ALIEN TRANSISTOR

"Berlin's Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra returns with its fourth album "Vula". Having celebrated their 10-year anniversary with a stunning series of concerts last year, the 18-piece's new full-length showcases a stronger focus on harmony and melody - and yet AMEO ...
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"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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"Both around their own Weilheim shores and elsewhere, brothers Markus and Micha Acher have launched various musical vessels, bands and free-floating constellations over the past three decades - and yet: amid all these other speedboats and unlikely sonic barges, The ...
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"Alien Transistor and Tokyo-based label Afterhours release a vinyl-version of tenniscoats' masterpiece "music exists", which consists of 4 LPs in total. "Music exists" Disc 2 functions as a complement and extension of Disc 1. Even more incredibly beautiful melodies, ...
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"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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"Soundtrack for "Storm", the new motion-picture of Hans-Christian Schmid. Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at the Tribunal in The Hague, manages to convince a young Bosnian woman to testify against an alleged war criminal. Amidst the inconsistency of political interests and ...
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"Earlier this year, Micha Acher and his band The Notwist returned with their latest full-length "Close To The Glass" and received rave reviews around the globe. Yet, it's not the only album he's going to release this year, since Acher's about to introduce his latest ...
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"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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"Oesterhelt and Enders have created a hybrid out of the spirit of the new Vienna school of composed music and a kind of sultry jungle jazz. Imagine the Alban Berg Quartet playing exotica with their faces painted black and their eyes rolling. The two guys from Weilheim ...
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