Be warned! This LP – like a lot of his solo LPs it seems -has a sinister ability to smooch along in the background, without you ever really engaging with it.
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Hobocombo – Moondog Mask
Hobocombo have used the ethos of Moondog for their own compositions. What we have then is a mixture of Moondog and new work and the result is an intriguing one.
Incendiary Goes to Eurosonic 2014
Now if that sounds like some sort of incantational nonsense on my behalf, then all I say to you is, run with it, motherfuckers! This review of The Ex can be nothing if NOT fucking mystical and magical
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Apneu, Katadreuffe, WOLVON and Hunter Complex – OT301 Amsterdam 8/1/14
Katadreuffe are somehow grabbing a whole set of fractive, seemingly non-related noises and attitudes and watching them melt together in the white heat of the noise they generate.
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Elephant Stone – Elephant Stone
far too polite for its own good
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Aloe Blacc – Lift Your Spirit
A crushing disappointment.
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Incendiary get deep down with Elektra
The forest remains the only dwelling where I feel fully at home. My grandma, who was raised in the Siberian wilderness, just let me run there freely from dawn till dusk, rarely worrying about me, as she knew I wasn’t a fool.
MYYTHS – TYSTNAD
There are slight variations on the theme; but you know, it’s temporary, and we’re back to dragging the sonic stone round a Piranesi-like landscape.
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Various Artists – Disc Jockey
In De DJ is Een Mietje the vox can sound like “the deejay is a meathead” even though it MEANS the deejay is a softypants. And on X-Static Tics’ Diejay Hardway Replay the deejay is accused of having a “complex”. Well I never.
Koett – Golden Peak
Boy, does Koett know how to almost piss me off, only to quickly redeem himself with the turn of a beat or phrase.
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