Numbered #53, last week’s show begins with a theme of soundscapes, dubstep and noise, while the second part is more jazzed-up, soulful and dubby.

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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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Taxi Taxi - Maps and Legends : NY indie rockers Taxi Taxi have presented a solid album with lots of good songs, I even have second thoughts about how it may have deserved a higher spot.
Odd Nosdam - Level level wires (Anticon) : Released on California’s [...]

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* Analyze photos of electronic musicians thread on ILX
* Best of 2007 lists from various European artists/selectors/djs on Alanfinkielkrautrock like Cosmo Vitelli, Piers Martin from Vice UK, Dirk from Eskimo Recordings, Pilooski, Tania from Putafranges, and Pedro from Ed Banger, also some interesting mixes.
* Best of 2007 list from Dave Allen of Gang of [...]

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Here’s a quick selection of new stuff from some of our favourite netlabels :

Nishi :
Cagey House’s Dave Keifer is back once again with his trademark synths. Exotic and atonal melodies & shifting beats and sometimes downright spooky melodies! Who’d want to be inside that “Law Office“, I know I don’t.!
Rich.vom.Dorf. is of the [...]

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Image from an interview with Guitar Player
Fellow Turkish guitarist and composer Erdem Helvacioglu has released a full length on the prestigious contemporary music label New Albion. His 2003 release “A Walk through the Bazaar” on Locust Music was part of the Met Life Series which focuses on field recordings & soundscapes. One of the [...]

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excerpt from Echolalic Transitions
Six piece Brooklyn avant-classical ensemble appropriately titled Slow Six has a new record out called Nor’easter on the contemporary classical label New Albion.
Nor’easter has 6 long electro-acoustic compositions, with violins, viola, ‘cello, electric guitars, fender rhodes, piano, and software instruments combined to create an immersive instrumental soundscape. Nor’easter is slow, drony and [...]

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The Cardboard Lung - Fleece Sale
The Cardboard Lung - Silver Lino

* UK Netlabel Earth Monkey Productions has two new free download releases for your enjoyment. The first one I recommend is The Cardboard Lung’s Patient Lifted, which consists mostly of bright drones & grained vocals and ambience, and occasionally a subtle rhythm.

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It wouldn’t take a keen eye to spot newer dark noise acts like Boris & Sunn 0))) are redefining the black/doom concept mixing it with electronic noise and ambience. I used to listen to black metal a lot in the 90’s but I have to admit that even the Northern stuff didn’t sound half as [...]

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German Stephan Mathieu and English Janek Schaefer are two big names from the “academic” sound composing scene. Their latest collaboration “Hidden Name” is an exceptional journey through ambient textures and field recordings. Recorded during the winter of 2005 in a Victorian rural area in the South of England, this is exceptional in the way that [...]

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