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Review: Just the fact that the Shahr Farag imprint is from Iran is enough to grab our attention. This is both because it feels like a novelty to the scene, but also because that vast majority of arts that come out of the country are always so interesting. This time, label owners Lenta and Ahu are joined by Romanian minimal expert Vlad Caia, who serves an excellent, Eastern-minded quasi-dance rhythm in "Declination", and a purely abstract barrack of drones and low frequencies on "Neptune". Lenta himself drops a fuzzy wash of sounds and disparate beats through "Your Existence", while Ahu's "Blind By The Sun" has something in common with dub-techno, except that here the sounds that flutter up and down are grainy and imperceptible...and wholly wonderful. Tip!
… Read moreGespielt von: Bovill, Juno Recommends Ambient/Drone
out of stock $13.57
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Default: Various Artists (180 gram vinyl 12")
Cat: DFLT 002. Rel: 21 Oct 19
Review: The first release of Default introduced us to emergent players in the minimal tech field such as Exander and Rojid, and they're at it again with the fresh faces on part two. Exander makes a welcome return on the B-side with the moody "Odyssey", but there's also sparkling new dubwise immersions from Camelia and crafty micro-disco from Macarie to lose yourself in. Lulla turns in one of the most interesting cuts on the record, using a densely packed rhythm section and a smattering of sample slices to create a dynamic club track full of inventive energy.
… Read moreout of stock $9.41
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Fragments 2 (12")
Cat: HVNCOMP 26. Rel: 30 Jan 20
Review: Spain's premier outlet for quirky house and techno lines up to that fine reputation once again here with a second Fragments EP from a fine crew of studio talents. Fantastic Man's "Lather Of Heaven" opens proceedings with lush synth ripples layered up over rubbery, rolling drums to make for a trance inducing gem. Layered Moods gets more unhinged with his cavernous exploration of rhythm and Absis slows things down to a delicious dub crawl. Steve Pepe brings some shamanistic rituals to his rather spooky and tribal number "Tribalone" to complete a fascinating EP.
… Read moreout of stock $13.85
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Cat: PLAYRJC 024. Rel: 30 May 13
Review: Established as a record label some four years ago, Live At Robert Johnson have really come to the fore as representing the best of contemporary European deep house alongside the likes of Dial and Running Back. Here, the Frankfurt institution returns to their recent triumphant Lifesaver compilation with this addendum 12" release featuring the productions from Roman Flugel, Lauer, San Laurentino and Tuff City Kids. Flugel opens proceedings with the rough and moody "More Is Not Enough" which brandishes a beat that can't help but get in your face. This is complemented by the calmer, sumptuous New Beat stylings of Lauer's "Hector" and the richly colourful "Final Landing" from San Laurentino. "People Is A Crackhead (Tuff Hamlet Riddim)" is not only the best track title in a hot minute but yet another original dancefloor slayer from Gerd Janson and Lauer's Tuff City Kids, opting for the Germanic digi dub meets tuff house route.
… Read moreGespielt von: Ender, Old Spice, SONNS / Machine Limited, Roberto Rodriguez (Manolo), Seahorse & Castle, San LAURENTINO
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Review: Brazilian tech house up and comer L_cio, known to his Mum as Laercio Schwantes Iorio finally gets his day on wax with this new one on the DOC label. On the A-side is "People Talk" with pop induced tech house reminiscent of the Kompakt style, moody as hell and big on atmosphere with uber cool male vocals courtesy of Japan based Brit Aroop Roy. On the flip is the accapella but it's more of a beatless version, keeping the druggy mesmerising melody and said uber cool vocals by Roy. A fine little 7" nugget from DOC.
… Read moreout of stock $8.03
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Review: What do we think of when someone says the word 'ambient'? Maybe a stupid question, nevertheless the term is often taken as an implication of background sounds, or at least tracks that are loosely structured around ebb and flow rather than rigid forms. In no way a criticism, Luke Haze's Pure Movements offers a counterbalance to that idea.
Dropping on Bristol's Shall Not Fade - essentially an imprint you might as well buy every release from without bothering to listen - this link was always going to be a bit of a clue as to what's on offer. In many ways, the four tracks here play out like breakdowns within late night club sets, hints of euphoria, an atmosphere of build, informed by acid, progressive and techno, but certainly none of the above.
… Read moreDropping on Bristol's Shall Not Fade - essentially an imprint you might as well buy every release from without bothering to listen - this link was always going to be a bit of a clue as to what's on offer. In many ways, the four tracks here play out like breakdowns within late night club sets, hints of euphoria, an atmosphere of build, informed by acid, progressive and techno, but certainly none of the above.
Gespielt von: Chris Coco
out of stock $15.49
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Review: Malin Genie welcomes an extensive EP treat from Lava Lap, an emergent producer with an affinity for the kind of braindance that will have fans of Jodey Kendrick beating their drum machines with approval. The acid is slippery, the structures ever-shifting and a wealth of expression spills out of every bar. There are faster drum & bass paced bits, melancholy detuned electro and much more besides. Far from just being clever music though, it's also amazingly emotional and so impeccably produced. Any electronica head should be all over this.
… Read moreGespielt von: Kone-R (Uncharted Audio), Juno Recommends Experimental
out of stock $6.63
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Review: Leah Lazonick is a talented woman. A soundtrack composer, songwriter, vocalist, DJ and pianist based in Brooklyn, she has previously leant her musical skills to a handful of Sciccor & Thread label releases. Here, she finally gets a chance to release a solo EP of her own. Her classical training comes to the fore on the A-side, where she works her way through a trio of superb piano compositions, accompanied on all three occasions by a small but perfectly formed string section. On the B side, minimal techno producer Petre Inspirescu wraps elements of all three compositions - a piano motif, an extended string section there - around a tactile, hard-panned minimalist dancefloor groove, keeping the action going for a mesmerizing 13 minutes. It's naturally hugely different to Lazonick's original works, but is nevertheless rather impressive.
… Read moreout of stock $9.41
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Mirror Remixes (12" in die-cut sleeve)
Cat: GIEGLINGLP 09REMIX. Rel: 22 Apr 24
Review: Contemporary tastemakers Geilgling return with a set of remixes of material from Leafar Legov's recent album, Mirror. First up it is German minimal maestro Isolee who flips 'Fade' into some of his signature sounds - smeared synths and abstract designs all weave together over a minimal beat to make for something seductive and late night. Polish loop master Jan Jelinek then flips 'Fade' into a slow motion shuffle with bright, celestial shards of melodic light and downbeat, melancholic vocals over a chugging beat. Last of all is a mix of 'Jing' that is all broken loops, chopped vocal fragments and hallucinogenic synths.
… Read moreGespielt von: M50
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Review: It's been a fine year for Mark Barrott's International Feel with the Jose Padilla album an undoubted centrepiece. The Ibiza label aren't quite done for the year however, with Lingua Franca from Len Leise marking the onset of a series of mini-album projects from International Feel aimed around a loose concept for artists to "show more of who they are musically without the constraints of the traditional album format." Few had heard of Leise until he was featured on International Feel last year, but the Australian has gone on to score a rather fine record for the like-minded Aficionado operation as well as contribute to that killer Paradise Goulash mix from Prins Thomas. Some seven tracks deep, Lingua Franca finds Leise crafting "an imaginary journey based on real experiences," with Morocco, Spain, Russia, India and Brazil providing the inspiration for the clearly well-travelled musician. Sumptuous Balearica is of course the order of the day, with the occasional dalliance into something a bit more dancefloor appropriate ("O Caminho"), and ensures Lingua Franca is a fine start for a series that promises contributions from Gatto Fritto, CFCF and Wolf Muller.
… Read moreGespielt von: Marco Gallerani, Alexis Le-Tan, Yiannis 'Nova' Dorakis, Sito / / Mischio Dischi Disco, Manu Archeo, Max Essa, Watson, Juno Recommends Downtempo, Mellophonia, Kenneth Bager // Musicfordreams, Steve Lee, Sleazy Beats Recordings, Moonboots, Gumshoe, Young Adults, Pete gooding, Cleveland, Ptaki, CRUCIAL & FRESH
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Review: The Shahr Farang crew seem to be on a roll at present. Label staple Lenta maintains his position on the quiet, reflective extreme of 4/4 music, unfurling the kind of delicate minimalism and ambient that merely hints at any connection to club traditions. Long may it continue, when the quality is this high - the Pole-esque ripples of "Yoga" click and pop through gorgeous layers of melancholic melody delivered with a delicate touch, while "Sanyasi" tumbles through forlorn guitar and looming sub bass frequencies. Each piece is distinct from the others, and indeed anything else being released at present, making this record highly recommended for all intrepid sonic wayfarers.
… Read moreout of stock $9.41
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Review: Second Circle's latest mini-album comes from the previously unheard Giuseppe Leonardi, a "young Viennese musician" whose heady, synthesizer-heavy style is reminiscent of some of the curious obscurities reissued on parent label Music From Memory. While experimental in nature - think skewed combinations of lo-fi analogue keyboards, sparse and dusty drum machine hits and all manner of manipulated voices - each of the five tracks is pleasingly melodious. Combined with a range of left-of-centre influences from the early-to-mid '80s (think new wave ambient, new wave and British post-punk dub), it makes for a heady and arresting collection of tracks that actually gets better with each successive listen.
… Read moreout of stock $12.73
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Cat: AMELEP 706. Rel: 04 Mar 15
Review: For some of the more surreal, free and improvisation electro-acoustic jazz kicking about these days check out Claudio Puntin, Samuel Rohrer and Max Loderbauer's Ambiq LP. That 11-track album fused interstellar themes associable with the music of Sun Ra with left of field sounds you'd expect to hear on a label like Type. Arjunamusic founder Samuel Rohrer has suitably commissioned remixes by minimal legend Ricardo Villalobos and Ostgut Ton pillar Tobias, and both provide distinctly different and, to say the least, fascinating results. Villalobos's scatter-junk remix of "Tund" is enough to make you feel as though you're stuck in a tiny crawl space of dirt, driftwood and broken wind chimes, while Tobias's trademark techno percussion lightly rests below the humming bassline, cinematic atmospheres and shuffling field recordings of "Toxic Underground". House and techno and its most avant garde.
… Read moreGespielt von: Alex Font, Juno Recommends Experimental
out of stock $11.07
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Review: The Spanish guitar has a long history of use in sunkissed dance music, the sort of tracks that never fail to perfectly soundtrack the poolside recovery to the night before or early evening sunset session. 'Mouth Feel' is the first proof this EP gives us that the formula still works, a rolling slow house number that's all warm vibes and good drinks.
From thereon in the evidence only mounts. 'Deep Sea Burn' takes almost any reference to dance music per se out of the equation, owing much more to the meditative ambient tradition before emerging into the light deep electronica of 'Second Sight'. Things are rounded out nicely with 'Belong To Be Here', a pared back, rhythmic slice of minimal, percussive electro and the cinematic moods of 'Exp+Mem'.
… Read moreFrom thereon in the evidence only mounts. 'Deep Sea Burn' takes almost any reference to dance music per se out of the equation, owing much more to the meditative ambient tradition before emerging into the light deep electronica of 'Second Sight'. Things are rounded out nicely with 'Belong To Be Here', a pared back, rhythmic slice of minimal, percussive electro and the cinematic moods of 'Exp+Mem'.
out of stock $13.01
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Review: The little baby Jesus of instrumental hip-hop breaks out of his short trousers and produces an instrumental magnum opus of messianic proportions. Or in other words, Lukid releases "Onandon" on Werk.
… Read moreout of stock $7.75
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Review: For this Ahornfelder release FS Blumm has written some of his most light-hearted tunes, accompanied by NY trumpeter Luca Fadda.
… Read moreout of stock $18.82
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Review: When Marie Davidson announced last year that she would be, "retiring from club music", many wondered what she'd do next. Renegade Breakdown, her first album recorded with a full band (L'Oeuil Nu), answers that question. It sees the Canadian artist and her new collaborators deliver suitably arresting, personal and ear-catching songs built on mixing and matching a surprisingly wide variety of musical inspirations, from Blondie, classic disco and mutilated heavy metal guitars, to Kraftwerk, Billie Holliday, Fleetwood Mac and Daft Punk. It's a big shift for the previously highly experimental artist, but thanks to her skill as both a a producer and performer, one that works magnificently well.
… Read more in stock $8.76
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Renegade Breakdown (gatefold 2xLP + poster)
Cat: ZEN 267. Rel: 25 Sep 20
Review: When Marie Davidson announced last year that she would be, "retiring from club music", many wondered what she'd do next. Renegade Breakdown, her first album recorded with a full band (L'Oeil Nu), answers that question. It sees the Canadian artist and her new collaborators deliver suitably arresting, personal and ear-catching songs built on mixing and matching a surprisingly wide variety of musical inspirations, from Blondie, classic disco and mutilated heavy metal guitars, to Kraftwerk, Billie Holiday, Fleetwood Mac and Daft Punk. It's a big shift for the previously highly experimental artist, but thanks to her skill as both a a producer and performer, one that works magnificently well.
… Read moreGespielt von: Juno Records Staff Picks
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Review: John Foxx and electro DJ Louis Gordon release "Sideways", their fifth album since meeting up just over ten years ago. The album brings together sci-fi themed electronic pop songs with trash psychedelia and film music to create the pair's most adventurous recordings to date. In fact, over twenty-five years after launching his solo career with the minimalist electro pop of Metamatic, Foxx has been enjoying a recent renaissance. In addition to the critically acclaimed "From Trash", Foxx brought to life his "Tiny Colour Movies" album with a stunning performance at the Brighton Film Festival and continued his long-term "Cathedral Oceans" project with rare screenings at other UK film festivals. He also started work on various collaborative projects with Robin Guthrie (ex-Cocteau Twins) and the actor Vincent Gallo. According to Foxx, "Sideways" explores his fascination with things that have all been considered at one time or another as trash - science fiction, TV, b-movies, synthesizers, psychedelia, pop music, comics - all the stuff I love!
… Read moreout of stock $13.27
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Silver Apples Of The Moon (reissue) (180 gram coloured vinyl LP + insert)
Cat: MR 044LP. Rel: 16 Feb 15
Review: More highly-sought after reissue madness from the monumental Medical Records! These guys push just about any kind of outsider music that's worth a penny or two in the second-hand market, and we're forever grateful to them for that. Laika's first album from 1994, Silver Apples Of The Moon, was and still is one of the best and most original indie rock LP's ever made. Originally out on the Too Pure imprint, this bad boy hasn't seen a vinyl reissue in a long while, and it was about time given it's forward-thinking approach and utterly fresh take on the indie umbrella. In fact, it is albums like these that have rendered the rock scene so free, and track like "Sugar Daddy" or "Let Me Sleep" are still highly relevant today. Laika's cutting-edge percussion style, where tight drums loops at high speeds, is layered over stripped vocals and minimal melodies. A heavily recommended album and an absolutely fantastic find from Medical.
… Read moreGespielt von: Juno Recommends Downtempo
out of stock $27.41
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Cat: PERMVAC 1362. Rel: 06 Feb 15
Review: Few British techno acts are quite as lauded as British Murder Boys, the industrial strength collaboration between Regis and Surgeon. Throughout the early-to-mid 2000s, their distinctive EPs provided the soundtrack to many great moments in dusty basements, dark rooms and sweat-soaked raves. Whether you missed out first time around or simply want a trip down memory lane, this career retrospective should be an essential purchase. Alongside 12 hand picked tracks from the catalogue - the vast majority in their rolling, pounding, industrial strength style - the package also includes in-depth sleeve notes from Blackest Ever Black boss Kiran Sande, and a DVD of the duo's dystopian 2013 live show at Club Unit, Tokyo (excerpts from which were released on 12" last year).
… Read moreGespielt von: Juno Recommends CD Albums, YokoO
out of stock $9.69
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Review: It's been seven years since the last offering from Munich-based electropop group Lali Puna, in which time two years of writing and a change in lineup have nudged the band in a subtly different direction. The roots of their sound haven't changed too much, and there's plenty of variety to be heard here. The rattling clipped samples and surging synths of 'Come Out Your House' contrast pleasingly with the twinkling warmth of tracks like 'Wear My Heart'. The subject matter of 'Two Windows' empathetically reflects on issues of individuality, freedom and surveillance, with lyrical content that's open enough both to connect with and reflect upon.
… Read moreout of stock $15.23
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Review: Braulio Lam's latest record is a unique outing, spanning pensive ambient dub and trip-hop moods, and cherrying them with an added visual element in the form of a photography insert. Born on the border region of San Diego and Tijuana, Lam's repertoire works in an expressly brooding sound that threshes its inspirations from the close but separate apposition of these two cities. The sense of a polemic being is a central theme of Lam's work; this is not only evident in his practice, which drifts back and forth between music production and photography, but also in the sonic content of Close Up itself, which drifts between depth-scouring electronica and Pacific folk in quick step, revealing them to be dialectically adjoined. Our favourites here have to be 'Buena Vista Social Dub', a crystalline immersion in dub and vocal etherics, and 'Mirror', and 'Monika', which lends a seething tape hue to a slowly moving slice of Latin blues.
… Read moreGespielt von: Juno Recommends Downtempo
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Review: After the starry-eyed delights of the Club Mondo 2000 mini album last year, Lamusa II returns to Gravity Graffiti with further explorations on the outer reaches of cosmic jazz, experimental library music and much more besides. This is music to stimulate your cerebellum and transport you to hitherto unknown regions, certainly relevant if you've been digging the previous output on Gravity Graffiti from the likes of Yoshinori Hayashi. Particular highlights include the fluttering tapestry of keys, chimes, rhythmic ripples and zippy effects on "Variatio Ad Absurdum," the intense vibrations of "Caos E Dialogo" and the mellow patterns and trills of "Dalle Alle."
… Read moreout of stock $16.05
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Love Hallucination (gatefold LP + MP3 download code)
Cat: HDBLP 063. Rel: 27 Jul 23
Review: Hyperdub continues to stamp its authority down on a wide variety of electronic music, in this case throwing the light, bouncing club-ready sounds of Canada's Jessy Lanza into the mix of a back catalogue that touches on everything from ambient to dubstep and footwork. But, while we open on the snare-happy garage-house of 'Don't Leave Me Now', and tracks like 'Drive' also look to the dancefloor, things don't stay there long. 'Don't Cry On My Pillow', for example, is a low stepping piece of alternative electronic soul. 'Big Pink Rose' opts for synth refrains and staccato drums to create a steamy, heady neon r&b brew with added yacht. 'Double Time' deconstructs pop balladry and makes it sound lo-fi yet huge, 'I Hate Myself' seems to take a lead from tropicalia-hued, leftfield electronica.
… Read more in stock $21.31
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Review: Jessy Lanza has always been quintessentially Hyperdub. A label helmed by garage, dubstep and bass DJ and producer, and academic music theorist Kode 9, the imprint has relentlessly pushed the kind of dance tracks that are unashamedly direct yet unarguably clever. Beats that acknowledge the delicate balance of fun and accessible with underground and intelligent. 2023's Love Hallucination, Lanza's fourth studio album, only adds to the evidence. It bubbles with pop sensibilities, sing-along worthiness and timeless infectiousness, but does so in an incredibly thoughtful, natural-yet-razor-accurate way. From two-step to slo-mo funk, r&b and steamy electro groove, it presents the kind of songwriter who makes sure chart and radio friendly doesn't always mean throwaway or one dimensional. Infinitely repayable stuff.
… Read more in stock $20.49
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Review: Jessy Lanza's skewed, left-of-centre take on electronic pop has helped her deliver a string of inspired albums, though few are quite as joyful, bold and ear-catching as Love Hallucination. It was created following her move from San Francisco to Los Angeles, with a string of musical friends and collaborators - Jeremy Greenspan, Jacques Greene, Tensnake and Paul White included - lending a hand with the production. The results are undoubtedly inspired, with UKG-influenced synth-pop nuggets, drowsy electronic disco and AM radio-friendly synth grooves being joined by future r&b bullets, bass-heavy pop-house throb-jobs and undeniably Balearic workouts. In other words, Love Hallucination is another inspired full-length excursion from one of the best in the business.
… Read moreout of stock $13.27
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Review: When Nostalchic was first released in 2013, Lapalux was already well established as a central figure in the booming LA beat scene orbiting around Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder label. Given how entrenched in the 2010s that whole movement was, the music itself has matured beautifully over the past decade to become a heartfelt benchmark in a sub-genre that thrived on innovation and unexpected swerves. It helps that there are some choice detuned synth lines which fold time across the ages on the likes of 'Guuurl', proving Lapalux was always about the feels more than the shock and awe of the beats. Having only a modest run the first time around, now the album has been repressed for the first time as a limited edition on clear vinyl.
… Read morein stock $17.43
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Acid Pa Svenska (180 gram vinyl LP)
Cat: WMWL 002. Rel: 26 Oct 15
Review: Acid pa Svenska is a remake of the legendary Jazz pa Svenska record from 1964, a classic jazz record, now re-worked with an acid twist, inspired by the iconic sound of a Roland TB303.
… Read moreGespielt von: Juno Recommends Experimental
out of stock $26.56
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Review: Russia's Lapti has been away from the scene for a while, because his so called brand of 'vaporwave' is exactly the sort fo thing we're into when it comes to abstract moulds of ambient and drone. He returns to action after four years with blinding album on his native Ghost Zvuk label, bringing through a truly fresh and daring blend of electronic sounds. "Ushu", for instance, deserves no categorization thanks to its odd broken beats and swelling mutant bass, and the equally excellent "plague" is an experimental hip hop tune from the depths of the inferno. There's so much in this LP that it's almost beyond description; what we can say is that if you're looking for something that truly blurs the lines, then Lapti is the man for you. Very hotly recommended.
… Read moreout of stock $14.13
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A New Landscape (limited translucent orange vinyl LP + MP3 download code)
Cat: PITPV 026ORANGE. Rel: 18 Aug 22
Review: Christopher 'Lav' Landin is a master of ambient sounds but it's been a while since we heard from him after 2017's collab with Purl on A Strangely Isolated Place. A New Landscape is a fresh album on Past Inside The Present that comes on limited and transparent orange vinyl. Contained within are a beguiling bunch of tunes with soul stirring pads, gently propulsive rhythms and gorgeous sound designs that call to mind various different references from deepest space to a warm spring day. It is an accomplished album design for mental escape.
… Read moreout of stock $25.46
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A New Landscape (limited coloured vinyl LP + MP3 download code)
Cat: PITPV 026COLOR. Rel: 18 Aug 22
Review: Christopher 'Lav' Landin is a master of ambient sounds but it's been a while since we heard from him after 2017's collab with Purl on A Strangely Isolated Place. A New Landscape is a fresh album on Past Inside The Present that comes on limited and coloured vinyl. Contained within are a beguiling bunch of tunes with soul stirring pads, gently propulsive rhythms and gorgeous sound designs that call to mind various different references from deepest space to a warm spring day. It is an accomplished album design for mental escape.
… Read moreGespielt von: Juno Recommends Downtempo
out of stock $16.33
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Review: .Oh wow. Brussels-based Maloca label boss Le Motel has created something really beautiful here. Utilising musique concrete principles, and a renowned ear for pianos and contemporary classical, experimental electronica, ambient and the like, Odd Numbers / S? L? is an odyssey in all senses of the word. Made from time on roads less traveled and the people and places encountered en route, it also feels like an aural adventure in its own right. Catalysed by time spent in Vietnam, arriving into the sprawling colonial districts of Hanoi, then venturing out to Hmong communities in mountainous areas close to the Chinese border, those he met and engaged with have been directly involved in the final album here - making this a vast exercise in collaboration. Noisy kitchens, quiet fields, personal conversations, the laughter of a village square on a weekend morning, meet beats, bass, heavy future cuts, serenity, and bliss. 1000% yes.
… Read moreGespielt von: Alexis Le-Tan, Polygonia
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Review: Welsh production obsessive Leif has remained pretty prolific throughout his low-key but high praise career. Last year he put out two full-lengths on London's Whities, firstly a live session Music For Screen Tests, and in 2019 his album Loom Dream. Here he lands on AD 93 with another meticulously well-crafted record which he says was formed during "an unconscious reconnection with music long since forgotten; an instinctive recall for melodies played out on guitar, low whistle and voice." It is typically deft, detailed, lush and elegant in the way it unfolds, and immediately draws you into its quiet but emotive artistry and keeps you there for the duration.
… Read moreout of stock $20.21
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Concentric (hand-numbered CD limited to 60 copies)
Cat: ROHS 034CD. Rel: 01 Jun 21
Review: Like a lot of ambient and experimental electronic producers, Albert Brokent AKA Lingua Lustra tends towards the prolific. In fact, Concentric, his second full-length excursion for ROHS (his first dropped in 2017), is the 33rd album he's released since making his debut in 2005. While many of those sets explored the more academic side of ambient music, Concentric delights in its musical joviality, with Brokent's usual immersive chords and synthetic aural textures being joined by bubbly electronic melodies, Boards of Canada style beats, and musical motifs that tend towards the picturesque and sunkissed. As a result, it's one of his most enjoyable and exuberant sets to date.
… Read moreGespielt von: Juno Recommends Ambient/Drone
out of stock $7.20
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Review: Lion's Drums full length exists as en exploration in multiple dimensions. First by challenging the notion of the album format by presenting a body of work that lies snuggly between remixes, edits and original works and secondly as a means to delve into the transcendent potential of the drum. The album sets the tone by putting these two concepts fully on display with its hypnotic chant, swaying one into ease over the first two songs. In orderly cue folding and unfolding, meditatively through, melodies as muddied pastelle whispers cast over the measured language of the drum. Breaking away from the musing themes of the opening songs we find an ecstatic ritual in "Tanz der Korperlinge" and "Journey to Middle Earth", two distinct varieties but both of the same perennial species. Inky ether seeps back in through the second half of the album with a peak of frenzied tumbling toms and incongruous textures hovering above in the Manos Tsangaris' collaboration "Crying Tafel" and his re-imagining of Tullio De Piscopo's unhinged drum excursion "Fastness". The closing exemplifies the edit/remix/original ethos proposed for this work with Lions Drums drawing from tapes and original material of electronic pioneers Suzanne Ciani and Roberto Musci. Drawing from unreleased music and song sketches by the original artists as well as field recordings from travels & studio sessions made by Roberto Musci & Manos Tsangaris in the 80's and early 90's he constructs a side winding journey through playful textures and ethereal moods.
… Read moreout of stock $25.19
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Review: .The last time we fell in love with Kedr Livansky it was October 2021 and the world was looking up. Lockdowns were over, and Liminal Soul brought us a celebratory embrace rooted in dance music and post-club night warmth. "Trance-tipped, heart-on-sleeve dance music that's never shy and still always chilled out enough to sit back and contemplate," we said at the time. Myrtus Myth is a very different thing altogether, but thankfully feels no less optimistic. Definitely sitting closer to pop, a kind of soft-yacht-rock, electronic-jazz-chill, and beach bar downtempo compared with the dance floors we were so keen to revisit three years ago, a few things have survived - all of them wonderful deep. Another stunner, to put all that another way.
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Review: For over 20 years, Clay Emerson and Ian Pullman aka Loess have quietly built a reputation for crafting intricate, deeply atmospheric electronica and Battens, their fifth album on Califonrian label n5MD, sees them refining their signature aestheticistill grayscale and shadowy, but now imbued with a subtle warmth. The Opener 'Strake' features layered static hums and a slow, hypnotic beat that cycles like waves against a submerged structure. 'Halyard' introduces brittle textures and crisp rhythms, evoking wind-swept landscapes. 'Crowhurst' builds tension with submerged chords and fractured percussion. The haunting 'Koepcke' carries a sense of disorientation and search for stability, while 'Endoctamb' recalls Chain Reaction's most introspective moments, yet with a looser, more organic quality. Closing with 'Rime', Battens embraces silence, with glacial melodies fading into the ether. Throughout, the duo masterfully manipulates sound and space, allowing moments of stillness to breathe between pulsing rhythms and submerged harmonies. There's an undeniable human element in how these tracks moveilike the slow, inevitable shift of nature itself. More than just an exercise in sound design, Battens is a transportive experience, cold yet comforting, stark yet alive recording.
… Read moreGespielt von: Juno Recommends Leftfield, Juno Recommends Experimental
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Graal: Prologue (LP + insert + artwork in die-cut sleeve)
Cat: KI 018LP. Rel: 16 Apr 19
Review: Christian Loffler has been producing pensive, cinematic electronic soundscapes for a long time now. 10 years since his first EP landed, the German producer presents his third studio album on his own Ki Records label. Once again Loffler has continued to grow through the album recording process, embracing more adventurous textural and sound design practices whilst also enriching his songwriting chops. The vocal turns from Josephine Philip and Mohna help deepen the seductive melancholy of his compositions, but even in its instrumental moments the pensive synth lines sing their own heartfelt messages. If you're a fan of Jon Hopkins, Nathan Fake and other such emotionally charged electronica artists, you won't want to miss this album.
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The Onrush Of Eternity (trifold coloured vinyl 3xLP + MP3 download code limited to 200 copies)
Cat: INVNC 21LPTRI. Rel: 06 Feb 19
Review: It was early September when Laraaji first joined forces with log(m) in their Canadian studio. The legendary ambient artist has been back a few times since, but it's taken the dub-loving duo well over a decade to finish off, prepare and mix the material. It was, of course, worth the wait. "The Onrush Of Eternity" is a stunning set, with Laraaji's distinctive instrumental passages and drifting ambient textures gently ebbing and flowing around his studio partners' distinctively spaced-out, hi-tec dub rhythms and bubbly electronic flows. There's enough variation across the triple-vinyl set to please those who like to pick and choose tracks, though it's so engaging and immersive you'll want to listen to it straight through in one 105-minute sitting.
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Review: Berlin-based Sydneysider LOGIC1000 (real name Samantha Poulter) enjoyed a prolific and productive 2024, becoming something of an in-demand DJ, producer and remixer on the back of her acclaimed debut album Mother, a typically distinctive affair that pulled deep house in a variety of woozy, melodious and inventive new directions. Her inclusion in K7's long-running DJ Kicks series is therefore well-earned. It offers a home listening-ready distillation of her sound that's notably 'calmer' (in the label's words) than her club sets. But that's no bad thing, as it allows greater exploration of experimental, downtempo and hyper-pop, alongside a string of exclusives (including the obligatory track created for the series) and some heady, mid-tempo dancefloor grooves.
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LOGIC1000 / VARIOUS
DJ Kicks (LP + playing card + autographed insert)
Cat: K7 426LPSIGNED. Rel: 03 Apr 25
Review: After a whirlwind year - releasing her acclaimed debut Mother, touring globally, remixing Dua Lipa and launching a podcast - Logic1000 (Samantha Poulter) now marks herself out from the other DJ-Kicks entrants with a unique approach to the vinyl LP-mix form. Seeking calm amid the chaos, she curates a deeply personal mix reflecting her home life, morning rituals, and evolving sonic palette, coursing through neo-ambient textures, dub-infused post-2020 downtempo, and NY-feel golden hours. Exclusive tracks from close friends DJ Plead and Big Ever blend seamlessly, while Poulter herself contributes two originals: 'Fused', most notably, pinches the ears with its distilled +12 vocal repitchings and a tropical flow. Poulter embraces a softer, contemplative side here, her mix emphasising subtlety in a series otherwise often besieged by artists seeking to stand out with techno-schlocks of loudness and rapidity.
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Review: On her debut full-length, Istanbul-born, Amsterdam-based Loradeniz channels heartbreak into radiant ambient soundscapes. By layering up shimmering synth arpeggios, soft percussion and beautifully delicate and ethereal vocals, the album glides between a sense of emotional fragility and rousing sonic strength. Written, performed and produced entirely by Deniz Omeroglu, the artist's classical training and sound design expertise shines through on tracks like 'Cloud Sofa' and 'Sea Serpent' which balance intimacy with IDM-inspired textures, while closer 'Aftersun' glows with that quiet sense of sunrise euphoria. Sun Shone is a deeply personal and emotionally rich journey with plenty of reference points for us all amongst the melancholy and subsequent notes of catharsis.
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Review: Via his Lord of the Isles alias and contributions to Firecracker's Mac-Talla Nan-Creag project, Neil McDonald has proved particularly good at unfurling atmospheric, melodious and immersive electronic music. While much of it has been ambient in nature, there have been fine dancefloor excursions, and on this third solo album, Subtle Thoughts, he showcases the full range of his talents. We get a mix of sparkling, spring-fresh IDM, evocative ambient soundscapes, locked-in ambient techno, his take on bleep-and-breaks ('Open Mode'), widescreen electronic epics ('Subtle Thoughts') and the kind of hard-to-pigeonhole blasts of life-affirming brilliance that mark out the work of only the most talented of producers (see 'Medhi'). His best album yet by some distance.
… Read moreGespielt von: Replika | Common Mode, Marcelo Tavares(Deep Space Podcast), M50, Bovill, Agnostic Rhythm, Shine Grooves
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Cat: BB 474. Rel: 30 Jan 25
Review: Midway through the last decade, Bureau B reissued a kosmiche curiosity from cult synthesiser composer Rudiger Lorenz, Southland - a set inspired by idle daydreaming about the island nations of the southern pacific and the south Atlantic. Here, they return to the late artist's catalogue, presenting their pick of the music featured on the DIY tapes and records he self-released (usually in very small quantities) between 1981 and '83 - IE the period before Southland was recorded. Larger darker and moodier than that set, Lorenz delivers a synthesizer-heavy musical blend of contemporaneous influences that consistently delivers the goods. Our picks of a very strong bunch include the sparse and warped 'Chabomilla Sabinae', the Tangerine Dream-esque beauty of 'Dreaming of Saba', the electronic ambience of 'Independence' and the star-gazing drift of 'Anigre'.
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Review: The little baby Jesus of instrumental hip-hop breaks out of his short trousers and produces an instrumental magnum opus of messianic proportions. Or in other words, Lukid releases "Onandon" on Werk.
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Review: Lusine aka Jeff Mcllwain has been part of the Ghostly International crew since the early 00's and his individualistic yet immediately recognisable sound has been a considerable part of their road to success. He's finally back with this highly anticipated LP, and yes...it's a right scorcher from start to finish. "Panoramic" sets the scene in slo-mo hip-hop style, whilst "Get The Message" goes all crazy on the vocals, sounding something like Hot Chip on a balearic tip. There's definitely some more than memorable moments here, like the grooving 4/4 licks of "On Telegraph"; the hazy, psychedelic melodies on "Without A Plan"; or even the hummable chords of "By This Sound". Whatever your taste, Lusine is here to sort you out - ten hypnotic tracks of downtempo house, neo-hip-hop delight and synth-led pop debaucheries.
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Long Light (dusk marbled vinyl LP + MP3 download code)
Cat: GI 427LPC1. Rel: 28 Sep 23
Review: Esteemed solo electronic producer Lusine (Jeff McIlwain) is known best for his rich, sizzling, and heavenly production edges, all of which he brings to the more experimental corners of the genre. Now he returns with his 9th full-length record, Long Light, marking twenty years since he first joined the Ghostly International roster. Though his past work has been more experimental, this LP continues a more recent throughline of McIlwain's interest in more pop-oriented song structures, remaining texturally brilliant while channelling straightforward, rapturous beat-backbones, and enlisting the help of Asy Saavedra, Sarah Jaffe, and Sensorimotor collaborators Vilja Larjosto and Benoît Pioulard.
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Video Game LoFi: Yoshi (Soundtrack) (limited 180 gram vinyl LP)
Cat: CURE 0006. Rel: 26 May 23
Review: Nokbient and Save Point's Video Game LoFi: Yoshi is a playful and charming electronic covers tribute to the classic video game character. A mix of chiptune-inspired synths and lo-fi beats, crafted delicately and softly for the modern listener, combine to create this lovely ode to everybody's favourite green, giant-nosed reptile. Yoshi's greatest character themes - including those from Mario Kart, Super Mario World, and Yoshi's Story - all combine in an unequivocally cute mood here.
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