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Part 4 : Top 25 - 15
Alright fellas, I couldn’t finish the list on time, but I’ll finish what I started hopefully. I’m still in London so I’m trying to wrap this thing up on a borrowed computer.
Ahleuchatistas - Even in the Midst… (Cuneiform) : One of the three best math/maze rock albums this year from Asheville, NC’s Ahleuchatistas. Past review [...]
Radio Scotvoid & Halal Kebab Hut
The best thing about netlabels is that netlabel artists are totally (at least theoretically) free from the constraints of the music industry and they can do all kinds of off kilter experimentations. Here’s one of ‘em from one of our netlabel faves Radio Scotvoid. His latest EP on Earth Monkey “Fae Ecosse” sees the Scottie [...]
Death Ambient
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 [...]
Nishi / Camomille / Bumpfoot
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 [...]
Styx Rafting
Adrián Juárez and Ilia
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. Totally non-serious, including short sound [...]
Gangpol und Mit
What kind of feelings does “The Hopelessly Sad Story of the Hideous end of the World“, title of the new Gangpol und Mit album create? If you’re a sharp observer you’ll notice something wrong at the title, suffice to say it’s simply not serious enough to tell of the sad story of the end of [...]
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Marc Ribot
* Well known avantgarde jazz guitarist Marc Ribot and other musicians were protesting the closing of world famous experimental / indie / avantgarde music venue Tonic, NYC by showing up for an improvised concert while the workers dismantled the stage!! Afterwards he was taken to station by the coppers!. Read more here and [...]
Afrirampo
My Previous post about Marnie Stern mentioned Afrirampo the influential female Japanese avantpunk duo. If you’ve never heard of their name, they have taken the riot-grrrl vocals and mixed them up with freestyle non-compositions and raw noise aesthetics, Japanese style. Here’s 2 short songs from their 2005 album Kore Ga Mayaku Da on Tzadik and [...]
KTL
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 [...]
S. Mathieu & J. Schaefer
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 [...]







