘drizzle’ – which makes absolute sense given the fine-grained, caressingly fresh nature of its sound design, ‘Sirimiri’ offers sensations in their purest essence, primitively symbolic yet actively contemplative.
Premiere: Rain Text – 2.1
United under the guise of Rain Text are well-known Italian producers Giuseppe Ielasi, founder of Fringes Recordings and Schoolmap, and Giovanni Marco Civitenga, who you may better
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