Library Recommendation
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Released: 2018 Label: Oltrarno Recordings Genre: Jazz What it will do is kickstart your day, no matter what time you turn it on. Every one of these five tracks is a bracing splash of noise. The instruments aren’t so much played as they are struck, even the turntables. Exclaim!
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Released: 2020 Label: Hallow Ground Genre: Contemporary Marja Ahti has composed a love letter to electricity. The Moderns
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Released: 2021 Label: Laaps Genre: Contemporary Herbario is very much a pandemic album, guided by the quietude of gardens. The title refers to the collecting of dried plants and flowers in scrapbooks, with the collector’s notes and observations. During the pandemic, we all became observers of tiny things, whether we wanted to or not: incremental changes in…
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Released: 2017 Label: Sub Rosa Label Genre: Contemporary Fascinating and unreleased before music by Otto Sidharta, pionneer of Indonesian electronic music. Electronic compositions from 1979 to 1992 that integrated natural sounds and urban sounds to this extent were extremely rare at the time, which gives them a unique form of intensity. les presses du réel
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Released: 2023 Label: Dialogo Genre: Contemporary This is a curatorial triumph, entirely fitting given its brilliant contents. The Moderns
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Released: 1994 Label: Extreme Genre: Contemporary By incorporating various ethnic instruments (including flutes, didgeridoo, and percussion) with abstract synth textures, natural ambient sounds and effects-layered vocals and chanting, Obmama creates mesmerizing, otherworldly soundscapes unlike anything you’ve heard before. A nice chill-out disc after a night of overstimulation, The Spiritual Bonding is a soothing, natural remedy for…
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