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album | Third Ear
9 March 2003
Tread are Take Kitahara and Hiroshi Watanabe (who records as Kaito for Kompakt) and take a self-styled ‘minimalist’ approach to their...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Expanding
9 March 2003
Apart from Price’s rather irritating habit of over-punctuating everything (all we need now is another electronica artist with an icon fetish)...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Monopsone
9 March 2003
After the release of French artist Matthieu Malon’s debut album, System: On, he has handed his baby over to a set of very different...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Aesthetics
9 March 2003
A very popular and acclaimed release in some corners of this small but flourishing industry (it recently made album of the issue on another...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Third Ear
9 March 2003
What a magical recording: this is a beautifully crafted piece of work, from the opening snatches of birdsong and amplified bell tones on...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Everest Records
9 June 2003
A sampler compiled for the above Swiss convention, this collection showcases those who have been involved in the creation of non-commercial...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Disturbance
31 July 2002
Dati's label likens this release to 'a great spider' with each of its legs in a different territory of dance music, and I really like this metaphor,...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | 2nd Rec
31 July 2002
Nitrada, aka Christophe Stoll, claims he does not prioritise sound over image, and to demonstrate this aesthetic he has had different artists...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Intr_version Records
31 July 2002
Like a lot of contemporary electronic musicians, Mitchell Akiyama and Joshua Treble are separated by plenty of air miles (Akiyama is based in...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | The Locus of Assemblage
31 July 2002
This rather idiosyncratically packaged album, courtesy of Paul D Knowles, comes complete with photocopied insert of a collage of mundane statements...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | The Locus of Assemblage
31 July 2002
Presumably someone thought that making one long track embodies the 'conceptual' idea when it comes to avant-garde music making. Unfortunately it...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Fact
31 July 2002
This album review descends into metaphor I'm afraid; it's very difficult to describe this kind of minimalist soundscaping without making reference...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Bip-Hop
31 May 2002
Suitably for their music, Twine operate a kind of virtual partnership, with one half living in Colorado and the other in Ohio, and their music...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Bip-Hop
31 May 2002
This compilation is the next instalment in a conceptual ‘anthology’ put together by French glitch/minimalist label Bip-Hop. In keeping...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Expanding
31 May 2002
Slightly unfortunate title this one, seeing as this collection based around the series of nine 7” singles released last year on Expanding...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | The Leaf Label
31 May 2002
This is rather an unclassifiable oddity: a strange mixture of Indian percussion with a decidedly Japanese flavour, which harnesses modern digital...
by Elizabeth Wells
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