Strategy: “VidM” (What If?, Boomarm Nation 2012)Fidgety, nervous energy kicks off Strategy’s 2012 album, full of dubby delay, layered rhythms, and electric zips and zaps.(Source:...
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Oneohtrix Point Never: “I Only Have Eyes For You” (Commissions I, Warp 2014)Stunning cut-ups in this cover from Oneohtrix Point Never, from his first Commissions EP on Warp. (Source:...
Pimmon: “rruz” (Orquesta Del Arrurruz, Staalplaat 2001)I’ve always rather enjoyed the hazy digital manipulations of Australian experimentalist Paul Gough, a.k.a. Pimmon. This one opens his Orquesta...
Black Cube Marriage: “Fractal Signal Clone” (Astral Cube, El Paraiso 2017)Dense avant-jazz abounds on Black Cube Marriage’s new album Astral Cube, available on El Paraiso. The 11-person ensemble is...
Murcof: “Cuerpo Celeste” (Cosmos, Leaf 2007)Cosmic awesomeness from Fernando Corona a.k.a. Murcof. His last proper solo album under the name was a full ten years ago — will we hear more?(Source:...
Deerhoof & Dal Niente: Balter/Saunier (New Amsterdam)I remember sharing Deerhoof’s Friend Opportunity in 2006 with Marcos Balter, a friend of mine in Chicago, who immediately...
WaSm: Een (silken tofu)Een is the first recorded document of an ongoing project between Dutch friends and collaborators Frans de Waard and Jos Smolders. For decades, each has been digging...
snd: “00020 a” (stdio, Mille Plateaux 2000)snd’s run of three albums for Mille Plateaux made a big splash for their headlong dive into glitchy minimalism. It was hard to not get too caught up in the...
Kilner: Walk Type (Avian)Jamie Roberts’ debut under the Kilner alias is a sharp contrast from the bangers he’s unleashed under his better known project Blawan. Whereas Blawan throws...
Black Lung: “Muzak from the Hive Mind Part XIII” (Music from the Hive Mind, Ant-Zen 2015)David Thrussell continues to impress with his long-running Black Lung project, including this excerpt from...
Yann Novak: Ornamentation (Touch) Los Angeles-based sound artist Yann Novak has been busy, having released both this recent performance recording on Touch as well as a two-hour album last...
Monte Cazazza: “A Is For Atom” (The Worst of Monte Cazazza, Mute 1992)Monte Cazazza has always intrigued me as an enfant terrible of the experimental American industrial magazine, profiled by...
Bruce Gilbert: “National Grid (Part 1)” (Antiphony: Various Interpret Recordings by Disinformation, Ash International 1997)Ash International’s more severe output was some of my first exposure to the...
Steve Roden & Brandon Labelle: “Water Messiah” (The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm, Meme 1999)I had almost forgotten about this old favorite… beautiful resonant gonging from this...
Visionist: “Safe” (Safe, PAN 2015)The title track sits in the very center of Safe, the excellent debut album from Visionist. It appeared in our Best of 2015 roundup, and a track like this is just...
Valanx: “The Pilman Radiant” (Xenolith, Diametric 2012)Valanx’s haunted Xenolith album from 2012 still sounds great, awash in spacious reverb and tense delay.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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