Category Archives: Review

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Selected Records 2012 by Various Artists

Sculpture “Sound Wave” by Jean Shin After publishing our own best-of lists, we proudly present an essential selection of albums picked by the featured artists. There were different levels of collaboration with them in 2012: some recorded and contributed their … Continue reading

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Looking Further Backwards: The Intense And Chaotic 2012

2012 been chaotic, intense and overloaded year. Every season it is getting harder and more complicated to follow all the progressively expanding intellectual music scene worldwide as the new genres and talents tend to emerge quite rapidly. Inbox is always … Continue reading

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Charlemagne Palestine & Janek Schaefer – Day of the Demons

Two honorable intellectual musicians, Charlemagne Palestine (born 1945) who is an American minimalist composer, performer, and visual artist and Janek Schaefer (born 1970), London-based sound artist, musician, and composer formed a striking alliance. They connected their talents and thoughts for … Continue reading

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One Man Nation & Machinefabriek

Singapore based artist Marc Chia, known as One Man Nation, and Dutchman Rutger Zuydervelt, known as Machinefabriek, collaborated on an expressive improvised performance at The Future Sounds of Folk, Bimhuis, Amsterdam, which was recorded by Micha de Kanter. Mini album … Continue reading

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Rhyton – Rhyton

Rhyton is a penetrating rock music trio in Brooklyn, United States recently formed by Dave Shuford of NNCK, D. Charles Speer, Jimy SeiTang of Psychic Ills and Spencer Herbst of Messages. Exploring depths and unique sounding trajectories of Space, Stoner, … Continue reading

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Jon Porras – Black Mesa

Jon Porras, also known as Elm, is a guitar performer from San Francisco, United States. While exploring specific sounding identity as a solo musician, Jon participates in a fatalistic rock band called Barn Owl, also in musical projects like Gärden … Continue reading

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A Death Cinematic – The New World

A Death Cinematic is solo noise, drone project located in the USA. Artist is active since 2008 and has released 5 albums on labels such as Small Doses, Dead Accents and his own imprint Simple Box Construction. By using guitar, … Continue reading

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Kleefstra | Bakker | Kleefstra – Griis

An album “Griis” was made by a collaborative ethereal drone project formed by brothers Jan & Romke Kleefstra and guitarist Anne-Chris Bakker in Netherlands. Since 2008 Kleefstras had worked with Machinefabriek, Peter Broderick, Gareth Davis, Nils Frahm, Greg Haines and … Continue reading

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Anduin – Stolen Years

Jonathan Lee, better known as Anduin, is Richmond, VA (United States) based musician and installation artist. He also owns a record label “SMTG Limited” and participates in “Souvenir’s Young America” band as a keyboardist and sound programmer. Anduin has worked … Continue reading

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Ilyas Ahmed – With Endless Fire

Ilyas Ahmed – With Endless Fire *album preview at experimedia Ilyas Ahmed (born 1974, Pakistan) is a distinctive one man band, formed in 2005, United States. Consistently working with the respectable labels such as Time-Lag Records, Immune, Root Strata and … Continue reading

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Expo ’70 – Journey Through Astral Projection

Expo ’70 – Journey Through Astral Projection *album preview at experimedia Justin Wright, working under pseudonym Expo 70′, is a musician who is mostly associated with modern Drone, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental musical styles. Starting his career in 2005, these days … Continue reading

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Cleared – Breaking Day

Cleared – Breaking Day *album preview at experimedia Cleared is an electronic and rock music project formed by Steven Hess and Michael Vallera in Chicago. This project has already released their first debut album on Immune Recordings and also an … Continue reading