Luke Abbott: Wysing Forest (Border Community) Luke Abbott has seemed to fly slightly under the radar relative to his Border Community partners in crime, James Holden and Nathan Fake....
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Further Reductions: Woodwork (Cititrax) This six-track EP on Minimal Wave’s Cititrax imprint comes out of leftfield as a collaborative effort between the Brooklyn duo of Shawn...
M.R.I.: “Out Of Daily Routine” (<Rhythmogenesis>, Force Tracks 2000) M.R.I.’s first studio album back in 2000 remains one of my favorite minimal techno albums of all time....
Booka Shade: “Lost High” (Movements, 2005 Get Physical) The final track on Booka Shade’s best album is an epilogue of sorts, but it’s gorgeous. There was something magical...
Maurizio Bianchi: “The Plain Truth” (The Plain Truth, 1983) Maurizio Bianchi’s career has been full of twists and turns, but it’s his initial series of transmissions from the...
Aphex Twin: Syro (Warp) Much press has been made of how long it’s been since Richard D. James released music as Aphex Twin, as if we’ve been clamoring in a drought of new music from him,...
Bodyjack: Bodyjack EP (Bodyjack)Bodyjack: Brock Out EP (Unknown to the Unknown) The first on the self-titled 2-tracker from Chris Finke shares the name of his project, and so one might...
Aphex Twin: “Ventolin (The Coppice Mix)” (Ventolin, 1995) I just picked up Aphex Twin’s latest, Syro, and I’m really enjoying it. The Ventolin remixes came up afterward in my...
Lineki: J’Adore La Musique (Italian Records) “J’Adore La Musique” comes on nice and strong, though in two distinctly different modes here. The first feels distinctly electroclash to me,...
Hervé AK: “My Favourite Smile” (Part Time, K2) Nicod Hervé’s understated techno gem is classic Kompakt, splitting the difference between minimalism and something more lush and...
Jarboe: “Lavender Girl” (Sacrificial Cake, Young God 1995) Jarboe’s a hard one to pin down stylistically, between her often schizophrenic solo works and her wildly varied...
AD Bourke: Equal Turns EP (Five Fold) Four tracks of fairly streamlined tech-house from Adam Bourke that owe plenty to turn of the century Forcetracks, particularly on the jaunty hook and...
Crash Course In Science: “Cardboard Lamb” (Signals from Pier Thirteen, 1981) Weird vintage post-punk from 1981 from this odd Philly trio. Schematic Records reissued this in 2011,...
SLG: “Rushhour (Bülent Gürler Rmx)” (Remixe Pt 1, Trapez 2007) Bülent Gürler’s rework of Lukasz Seliga’s original is awesomely minimal — with a nice little breakdown in the...
Aphex Twin: “minipops 67 [source field mix]” (Syro, Warp 2014) New Aphex Twin! The album is due out 19 September, his first for the project in 13 years. I am getting excited!(Source:...
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