Music
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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
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Electronic music may not be known for tunes of Ramones-like brevity, but even the most ardent clubhound will be left a bit breathless after the knockout 30-minute opener (no, that’s not a mis...read more
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The latest installment of one of the Kompakt label’s signature series should give you that stimulating life-begins-anew feeling. In fact, Pop Ambient 2009 strikes us as one of the finer editi...read more
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This Canadian duo’s ongoing fame and acclaim are due to the fact that, deep within their Internationalist techno-pop, you can still hear their early-period bedroom-beat sensibilities. Put Jun...read more
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Be right with you, I’m having a low-grade psychedelic experience with the cover of Yacht’s new See Mystery Lights. Wow, it’s — I see them, the mystery lights! Once you stop your d...read more
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Me: longtime Caribou naysayer. Caribou: delivers Swim, the latest attempt by Dan Snaith to meld laptop means with pop ways. And you know what? I’m won over, to the point where I’m gonna...read more
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The age-old border between techno chill and pop-analog warmth has been breached once and for all on Matthew Dear's new opus, Black City. Granted, Dear is hardly new to this; he's been edging toward...read more
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What people don't know about the Dirtbombs' frontman/big brain/baddest mutha Mick Collins is that he is a freakin' wildman. This band will be forever confined to the garage-rock ghetto, but a surve...read more
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Rarely appearing but always most welcome, Isolée albums are among the coolest in the techno/house continuum. For album number three, his first since 2005, Rajko Müller (a.k.a. Isolée—hey, you ...read more
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Nicolas Jaar is a young electronic-music producer based in New York—so young, in fact, that he may not be able to get into the sort of clubs that would play his esoteric but sexy quasi-house tracks...read more
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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
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Techno, anyone? We like to think of our customers as open-minded, but
few genres are a tougher sell to the public than this particular brand
of extended electronic dance music with few vocals a...read more
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A Spanish DJ-producer who's now working under his second (at least) alias, John Talabot -- if that isn't his real name -- strikes some mellow gold on his full-length debut...as John Talabot. The wh...read more
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When someone says that a record is "electronic" they usually just mean the beats are made by some gadget. Actress, a solo act from London, makes thoroughly electronic music: R.I.P., Darren Cunnigha...read more
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