ALIEN TRANSISTOR

"The shape-shifting harmonies and arrangements presented by Alien Ensemble on this album are never predictable, never what you'd expect them to be. Moving as a perfectly tight entity, the Ensemble keeps breaking new ground, creating one set of colorful hues after the ...
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N51 | ALIEN TRANSISTOR

"Fuchs is a band that never was. It vanished as quickly as it appeared in the picture, much like the animal that can be seen on this album and after whom it was named. In 2005, Kante singer and guitarist Peter Thiessen travelled to Weilheim to visit Markus and Micha ...
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N79LP | ALIEN TRANSISTOR

"Growing up in the Californian sprawl and the vast suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, Caleb Dailey largely dismissed the country and western music that surrounded him. Instead, he was drawn to independent rock, experimental zones, and other genre-defying forms, which led him ...
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N80LP | ALIEN TRANSISTOR

"Following their recent solo releases Soniscope (Dauw) and Cells #5 (Important Records), Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Midori Hirano and Tokyo based string experimentalist Atsuko Hatano have teamed up for their first collaborative full-length: Water Ladder. An ...
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N76LP | ALIEN TRANSISTOR

"Alien Transistor and Tokyo-based label Afterhours release the vinyl-version of Volume 4 of tenniscoats' masterpiece "music exists" and therefore eventually accomplish this magic quadruple release by the Japanese experimental folk luminaries. Tenniscoats have devoted ...
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N61LP | ALIEN TRANSISTOR

"Kyoto-born, Berlin-based MimiCof, who's also been releasing music under her actual name Midori Hirano since 2006, quite literally breaks new ground and ventures into uncharted territory on this album because she's chosen a whole new musical vehicle: "This LP is based ...
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N57CD | ALIEN TRANSISTOR

"When The Notwist returned with their acclaimed 7th studio album 'Close To The Glass' in early 2014, many were enchanted by the epic instrumental 'Lineri'. It was the only instrumental track featured on the LP, but according to Notwist-singer Markus Acher, instrumental ...
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N41LP | ALIEN TRANSISTOR

"The artwork displays a detail shot of swampland: think of ist vegetation as an exotic contradiction - at once rooted, but in constant motion from the flow of water it is immersed in. What water does to the Hylophytes, the bassline does to the title track of this EP: it ...
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N34 | ALIEN TRANSISTOR
"Limited 7" with a new electronic-pop-gem by Boy in Static and a remix by Anticon-recording-artist alias." (label info)
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N14 | ALIEN TRANSISTOR
Adam (doseone) Drucker, Jeffery (jel) Logan, and Dax Pierson (collectively themselves), meet up with the Acher brothers Markus and Micha, and Martin "Console" Gretschmann (the core of the Notwist).
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N12 | ALIEN TRANSISTOR