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Shy Child: Noise Won't Stop

[5.May.08] :. Live energy and racing tempos have translated to studio recording very well, but the band's genre decisions, intentional or not, may not be maximizing their potential.

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Chessie: Manifest

[28.Apr.08] :. Soundtracks to the exhilarating speed and momentum of transcontinental locomotion.

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Realistic: Perpetual Memory Loss

[4.Apr.08] :. Realistic feels like a missing link between familiar electronica and plunderphonia.

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Oh Astro: Champions of Wonder

[1.Apr.08] :. Latent pop sensibilities get free reign for a glossy sample-collage sound, something like Jason Forrest re-imagined as a slick electro producer.

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Angel: Kalmukia

[20.Mar.08] :. Drone of uncommon vision and scope, from microscopic detailing to monolith force to utter swallowing void.

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Music Flying: Faces of the Night

Music Little Women: Teeth

Music The Apes: Ghost Games

Music Venetian Snares: My Downfall (Original Soundtrack)

Music Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche: Ultimate Reality

Music Marcus Schmickler: Altars of Science

Music Clipd Beaks: Hoarse Lords

Music David Shrigley: Worried Noodles

Music Sightings: Through the Panama

Music Fennesz: Hotel Paral.lel

Music Prefuse 73: Preparations

Music Enon: Believo / Grass Geysers... Carbon Clouds

Music Japancakes: Giving Machines / Loveless

Music Múm: Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy

Music Luke Vibert: Chicago, Detroit, Redruth

Music Dirty Projectors: Rise Above

Music µ-Ziq: Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique

Music 65daysofstatic: The Destruction of Small Ideas

Music Caribou: Andorra

Music Loden: Valeen Hope

Music Distance: My Demons

Music Vladislav Delay: Whistleblower

Music Julian Fane: Our New Quarters

Music The New Yorker: s/t

Music Ulrich Schnauss: Goodbye

Music Fennesz and Sakamoto: Cendre

Music Steve Bug: Fuse Presents:

Music Child Abuse: Child Abuse

Music Bloke: Tears of the Broken Warrior

Music Dan Deacon: Spiderman of the Rings

Music Venetian Snares: Pink + Green

Music Ra: Wxfdswxc

Music Fennesz: Endless Summer

Music Frivolous: Midnight Black Indulgence

Music Not Breathing: The Black Old Pueblo

Music Milenasongs: Seven Sisters

Music Drei Farben House: Any Kind of Feeling

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Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline

[4.Apr.07] :. Repetition mesmerizes us, lulls us, and yes, bores us when misused. Fortunately, with the long-awaited new album from SotL, repetition rests in very capable hands.

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Amon Tobin: Foley Room

[8.Mar.07] :. These are field recordings at their most viscerally involved, built into their tracks from the ground up.

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Music Hauschka: Room to Expand

Music Kerrier District: Kerrier District 2

Music Contriva: Separate Chambers

Music Neotropic: Prestatyn

Music Various Artists: 8-Bit Operators

Music Massonix: Subtracks

Music Voafose: Voafose

Music The Octopus Project and Black Moth Super Rainbow: The House of Apples and Eyeballs

Music Hecker: Recordings for Rephlex

Music Matt and Kim: Matt and Kim

Music Team Doyobi: The Kphanapic Fragments

Music Tim Hecker: Harmony in Ultraviolet

Music The Dirty Projectors: New Attitude EP

Music DFA: Remixes: Chapter Two

Music Bola: Shapes

Music Squarepusher: Hello Everything

Music Cepia: Atlantic Blood

Music Shinjuku Zulu: Various Chimeras

Music Venetian Snares: Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms

Music The Grates: Gravity Wont Get You High

Music Kid 606: Pretty Girls Make Raves

Music Asobi Seksu: Citrus

Music Plaid: Greedy Baby

Music Lithops: Queries

Music Banco de Gaia: Farewell Ferengistan

Music Girl Talk: Night Ripper

Music Loka: Fire Shepards

Music Of Montreal: Deflated Chime, Foals Flower Sibylline Responses

Music Grandaddy: Just Like the Fambly Cat

Music The Essex Green: Cannibal Sea

Music Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon

Music Casiotone For the Painfully Alone: Etiquette

Music Edu K: Frenétiko

Music Various Artists: Check the Water

Music Jimmy Edgar: Colorstrip

Music Various: Traveler '06

Music Judith Juillerat: Soliloquy

Music Tod Dockstader: Aerial #2

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