Saturday, December 23, 2017

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon

Sparse piano notes and gentle bleeps and electronic hum combine to create a meditative mood.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

In Zaire - Visions Of The Age To Come

In Zaire are an Italian group based in Berlin. They play dub and funk influenced psychedelic rock. There's a clarity and precision to their sound that helps makes it almost hypnotic.

 

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Monday, November 20, 2017

Above The Tree

Above The Tree is a solo project of Marco Bernacchia. He plays guitar augmented by odd noises and loops. There's a bluesy, lo-fi folk vibe to this.


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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Justin Walter - Unseen Forces

Justin Walter creates beautiful, gentle waves of organic sound by modulating his breath through an analog synth.



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Saturday, September 23, 2017

Group Home - Livin' Proof

Group Home were a short-lived hip-hop duo that were associated with Gang Starr. Both members of the act appeared on Gang Starr's Daily Operation LP, and Livin' Proof was produced by DJ Premier.

 

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Grauzone - Eisbaer

Grauzone were a short-lived German new wave act. They released a handful of records with Eisbaer becoming a chart success in Germany and Austria. Eisbaer has a tight, danceable punk bass line punctured by sharp, dissonant electronic noises.

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Desmadrados Soldado De Ventura

Desmadrados Soldado De Ventura are a British psychedelic rock band specialising in noisy extended freak-outs.


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Saturday, September 9, 2017

Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Bird, Lake, Objects

We've already highlighted the work of the electronic musician Jan Jelinek. But he's recorded a lot of great releases so we feel no shame in bringing another to your attention.

On Bird, Lake, Objects he collaborates with vibraphone player Masayoshi Fujita. Like Jelinek, Fujita's music shares an interest in exploring gentle texture and layers.

The product of their partnership is this hypnotic, immersive album.


Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Roy Montgomery - Tarkovsky Tone Poem

Along with groups like The Dead C, Roy Montgomery was part of New Zealand's rock deconstructionist scene.

He's played in bands such as The Pin Group and Dadamah as well as releasing records under his own name. This track is taken from a split LP that he made with The Dead C.


Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Malediction - Mould Of An Industrial Horizon

Malediction were a British grindcore act from the early Nineties. They were pretty well known on the tape-trading scene at the time. They put out a bunch of releases. This was one of my favourites.

 

Monday, August 21, 2017

Choubi Choubi! Folk and pop sounds from Iraq

Another Sublime Frequencies compilation, this time collecting together pop music from Iraq.


Sunday, August 20, 2017

Hisato Higuchi

This Japanese guitarist creates fragile, whispered, blues full of gentle ghostly notes and tones.

 

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Saturday, August 19, 2017

Eduard Artemyev - Stalker

You may not like or understand Andrei Tarkovsky's impenetrable Stalker, but a huge part of its haunting atmosphere can be attributed to Eduard Artemyev's incredible score.


Friday, August 18, 2017

Kikagaku Moyo - House In The Tall Grass

Kikagaku Moyo are psychedelic explores who switch between extended acid-fried wig-outs and gossamer smooth folk sweetness.



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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Friday, July 28, 2017

Sly & The Family Drone

Sly & The Family Drone are rhythm fetishists seemingly on a mission to numb your cerebral cortex. Their sound is characterised by percussion clatter, gnarled electronic squelches, and bleary vocal incomprehension. And their live shows are usually pretty special (by that I mean, totally chaotic).



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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Chico Hamilton - Peregrinations

Chico Hamilton was a jazz drummer and bandleader who came to prominence in the 1950s. Initially he played West Coast jazz, but throughout the Sixties and Seventies his music continued to evolve and move with times. In the 1970s he came to embrace the fusion sound that had emerged at the beginning of the decade.

That's where we find Chico Hamilton on 1975s Peregrinations.

 




Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Phurpa

Phurpa are a Russian group who use overtone chanting to create a pre-Buddhist Tibetan ritualistic music.

Or to put it another way, it's a bunch of dudes in black robes growling.



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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Jan Jelinek - Prime Time

Jan Jelinek has released music under a variety of different aliases (Farben and Gramm to name a couple).

Under his own name his predominantly released glitch techno. But on this EP from 2012 Jelinek goes for something different: a sound collage of different samples and audio snippets.


Sunday, July 9, 2017

Herbie Mann - Stone Flute

Jazz flutist Herbie Mann had a lot of pop hits over his career. But on Stone Flute there's more of a progressive vibe like he's playing the quieter moments of Miles' Bitches Brew.


Saturday, July 8, 2017

Don Cherry - Organic Music Society

Don Cherry was always one of the most adventurous musicians throughout his career. During the 1970s he started to explore African, Middle Eastern and Asian music. And one of the best examples of this genre fusion can be heard on Organic Music Society.


Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Aural Holograms

Finnish ambient droners specialising in highly atmospheric soundscapes.

Listening to them is like eavesdropping on an ancient ritual.




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Sunday, July 2, 2017

Abul Mogard

Abul Mogard only started making music after he retired from his job working in a factory.

The songs that he created on his homemade instruments were a way of recreating the sounds that he had become used to hearing throughout his working life.

Mogard's pieces are typically gentle, electronic, tonal washes with warm, slowly evolving melodies.



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Thursday, June 29, 2017

Verstarker

Forty-five minutes of instrumental space-rock motorik. Turn on, tune in, and enter the groove.