Kevin Press
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Tokyo sound artist Jobanshi has delivered his fourth solo long-player. SUPERBLOCK is described as a study of “the borders of dreamland and the awoken.” It’s the kind of highfalutin description some musicians would steer clear of. Jobanshi has nothing to worry about. SUPERBLOCK is a major work. He pulls together samples, tape experiments, field recordings…
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Like a lot of the world’s great nightclubs, Shelley’s Laserdome came to an untimely end at the hands of the local constabulary. Staffordshire Police shut down the Stoke-on-Trent institution on Halloween night 1992. The house/rave culture hotspot featured sets by DJ Sasha, Carl Cox and a host of other groundbreakers. Oliver Coates’s latest, Shelley’s on…
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The first time Lou Reed was handed a Moog guitar, shortly after its development in 2008, he understood immediately how important an innovation it was. “There’s nothing else you can do this on,” he said, dabbing at the fretboard. “This opens the door.” A decade later, the stringed instrument designed by a synthesizer company is…
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John Lever – Endless Sea (Bering Strait Remix) 0.00 Kid Smpl – Winter Heap 3.00 Prequel Tapes – This Hidden Place 11.31 la plimbare – acasă 20.39 la plimbare – acasă (Rui P. Andrade Rework) 27.29 Ben Chatwin – Bone 34.06 Furtherset – Spring Training 37.50 Vladimir Tarasov – Atto Ill “Drumtheatre” 44.41 New Composers…
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We’re a month away from the release of Daniela Orvin’s new album Home. Like her debut Untitled (2014-2016), it combines her classical training as a pianist with delicate, skillfully applied electronics. When she sings, hearts flutter. Orvin is emerging as an important talent in both her chosen fields: music and photography. Don’t be fooled by…
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A New Wave Of Jazz is readying a package of three Tonus albums for release next month. A double-live album called Intermediate Obscurities I-IV and two studio-recorded discs: Texture Point and Cagean Morphology. Tonus is a rotating ensemble built primarily around the dual-axis of Martina Verhoeven and Dirk Serries. “Tonus as an ensemble grew out…
