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TRACK: Bastian Benjamin – ‘Threshold’: bright, organic ‘tronica

EXPERIMENTAL audio-visual producer Bastian Benjamin, born and based in the small city of Deventer, in the Netherlands, some 100km east towards the German border, has just dropped the bright, organic,…

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NEWS: The Orb announce live stream date and remixes album – hear David Harrow’s rerub of ‘Haze’

SEMINAL techno groovesters and occasional pranksters of legend The Orb have a brace of excellently exciting news announcements for all you space cadets out there. Firstly, they’re gonna play their…

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TRACK: Rival Consoles – ‘Articulation (Midori Hano remix)’ preludes Erased Tapes EPs CD

RYAN LEE WEST, who creates beautiful and properly, actually intelligent dance music that folds softly across to pulsing ambience, isn’t someone to tarnish the bright beauty of his creations by…

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SEE: Satoshi Kanno – ‘Elastic’: morphing IDM with enveloping visuals

A MULTI-media artist based in Tokyo, Satoshi Kanno has been splicing delicate skeins of noise with with tough beats since 2013. He’s appeared on a number of compilations, including Nenormalizm’s…

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TRACK: Reid Willis – ‘Finger To Pulse’: dark tech from new Mesh soundscaper

MESH, the exploratory techno label run by the brilliant Max Cooper, has added another complex and textural talent to its roster with the signing of American soundscaper Reid Willis, who’s…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Subp Yao – ‘Infra Aqual’: deep into the dark IDM ocean trenches

If you're a fan of the shearing and crushing end of the dance music spectrum - anything from (on-form) The Prodigy through Harthouse and Tresor styles - and fancy the idea of that real defleshed aesthetic spliced with some darker downbeatz interludes, this is a record you'd find rewarding to explore

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TRACK: MP Productions – ‘In My Heart’: Global Comms man returns with crisp IDM EP for Warp

A PROPER old-skool British IDM general, Mark Pritchard, the man behind Reload, one half of Global Communications (just buy 76:14, OK? Just … buy it), Harmonic 33, so many other…

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PREMIERE: Kazumichi Komatsu – ‘Orca’: textural dreamstate IDM

KAZUMICHI KOMATSU is a Japanese electronicist and multi-media artist who you can place quite firmly in a grand tradition of sonic playfulness and interrogation that also includes microsound artist Ryoji…

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NEWS: Mouse On Mars announce February album; hear ‘The Latent Space’

BERLIN’S Mouse on Mars, the playful and textural duo who have been seducing us for many a year with their particular brand of off-kilter sonic wobble, have announced a new…

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SEE: Max Cooper – ‘Spike’: beautiful visuals for pulsing IDM

IN CASE you haven’t entered its fascinating, layered, granular, beautiful world yet, rest assured that Max Cooper’s Earth EP is one of the absolute highlights of IDM in 2020: what…

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