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Juno Recommends Experimental Best of 2021

Juno Recommends Experimental

Juno Recommends Experimental

Juno Recommends Experimental Best of 2021
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Cat: GOS 007EP. Rel: 11 Oct 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Meandering River (4:20)
Pesta Malam (6:31)
Onda De Metal (Pt 1) (4:37)
Onda De Metal (Pt 2) (3:34)
Onda De Metal (Pt 3) (2:21)
Review: Lisbon's Groovement label returns to its Organic Series once again, taking a trip across outernational plains with the delectable touch of Kaoru Inoue under his Chari Chari alias. From the sitar lilting on "Meandering River" to the pattering chimes of 'PEsta Malam', this is an album brimming with real-world beauty even as it glides through synthetically sculpted spaces. Inoue's touch is patient and poised, but it's certainly no background environmental music. Powered by purposeful percussion and offering a spectrum of moods for your contemplation and delectation, Suburban Ethnology Vol 1 is a beautifully rendered EP once again affirming Inoue's spellbinding craft as a multifaceted artist.
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out of stock $8.41
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Cat: 353746 3. Rel: 19 Apr 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Herd Killing (2:10)
Dead Cities (6:34)
Her Face Forms In Summertime (5:57)
We Have Explosive (5:55)
Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me (4:46)
My Kingdom (5:46)
Max (3:05)
Antique Toy (5:33)
Quagmire/In A State Of Permanent Abyss (6:43)
Glass (6:47)
Yage (7:35)
Vit Drowning/Through Your Gills I Breathe (5:35)
First Death In The Family (4:50)
Review: RECOMMENDED
While everyone alive with working ears in the 1990s can remember the first time they heard 'Papua New Guinea', on the whole the work included on this, FSOL's second album, doesn't quite strike the same chords with non-obsessives. Nevertheless, give the LP one play and you'll realise this is seminal British rave on record, and arguably the finest moment in Garry Cobain (no relation to Kurt) and Brian Dougans' careers.

Which isn't to dismiss what came before or what would follow, more to say there's a reason why this is considered a landmark release by those in the know. Kissing frenetic breaks and chaotic sampling goodbye, Dead Cities ushered a new wave of lush tranquility into the band's formula, in turn helping establish a blueprint for the deep progressive tones that would come to dominate dance culture by the end of the 1990s. Now on vinyl for the first time, it's an essential investment.
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out of stock $31.57
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Cat: 12MUTE 629. Rel: 01 Feb 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Howler (4:57)
Mandrill (4:00)
Capuchin (2:53)
Vervet (6:16)
Howler's End (1:29)
Review: "I resynthesized some vocals that almost sounded human, but not quite. That's why I decided to name the track after a monkey." Depeche Mode mainstay, and one of the UK's finest modern musicians and songwriters, on his website Martin Gore cuts to the quick in explaining his latest solo release, which takes its name directly from Jared Diamond's book about the similarities between animal and human behaviour, The Third Chimpanzee.

It's certainly a pretty wild experience. Like the preceding lone wolf album, MG, here MG the guy gives us five tracks of synth goodness made on modular consoles. Visiting post-ambient, IDM and industrial noise, or rather luring those elements out of their natural comfort zones and into an atmosphere that almost feels as though you're lost in nature, it's a real opportunity for escapism at a time when many of us have never needed one more.

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Cat: HDB 134. Rel: 24 May 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Chemz (12:29)
Dolphinz (9:04)
Review: 
After his surprise drop with music writer and producer Blackdown on the Keysound label last month, the enigmatic Burial is now back with a fresh new EP all of his own. It comes on his longtime home of Hyperdub and features two more of his deft designed, ghostly deep dubstep post-nightbus joints. 'Chemz' is a strict raver filled with rushed up sounds, plenty of dance floor love and big hooks that is many different tracks, moods and vibes all rolled into one. As always, these Burial sounds look back to go forwards and do so in thrilling fashion.
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Cat: ERS 045. Rel: 05 Apr 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Rave Digger (5:49)
Lavid Grinch (6:00)
Uhuru Glue (5:39)
Amaziac (4:14)
Silver Soarde (4:00)
Sethodone Recess Plant (4:55)
Review: Emotional Response present something intriguing and oh so fresh from Cherrystones, who has most commonly been spotted recently lurking about labels like Bahnsteig 23, but in fact has a legacy reaching back to the late 90s. This new mini-album is reportedly the result of a pointed retreat to Scotland - a period of semi-isolation with minimal distractions from the serious business of analogue synths and reel-to-reel tape. There's a lot going on, from the slinky, boogie-licked groove of 'Amaziac' to the sludgy, wave tinted 'Rave Digger', but throughout the common theme is one of rough, upfront waveforms - maximal sounds with lashings of character, wielded with glee by an artist knee deep in their craft.
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Cat: 007559 7918069. Rel: 12 Apr 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
From The Air (4:33)
Big Science (6:10)
Sweaters (2:24)
Walking & Falling (2:04)
Born Never Asked (4:52)
O Superman (For Massenet) (8:25)
Example #22 (3:00)
Let X Equals X/It Tango (6:53)
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Cat: LOVE 119LP. Rel: 07 Jun 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Away Not Gone (5:20)
Never The Right Time (4:52)
Repetitive Strain (4:17)
Don't Know How (4:31)
When It Hits (1:23)
The Beginning (4:31)
Answers (4:47)
Dove Stone (4:59)
Hard To Tell (4:32)
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Cat: DAIS 155LPC6. Rel: 08 Feb 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Are You Shivering?
Red Birds Will Fly Out Of The East & Destroy Paris In A Night
Red Queen
Broccoli
Strange Birds
The Dreamer Is Still Asleep
Review: Bandmates Peter Christopherson and John Balance were allegedly holed up in a Victorian mansion in the almost-forgotten English seaside town of Weston-Super-Mare, in the midst of a drug binge when they got cracking on Musick To Play In The Dark. Location aside, it's hardly the most original genesis of an album, but nevertheless the end product was a sign of just how talented the artists are - give the average person a bag full of powders and pills and ask them for a record. Then see what happens.

Coil's tenth album arrived in 1999, bookending one part of their story and beginning the next. It's here the players opted to embrace ambient, glitch, minimalism and 'kosmische musik' - experimental rock sub-genre 'cosmic music' popularised in West Germany during the late-1960s. Or, to use the outfit's own terminology, they invented 'moon musick', marking their transition to a "lunar group". The results are mesmerising.
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Cat: ABYLA 001. Rel: 12 Apr 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Happening 1 (3:27)
Happening 2 (2:44)
Happening 3 (3:06)
Happening 4 (2:33)
Happening 5 (2:56)
Happening 6 (2:56)
Happening 7 (2:40)
Happening 8 (1:53)
Happening 9 (3:27)
Happening 10 (2:46)
Happening 11 (2:38)
Happening 12 (3:19)
Happening 13 (4:10)
Review: Burnski's Instinct alias has given rise to two full-length albums and a swathe of EPs in just the past two years alone, and now he's heralding spring with the launch of a new label, Abyla, and his most delicate, ambient record to date. Happening is a far cry from what you might know of Burnski or indeed the Instinct project overall, focusing as it does on orchestral ambience with a preference for plaintive piano lines at the front of the mix and ample drone matter backing it up. These short vignettes glide between moods, hovering in moments of tender minimalism or bursting with effervescence depending on the situation.
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SASHA/VARIOUS
Cat: ALK 001LPI. Rel: 28 Jun 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Felsmann & Tiley - "Yin/Yang" (3:29)
Rival Consoles - "Not Really" (5:03)
QRTR - "Forest Sprint" (6:22)
BAILE - "Gone" (4:39)
Trypheme - "Music For An Imaginary Fashion Publicity" (3:09)
Dark Sky - "Reserve Parachute" (4:38)
DJ P - "Power" (5:24)
The Micronaut - "Koelsa" (5:29)
Enui - "Us" (5:34)
MJ Cole - "Maestro" (3:28)
Lau Ra - "I'll Wait" (3:59)
Just Her & Nolan - "Breathe You" (feat Keisha Mair) (5:28)
Jody Barr - "Accidental Lovers" (feat Felicia Douglass) (6:51)
Cortese - "Circles" (5:38)
Sasha - "HNDI" (6:18)
Sasha & Franky Wah - "I'll Never Change" (Luzoscura edit) (5:29)
Polymod - "Cycles" (7:27)
Nocow - "Atent" (2:52)
Because Of Art - "Essence" (6:22)
Alex Banks - "Resurgence" (7:39)
Review: Never one to sit still, Sasha used the change in mindset that came with the lockdown to inspire his approach to music. LUZoSCURA (which means light and dark) is the new compilation that has resulted having evolved from the playlist of the same name. It's packed with new music from the man himself as well as newer names and more established artists. There are floaty, synth heavy ambient pieces like the 'Yin/Yang' opener, lush melodic electronic grooves from QRTR, symphonic garage cuts from MJ Cole and crunchy old breakbeats with more than a hint of Renaissance from Because Of Art.
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Cat: DAIS 181LPC3. Rel: 30 Aug 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Yyyyyy2222 (5:29)
Indigo Grit (feat Guest) (1:55)
Lose You Beau (2:01)
Solemn (1:14)
LV (2:53)
Preparing The Perfect Response (2:24)
Ny (interlude) (1:06)
Rings (feat Guest) (2:13)
Noise Sweet (0:43)
B£E (feat Blackhaine) (3:02)
Like Orchids (1:33)
Meet Me At Sachas (2:02)
U (feat KinseyLloyd) (4:06)
Track 14 (1:53)
Girl Scout Cookies (feat Bianca Scout) (3:01)
Ladybird Drone (2:23)
With Your Touch (0:48)
Strength (feat LA Timpa) (3:10)
Honest Labour (feat HforSpirit) (3:47)
Review: RECOMMENDED
Without question, Space Afrika are among the most innovative and original electronic acts currently making sounds. A project that started close to dub techno, albeit in a barely recognisable form, has since sprouted wings, or at least donned its hoody and stepped out into dark, streetlight-hued avenues that the sounds seem to build as we walk down. Few outfits could be said to still be making music that you've not really heard anything like before, but the Manchester-Berlin duo are on the list.

Honest Labour is the culmination of everything that has come before it, and yet completely new. It's beguiling melodies, curious samples, and murky noises echoing into the infinite backdrop of purposeful silence beyond. It's born from the underground UK club scene, and raised on the streets, rooted in R&B, soul, and downbeat, and yet capable of turning all those on their heads to deliver what can only be described as Space Afrika.
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Cat: AAR 020. Rel: 04 Oct 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Splash (with Fernando Ferrarrone) (5:41)
It Might Rain (4:25)
Triplet Falls (with Kalia Vandever) (4:11)
Bar Solitude (7:10)
Northcote Winter Solstice (4:22)
Thank You For Everything (with Oliver Paterson) (5:12)
Splash (Other Joe Arrangement with Phil Stroud) (5:27)
Review: If life came down to 'Bar Solitude' then we'd at once be in a lot of trouble and a truly easy going place. Airports aside, drinking in bars on your own is a mixture of frustration and hope. Sean La'Brooy makes the very phrase feel like it couldn't do more to invite you in, and pick up the tab. A jazz-inflected slice of late night ambience.

In all honesty the rest of the EP doesn't let track four down. You can pick between the wet shuffles of 'Triplet Falls', the pseudo acid house beauty that is 'Northcote Winter Solstice', the deep and timbre-filled immersive dive that is 'Thank You For Everything' (in the running for best use of guitars with synth on a chill out track), or either the post-rock or glittering chimes of 'Splash'. The point being it's all going to go your way.
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Noriko Miyamoto - "Arrows & Eyes" (4:01)
Mishio Ogawa - "Hikari No Ito Kin No Ito" (4:46)
Yoshio Ojima - "Days Man" (5:15)
Mkwaju Ensemble - "Tira-Rin" (4:29)
RNA-organism - "Weimar 22" (4:08)
Naoki Asai - "Yakan Hikou" (3:56)
Takami Hasegawa - "Koneko To Watashi" (2:32)
Mammy - "Mizu No Naka No Himitsu" (4:36)
Dip In The Pool - "Hasu No Enishi" (3:55)
Wha Ha Ha - "Akatere" (6:06)
D-Day - "Sweet Sultan" (5:17)
Perfect Mother - "Dark Disco-Da Da Da Da Run" (3:10)
Neo Museum - "Area" (5:14)
Sonoko - "Wedding With God (A Nijinski)" (2:36)
Review: Full marks to Light in the Attic for the title of their latest well curated compilation. Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds Of Japan 1980-1988 is both broad and undefined yet highly specific. It captures the various moods of the music within perfectly - gentle lullabies of retro future synth music, curious Far Eastern pop ditties and all out ambient experimentalism that is never less than intriguing. The double LP comes with special liner notes and treads a thin line between metro boogie and sparkling atmospherics that will keep you coming back to discover more with each listen.
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Cat: YT 214LP. Rel: 12 Jul 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Yonder (1:41)
Black Rainbow (4:31)
Primes (1:01)
White Picket Fence (4:11)
Act(S) (0:26)
Joy Squad (4:30)
Frozen (3:23)
Shellshock (4:59)
Hance (2:49)
Strangers (4:05)
Review: Talk about good things coming to those who wait. Lewis Roberts' finally unveils his first album, a decade after his debut single dropped under the Koreless moniker. Of course that time frame should really come as no surprise, because even those first tracks - '4D' and 'MTI' - sounded as though they'd been crafted over a significant amount of time, separating wheat from chaff to ensure only the finest elements and most complete finished products made the end cut.

Here we are then, ten years later, looking at another masterpiece, only this time in long form. Showcasing deft ability to playfully use samples - at times almost as though Todd Edwards has been dropped into a futurist rave ('Joy Squad') - and explore levels of musicality far beyond the range of most producers. Next level post-UK bass goodness.
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out of stock $19.75
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Cat: MUSLIMGAUZEARCHIVEVOL 54. Rel: 22 Feb 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Medina Flight (8:47)
Ramadan (1:46)
Believers Of The Blind Sheikh (9:57)
Effendi (7:33)
Nazzareen (10:15)
Gulf Between Us (3:51)
Saddams Children (2:55)
Narcotic (7:05)
Narcotic (3:23)
Narcotic (5:30)
Lion Of Kandahar (extended remix) (10:25)
Qom (short version) (6:13)
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A Time For Fear (Who's Afraid) (LP1: Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise?) (4:43)
Beat Box (Diversion One) (8:21)
Snapshot (1:02)
Close (To The Edit) (5:39)
Who's Afraid (Of The Art Of Noise) (4:08)
Moments In Love (3:25)
Memento (7:04)
How To Kill (2:09)
Realisation (4:27)
War (demo 4 - LP2: Who's Afraid Of Goodbye?) (5:11)
The Focus Of Satisfaction (10:32)
Moments In Love (7" Master Rejected) (3:46)
It Stopped! (4:30)
The Uncertainty Of Syrup (1:21)
The Long Hello (4:33)
The Vacuum Divine (0:47)
The Ambassador Reel: Beat Box (3:54)
The Ambassador Reel: Another Time To Hear (4:22)
The Ambassador Reel: Oobly (6:34)
Goodbye Art Of Noise (3:12)
 in stock $36.32
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Cat: L12MUTE 629. Rel: 23 Aug 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Howler (ANNA remix) (6:14)
Mandrill (Barker remix) (5:41)
Capuchin (Wehbba remix) (8:42)
Vervet (JakoJako remix) (5:25)
Howler (Kangding Ray remix) (4:36)
Howler (The Exaltics remix) (5:26)
Mandrill (Rrose remix) (6:49)
Capuchin (Jlin remix) (3:28)
Vervet (Chris Liebing remix) (9:03)
Mandrill (MoReVoX remix) (5:14)
Review: Founding member of Depeche Mode and celebrated singer songwriter in his own right, Martin Gore's The Third Chimpanzee EP is up there with some of the best solo work he has ever put out, with a particularly unique type of dance-synth vibe that you can't escape from no matter how hard you try. Now we have the remixes, which have a lot to live up to but come with plenty of promise.

After all, the chosen producers involved are all heavyweights in their own right, and were certainly ready to step up to the mantle here. Opening with a pair of tracks made different by two of Brazil's most revered techno heads - ANNA and Wehbba - from there we get Berghain bass experimentalist Barker, the fury of Rrose, and percussive wonder of JLin, and that's before we come to the likes of Chris Liebing and Kangding Ray.
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Cat: 405053 8671629. Rel: 09 Aug 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Preface (2:12)
Chapter 1 (3:51)
Chapter 2 (14:43)
Chapter 3 (6:43)
Chapter 4 (7:17)
Chapter 5 (6:35)
Chapter 6 (7:30)
Chapter 7 (7:15)
Chapter 8 (7:47)
Chapter 9 (7:05)
Chapter 10 (9:49)
Epilogue (3:20)
Review: Is there anything MVOT touch that isn't pure gold? Always pretty out there, always precise but loose, organic and evolving, while it's not clear what the Dissent in the title refers to - the 'Preface' suggests madness but the rest of the album alludes to some sort of mystery setting - it's an immersive experience that you'll find difficult to leave once the sounds begin to unfurl.

Arriving on the contemporary classical, jazz and electronic imprint Modern Recordings, the record has certainly found the perfect label as home. Enlisting jazz drummer Heinrich Kobberling and electronic visionary Laurel Halo to realise the contents, for want of a less reductive phrase the results are simply 'cool as fuck'. Like the lost score to one of Jean Luc Godard's early movies, or the night out in Paris you wish you could have.
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VARIOUS
Cat: FKR 108LP. Rel: 21 Jun 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Wolfgang Dauner - "Output" (7:39)
My Solid Ground - "The Executioner" (3:33)
Association PC - "Scorpion" (6:30)
Fritz Muller - "Fritz Muller Traum" (8:35)
Exmagma - "It's So Nice" (6:04)
Anima-Sound - "It Loves Want To Have Done It" (2:56)
Tomorrow's Gift - "Jazzi Jazzi" (2:59)
Out Of Focus - "See How A White Negro Flies" (5:47)
Brainstorm - "Snakeskin Tango" (2:17)
Thirsty Moon - "Big City" (8:28)
Gomorrha - "Trauma" (13:09)
Brainticket - "Black Sand" (4:10)
Review: This fascinating compilation on Finders Keepers is a second, follow up volume to a series first started back in 2019. It finds Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton chronicling them all, and it makes for an often intense story full of noise experiments, soot-black guitar playing and haunting atmospheres. Rarely less than peculiar is a brilliantly dark and occult collection of weird soncis and experimental drones, shadowy electronic moods and witchy atmospheres.
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Cat: 12MUTE 632. Rel: 05 Jul 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Emperor Machine (vs The Emperor Machine) (4:00)
The Guv'nor (5:09)
YOYOGRIP (feat Jacknife Lee & Maria Uzor) (4:12)
Musik Kontrol (vs Massey) (4:21)
Review: A Certain Ratio are proof of how many new ideas a band can have. The UK post punk icons have always had an uncanny ability to release tracks into the world that seem to call on a multitude of styles - funk, blues, electro - and yet sound coherent but completely unique. This latest effort is testament to that, and also a wholeheartedly sentimental release with a story to tell.

Following on from ACR: EPA, which represented the last recordings of the band with iconic Manchester vocalist Denise Johnson, who tragically died in 2020 aged 56, EPC continues the series by inviting the inimitable The Emperor Machine in to the studio for a tribute to another lost great, Andrew Weatherall, with Jacknife Lee, Maria Uzor and Chris Massey all in the credits. Quality stuff. Again.
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Cat: MP 26. Rel: 26 Jul 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Port Gentil (12:21)
Nautical Dub (5:49)
Biokinetics 1 (5:21)
Biokinetics 2 (8:29)
Port Of Call (9:10)
Port Of Nuba (8:08)
Nautical Nuba (9:00)
Nautical Zone (12:10)
Review: Techno scholars have long believed that the release of Porter Ricks' 1996 album Biokinetics was something of a watershed moment. Not quite deep techno, dub techno, ambient techno or abstract experimentalism, but something in between, the album set new standards for sound design, minimalistic percussion programming (Ricardo Villaobos being one who learned much from its use of off-kilter approach) and dancefloor experimentalism. As this remastered 25th anniversary edition proves, Biokentics still sounds fresh, inspired and wonderfully unusual. If anything, it sounds more current now than it did way back in the late 1990s - a sure sign of its timeless, ground-breaking nature.
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Cat: KEPLARREV 05LP. Rel: 24 May 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Nonlin R (1:33)
Tascel 7 (5:41)
Thaem Nue (7:32)
Ambelio (5:46)
Scapen Te (5:45)
Revart Amx (5:31)
Norvum (7:42)
Failed (5:13)
Amine (5:15)
R/Elet (6:10)
Atol Scrap (8:00)
Review: A well deserved reissue here on Keplar of Arovane's dub-laden IDM masterpiece Atol Scrap, which originally came out on Torsten Proefrock's DIN imprint back in 1999 as a digital release. Much to the delight of Uwe Zahn's followers, we have this vinyl reissue which was fully approved of by the artist himself. Zahn's idiosyncratic style of production is prevalent throughout the album; the digital artifacts and glitch effects that are scattered across the productions, underpinned by warm electronic melodies and skittering beats. The album still sounds amazing to this day, and benefits from remasterering by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering.
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VARIOUS
Cat: NUMLP 108. Rel: 08 Mar 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Quiet Force - "Listen To The Music" (7:27)
Barry Coates - "Hovercraft" (6:10)
Andrew Gordon - "Walking The Lonely Streets" (5:30)
Steve Bach - "Rain Dance" (3:59)
Angelo Vanotti - "Sketches Of Anderland" (3:22)
Slap & Powell - "Sex Drive" (6:13)
Jordan De La Sierra - "Nimbu-Pani: The Lemon-Water Song" (5:11)
Jessie Allen Cooper - "In My Heart" (4:50)
Review: Numero serve up this glorious ode to software generated soundscapes that emerged in the 90s after decades of brown corporate banality. In part helped along by access to the internet, the PC revolution also allowed for these vibrant sounds to emerge. Described as "the soundtrack to the screen saver fever dream we're all trying to climb back into" Numero 95 is a wistful and whimsical ambient collection with pastoral shades, smooth jazz and new age overtones and proto-vapourwave gems.
out of stock $31.32
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Cat: TRESOR 147R. Rel: 25 Oct 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Washing My Hands (2:26)
Let Them Bleed (6:23)
Paralyzing (2:02)
Nothin & No One (4:59)
Meat (5:14)
Join Us In Paradise (5:06)
Hanoi Hanoi (5:34)
Guiltless (6:27)
Theme From Streetwalker (5:17)
Under Skin (1:55)
Review: Regis and Female's Againstnature album from 2000 gets the full reissue treatment here by Berlin label, Tresor. Released under their given names Karl O'Connor and Peter Sutton, the record is a noted zenith of the Birmingham techno scene of the era. It has had a major influence on the music that was released in the years after and has here been remastered for a fresh double vinyl pack. As well as the original sounds, there is also 'Theme From Streetwalke,' a track that was previously released on a Tresor compilation. The tracks are heavy but relatively stripped back. They're packed with texture and atmosphere and never less than hugely compelling.
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Cat: LPTOT 80. Rel: 26 Jul 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Frozen Air (4:26)
Synthi A - "Surrounding The Garden Is A Fog" (4:58)
Artificial Placement Of Emotion (6:02)
Blacked Out Windows (4:36)
Commensalism (4:55)
Near Field (1:52)
Alertions (3:26)
Riverbed (3:42)
Obscured By Dark Intervals (3:11)
Humanoid - "Propagate" (3:59)
Memories Of A Yesterday (9:00)
Review: Music From Calendars is the on going project Future Sound of London have been helming since 2017. It sees them serve up new digital tracks each month and home put them out as an album at the end of the year. This time out the crew pick some of their best tunes from the last four years and put them together in a seamless mix over the course of 50 minutes. Their sound is a perfect fit for the format - all sleek ambient, gently lilting electronic grooves and sci-fi moods that drift by like zephyrs.
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Disco Hospital (2:18)
Teenage Lightning (1:51)
Things Happen (4:23)
The Snow (6:46)
Dark River (6:33)
Where Even The Darkness Is Something To See (3:09)
Teenage Lightning 2 (5:10)
Windowpane (6:09)
Chaostrophy (5:43)
Further Back & Faster (8:00)
Titan Arch (5:02)
Lorca Not Orca (2:07)
Love's Secret Domain (3:58)
Disco Hospital (Unedited) (4:43)
Teenage Lightning (Gtr) (4:28)
Snow (Demonic Apollo A version) (4:09)
Dark River (alternative Ruff From Point Studio mix) (6:28)
Teenage Lightning (Various) (4:38)
Further Back & Faster (Didgeridoo) (13:01)
Snow (Demonic Apollo B version) (4:01)
Carvers & Gilders (Chaostrophy) (5:39)
The Dark Age Of Love (Balance) (5:05)
Love's Secret Domain (Early instrumental) (3:45)
Review: Three decades ago, Coil released one of their most arresting an ear-catching albums, Love's Secret Domain. Inspired not by their intense industrial roots but rather the developing dance music culture - think sample-fired hip-hop, the jaunty organs of U.S house, hallucinatory ambient, bleeping electronica, bass-heavy UK techno and leftfield synth-pop - it marked a thrilling new chapter in the band's career. This expanded 30th anniversary tells the full story, stretching out the original album and a wealth of rare and previously unreleased material (extended versions, demos and unheard tracks) across three slabs of gold-coloured wax. The price may raise a few eyebrows, but copies are limited, and it really is the definitive edition of a genuinely brilliant album.
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Cat: KIMOCHI 49. Rel: 25 Oct 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Flowers (4:02)
Divide By Zero (2:51)
Regression To The Moon (4:32)
Intermission (5:30)
Past Incident (3:39)
Circadian Rhythm (6:34)
At Night (feat Fauna) (6:23)
Review: RECCOMMENDED
Trying to find any information on Mneme is pretty difficult. What we can say, though, is that this almost definitely not a company with a "vision to become a world leader in AI powered healthcare solutions, improving lives and transforming the future of our society." Thank god. Not that we don't wish the firm we stumbled across on Facebook all the best in its efforts to get there.

Instead, Mneme the electronic artist name (or act?) belongs in a far less competitive place. Somewhere where warm pads, vacuum packed beats, and melodic flourishes can thrive together, creating a soundscape that's packed with inviting ambient moods, and feels at once sci-fi futuristic and yet strangely retro in flavour. We've been here before, and yet it's also hugely original stuff that we can't not recommend.
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28
Cat: GBX 036LP. Rel: 11 Jan 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Dupla Exposicao (4:34)
Reverie (4:14)
The Sphinx (3:36)
Parangole (3:12)
A Garden By The Sea (4:36)
The Collector (4:27)
Cosmorama (3:03)
Zodiak Klub (3:37)
Vali (2:51)
Deep Green (3:49)
The Fountain (3:05)
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Cat: LPS 27. Rel: 21 Jun 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Became Self Aware (2:02)
Exhumed (4:33)
Electronic Rhythm Number Thirteen (4:05)
Theme Number Five (4:13)
Return To Synth Mountain (4:55)
Arlonica (5:43)
Theme Number Sixty Eight (1:54)
Review: RECOMMENDED
Seven years is a fair amount of time to wait between instalments, even if you did misplace them. Mark Jenkins returns under his rightly revered Pye Corner Audio moniker to add another chapter to his Black Mills Tapes series, in turn unveiling some seriously expansive downtempo electronics that still somehow manage to sound pretty intimate.

A lot has changed about everything since the last instalment in the series dropped, with the artist himself even managing to find time to put out another four albums. Up against those, what's here doesn't sound like it was plucked from another back catalogue entirely compared, but these recordings are a literal extension of those earlier Tapes, not least in sound and atmosphere. Taking us to other places of synthdom, halfway between 1980s movie scores, video games, epic ambient beauties and suggestive warm up off-rhythms.
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Cat: DE 286. Rel: 01 Nov 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Salome's Dance (1:57)
A Cat On The Corner (1:46)
Wedding (1:18)
In September (2:16)
Now, While You Wait For Your Love (3:42)
Sanctuary In Ionian Rhythm (1:55)
Achilleon, Palace In Corfu (0:48)
Phaethon (4:53)
Henna (3:29)
Plapal Steps (2:55)
Rosalia Perfume (2:30)
Russian Lament (2:52)
Immortal (2:32)
Friday, 9-9-1983 (4:30)
Review: Greek electronic music legend Lena Platonos returns to Dark Entries with Balancers, an LP of previously unreleased material recorded between 1982-1985. Athens-based Platonos has worked with the label previously to reissue her three solo LPs - Gallop, Sun Masks, and Lepidoptera - as well as to release three accompanying 12" EPs featuring modern remixes of her work. She is renowned for her forays into cutting-edge electronic experimentation as well as her striking, impressionistic poetry and lyrics, always recited in Greek. Also included is an insert with lyrics in both Greek and English.
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Cat: N 0562. Rel: 22 Nov 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Hybr:id Oval Hadron I (2:06)
Hybr:id Oval Hadron II (4:46)
Hybr:id Oval Blackhole (6:50)
Hybr:id Oval Random (3:00)
Hybr:id Oval Spin (5:23)
Hybr:id Oval Asimoo (4:57)
Hybr:id Oval Collider (6:39)
Hybr:id Oval P-dance (3:43)
Hybr:id Oval Noise (3:38)
out of stock $27.89
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Cat: WARPLP 66R. Rel: 22 Nov 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Acroyear2 (8:24)
777 (5:57)
Rae (8:34)
Melve (4:06)
Vose In (1:09)
Fold4, Wrap5 (4:08)
Under BOAC (6:17)
Corc (5:51)
Caliper Remote (1:39)
Arch Carrier (7:16)
Drane2 (8:53)
Review: A lot of good shit happened in 1998. Musically, it was the year of Air's Moon Safari, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and the beginning of Mos Def and Talib Kweli's Black Star project. Among other things. Meanwhile, in a parallel sonic dimension, Warp Records was backing the logically-titled fifth full length album from Autechre. A landmark moment in British electronic music some have come to call Autechre, others simply Album. For the purposes of clarity, though, we're sticking with the original title.

This marked a departure from the Autechre we had been used to, with the old warm, full, almost-orchestral sound of earlier work cast aside, or perhaps just put to rest, in favour of something more technical, machine made, and pin-point precise. Good enough to rank in Pitchfork's top 10 IDM albums of all time, what else do you need to know?
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Cat: ES 017. Rel: 01 Mar 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Title (3:05)
Straight Thru (3:09)
E Park (0:28)
W/O Love (3:33)
Stranger (4:07)
When Yr Up There (3:01)
Strobe Lite (3:06)
Lucky (1:21)
Prince S Version (4:26)
Always In Jokes (3:58)
Review: YL Hooi's untitled collection of textural tracks was first conceived as a short run cassette. Thankfully, they now make it on to wax and cannot fail to subsume your mind in their icy synth apparitions. Whispered vocals drift in and out like a cloud, Hooi's voice anchors the abstract sounds int he real world and the most deft of melodic motifs add extra atmosphere and ambiance throughout. Recorded intermittently over a two year period, the album stretches out like am experimental masterpiece that s accessible yet otherworldly.
out of stock $28.69
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Cat: YT 243T. Rel: 29 Mar 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Lifetime (Jayda G Baleen mix) (3:17)
Lifetime (Planningtorock 'Let It Happen' remix) (7:02)
Lifetime (Haai Green Lamborghini remix) (5:34)
Lifetime (Anz Togetherness remix) (5:13)
Lifetime (A Capella) (4:14)
Review: Indica Dubs and Kai Dub link up here for their second collaboration, which is the first release of the year for the label. It features the full flavour and futuristic stepper that is 'Elevation Dub', complete with wooden hits and Digital pads, warrior chords and a nice sleek aesthetic. 'Higher Dub' then flip sit into a more heady affair with plenty of mad studio effects and endless reverb, floating toms and sizzled pads. These triumphant tunes are primed and ready for big plays on huge sound systems.
 in stock $7.90
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Joris VOORN/VARIOUS
Cat: 019029 6769191. Rel: 25 Oct 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Joris Voorn - "Gu43 Ambient Fill" (2:04)
Nathan Fake - "Pentiamonds" (5:09)
Christian Bloch - "Construct" (Vc-118A remix) (5:58)
D-Leria - "Landed In Another Place" (3:29)
Joris Voorn - "Alpha 7" (3:54)
Ohm & Kvadrant - "Oresund" (1:56)
Raimond Ford - "Astral Angel" (5:09)
Cyspe - "Void" (1:37)
Hypersoul-X - "The Eastern Nations" (main Ht) (5:54)
Fennesz - "In My Room" (GU43 vinyl edit) (7:24)
Joris Voorn - "Psyche" (GU43 vinyl edit) (5:30)
Blue Veil - "Jaguar Eyes" (5:13)
Colyn - "Khazad Dum" (GU43 vinyl edit) (5:33)
Brian Cid - "Be One" (GU43 vinyl edit) (6:56)
Innere Tueren - "Eden" (version) (3:33)
Joris Voorn - "Auto Drone 1" (4:40)
Liyou - "Obsession" (Joris Voorn edit) (5:05)
Joris Voorn - "Acid Flow" (2:49)
Zenzizenz - "Umi" (GU43 vinyl edit) (5:24)
Joakuim - "View" (GU43 vinyl edit) (5:27)
Pepe - "Recollection" (4:06)
Ness - "Bionic Harp" (5:37)
Bakground & Sangam - "Bionic Harp" (4:38)
out of stock $37.37
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DJ ATHOME/VARIOUS
Cat: MPD 032. Rel: 12 Jul 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Eat Static - "Kothluwalawa" (8:03)
Magic Mushroom Band - "Aravinda" (3:25)
The Ullulators - "Zulu Proons" (8:26)
Ozric Tentacles - "Secret Names" (5:26)
Revolutionary Dub Warriors - "Dread V1" (5:11)
Junkwaffel - "Substrata" (9:05)
The Ullulators - "Simply Conscious" (dub) (6:41)
Magic Mushroom Band - "Squatter In The House" (6:46)
Ozric Tentacles - "Sploosh" (6:24)
Divine Soma Experience - "Music Is Magic" (12:18)
Extremadura - "Epsilon" (9:45)
Review: Belgian artist and producer DJ Athome has put together this compilation for Musique Pour La Danse with the intention of highlighting the niche UK fesitval scene between 1986 and 1996. It was a time when psychedelic dub, space rock, and early electronica were all in collision with each other as people took ever more mind altering drugs and partied in spiritual locations like Stonehenge. Listening to the sounds takes you there in an instant with weird and wonderful bongos, didgeridoos, new age melodies, world music and non-Western influences all feeding into the tracks. As much as this is a reminder of the good time for those who were there, it's also a brilliant collection for newcomers with an interest in musical history.
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VARIOUS
Cat: KASHUALPLASTIK 010. Rel: 20 Sep 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Speedbooth - "Something I Built" (2:48)
Teresa Winter - "Ghods Heart" (6:03)
Brannten Schnure - "Kleine Wolke" (2:35)
People Skills - "Poem For Brant Lowe" (3:42)
Kirschstein & Agnes Beil - "Sommerzeit Erntezeit" (4:26)
Massimo Del Corpo - "Continuo" (3:40)
Hypnotic Sleep - "Fodder Maut Eck Gaohn" (2:28)
Speedbooth - "Above The Shop" (2:05)
A Happy Return - "Ancient Of Days" (1:22)
Monokultur - "Inget Att Bry Sig Om" (2:23)
Stefan Christensen - "A Week's Pass" (4:35)
Jonnine - "Stare Too Long" (4:00)
Bobby Would - "Eternal Decision" (3:39)
Genghis Cohn - "Butterflies" (1:58)
The Fulmars - "Gertrud" (3:36)
Suburban Cracked Collective - "Karl The Killer" (3:00)
Leighton Craig - "Galaxy" (3:03)
Pumice - "Necklace On A Necklace" (5:25)
Omen - "Can't Look" (3:38)
Mosquitoes - "Minus Six" (dub) (3:42)
Maxine Funke - "Lucky Penny" (3:23)
James & Vanessa - "Yrt" (2:54)
Paul Arambula - "On The Shed" (2:25)
A Method To Exist - "The White Wall Award" (3:14)
A Happy Return - "Vision Of A Fool" (1:55)
Cucina Povera - "Lintuja" (4:18)
Omen - "Go" (1:43)
Lauten Der Seele - "Spiegelungen Auf Der Gartenteichfolie" (3:06)
Laure Boer - "Constellations" (7:20)
Loopsel - "Svalorna" (4:13)
Thomas Bush - "Private Dancer" (4:32)
Review: "Romanticism, witchcraft, and necromancy, drifting in an ocean of sentiments." So says Kashual Plastik of this compilation, which seems to transcend not just genre but years, or more accurately from what we can hear, centuries. It's not often you'll find us completely stuck for words, but we are when presented with a track like 'Sommerzeit Erntezeit' by Kirschstein & Agnes Beil. Think woozy sea shanty meeting folklore fireside anthem with waves of synth dropped on top, slowly finding a peculiarly familiar, hypnotic rhythm.

It's just one example from a huge, 31-track collection that refuses to sit anywhere immediately recognisable. This is a place where traditional, avant-garde, ambient, dramatic, chilled out, ancient, and modern collide. One minute it feels like you're in a remote Bulgarian mountain village, the next a future-focused experimental music festival, bathed in the soft blues of spotlights amid some overtly conceptual performance.
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38
Cat: VOX 63. Rel: 26 Apr 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Souq El Gharb (part 2) (3:06)
Odour Of Semtex (part 1) (3:11)
Odour Of Semtex (part 2) (3:01)
Shroud Of Kohmeini (part 1) (3:21)
Shroud Of Kohmeini (part 2) (3:22)
Souq El Gharb (part 1) (3:24)
For Abu Jihad (part 1) (3:13)
For Abu Jihad (part 2) (3:26)
La Palestina (part 1) (3:18)
La Palestina (part 2) (3:17)
Obeid (part 1) (3:19)
Obeid (part 2) (3:18)
out of stock $22.10
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Cat: VMR 016. Rel: 25 Oct 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Sol (7:08)
Parallel Moves (10:35)
Orange Sky (7:08)
You Are (5:06)
Correlation (6:31)
Spreads (6:40)
In Limbo (7:32)
The Pieces (3:55)
Passage (5:07)
Settling Dust (3:50)
Blue & Yellow (5:48)
Duet (3:03)
Review: The master that is Fluxion is back with more introspections from deep inside his own musical world. It was only in May of last year that his last album was released and since then this has been his focus. It has paid off because once again this is an absorbing world of dub techno, gentle melodies and undulating rhythms that stretch and unfold at their own slow but inviting pace. There are hopeful moments like 'Correlation' with its soft beats and rising melodies, and moments of more lonesome reflection such as the sparse and seductive 'Settling Dust.' Of course, undermining it all is the trademark Fluxion sound we all know and love.
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40
Cat: 384231 3. Rel: 11 Oct 21
 
Experimental/Electronic
Famous Last Words (4:15)
Life Is Not The Same (3:20)
Coming Back (feat SZA) (3:16)
Funeral (2:36)
Frozen (feat JID & SwaVay) (3:57)
I'm So Blessed You're Mine (3:11)
Foot Forward (2:32)
Show Me (feat Monica Martin) (3:36)
Say What You Will (4:45)
Lost Angel Nights (3:51)
Friends That Break Your Heart (3:22)
If I'm Insecure (4:39)
Review: Remember when James Blake first popped into the common conscience? Or slid, subtly, gently, barely-existing, like a thought without a mind, lost in the vast expanse of silence, trying to be heard? The originality of those early outings will always stand out as defining a moment in UK electronica where things began to change; post dubstep, haunted by the ghosts of garage, pre-techno takeover, genres starting to collapse back in on each other, paving the way today's label-less stuff.

In comparison, Friends That Break Your Heart is a far, far more traditional episode in the story of Blake. Those old fragments of tracks haven't just been glued back together, new parts have been added to create incredibly detailed and - dare it be said - busy collages. It's R&B infused, synth topped, pop balladry influenced electronic future soul. And we're really quite (very) into it.
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