Title: Quantum Key Label: Invisible Hands Music An intriguing one this because it is the first material released by the band since the sad passing of founder member Edgar Froese. Recorded…
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Title: Das Fest Der Reichen Label: Editions Mego Hmmm. Ok. Right. Well…look, before i say anything about this one, I’m going to do some that I tend to avoid, I’m going to…
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Title: New Latitudes Label: Idee Fixe I listen to a lot of music but I’m obviously not listening fast enough because this outfit has totally passed me by. I say ‘outfit’…
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Title: OstWest Label: Bureau B The new album from this German outfit that combines a krautrock flavour to its techno dub beat. I recently reviewed their Plusminus album and had issues…
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Title: Clinging to a Dream Label: Chicken Coop Recordings The simple drum rhythms, avant garden noises, drones and more from Simeon Coxe and Danny Taylor were not of the usual. This…
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CD Electronica/Electro ReviewRodney Cromwell: He’s not that old. He’s also not particularly anxious.
Title: Age of Anxiety Label: Happy Robots Ah, Rodney, Rodney, Rodney. There’s something…something…internal about Rodney. I’m probably way off base on this one and reading this chap totally wrong but I…
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Title: Play Label: BMG Released in 1999, this mainstream electronic dance LP was more of a sequel to the 1997 compilation I Like to Score: Music From Films Vol.1 rather…
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Title: Extra Virgin Label: Music on Vinyl It’s an odd one. Maybe because it was a a bit of a slow burner? Take the easy trip hop beats of the track,…
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Title: Into The Gap Label: Vinyl180 This was the band’s big breakthrough LP in the USA after it was released in 1984. If you want a slice of pure new wave pop,…
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Title: Last Train to Lhasa: 20th Anniversary Edition Label: Disco Gecko My god, has it been 20 years already? The title track to this album was part of my musical renaissance which included…
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CD Electronica/Electro Review Rock ReviewDavid Cross, ex-King Crimson and Sean Quinn’s Cold Sky Blue
Title: Cold Sky Blue Label: Esoteric Cross…as in David Cross, the violinist/mellotron player from King Crimson and Sean Quinn who has been signed up to the Psychonavigation and E.G. labels and…
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Electronica/Electro Review Various Review VinylA Compilation of Synth Wave tracks: although not quite as advertised
Synth Wave Title: Volume 1 Label: Electro London Also contact: [email protected] According to the label, what we have here is “some of the world’s freshest innovative electronic music. Electro, synth pop,…
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Electronica/Electro Review VinylMax Richter’s Songs From Before: with a guest appearance by Robert Wyatt
Title: Songs From Before Label: Deutsche Grammophon German-born Richter is one of those rare birds, a cross-over artist in that he will sit quite nicely under the classical banner but can…
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Title: A Trip to the Space [Between] Label: Clang You can tell that Benkho was excited to produce and release this album because he forgot to include the spaces between the…
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Title: The Pier Label: Fang Bomb Essentially, Paul Baran and Gordon Kennedy, The Pier is the duo’s, largely instrumental, debut release produced along with a selection of disparate musicians including Lucio Capece,…
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Electronica/Electro ReviewKosmischeboy and Quiddity: what we used to call trance but is now intelligent techno…possibly
Kosmischeboy and Quiddity æthersongs …or Dan Doughty and Graham Thorpe as they’re known to their mothers. The pair describe this album as almost a barrel-scraping exercise, stuff lying around their hard…
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Electronica/Electro Review VinylNew Order’ Music Complete: first full studio release since 2005’s Waiting For The Siren’s Call
New Order’s and their debut for Mute. The album finds the group revitalised, and where they had previously pushed toward electronics or guitars, here the two are in balance. Music Complete also…
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CD Electronica/Electro ReviewPeter Baumann’s Machines of Desire from krautrock legend, late of Tangerine Dream
Title: Machines of Desire Label: Bureau B Right, pay attention people. I’m not quite sure what’s going on with 2016 and why it has cursed music and, it has to be…
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Title: Heart Beats Slow Label: Tapete A Portuguese artist, Mira, Un Lobo (let’s call him Mira for brevity) combines a selection of recognisable effects on the first track of this new…
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Title: Visitation Label: Fang Bomb The press release to this one is minimal – a bit like the music itself – but behind the sparsity is Anthoney J Hart, a veteran…
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Title: Soliloquy For Lilith Label: Dirter Promotions This collection of ambient sounds was originally released as a 3LP set in 1988 but this new release adds a fourth disc with an…
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Title: ASS Label: Bureau B An interesting one, this. Partly because of who is part of this trio but mostly because of this trio. First up is Gunter Schickert who was…
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Title: The Beauty of Disaster Label: RareNoise Power. Sheer power. Lots and lots of power. Listen to the first minute or two of this instrumental piece from the German composer, Schwalm…
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Label: Vinyl On Demand The edgy, rather ‘avant’ German-based, record label, Vinyl On Demand, has released a host of minimal synth vinyl albums for general release on beautifully pressed heavyweight vinyl plus…
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Title: BGM Label: Music on Vinyl BGM? Background Music…but don’t think that you are about to play easy going library music here. This album, originally released in 1981, is full of spacious,…
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Title: Hwal Label: Parentheses I knew nothing about the instrument called the a man and his Geomungo (a traditional Korean stringed musical instrument of the zither family) until I heard this record but, bloody…