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This week’s picks:
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Released: 2020 (Originally released individually in 1998, 1999, 2000) Label: Mute Genre: Minimal Techno [Stefan] Betke chose his stage name from an analogue Waldorf 4-Pole filter he was using at the time. Described by the manufacturer as a ‘cute but rare creature [that] comes from a time when software still had a hardware shell,’ the…
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Released: 2018 Label: Sofa Music Genre: Ambient Zuydervelt’s crackling vinyl samples include Soviet folk songs and fragments of the dictator’s speeches. The ironic cover portrays a whitewashed history that continues to bleed through, conjuring memories of scratched out photographs and amended truths. The music is similarly abraded, at times nearly silent, reflecting the voices of…
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Released: 2018 Label: Monika Enterprise Genre: Ambient For all its sharp edges, I Started Wearing Black is an unexpectedly soothing listen. There is a gentleness to Güttler’s compositions. She has a way of making beautiful music with sounds that – in other artists’ hands – would be overwhelming and difficult. The Moderns
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ali balighi, andrey guryanov, anthony pateras, bana haffar, beatriz ferreyra, bill seaman, chantal michelle, claire deak, dode, Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly, federico durand, geins’t nait, jerome noetinger, Jessica Pavone, karen willems, kevin press, l. petitgand, lawrence english, lea bertucci, louise rossiter, machinefabriek, maja s.k. ratkje, martyna basta, mk/ct, monika bugajny, nate scheible, nordic affect, patrick shiroishi, paul nataraj, scanner, Shuta Hasunuma, siavash amini, sophie dupuis, stephen spera, taylor deupree, the moderns, thomas fehlmann, tim diagramThis year’s favourites. Spotify Apple iHeart
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