"Boris Hegenbart takes a dub-like approach to musique concrete. Rich contrasts drawn between synthetic and recorded sounds allow texture and space to flourish in place of melody. First / Dew branches away from the very beginnings of Hegenbart's TAU series. It takes his ...
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C/O-1/6 | CARE OF EDITIONS
"Kritik - wozu eigentlich (noch)? Sind doch eh alle kritisch. Alle sind kreativ. Die Vorstellungen von Subversion, Dissidenz und symbolischem Widerstand wurden wie alle kulturellen Strategien der Kritik nivelliert, liquidiert, optimiert, funktionalisiert, integriert, ...
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TESTCARD25 | TESTCARD
"Bosaina is a Syrian/Egyptian singer, songwriter & producer known for her work in the Kairo Is Koming Collective as well as her involvement in music-space-turned-club-night VENT. Her autobiographical work takes on a magical insular quality through field recordings and ...
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CREP45 | DISCREPANT
"What you hear on Fly is Ono's disarming combination of opacity and visceral, personal transparency in full bloom. It's also one of the most unbridled, most captivating soul albums ever made. And that's right where she wants you: Vulnerable, wide open to ...
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SC282 | SECRETLY CANADIAN
"Overhead comes this thrum-thrum-thrum. They look up to see a plane circling just off the island. The door facing them opens and out pop two figures, tumbling down into the water. Lazily, without a care in the world, the plane turns north and flies away. Of course, the ...
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GBP010 | WAR EXTENSION
"There are records that stimulate curiosity to the extreme, records that make you want to dissolve yourself into the intense and beautiful surprise this music will bring. It is undeniable to the delighted ear that this exhumed document contains all the assets of the ...
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PLANA-TALGA043/D'AV06 | ALGA MARGHEN
"Thomas Müller (b. 1970 in Munich) is a Berlin-based video artist, experimental musician, painter, and photographer. For an exhibition in 2005, he burned three of his oil paintings and displayed the resulting pile of ashes as a sculpture entitled "three of my favourite ...
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628.09 | EDITION TELEMARK
"Championed by many including BBC Radio DJ Mary Anne Hobbs as the standout track from his most recent album Spells, Boysen's Golden Times 1 forms the very heart of his new EP with the same name. Boysen entrusted none other than Max Cooper and Tim Hecker to meticulously ...
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ERATP098LP | ERASED TAPES
"We are happy to announce the first release in our new established 'Sound Writings' series: Drone Pilot by writer, sound artist, and programmer Ian Hatcher (*1983). His work explores cognition in the context of digital systems. While studying Digital Language Arts at ...
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SW01 | SOUND WRITINGS
"Henrik Rylander's music has been inside the spine of iDEAL since his 2004 album "Traditional Arrangements for Feedback". Rylander's music now and then, is uniquely made out of feedback, and feedback only. His no-input mixing desk rituals ends up in a sharp, cold, ...
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IDEAL155 | IDEAL RECORDINGS
