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Album Review: Minotaur Shock – It All Levels Out

A chance encounter with an old school friend provided the inspiration for It All Levels Out, the 10th album from the Bristolian electronic producer Minotaur Shock, aka David Edwards. The original…

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News: Andy Bell announces his GLOK debut album proper; dive into the electro gleam of ‘Maintaining The Machine’

HAVING released a series of vinyl format singles, the Ever Decreasing Circles triptych, following his superb album from last autumn for Sonic Cathedral, The View From Halfway Down, and also…

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Track: GLOK – ‘That Time Of Night’: Andy Bell drops a surprise electro shimmer

HE’s NOTHING if not prolific these days, Andy Bell; the muse must properly be with him. Not content to announce a string of 12″, 10″ and 7″ epilogues to last…

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EP REVIEW: Minotaur Shock – ‘Qi’: exhilarating and complex IDM for Bytes

Freed from the tyranny of production choice, Qi is Minotaur Shock's freest and most beguiling outing since back in his Melodic days

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ALBUM REVIEW: A Lily – ‘Sleep Through The Storm’: bewitching tronica to guard us from where we’re at

Sleep Through The Storm is eight tracks of beautiful, bewitching, cyclical and warm electronic minimalism, intended to guard us from 2020

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TRACK: A Lily – ‘Slept Through The Storm’: complex minimalism for a dark time

JAMES VELLA is, like the rest of us, concerned with the horrifically dark period we’re living through right now: the anxiety, the mental privations. The storm. We all need to…

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TRACK: A Lily – ‘Endless Jasmine’: bewitching minimalism laments troubled times

A LILY, the harmonious experimental project of artist James Vella (save, of course, his 2011, Japan-only dive towards a wonky pure pop form, Thunder Ate The Iron Tree) is set…

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