2002’s Black Earth is Bohren & Der Club of Gore’s 4th and arguably their best album. Glacially slow funeral jazz with an attention to ambience more than the playing (doesn’t mean that the playing is bad of course). Allmusic says it’s a black metal fan’s lounge jazz act which is surely true, but one thing [...]

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Ardent debut from Minnesota experimenters To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie created quite a hype after its release on Kranky late 2007. “The Patron” is sinister yet unlike a lot of noisy artists not completely devoid of any musicality in the common sense (is it watered down noise or noisy electropop you decide). I quite like [...]

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Fred Frith by Benedicte Desrus
One of the maturest albums of this year is by Death Ambient, I’ve checked this album a few times but couldn’t delve into it for some reason. A week or so ago I gave it another spin using headphones and I was freaking enchanted by it. Death Ambient is the laptop [...]

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Here’s a quick compilation gathered from around 10 netlabel releases I’ve checked this month, Some of the high notes are the Takeshi Nakamura experimental electronics on Zymogen , oldschool IDM happy breakcore by Mithra on Weird and Wired, dark textural noise & ambience by Mike Hansen & Tomasz Krakowiak on Frozen Elephants and the Tripostal [...]

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