OrlandO Et La Tempete Viral SymphOny Redux (15:53)
OrlandO ShOegazer Strides TOwards FiascO (7:30)
Rampage At The CapitOl OrlandO Viral Tempest (1:55)
SlOw OrlandO Et La Tempete Viral SymphOny Redux (8:42)
OrlandO UndOne By ScOrnful DOg Star (11:33)
Pour Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu Viral SymphOny Plague (GrOundless StOrm) (4:37)
Pour Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu Viral SymphOny Plague (Tempete De Merde) (2:42)
Pour Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu Viral SymphOny Plague (La Nausee) (3:29)
Pour Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu Viral SymphOny Plague (WOrld Whirlwind) (1:48)
Pour Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu Viral SymphOny Plague (COsmic DOOr) (3:37)
Pour Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu Viral SymphOny Plague (Weep NO MOre) (3:54)
Pour Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu Viral SymphOny Plague (HerOic COjOnes) (11:44)
Pour Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu Viral SymphOny Plague (Ars LOnga Vita Brevis) (13:11)
Review: Pentiments continues its work spotlighting post-conceptual artist and writer Joseph Nechvatal. They have already dropped a retrospective Selected Sound Works album that spans 1981-2002 and now comes a companion across two slabs of wax that focus on more recent audio works. This is in cahoots with Andrew Deutsch and it makes use of anonymous reading of Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando' as an anchor point around which the "virus-modelled artificial life audio material" from Nechvatal's 2006 piece viral symphOny: the enthrOning is reanimated. The second then uses a rather controversial record performance of Antonin Artaud's radio play To Have Done with the Judgement of God which the artist takes apart and reweaves into something radically new.
Review: Istanbul born, Berlin and Copenhagen based artist Nene H (real name Beste Aydin) had amassed a hardcore following for her slew of early releases. She then finally came good on all her promise with a debut album that blended bass, techno and plenty of her own cultural heritage. Ali arrived in 2021 but only now lands on wax via Incienso. It's an album that processes personal grief and mourning with melancholic melodies, moody grooves and introspective soundscapes that allow for deep thought processing. At times psyched out, at others manic, and always alluring, it's a real triumph.
Review: Japanese maverick Kohei Matsunaga, aka NHK yx Koyxen explores far and wide on this new album Climb Downhill 2. It comes after many years of unusual but ultimately excellent sounds on the likes of Diagonal, DFA, Pan, L.I.E.S. and right back to Mille Plateaux and WordSound. Across 13 cuts he truly gets loose and abstract, mishmashing endless genres and sub-genres into lively cuts that are both dance yet cerebral. His sketch-pad style approach to building sonics makes each tune a live and restless collision of freaky frequencies and squealing synths, busted bass and broken beats.
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Quantum Entanglement (6:45)
Fighting Gravity (7:04)
The Galaxy Next Door (6:52)
Empty Space Equals Energy (7:24)
Angular Momentum (7:01)
Sea Of Stars (6:15)
Position In Time (5:39)
Space-Time (6:57)
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Broken Techno / Electronica label Theoretical Rhythms is taking it to the next level with their first vinyl release. Label boss Nickel Eye is honoured with the production duties and come up with a beautiful album which can be described as an audio Sci-Fi poem. Rich textures and pads are present in all tracks giving the album trippiness bringing the listener on a cosmic excursion. Steady broken beats keep the things on a dancier side and the listener can have a dance while watching the stars listening to the album.
Space Child is an album that would work equally well at home on an individual journey as well as on the dance floor where each party goer can take their personal trip.
Plastic (A Bigger Name) (feat The Illustrious Blacks) (4:06)
Mamaciterranea (feat Captures, Mauro Durante & Huaira) (6:23)
Soul & Science (feat The Real live Show & Indigo Prodigy) (4:01)
The Shadow Thief (feat Alsarah) (4:14)
Knockin (feat The Illustrious Blacks & Bad Colours) (4:17)
Race To Robotics (feat MC Saturn 6 & Internet Provider) (3:22)
No Puedo Parar (feat Troy Simms, Jungle Fire Horns & Barzo) (3:47)
Review: American DJ and producer Nickodemus commands an eclectic and global sound, mixing EDM with organic instrumentation and vocals through a cross-cultural musical lens. Coming to his very own Wonderwheel Recordings, Soul & Science is a befitting name thanks to the seeming fusion of electronically-programmed dance beats and regional organics, but this is also one of those albums that could also potentially shatter the hard border between the two connotations. Vocal contributors and instrumentalists from Sudan (Alsarah), Cameroon (Pat Kalla), the Caribbean (Hector "Tempo" Alomar) and Cuba (Quantic) make for a floor-shakingly diverse and humanist appreciation of the collective dance-spirit.
Review: Frank Noviello's debut album is a diverse collection of jazz standards and inventive originals. Randy Weston's 'High Fly' features a grooving arrangement, while the original 'Tribal Dance' features a vocal bebop, but the real standout track is the Gary Bartz/Langston Hughes spiritual jazz piece 'I've Known Rivers.' Gilles Peterson played a part in its reissue, encouraging his listeners to contact the label and demand a reissue - and now this fairly unknown but excellent album is taking off through word of mouth.
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