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Robotic Reveries
“Perfectly proportioned space-pop…” Three Legged Race Persuasive Barrier AUSTRIA SPECTRUM SPOOLS SP022 LP (2012) Check the Edition Mego’s ‘Spectrum Spools’ website, scan the covers and this is the one...
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Astronautic Ambitions
“spaced-out slice of tomorrow…” Raglani Real Colors Of The Physical World AUSTRIA EDITIONS MEGO 149 LP (2012) In times of uncertainty I’ll reach for the bottle of red with the nicest label. When it...
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Some Words On Western Art
Weisser Westen Weisser Westen APPARENT EXTENT AE017 2 x LP (2013) A daring debut from Düsseldorf Duo, Weisser Westen (‘White West’), this eponymous double LP (and CD) drops a lifetime’s worth of oddly...
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Retro-Galaxies
Synthetic Gems & Kosmische Rays Joining a roster that includes Zombi, Zombie Zombie, and other traffickers of the well-promulgated sound of ‘80s VHS nostalgia, Emeralds deliver still-hungry...
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Back to the Future
Cavern of Anti-Matter Blood-Drums GERMANY GRAUTAG RECORDS GTR#006 2 x LP (2013) Cavern of Anti-Matter is a project from Tim Gane, previously of Stereolab. Despite the ominous band name and moody black...
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Floating Dimensions
Feel Beetrr (VETO-RECORDS / EXCHANGE 007) is the latest item from Swiss reedman Christoph Erb and his Veto-Records label, where he’s horning it large with his bass clarinet and tenor as one third of...
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Columbarium
Another curio from those crazy Canadians who call themselves Tetrix. Not unlike their previous release Tetrix 11, Tetrix 12: The Time Travellers is a species of radio play with musical interludes –...
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Scantily Clad: Law of Five rules here
Scantily Clad Volume 5 Self-released CD-R (2012? 2013?) No, this duo of home-recording synth pop-rock improvisers aren’t targeting that crucial Page 3 photographic spot of some lowbrow British tabloid...
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Nostalgic Pop
Babi’s Botanical (NOBLE LABEL NBL-210) defies belief – a lovely album of immaculate “chamber pop” songs crafted with great compositional and studio skills. For starters, this is only her second LP –...
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Daft Pop
Atom TM HD GERMANY RASTER-NOTON R-N 147 CD Slick as oil, sumptuous and satirical, Atom™’s latest LP of machined electro-pop music has many antecedents, among whom Alva Noto, Kraftwerk, Prince and all...
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Daft Beats
Prostitutes Petit Cochon AUSTRIA SPECTRUM SPOOLS SP035 LP (2014) Spectrum Spools plump disparate once again with this rough n’ready addition to their diverse roster: Prostitutes aka Cleveland,...
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Heat Spells
From the French label who brought us the unstoppable and abrasive (and impossibly great) Sister Iodine, comes this remarkable LP called Osaka Fortune (PREMIER SANG PS007). Yes, it’s another noisy...
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Apple Island
The Brighton combo Hamilton Yarns have never failed yet to please us here at TSP with their fey and whimsical music and songs. No songs as such on their new album The Orchard (HARK! 022), which is...
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The Daily Dozen
The Ruminator (NO LABEL) is mostly a solo work by Steve Schmitt, taking a break from his Seattle “surf noir” band Diminished Men; he knowingly imitates great surf records from the past and twists a...
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The Bécs Boy Today!
Fennesz Bécs AUSTRIA EDITIONS MEGO 165CD (2014) Believe it or not, this is the first proper Fennesz solo album (not counting various live recordings, collaborations and EPs) since Black Sea in 2008 –...
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Yerkiz Mazurkis
Better do a swift round-up of some items which arrived from Feeding Tube Records in March 2014. As you know this Massachusetts label do most of their editions in small-run vinyl pressings and have an...
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Proposed Treatments
White Girl (NOBLE NBL-213) is a solo album by Mus.Hiba, a Tokyo producer who comes to us after several collaborations and remix projects with Bo En, Harmful Logic, Spazzkid and Tokyolite, and has used...
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Venceremos
The cassette tape Wir Triumphieren: Bergedorfs Kinderbandszene 1981-1986 (ALARM AT013) purports to be a compilation of early, unheard and unreleased music from the West German New Wave punk-electronic...
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Gun Metal
Gutter Sound are a London-based duo Martin and Millington who realised their cassette tape TAPE (CAUTIOUS HORSES) using a bass guitar and a programmed drum machine, then distilling the results of...
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Happy Turner
My teeth are singing after only a few bars of the saccharine buzz that is Hyperion Suites (NOBEL NBL-214), a new album from Japanese electro-pop wonderkind Serph. We’ve heard from him before in his...
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