KK Null + The Noiser (MONOTYPE RECORDS MONO054) is a meeting between one of Japanese noise-rock’s heavyweights and the French
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Five Uneasy Pieces
Virgil Moorefield No Business As Usual / Five Ideas about the Relation of Sight and Sound SWITZERLAND HINTERZIMMER RECORDS HINT17
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Håkon Stene Etude Begone Badum GERMANY AHORNFELDER AH25 CD (2013) Norwegian Percussionist Håkon Stene presents six lively yet politely unrestrained
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Metal, Machines, Music
What is it about modern artists and urban desolation? They can’t get enough of that abject despair and industrial ruin
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Hati & Z’EV Collusion BELGIUM IDIOSYNCRATICS IDCD 006 (2013) An evocative album, this one; full of rattling bone snaps and
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Hati Zero Coma Zero POLAND ZOHARUM ZOHAR 050-2 CD (2013) Of a more kinetic ambience than recent reviewees Howlround and
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Martin Archer Blue Meat, Black Diesel & Engine Room Favourites UK DISCUS 43CD (2013) By pure chance, I’ve recently been
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Retro 2038 (EDITIONS MEGO 172) from COH is Ivan Pavlov’s immaculate album of futuristic disco-tech minimalism from the later 21st-century
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Miraculously, a CD reissue appeared about this time last year of Superstitions (MUSIC À LA COQUE COQ-05) by Nu Creative
Continue readingCults Percussion Ensemble (self-titled): a mix of kitsch and sublimely dreamy music
Cults Percussion Ensemble, self-titled, Trunk Records, JBH046CD (reissued 2012) A very obscure release from 1979, copies of which were usually
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