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Dominic Umile

About Dominic Umile

When he isn't lamenting U.S. foreign policy catastrophes with close friends, Dominic Umile lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn, NY.

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Delon & Dalcan: Tanz

[8.May.08] :. The blend of minimal techno and house on Tanz, the debut full-length from French producer/DJs Delon and Dalcan is an all-party event.

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Diskjokke: Staying In

[29.Apr.08] :. Blissful disco- and classical-tinged electronic music: Who wants to go out, anyway?

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Claro Intelecto: Metanarrative

[2.Apr.08] :. Metanarrativeis the elaborate-sounding title given to Claro Intelecto's second LP since 2004's Neurofibro.

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Belong: Colorloss Record

[24.Mar.08] :. Belong's reluctant surges are endlessly fascinating, even if the root notes aren't their own this time.

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Principles of Geometry: Lazare

[4.Mar.08] :. Lazare is strongest when it sounds like, well, Lazare.

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Music Faunts: M4

Music Atlas Sound: Let the Blind Lead Those Who Cannot See

Music Ill Insanity: Ground Xero

Music Donnacha Costello: Colorseries

Music Dominik Eulberg: Bionik

Music Rockford Kabine: Italian Music: 31 Invalid Movie Themes

Music Shir Khan: Maximize!

Music Pale Young Gentlemen: Pale Young Gentlemen

Music Inanna: Butterfly

Music Attilio Art Mineo: Man in Space with Sounds

Music Phonique: Good Idea

Music The World on Higher Downs: Land Patterns

Music Cyrus: From the Shadows

Music Various Artists: Beatwave Japan

Music Evil Nine: You Can Be Special Too

Music Hood: Outside Closer

Music The Foreign Exchange: Connected

Music Calamalka: Shredder's Dub

Music One Star Hotel: Good Morning, West Gordon

Music DJ Cam: Liquid Hip-hop

Music Neotropic: White Rabbits

Music Lullatone: Little Songs About Raindrops

Music DJ DNA: Impressionism

Music Headset: Spacesettings

Music The Zombies: Odessey & Oracle

Music The Saint: Grown Folk Music

Music Motohiro Nakashima: And I Went to Sleep

Music DJ Zeph: Sunset Scavenger

Music Rhian Benson: Gold Coast

Music Asheru and Blue Black: 48 Months

Music Team Shadetek: Burnerism

Music Illogic: Celestial Clockwork

Music Blockhead: Music by Cavelight

Music The Olivia Tremor Control: Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle [re-issue]

Music The Bigger Lovers: This Affair Never Happened... And Here are Eleven Songs About It

Music Soul Position: 8,000,000 Stories

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