Today’s selection is comprised of recent netlabel releases and a few exceptions. The first exception is Vernon Lenoir’s “Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas” on Ego Twister from 2005. I know Vernon from his superb Balkan megamix on WM Recordings and this album is no less.

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Wadi Rum, Jordan
Melting. That’s how we feel in Istanbul right now. The weather’s supposed to go 5 degrees hotter in the coming days thanks to desert winds from Africa, combine it with Istanbul’s world renowned humidity and you get the inspiration for today’s middle eastern sounds with suitable instruments like kanun and oud.
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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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Rock music is converging more and more into jazz & electronic music, with unconventional compositions & song structures and thank God MTV has not delved into this territory yet. Manufactur is a Swiss 4 piece that wrestles formulaic music with their own homebrew jazzy math-rock. Trumpeter Werner Hasler, Electronician Oli Kuster, Bassist Urban Lienert and [...]

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Our 18th show, is the first where we have a pseudo back2back vibe going with our dnb/stephead friend golem. He’s chosen some tracks and gave them to me in order and I’ve played some tracks in between and right on top!. It’s experimental for sure, but given that dubstep is minimalistic in essence, most of the stuff I’ve played on top seemed to go down smooth.

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Beirut : Watching your city get bombed, how earth shattering.
Here’s #16 of our radioshows played by me last week. Starts off slow with a soundscape by SF artist Jefre-Cantu Ledesma, which has an Afghani love song sung on top. I don’t know why I felt so multicultural last week but I did, a little bit [...]

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The Original Kocani Orkestar playing in the middle of the street @ yesterday’s springfest, more on this later.
* Holy shit how did I miss this? 4 tracks from Jazzanova DJ Dixon’s Body Language Vol.4 on Get Physical. Pure quality deep/urban house music, including remixes from Henrik Schwarz, and tracks from Denmark’s Owusu & Hannibal, Mari [...]

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Second release of NY experimental duo Christmas Decorations on Community Library is similar in vein to the guitar processing artists like C. Fennesz or Jim O’ Rourke, but imo with more playfulness and vibrant compositions.

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Rune Grammofon is a one man army by Rune Kristofferson who has been influential in giving us a whole new breed of music by supporting ambient acts like Biosphere & Alog, electonic & jazz experimentalists Nils Oekland, Phonophani, Shining, Jazzkammer and recently Svalastog & Huntsville and In the Country. A surge of delicious music [...]

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Colorado’s IZ, formed by guitarist Michael Serviolo is a power trio, with bassist Tom Sublet and drummer David Kerman. Their 2006 album E-M remained below the radar somehow but I think it’s worth a few listens, if you’re into experimental heavy stuff. Progressive riffs, timechanges, abrupt stops and noise is abound on E-M released by [...]

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