She Spread Sorrow, Rumspringa, United Kingdom, Cold Spring Records, CSR212 CD (2015) Since 2014 at least, through her current solo
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Life Metal: a radiant and uplifting return to form for drone doom’s dynamic duo
Sunn0))), Life Metal, United States, Southern Lord, SUNN 300 CD / 2 x LP blue vinyl (2019) After three years
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Below are three empreintes DIGITALes releases, all from 13 November 2018. Alistair MacDonald, currently housed at the Royal Conservatoire in
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The Residents The Residents’ Mole Box UK NEW RALPH TOO / CHERRY RED RECORDS NRTBOX010 6 x CD (2019) I’ve
Continue readingMass Observation (Expanded): study in invasive digital surveillance as relevant and shocking now as it was in 1994
Scanner, Mass Observation (Expanded), Australia, Room40, CD limited edition / digital (2018) Originally recorded with Jim O’Rourke and Robert Hampson
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Another unusual conceptual release from Corvo Records, the German label devoted to producing full-on art productions with a lot of
Continue readingDolomite Dub: a brisk adventure in dub through mountain soundscapes
Ulrich Troyer, Dolomite Dub, Austria, 4Bit Productions, 4Bit-P008 CD / LP / MP3 (2019) Part adventure travelogue / part homecoming
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Got a couple of new cassettes from Staaltape. Always a pleasure to receive these low-run hand-made releases, not just because
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Wolfgang Mitterer assembled the Nine In One (COL LEGNO WWE 1CD 20439) record by compressing pretty much all the Beethoven
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Danish composer Christian Skjødt was last heard in these pages with his 2014 album Works Of Uncommitted Crimes, which we
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