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While Vessel does create a pretty consistent and well-groomed style on this album, which fuses elements of IDM and techno with some of the most shadowy sounds on record, some tracks are clearly more well-developed than others. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Here’s a track from a collaboration dropping on Nov. 20th via Software that has me pretty psyched. Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin are really at the top of their respective games right now when it comes to experimental and ambient music, and to hear the both of them collaborate
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Sonic experimentalist Holly Herndon’s latest collection of tracks, Movement, is out now via RVNG Intl., and the track streaming above is one of the stranger moments on it. Featuring a vocal take from Bruce Rameker, Herndon methodically manipulates it in numerous ways over the course of the track. While,
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Internal Combustion by Tony Falco & Josh Sinton A series of free jazz odysseys on this new collection of tracks from percussionist Tony Falco and saxophonist Josh Sinton. While Falco and Sinton don’t create the most relentless or chaotic improvisations, they do get quite noisy and freakish. Stream it
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While Crystal Castles continues writing some decent electropop tunes, on III the Toronto duo sees fit to decorate all of them with generic drum timbres and an overabundance of reverb. WATCH THE REVIEW
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A Made Bear At Peace by Hanz Electronic producer Hanz is dishing out beats that incorporate samples in a startlingly seamless way adding to his already monstrous and unique sound. Hanz has definitely made a name for himself in my eyes with these productions. They are so unlike anything I
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Ambient music artist Jaime Fennely creates a series of tracks with the famed and 170-year-old harmonium on this new album, Check Your Swing. Some effects and other sounds seem to be used in the process, so I guess this isn’t strictly a harmonium album, but the instrument’s unique
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Experimental hip hop outfit RATKING have a new EP out titled WIKI93, and it’s out via XL Recordings. I’m loving the mix of influences coming through on this track. There are elements of glitchy electronica, noise, and grime flowing through the track “Comic.” Groups like Death Grips are
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UNEVEN COMPROMISE by LIL UGLY MANE Richmond rapper Lil Ugly Mane dropped a new, strange, 10-minute track on my birthday, and I didn’t even realize it. Does this make me a terrible person? Yes. Well, Mr. Thug Isolation here continues his trademark style of dark rhymes, darker sounds, gangsta-esque
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Forward-thinking electronic music producer Luke Abbott is about to release his second EP this year on Gold Panda’s Notown label. While his last one didn’t do much for me outside of a few tracks, I’m hoping this next EP will appeal to me a bit more. I
