Release date 2 April 2007
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After having had his music released alongside sound artists and on a compilation by pop experimentalist Björk , this is Mikhail's first solo album.

Orphica takes the listener on a thrilling sonic adventure. Twelve songs map a journey through epic encounters, intimate confessions and emotional confrontations in an exuberant ... [more]

Release date 19 March 2007
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These days it's not the Guatemalan countryside, the scenario changed, and Radio Zumbido found himself traveling between Los Angeles, California and Barcelona, while doing the music for a documentary.

Lots of ideas, tapes and field recordings gathered on the way. The sights and sounds of a chaotic city like Los Angeles, ... [more]

Release date 10 November 2006
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After giving us his acoustic calling card with his melodious boat trip Mechanical Eye , Düsseldorf based artist TG Mauss dives deeper into the seas of music. As it was promised the captain has not retired: the fantastic voyage continues.

"Gravity will keep us all together" is not only the ... [more]

Release date 7 March 2006
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The face hidden behind the vagueness of Phon°noir [read: Phono Noir] belongs to 23 year old Berlin based musician Matthias Grübel, for whom Phon°noir is still a rather young project... it all started off one February evening in 2004.

"I had problems demo-ing a few songs I had just written; at ... [more]

Release date 28 February 2006
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Gentle seduction or high tension?... On their second album Music AM cancel the 'or' and entwine both conditions to originate something new: Songs whose component parts remain visible at any moment, yet most admirably flexible merge to R&B-style diary entries, shimmering instrumentals or trips that take us to the great ... [more]

Release date 23 September 2005
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TG Mauss originally hails from New York, but that was a long time ago, from a time before adulthood, a childhood that's now only dreamt of... from the longing, intimate structure of this, his first solo record, you might conclude this young man's still dreaming.

This music comes from being alone, ... [more]

Release date 15 September 2005
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Splitting time between Austin TX and NYC, Wayne B Magruder plays drums and samples for Brooklyn-based band Calla and records as a solo artist under the moniker Wayne B. Taking cues from his past membership in Bowery Electric and Windsor for the Derby, Wayne B creates music with acoustic guitars, ... [more]

Release date 13 May 2005
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Sensational isn't really a sweet R'n'B "for the masses" kind of artist. Nor is he some aggressive member of the experimental intelligentsia (even if he used to, when he was 15, rhyme to records by Stockhausen). His style is somewhere in between, if his flows and music sound radical ... [more]

Release date 8 April 2005
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My City Glittered Like A Breaking Wave is the latest excursion from the London/Düsseldorf based Music A.M. and catches them in playful and brooding mood.

The EP features five songs originally recorded during the sessions for 2004's debut album A Heart & Two Stars. The tracks have recently been reworked by ... [more]

Release date 25 October 2004
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Tonetraeger is made up of two exceptionally sympatico protagonists from the contemporary Düsseldorf music scene, which itself seems to be enjoying a conspicuous resurgence of late. One of them is Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka and of Music A.M. fame) - passionate, full-blooded, full-on musician; the other is Torsten Mauss (aka ... [more]

Release date 1 October 2004
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Lena's second opus... Strikes of melodies inherited from Scientist and Augustus Pablo spurt over more impressive rhythms (binary or wobbly).

With the help of Black Sifichi and Tablloyd, assuming the roles of MCs, Lena has transformed into a hi-fi sound system. At the crossroads of the various influences he has absorbed ... [more]

Release date 17 June 2004
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Hardman's debut, Shirts and Pistols, takes stock of deep soul and white trash culture, folkrock and microprocessor-aesthetics on both sides of the Atlantic, and makes it all their own. Kraftwerk live again, but with Howlin' Wolf as their frontman - or maybe it's the other way 'round? Sampling and resampling ... [more]

Release date 15 May 2004
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"Music is our secret society" Louis Armstrong

Retrospectre is not a greatest hits collection, rather, as the title suggests, a journey back through an ILLustrious career spanning 10 years, 5 full-length albums, and numerous singles and remixes. In fact, most of the selections here are some of Spectre's more obscure productions ... [more]

Release date 27 February 2004
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Langage Computer's essence lies in the integration of the turntable and scratches as self-sufficient instruments. It introduces a new sound marked by both experimental HipHop and electronic sonorities. Instead of being just another demonstration of technique, which is often the case in turntablist projects, here the performance has been researched ... [more]

Release date 27 January 2004
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Taking the starting point and cues from several of the songs on last year's 'R.U.O.K?' album '... In Dub' re-imagines them, often ending up far away from where the original song began. And in some cases, what has emerged is not even a version of a song on 'R.U.O.K.?', but ... [more]

Release date 26 January 2004
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Strictly speaking, Music AM didn't form in the morning, but rather one evening in January 2002. On the evening in question, Volker Bertelmann from Düsseldorf and Luke Sutherland, from London, met to discuss their new musical project.

Luke Sutherland, former singer and guitarist with Long Fin Killie, as well as fiddle ... [more]

Release date 25 October 2003
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2nd Gen has received critical acclaim from numerous diverse sources but actually defining this intense music deviation is close to impossible.

Containing fragments of techno, hip-hop and rock with a driving industrial noise mentality, Wajid Yaseen's unique musical project is a bulldozing distillation of genres, intertwining and contorting sound to serve ... [more]

Release date 1 September 2003
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Drum & Bass and Hip-Hop. People want to keep them separate. Put each in its own folder and file them away. Thus, a line has been drawn. Let's completely erase this line and move forward without any memory of one existing. Now we can progress as the true musical architects ... [more]

Release date 20 June 2003
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Object sees Australian sonic experimentalist, Lawrence English cut a fresh pathway into the foliage-ridden realm of leftfield hip-hop beatscapes.

Tipping his hat to movements such as NYC's swelling Rooftop Music community, contemporary hip-hop, Jamaican Dancehall and abstract electronics, English's work as Object seeks out the unfamiliar and the submerged. Object draws ... [more]

Release date 31 May 2003
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With Tino's Dub Select, the legendary Cuban drummer blunts the beats by way of Jamaica winds-up the grooves with some rootsy reinvention and a Dub-ble dose of serious break.

This essential collection of tracks are culled from the original albums in the Tino's Breaks series, Volume 5 / Dub ... [more]