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Shuttle358: Field (12k)

Shuttle358: Field (12k)

Dan Abrams’ Shuttle358 project was one of the first things I heard on 12k, way back in 2000 when his second album Frame was released by the fledgling label. It was a brave new world at the time, a...

Mark Fell: “INTRA-3″ (INTRA, Boomkat Editions)After serving time in snd and being part of a new wave of experimental innovators in electronic music, Mark Fell has had an active solo career that’s...

Dave Liebman, Adam Rudolph, & Tatsuya Nakatami: “Late Moon” (The Unknowable, RareNoiseRecords 2018)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Autechre: “spl47″ (JNSN CODE GL16 / spl47, Touched Music 2017)This release is actually just a repackaging of Autechre’s contributions to Touched Music’s Touched 2 and Touched 3 compilations,...

Glenn Branca: “Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) For 100 Guitars” (Atavistic 2016)This recording is of a 2008 performance in Italy, and it’s a beautiful racket. R.I.P. Glenn Branca. (Source:...

Jan Jelinek: Zwischen (Faitiche)Jan Jelinek’s reputation in German electronic music culture quietly approaches legendary as his seminal Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records (2001) album and his...

Nurse With Wound: “A New Dress” (A Bead To A Small Mouth, Barooni 1989)One of Steven Stapleton’s eerier works, featuring a long monologue that sounds like the recalling of a confusing dream (or a...

Zuli: Numbers (UIQ)Lee Gamble’s UIQ imprint brings a second EP from Egyptian producer Zuli (aka Ahmed Al Gazoly), and it’s a good one. Much like Gamble’s own works tend...

Ear Influxion’s Best Music of 2017

The end of the year is always a daunting time for me as a writer and music aficianado. Having released not one but three solo projects this year, I spent a lot of the front half of the year mired in...

Erik Truffaz & Murcof: “Chaos” (Being Human Being, Mundo Recordings 2014)Truffaz’s trumpet decays and reverberates within and around Murcof’s grimy structure, a really winning combination on...

Ryoji Ikeda: “Supercodex 10″ (Supercodex, Raster-Noton 2013)Ryoji Ikeda’s last proper full-length for Raster-Noton showcases most of his tricks and techniques in the best ways. This centerpiece...

KMFDM: “Nihil” (Nihil, Wax Trax! 1994)KMFDM’s Nihil was sort of the album where they lost me, even with the return of Raymond Watts (Pig) to the lineup. Their newfound emphasis on thrash guitar...

Andrea Belfi: Ore (FLOAT)The first thing I heard from percussionist and composer/producer Belfi was his 2014 album Natura Morta. I enjoyed its mix of acoustic percussion and physicality...

Lee Gamble: Mnestic Pressure (Hyperdub)I’ve always considered the nebulous world of contemporary IDM and electronic listening music as having two discrete phases in the 90s: before...

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