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June 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Venetian Snares/Daniel Lanois: Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois
Venetian Snares/Daniel Lanois Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois Timesig/Planet Mu This surprise collaboration features two Canadian wunderkind musicians that push and pull in very different directions. It might be a head-scratch (or indeed a head-fuck) for many, particularly if you are arriving at this as a Lanois fan unaware of Venetian Snares. But there’s gold […]Archive
August 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
My Life In Seven Songs
Song 1: Once In A Lifetime, Talking Heads The drums push forward, the bass pulls back and this isn’t really a song, it’s a bunch of ideas falling over themselves, cascading, oscillating, evading melody in favour of finding a groove. The words are catchphrases, evangelical, delightful. A tune existing in its own space, in its […]Archive
May 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Re-Wired For (New) Sound(s): Ten Important Electronica Albums In My Life
I recently posted this – a list of “Ten important metal albums”. And I started it off by linking to this – “Ten important hip-hop albums”. I mentioned then that I would be doing a series of these, across genres, and I repeated the opening paragraph from the hip-hop post. So now I’m going to […]Archive
July 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Aphex Twin: Cheetah EP
Aphex Twin Cheetah EP Warp Records It’s been easy to rush in and declare nearly any and all of the product/activity from Aphex Twin since his return “The Best”. Quality control was there, always. It was usually great stuff – but since a mini glut of releases, many of them no doubt stored up over […]Archive
April 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Sasha: Late Night Tales presents Sasha: Scene Delete
Sasha Late Night Tales presents Sascha: Scene Delete Late Night Tales This is an interesting release – and a really great one too – it’s Sasha’s first studio/production album in over a decade and it’s simultaneously still (something of) a mixtape, and something befitting the Late Night Tales Late Night concept. I like, too, that […]Archive
November 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
AFX: Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008
AFX Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008 Warp Records There were all were, just over a year ago – lost without Richard D. James and Aphex Twin and some of his other pseudonyms. And then that Caustic Window album was made available to the mainstream, a flurry of Soundcloud activity was captured across a slurry of accounts. […]Archive
June 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Palmbomen II: Palmbomen II
Palmbomen II Palmbomen II RVNG International Here’s the latest from Kai Hugo, a self-titled album under his Palmbomen II moniker. He’s been making analog house and dusty old ambient-techno releases under various names and all with a cleaning-out-the-attic feel. Here on album where the strange gimmick is that every track is named after an X-Files […]Archive
June 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Nicolas Jaar: Nymphs II (ep)
Nicolas Jaar Nymphs II Other People You couldn’t really call it an EP, it’s a single, a 12”, two sides, two seven-minute cuts, but in its weight, in what it offers, in how it feels – and in how it ends up sounding, I reckon it’s EP-worthy. A little slice of an album… Nymphs II […]Archive
May 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Aphex Twin: MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep)
Aphex Twin MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep) Warp Records Last year Aphex Twin re-emerged. We had the very worthwhile Syro album, the eventual mainstream release of his Caustic Window project, then there was the ep, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (to my ears some of the very best Aphex work ever – and who […]Archive
February 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Aphex Twin: Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (ep)
Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (ep) Warp Records You wait a decade for new Aphex Twin music – then you get a previously hard to find album recorded under another name, the now Grammy-winning official new album/return, as well as a stack of apparently unreleased Aphex leftovers under the typically cryptic user487363530 […]Archive
September 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman