Kompakt’s ambient focused offshoot hits the magic spot with its forth offering. BNJMN and Steve Hauschildt prove to be inspired curators for this two CD extravaganza.
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Andy Stott: Faith in Strangers
As steely grey as its monochrome cover yet complimented with a lighter touch from Skidmore – “Faith in Strangers” is a bold and hugely satisfying move from an, as ever, progressive producer.
Dan White: Untitled
Forbidden Planet’s taste for musical reveries and spaced-out sound narratives is more than respected with that fresh new opus from talented newcomer Dan White. A first effort that doesn’t lack resource or inspiration to say the least.
Gerry Read: 3,2,1 EP
The trio of tracks on show is worthy of being held up there as one of Aus Music’s best and a frosty stare in the direction of any doubters in the wings.
Grouper: Ruins
Liz Harris has crafted a piece of art that asks for full engagement. It’s all about intimacy and confession.
Moodcut: Tame Cats EP
Tame Cats represents everything one should love about this new wave of producers that keeps breaking from everywhere on the planet because that plate definitely encapsulates house music’s most essential soulfulness
Clark: Clark
Clark’s new album reflects the Zeitgeist of our time, making Clark a stand-out record of 2014, not his best to date, but definitely a slow-burner.
Neel: Phobos
Phobos is best consumed in one take – working far more effectively as a totality listen with each track flowing effortlessly into the next, creating more a whole movement than set of separate pieces.
Dez Williams: Strength in Numbers
Following two top quality releases by newcomer Allison Chanic and Japanese producer Imugem Orihasam, the United Arab Emirates based Bedouin Records outlet returns with a third delivery signed by techno-savvy Dez Williams.
Objekt: Flatland
It is challenging, it is experimental, it is fractured and skittish. It is brazen in some places, and indirect in others…However the album triumphs primarily in its achievement of every great LP’s lofty ambition: to walk a tightrope between diversity and cogency.
Adam X: Irreformable
At almost 25 years in the game as Adam X, the release of his album ‘Irreformable’ is like hearing a living legend in action again, a late career masterpiece, an album recommended for heavy rotation.
Five Years Of Artefacts: Chapter One
To celebrate Stroboscopic Artefacts 5th anniversary, the Berlin-based imprint has concocted a series of five EPs that couldn’t encapsulate the label’s state of mind any better. Here’s the first of the batch.
Matom: Love Mistakes
Love Mistakes retains the raw quality of a live performance, with the creators (Matt Edwards & Thomas Gandey) breaking away from well-worn conventions by embracing a freeform method.
Mosca: The Greyhounds / Clinical Trial
Mosca’s ‘Bax’ days might be over – but then, every true chameleon knows when to grow and move with the rapidly changing seasons. Those garagey beats are still under his skin, no doubt: this is simply a newer and thicker skin which we are seeing.
Shinoby: Club Shock! EP
Club Shock! EP is one fine and serious plate of subtle, mind-intrusive techno. Shinoby delivers.
Gunnar Haslam: Ataxia No Logos
Both curiously languid and fast-paced, hot and cold, Ataxia No Logos resists easy interpretations and judgmental approaches by simply remaining an evasive object of musical desire. The epitome of sexiness.