Electronic

  • Aaron Martin & Machinefabriek – Seeker

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    Political risk guru Ian Bremmer made news today with his firm’s Top Risks for 2018 forecast. The president of Eurasia Group, writing with the company’s chairman Cliff Kupchan, warns us that our “global order is unravelling.” “The scale of the world’s political challenges is daunting,” they write in an introduction up on eurasiagroup.net. “Liberal democracies…

  • Seki Takashi – Think

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    Seki Takashi was born on an island. Honshu island to be specific, in the city of Sendai. Home to about one million Japanese, the city is the largest in that country’s Tohoku Region. He’s since moved southwest to Tokyo. Like a lot of people who’ve left a smaller hometown for one of the world’s major…

  • Yann Novak

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    We should never take artists who also work as curators for granted. The ego (not to mention energy) required to make a lifetime commitment to art is considerable. When those rare individuals find ways to balance their own creative output with support and promotion for other artists, they deserve special recognition. Los Angeles-based Yann Novak…

  • Lunar Lemur – How Do You Know You’re The Same You When You Wake?

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    You may remember Scott Gray from a September blog post about his solo project The World Next Door. The musician, author, label runner and heaven-only-knows-what-else is releasing a new two-hour-plus album from Lunar Lemur, a character with a rather murky backstory, Dec. 31. Here’s how Gray tells it: “Lunar Lemur [is] a person (?) I…

  • Tag Cloud – Pattern Recognition

    With a title like Pattern Recognition, you might expect Chris Videll’s new Tag Cloud disc to be built predominantly on looped synth tracks. In fact, the album embraces a more traditional approach to electronic music composition. Paired with his use of kit electronics and analogue synthesizers, the result pays homage to some of the genre’s…

  • Test Card – Rediffusion

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    Vancouver-based Lee Nicholson has joined forces with the terrific Greek label Sound In Silence. His second LP under the name Test Card is a polished downtempo effort that, despite its complexity, demonstrates a wonderfully light touch. Nicholson’s sophistication is hard earned. In the 1990s, he fronted an English indie band called Formula One. Subsequent projects…