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The Green Kingdom – The North Wind and the Sun

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I’ve followed Michael Cottone’s work as The Green Kingdom since I first got into Ambient music in and around 2008, when a series of small CD, CDr and netlabel material emerged on labels… Continue reading

Ezekiel Honig – A Passage Of Concrete

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Ezekiel Honig’s ‘Folding In On Itself‘ is an all-time classic for us, in minimal sound art as it blurred the lines between Ambient, Electro-Acoustic composition and Lo-Fi Techno. In ‘A Passage Of Concrete‘… Continue reading

Tara Jane O’Neil – S/T

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Warm, hazy and lazy Folk songs from LA’s Tara Jane O’Neil in her self-titled album. I was drawn to this record initially with it reminding me of the work of Joan Shelley and… Continue reading

Neue Grafik – Soul Conspiracy

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Over the last week I’ve been scouring beat-based Electronic music looking at recent House and Techno excursions and one such is the Jazz and Funk drenched ‘Soul Conspiracy’ by Neue Grafik out now… Continue reading

YLTCU – Controlled Folly

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In a brief encounter reminiscent in part of Autechre or Aphex Twin (think Drukqs), this week we stumbled across the Ambient/IDM bliss/carnage of YLTCU’s Controlled Folly. This record has been put together across 26… Continue reading

The Caretaker – Everywhere at The End of Time (Stage 2)

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As my editor rightfully suggests, James Leyland Kirby doesn’t need any of our publicity to sell out his boutique records from Krakow. So I’m going into this on a slightly personal tip. I’m… Continue reading

Saltland – A Common Truth

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I was first alerted to the sound of Rebecca Foon having purchased Esmerine’s ‘La Lechuza’ on Constellation Records a few years back. It was a record in which Foon featured, lending cello and… Continue reading

Dino Spiluttini – To Be A Beast

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Recently we were sent the new record from Austria-based artist Dino Spiluttini whose latest offering has emerged on Cut Surface. Our writer Net (Edward Trethowan) had to sit this one out having written… Continue reading

Five Queries With… 003: Art Nouveau Records

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The plan with our Five Queries series was to press on and catch up with a lot of artists across a diverse range of artists and labels. It’s pretty simple for us to… Continue reading

Sven Weisemann – Separate Paths EP

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I’ve been tracking Sven Weisemann’s work for many years and he’s an excellent example of someone at the top of their game, producing quality Dub Techno. The Berlin based artist’s work is typically… Continue reading