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EP REVIEW: Głós – ‘Swimming In Colors’: monumental ambience from Affin

Głós' first EP for Affin is three whole different, astonishingly enveloping sound worlds. Let's hope he records an album in this vein; it'd wipe the floor with your consciousness. Intelligent ambience with incredible design and edge, it's one hell of an opening statement for an artist to make for his new home

NEWS: GoGo Penguin announce Blue Note remix album with a stellar cast; hear the MachineDrum remix of ‘Atomised’

THE LEFTFIELD, inventive Mancunian piano trio GoGo Penguin, who work out in the truly creative zones where dancefloor and intelligence and a jazzy feel bump into each other, decided they…

Throwing Snow – ‘Lithics’: an organic, midtempo call to euphoric IDM prayer

ROSS TONES, the Northern Englishman who’s made his way to a rural retreat in the South West via the capital, is regarded as something of a mainstay over at Houndstooth,…

Track: Matt Robertson – ‘Kalimba’: a grand, chattering, acid sweep

GROWING up listening to a mixture of Jean-Michel Jarre and Jimmy Smith, Matt Robertson certainly had a good early primer in the weirder beauties of music; big-screen synthesiser worlds, the…

Album review: Mapstation – ‘My Frequencies, When We’: playful, immensely thoughtful tronica

My Frequencies, When We may not flaunt its wares with garish insouciance; but like so many of the albums that end up welded to your turntable, it keeps on enticing you back for more exploration, further interaction. It occasionally raises a grin and equally occasionally, an eyebrow; it's varied in its approach yet thoroughly cohesive. It's an immensely thoughtful record

SEE: Sébastien Guérive – ‘Omega II’: off-world, glitchy soundscapes

FRENCH composer and producer Sébastien Guérive has a really skin-shiveringly delightful way with an icy, glitchy techno landscape – as shown by his new single, “Omega II”, which has a…

ALBUM REVIEW: Madlib – ‘Sound Ancestors’: beats genii’s wide-eyed, wide-open odyssey

Madlib's Sound Ancestors, produced by Four Tet, is the beats genii's wide-eyed, wide-open odyssey. Like a fractal pattern, the deeper you focus and the more you pull out, the more you see

TRACK: This Morn’ Omina release “1.000 Cuts (Lingh Chi)”

Belgian tribal industrial; three words that will undoubtedly pique your interest or have you wondering “what on earth is that?” But Belgian collective This Morn’ Omina rightfully summarise their output…

NEWS: Cabaret Voltaire announce ‘Shadow Of Funk’ EP and longform drone sets; hear ‘Billion Dollar’

SHEFFIELD’S deep proto-industrialists Cabaret Voltaire still have so much to say, some 48 years on from first beginnings. Shadow Of Fear, released November gone, was the Cabs’ first new album…

NEWS: Clark returns with March album for Deutsche Grammophon: hear ‘Small’

CLARK, the electronica voyager who came hurtling into our lives for Warp at the turn of the century and quickly decided his mission was to empty the bones of you…

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