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October 30, 2015
The Tenzier imprint, founded five years ago to bring to light sonic gems from the fertile yet under-appreciated Quebec avant-garde, is back with its fifth release. Similar to the label’s earlier missives, this exploration of the work of free improviser and composer Yves Bouliane arrives in a stark,…
October 29, 2015
Detroit-based Ali Berger‘s Respect is the latest from Sweat Equity, the brilliantly zonked CD-R techno/house imprint of Brooklyn muzaker Dan Creahan, aka Mind Dynamics, adding a heavy helping of weird and well-refined ~progressive house to its catalog — though the album’s novelty…
October 29, 2015
“We have a jam-packed new installment of the FFFoxy Podcast for you this time around with a selection of mostly newer sounds picked out, along with a few choice older cuts from some crucial releases that seemed to fit in nicely. Got some heavy new LP offerings from the likes of The Coolies, CCR…
October 28, 2015
Even in the context of Orange Milk’s multifaceted catalog, the latest cassette from Roy Werner’s G.S. Sultan project — titled Ad.Sculpt Tutorial — is a pretty explicit fusion of proprietors Seth Graham and Keith Rankin’s aural and visual interests. With Werner’s…
October 27, 2015
Coverage of Sahel Sound’s astounding catalog of anthroactivism often leads me down a dark path of negativity, inevitable when one touches on the tragic instability of the Western Sahel region (comprised of Niger, Mauritania and Mali). Not today. This newest release by Tuareg songster Abba Gargando…
October 26, 2015
Shamane is a multimedia artist and experimental/psychedelic beats producer, as well as a recurring fixture in the DIY tape community for the several years, releasing on labels like Illuminated Paths and Ailanthus — as I wrote way back in Summer 2014, it was as Pop Culture Shaman and thanks to…
October 24, 2015
Starting off with a late entry this week, circa 10.17, but I very much wanted to share BeatRoute’s recent introductory primer on Dub Ditch Picnic and its headman Chris Jacques — someone that’s introduced me and a gaggle of other isolated weirdo dandies to a whole range of distinct…
October 23, 2015
Nebraska’s Tymbal Tapes imprint spun up in the first third of this year, storming out of the gates with a three-tape batch featuring the mysterious Peter Kris of German Army fame, Romanian-American writer Peter Moscovich, and the dueling synthesizers of The Department of Harmonic Integrity. The…
October 21, 2015
The robust Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet return for their sophomore record (aptly named 2, on Trouble In Mind), and “Headways” is as dramatic an entry point for the album one could find. 2 itself finds the members alternating between soft-and-smooth, complete guilty pleasure atmospherics…
October 20, 2015
“Recruited Collier” is a whopper of a ballad taken from The Ale’s What Cures Ye, a new collection of “traditional songs from the British Isles” performed by the United Bible Studies and inspired by Folkways — an interstate ensemble recorded at various times and locales,…
October 19, 2015
Based in Edinburgh, Mute-Tiny combines jagged, brittle beats with vibrant yet occasionally dark and menacing atmospheres. Most of the tracks on his debut tape, Resistance, for Seagrave are short but far too detailed and well-composed to make this seem like a run-of-the-mill beat tape. There’s…
October 17, 2015
#1 – 10.13.2015 – Cyclic Defrost — a wonderful Australian electronic site in case you aren’t familiar — recently ran a post headline that read “Listen to some of the weirdest Australian music you will ever hear” and they’re almost uniquely qualified to…
October 15, 2015
Courtesy of Reading-based “unpopular music” imprint Doubledotdash!? comes one of the snazziest looking tapes to grace an o-card all summer, the first in what I hope will be an august lineage of collaborations between one half of sludged experimental duo Blackhoods (who have appeared on…
October 13, 2015
Montreal-based label Atrito-Afeito really put their musical microcosm into focus with the release of the Total Improvisation Troop CD-R, and now Paulo J Ferreira Lopes, Karoline Leblanc and their cluster of like-minded adventurers of thorny tonal territories are back. This time, it’s a pair of…
October 10, 2015
“It’s been a hectic past couple of weeks around the FFF bunker, but we’re happy to finally bring you a new installment of the podcast. We have a special show put together for you this time around, a feature on Crisis of Taste, a superb new ‘independent publisher/distributor of generally…
October 8, 2015
Phantom Horse is Hamburg-based guitarist Niklas Dommaschk and Kiel synthesist Ulf Schütte, a duo drawn to Dekorder for their self-titled 2012 debut thanks in apart to the latter’s extended string of solo and collaborative releases for the imprint. Umor Rex describes their follow-up, Different…
October 7, 2015
The return to paganism, a pagan spiritual universe, conscious or otherwise, is a frequent phenomenon in the contemporary cultural universe — its effect is huge, and its interpretation a key theme these days. That context is animalistic, and despite its sensuality negotiates a deep discomfort. Nigredo…
October 6, 2015
Between 2002 and 2004, Ikef Records reissued three studio albums by the the jazz French horn player, Brother Ah — Sound Awareness (1972), Move Ever Onward (1975), and Key to Nowhere (1983) — with good reason. In the sixties and seventies, Brother Ah was a widely desired session musician,…
October 5, 2015
It’s been a little more than a year since we last heard from Topdown Dialectic, the deliriously woozy techno project with ties to Further Records and Aught, the latter of which now returns again arm-in-arm with TD for another cassette of distantly alluring, wholly mesmerizing dance music. /\\…
October 5, 2015
Eiderdown further explores their deep reserve of wobbly, somnambulant lo-fi psych and general affinity for the color green with their most unabashedly green cassettes to date, courtesy of Chicago based Dawn Aquarius, aka Zeta One, and Irish trio Woven Skull. Zeta One bubbles warped, hallucinatory vocals…
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