February 9th, 2010

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2010-02-05 :: The Seducers :: Music for Heroes 12" (Cytown)

"...The Seducers style is stripped back electro, similar to that of Minimal Rome but perhaps bared to a greater extent. The tracks are for electro lovers, they are not dancefloor slammers but clever works that echo the cold Scandinavian climate and the automatons that made it..."

category: reviews
 
2010-02-05 :: Electronic Activity :: Force Breeze 12" (E-Activity)

"...Electronic Activity's sound is not something brand new, but it is something that is well made. These are solid electro-techno tracks with some serious echoes of the past injected into their acidified tweaks..."

category: reviews
 
2010-02-04 :: Worm is Green :: The Politician EP (ata-digital)

"...The Politician EP by Icelandic exports Worm is Green, presents its own tasteful slice of classic club culture..."

category: reviews
 
2010-02-04 :: E-Man LP and the Temptation Tapes (Hommage)

"...The Norwegian label is now back with two new releases, E-man with the E-Man LP and another various artists compilation entitled The Temptation Tapes Vol. 1..."

category: reviews
 
2010-02-03 :: Nest :: Retold (Serein)

"...It is difficult to imagine how Serein could have been more magnificently reborn than with the release of Retold and I hope it is the beginning of a radiant future for the label..."

category: reviews
 
2010-02-03 :: DJ Hidden :: The Words Below (Ad Noiseam, CD + 12" Singles)

"...Alternating between spells of anxious dark ambience and pounding drum 'n' bass and hardcore beats, The Words Below resembles the psychotic episodes of a spiral into madness; the punishing beats relentlessly pounding inside the main character's head punctuated by brief spells of ominous unsettled calm fearfully waiting for the beat to return again and again..."

category: reviews
 
2010-02-03 :: Concert Silence :: 09.22.07 [2-3pm] (Infraction)

"...Overall the Cooper-Buckingham pairing puts a distinctive slant on the compositional tradition mentioned above, finding a beguiling blend of the worlds of piano concerto and that of digital signal processing, with its random reversals, glitch flurries, and drone disrupts - as if signal had met with noise and this were a record of the effecting of a jumpy truce..."

category: reviews
 
2010-02-03 :: Another Electronic Musician, ent and SubtractiveLAD reviews (n5MD)

Paul Lloyd explores the latest batch of releases by Oakland, CA-based n5MD including Another Electronic Musician's States of Space, ent's Welcome Stranger and SubtractiveLAD's Life at the End of the World.

category: reviews
 
2010-01-28 :: V/A :: One On Twoism Volume 3 (Twoism Records)

"...Relatively simple laid back tracks, not exactly ambient but hardly beat driven, unified by an overall pleasantness and synthetic sounds that somehow feel more natural then nature itself..."

category: reviews
 
2010-01-27 :: Sudeten Creche :: A Kiss from the Creche EP (Carlin-Warner)

"...It is undeniable that new wave is back, or minimal wave as it is now being dubbed; the lines between the two seem almost non existent. In fact, the border between new wave and minimal wave appears to be popularity and obscurity; Sudeten Creche belong to both camps..."

category: reviews
 
2010-01-25 :: Prefuse 73 :: Meditation on Meditations (the Japanese Diaries) (Beat)

"...Although technically divided into 14 songs, the album feels more like ten thousand separately recorded micro movements digitally stitched together. Herren then weaves the threads so deftly they blur into something like a particle cloud, in which innumerable small forms bleed in and out of each other creating the illusion of a larger physical structure..."

category: reviews
 
2010-01-21 :: James Knapman :: Top lists for 2009

Contributor, James Knapman, submits his Top lists for 2009. "After a disappointing 2008 it was great that 2009 got off to such an amazing start, and then just kept on delivering. And once again it is Raster-Noton that tops my chart of best releases of the year."

category: top-ten
 
2010-01-21 :: Paul Lloyd :: Top lists for 2009

Contributing Editor, Paul Lloyd, submits his Top list for 2009.

category: top-ten
 
2010-01-21 :: Jus Forrest :: Top eight for 2009

Contributing Editor, Jus Forrest, submits her Top list for 2009.

category: top-ten
 
2010-01-12 :: NARROMINDED :: Dutch deconstruction

"...Narrominded's catalogue is diverse; it tests the waters of electronics with some very interesting results. For anyone wanting to discover something new, go no further than this imprint as you are guaranteed to find something that will undoubtedly itch that scratch..."

category: profiles