Function: Incubation (Ostgut-Ton) The first track of Incubation comes into focus like a dream sequence. “Voiceprint” is an ambient introduction that showcases Function’s...
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Raime: Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black) Raime’s debut full-length is even darker and more brooding than I’d anticipated. Somehow feeling aligned with...
Conrad Schnitzler & Andreas Reihse: Con-Struct (m=minimal) Andreas Reihse is perhaps best known as one of the founding members of experimental electronic act Kreidler, but he’s...
William Basinski & Richard Chartier: Aurora Liminalis (Line) Aurora Liminalis is one long collaboration between two rather different but somehow kindred musical spirits. William...
Taragana Pyjarama: Tipped Bowls (Kompakt) I missed this one when it first came out last summer. I just read a blurb about Kompakt’s latest 20 year compilation release that seemed...
Nosaj Thing: Home (Innovative Leisure) The new album from Jason Chung, a full 3 years after his last album and its accompanying remix collection, is stunning. It won me over immediately...
Richard Chartier: Recurrence (Line) Line’s first release in 2000 was Richard Chartier’s own Series album. Recently Chartier has been revisiting this early material, considering...
Fieldhead: A Correction (Gizeh) Achingly gorgeous instrumental interplay between Paul Elam’s electronic arrangements and violinists Elaine Reynolds and Sarah Kemp. The cover art...
Bee Mask: When We Were Eating Unique Pears (Spectrum Spools) This mini-album (31 minutes) from Bee Mask is a fairly different beast from Chris Madak’s pseudo-retrospective that...
Barker & Baumecker: Transsektoral (Ostgut-Ton) Being a great techno producer can have its downside. When you are so consistently good at tightly crafting techno tracks that are both...
Vladislav Delay: Kuopio (Raster-Noton) Sasu Ripatti continues to surprise and delight after all this time. I’m happy to see him revive his Vladislav Delay alias with such gusto....
Nathan Fake: Steam Days / Paean (Border Community) Nathan Fake has always wandered the outer perimeter of dance music. Along with Luke Abbott and label boss James Holden, he has a very...
Michael Mayer: Mantasy (Kompakt) Michael Mayer is a slippery one. He’s been running the Kompakt label alongside Wolfgang Voigt and Jürgen Paape since the mid 90s, and yet despite...
Mouse on Mars: WOW (Monkeytown) Mouse on Mars has released not just one outstanding album this year (Parastrophics, also on Monkeytown), but they’ve followed it up swiftly with this...
Ricardo Villalobos: Dependent and Happy CD (Perlon) As sometimes is the case, Perlon’s issue of Villalobos’s latest varies from format to format. On vinyl, it’s a...
Grischa Lichtenberger: And IV (Intertia) (Raster-Noton) I had never heard of Grischa Lichtenberger when I saw news of this release. He put out an EP on Raster-Noton in 2009 (ununbium / ~...
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