Release date 31 March 2008 on The Leaf Label.
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Twenty-nine-year-old British-born Essie Jain makes her recorded debut with the glacial delights of 'We Made This Ourselves', an album whose quiet, powerful minimalism is undeniable.

Born into a musical family, Essie grew up in London, where her childhood featured classical piano and cello instruction, as well as training in operatic singing. ... [More]

Release date 31 March 2008 on Sub Rosa.
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After the epiphany of An Aural Symbiotic Mystery by Charlemagne Palestine and Tony Conrad this is the first solo work by Charlemagne on Sub Rosa.

From Etudes to a Cataclysms is one of the most important to date. An impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on ... [More]

Release date 31 March 2008 on Highpoint Lowlife.
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Following their label showcase in January of this year, Highpoint Lowlife asked each of the artists who played to contribute some fresh tracks for a double vinyl album release. Each artist has one side of vinyl each, and have given us some utterly devasting music!

The result is a stunning double ... [More]

Release date 31 March 2008 on Hyperdub.
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On their first release for the Hyperdub label, Darkstar donate two slices of juicy, tingling, infectious vocoder love that will have you leaking oil everywhere.

After two astounding but woefully under rated releases on their own 2010 imprint, 'Need You' brings together their refined ear for a catchy melody and vocal ... [More]

Release date 25 March 2008 on room40.
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Between his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concréte composer and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist Erikm has earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound source and sound ... [More]

Release date 25 March 2008 on Someone Good Records.
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Lullatone are back with their latest conceptual pop masterpiece, 'The Bedtime Beat'. This new 10 song mini-album finds the duo not only further perfecting their blend of self proclaimed pajama pop, but also taking it into new uncharted waters, literally.

The albums opens with the infectious 'Bathtime Beat' which features a ... [More]

Release date 24 March 2008 on Not Applicable.
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Over the last few years, the combination of electronics and improvisation has steadily gained momentum, with a number of collaborations between electronic musicians and improvisers coming to light. In the spirit of an approach adopted by Spring Heel Jack's Ashley Wales and John Coxon with 2001s 'Masses', Fourtet's Kieran Hebden ... [More]

Release date 24 March 2008 on Not Applicable.
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This exciting trio features three of the UK’s most sought after musicians, Tom Arthurs, Jasper Høiby and Stuart Ritchie. All have their own separate projects but came together as Arthurs.Høiby.Ritchie in 2005.

Their debut album, Explications is simply one stage of what promises to be an exhilarating and ongoing journey for ... [More]

Release date 22 March 2008 on Sub Rosa.
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"The material on this "Sound Unbound" mix is an audio essay that links artists as diverse as Marcel Duchamp , Vladimir Mayakovsky, Antonin Artaud and Allen Ginsberg. It also foregrounds some issues that I think the 21st century really needs to understand - art isn't about objects ... [More]

Release date 17 March 2008 on Rumraket.
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Erik Levander is from Sweden and is a dark romantic with a knack for abstract electronica and beautiful moving melodies. In a single song you will be able to hear the aftermath of digital Ragnarok intervened by divine haunting melodies and a new world rising up in the horizon built ... [More]

Release date 10 March 2008 on Sub Rosa.
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If, out of these fourteen female singers recorded in the 1920's, some have managed to put food on the table for a while, none became famous or rich, and most remain completely unknown.

What can be said about a singer whose entire work fits on a single-sided 78rpm record? What circumstances ... [More]

Release date 10 March 2008 on Rune Grammofon.
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Skyphone belong to a new generation of Danish musicians that also include bands like Under Byen and Efterklang . Musically it´s possible to place them somewhere between Efterklang, Sigur Ros and Swedish group Tape. In the Rune Grammofon catalogue Skyphone is probably closest in spirit and musical ideology to ... [More]

Release date 4 March 2008 on Rump Recordings.
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’Snöleoparden’ – the snowleopard is a rare and threatened animal, native to the harsh and remote areas of the mountain ranges of central Asia. There are several reasons why multi-instrumentalist Jonas Stampe has chosen this particular animal as his alter-ego; just like the snowleopard, Stampe has roots in Asia, ... [More]

Release date 3 March 2008 on Cock Rock Disco.
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He's back! It's been 2 years since Jason Forrest released his last full-length album, and 5 years since he's released as Donna Summer. So now he's back, this time with the slightly different moniker (DJ Donna Summer) and his first release for his own Cock Rock Disco label. Just as ... [More]

Release date 3 March 2008 on n5MD.
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‘Epilogue In Waves’ is the third album from N5MD main-man Mike Cadoo's ever evolving Bitcrush moniker. The album is the soundtrack to a story which begins with a sense of hope, but whose undercurrents pull you to the end you feared. ‘Epilogue In Waves’ marks the end of Cadoo's “wading ... [More]

Release date 25 February 2008 on Hyperdub.
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Instalment # 2 of Hyperdub’s rapid-fire assault on 2008 continues to mine the same rich bleep seam which kicked off with Kode9’s remixes of ‘Find My Way’ and ‘Skeng’, rolled on through Quarta 330 and marks time right now with Ikonika .

This latest release bloods another ... [More]

Release date 11 February 2008 on Slowfoot Records.
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Loosely inspired by the post-drop out novel Stone Junction by Jim Dodge, Heavy Water steals a glimpse at the toxic monstrosities brewing in pop's occult laboratory – the dark and dangerous world music constrained beneath its bubblegum smile. Elegiac cornet and haunting melodica sound a thematic last post over a ... [More]

Release date 4 February 2008 on Rune Grammofon.
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Something of an international supergroup, the founding of this excellent ensemble is a touch of genius that remains something of a mystery. Hand-picked by writer and film-maker Philip Mullarkey to record and play live as part of the art/film project [box], the four musicians met for the first time in ... [More]

Release date 4 February 2008 on Slowfoot Records.
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Logan’s Grinder EP features two stand out tracks from his debut album - Lost Highway, which Mary Ann Hobbs called ‘…absolutely outstanding… impossible to quantify’; and Error Message [minimally re worked for this EP]. There are also two new tracks - Sanza Live draws upon the development of his live ... [More]

Release date 4 February 2008 on Pickled Egg Records.
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Exploring similar landscapes to Frank Zappa - minus the virtuoso elements - Liverpool-based a.P.A.t.T. are a bewildering and completely original two to seven piece band, utilising all available genres to create a daft and beautiful music. 'Black and White Mass' sets a new standard in home entertainment, featuring some ... [More]

Release date 4 February 2008 on Mordant.
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Mordant Music present the unbridled works of cosmic cassette minstrel Dennis Greenidge. Dennis brings to mind the work of Daniel Johnston with his lo-fi recording techniques and his love of comic books and superheroes ..these dextrous rewind button blues represent years of joyous & sometimes unhinged spooling during the late 90's onwards...57 year old Dennis ... [More]

Release date 28 January 2008 on Slowfoot Records.
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Glass Darkly is the band’s debut album; their live sound was captured over three freezing days in a studio behind a fish factory, before retiring to the warmth of Snorkel studios to extract the key moments from these sessions and apply some finishing touches.

The album opens with the slow ... [More]

Release date 7 January 2008 on Sub Rosa.
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Here I am, for the fifth time, facing this impossible task no one has asked me to do. How can one bring together the history of electronic and concrete music to the history of noise music? For this volume, I want to highlight pieces illustrating a technique (Claude Ballif's 'Points, ... [More]

Release date 5 January 2008 on room40.
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"The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out." Annie Dillard

It’s this musical whisper that is amplified on Oceanic Feeling-Like, as Italian based musician Mike Cooper and Australia’s Chris Abrahams unite for the first time to create what could be described as ... [More]

Release date 17 December 2007 on Disco_R.Dance.
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Two Slender Cats is a project from Charles Matthews (aka Ardisson). Ardisson has previously released two highly regarded 12"s on Seed Records and has also collaborated with breaks producer Vlad on releases for Sokolov and London Breakz.

Recent Ardisson shows have seen him using classic tools such as the 303, 606, ... [More]