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1. Ricardo Villalobos: Salvador
Finally, the earliest works of the brilliant minimalist techno artist Ricardo Villalobos are released on a sinlge CD. Salvador compiles tracks from when Villalobos was on the Frisbee label from 199...read more
2. Johann Johannsson: IBM 1401 - A User's Manual
Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson has worked with some of the more adventurous rock and electronic musicians, including Barry Adamson, Pan Sonic, and members of fellow countrymen Sigur Ros. Now ...read more
3. Max Richter: 24 Postcards in Full Colour
The buzz about Max Richter’s fourth full-length album, 24 Postcards In Full Colour, has inevitably been focused on the music’s high-concept underpinnings: consisting of 24 short rington...read more
4. James Blackshaw: The Glass Bead Game
After garnering a reputation for combining the best elements of John Fahey and Sandy Bull in his beautiful, intricate 12-string-guitar playing, English virtuoso James Blackshaw started branching ou...read more
5. v/a: The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume One
Splanking drum-machine beats, straight-out-of-the-box synthesizer timbres, the occasional disco move, minimal structures and production – the Minimal Wave genre is early-’80s DIY electronica ...read more
6. Max Richter: Infra
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7. S. Carey: All We Grow
New genre coinage: indie-chamber-classical-folk-pop. (You heard it here first, and perhaps hopefully, last as well.) With All We Grow, Sean Carey, a member of Bon Iver's band and a student of class...read more
8. James Blake: s/t
People are making a lot of fuss over young James Blake of the United Kingdom, and if you hear the fuss before you hear the record, you'll probably come to the record feeling sure it won't be all th...read more
9. Moritz von Oswald Trio: Horizontal Structures
Moritz von Oswald -- you haven't heard of him? Well, perhaps not; von Oswald is a megastar of '90s German minimal techno, when identity was clouded or just plain neglected as a routine course of ac...read more
10. John Maus: We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
John Maus is surely the only philosophy professor to have ever served time in Ariel Pink's band. How's that for an opening? It's not just loose trivia talk either, these things will help give you a...read more
11. Dirty Projectors + Björk: Mount Wittenberg Orca
Here at Sound Fix HQ we've coined the term Björky Projectors for this one, and the name might stick, because this pairing -- unusual on the eye at first -- has been making sweetly off-kilter music ...read more