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Track: Pan Daijing – ‘Let 七月’: Guizhou performance artist reveals a more intimate but no less potently eerie side

PAN DAIJING is an uncompromising, sonically exploratory artist who hails from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, in south central China. Her approach to her art is unbridled, bold, and…

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See: Album – ‘New And Annoying’: Québécois punk-funkers set out on a Squarepusheresque glide of glitch

QUESTION. Do you love yourself a bit of itchy, broken, nay, fractured and exploded, electronic beat? If someone says words like Aphex and Squarepusher to you, do your eyes light…

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Album review: Masayoshi Fujita – ‘Bird Ambience’: a marimba and electronica masterclass for meditative thought

IF YOU like your music deliciously abstract, abstractedly delicious; arranged beautifully, an absolute world of evocative sound; fell hard, for instance, for the albums Ryuichi Sakamoto made with Alva Noto,…

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News: 7K! announces the latest in its series of digital ambient compilations, ‘Wind Layers’; hear a taster in Colin Stetson’s ‘Beyond The Break’

!K7’S mirror-image modern compositional and ambient offshoot label, !7K, has announced the latest in its ongoing series of digital-only, wide-ranging, thematic compilations, and this time the focus will be on…

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Album review: Sedibus – ‘The Heavens’: The Orb’s good Doctor administers a heady and blissful ambient potion

HE MAY have entered his sixth decade on this particular rock spinning in space – and don’t even get me started on the passage of time, I mean how can…

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EP: Incessant – Perennial Umbra

Irish black metal band Incessant have released their debut EP ‘Perennial Umbra’. It is best to keep in mind that this is a trio whilst listening to this EP. The noise they…

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Album review: Mdou Moctar – ‘Afrique Victime’: a coming together of the West African and western rock

MDOU MOCTAR is at last gathering momentum; but it’s been an epic journey since 2008, when his raw emotional guitar music first began to spread across West Africa via the…

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See: Dave Keuning – ‘Time And Fury’: an alt.synth floor-filler for your personal boogie nirvana

THE KILLERS’ founding member and guitarist Dave Keuning has released another taster of his June solo album, A Mild Case Of Everything, with the video for the anthemically synthy “Time…

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See: LIP TALK – ‘More’: our craving, craven world captured in psychedelic synth pop

SARAH K PEDINOTTI is the living, breathing Brooklyn-based human behind the glam-psych-pop stylings of LIP TALK, who’s just dropped the video for the glitteringly trippy “More” – and we’ve got…

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See: The halcyon dream pop bliss of Requin Chagrin’s ‘Fou’ comes with added motorcycle GP glamour

REQUIN CHAGRIN is a multifaceted creative guising of Marion Brunetto, who’s an author and multi-instrumentalist with an ear for blissful beauty, for sure. A well-received, eponymous debut emerged in 2015,…

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Track: Pan Daijing – ‘Let 七月’: Guizhou performance artist reveals a more intimate but no less potently eerie side

See: Album – ‘New And Annoying’: Québécois punk-funkers set out on a Squarepusheresque glide of glitch

Album review: Masayoshi Fujita – ‘Bird Ambience’: a marimba and electronica masterclass for meditative thought

News: 7K! announces the latest in its series of digital ambient compilations, ‘Wind Layers’; hear a taster in Colin Stetson’s ‘Beyond The Break’

Album review: Sedibus – ‘The Heavens’: The Orb’s good Doctor administers a heady and blissful ambient potion

EP: Incessant – Perennial Umbra

Album review: Mdou Moctar – ‘Afrique Victime’: a coming together of the West African and western rock

See: Dave Keuning – ‘Time And Fury’: an alt.synth floor-filler for your personal boogie nirvana

See: LIP TALK – ‘More’: our craving, craven world captured in psychedelic synth pop

See: The halcyon dream pop bliss of Requin Chagrin’s ‘Fou’ comes with added motorcycle GP glamour