Swims
A few weeks ago I’ve been contacted by Pierrick from Distile Records, an up and coming Paris/NY label focusing on instrumental/noise/math rock. I listened to one of their bands,SWIMS and right away the amazing Claypoolesque bass-tapping hit me. After listening to most of the label back-catalogue, I’m amazed with the quality of their roster.

Planets
Sacramento’s [...]

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Taking its name from the forefather of Russian avantgarde painting, France’s Kandinsky is a guitars and drums duo that’ll make him proud. Last year I’ve listened to their “tRASKOMI eLCAÄST” MCD - don’t ask me what that means - which is a 25 minute piece cut into 9 movements. It’s a different take on mathrock [...]

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A respected member of grandpa-electronics, one of the first moog musicians, one half of the Perrey-Kingsley duo and a composer for TV, ballet, dolphins and insomniacs in need of musical theraphy… good old J. J. Perrey is no less an inspiration for all electronic musicians of our era.
Formerly an accordeon player, Perrey started his [...]

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I first heard a Doctor L (Liam Farrell) track on the amazing French compilation series Source Lab. I had a thought to see what this artist was doing after all these years. Seems he’s been quite busy and has built a name up for himself as a producer and music maker in France. His father [...]

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Live @ Tokyu Bunkamura Theater Cocoon (3rd Oct ‘06) by Smashing Mag
Another essential middle-eastern dub & electronic fusion album you’ve got to own is a joint project by DuOud & Abdulatif Yagoub. DuOud is an obvious play on “duo oud”, and consists of French Musicians Mehdi Habbab (Algeria) and Jean-Pierre Smadj (Tunisia) who [...]

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Brothers & Sisters, if there’s one name who’s constantly been rising on my last.fm charts for the past few months, it must be Fedayi Pacha. If you’ve been following us since 2005, you’ll remember that I loved his previous album as well, but this time it’s become a sweet addiction, even to the point of [...]

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