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Leftfield Recommendations November 2012

Juno Recommends Experimental

Juno Recommends Experimental

Leftfield Recommendations November 2012
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1
Cat: TRIANGLE 17. Rel: 29 Oct 12
 
Techno
Vizar
Stillborn Dub
Images Of Bodies
Silten
Lache
Aries
2 Moon Dub
Scarletta
Plane Curves
Temples
Court Of Lions
Villaine
2 Moon Dub
Scarletta
Plane Curves
Temples
Court Of Lions
Villaine
Review: As part of Bristol's Young Echo collective, Vessel has been pushing genre boundaries for some years now, taking house, techno and garage templates and combining them with a grubby, hazy palette of sound. On Order Of Noise he largely eschews dancefloor concerns and constructs an album of ambient sound, echo-chamber dub and textured percussion, creating something which is a combination of the microscopic dissection of sound demonstrated in Actress' R.I.P. and the dense, claustrophobic techno of Andy Stott's Passed Me By. It's difficult not to hear echoes of Bristol's rich soundsystem culture in the album; both opener "Vizar" and "Stillborn Dub" deploy warm sub-bass as a cushion for their warm yet disenchanted vocal cuttings. The steroid-filled arpeggio of "Court Of Lions" could almost pass for Italo disco if it wasn't so schizophrenic, while "Scarletta" is like dubstep distilled down to pure rhythmic binary code. Not just one of this year's best debuts, this is one of this year's best albums, and marks the arrival of an important new talent.
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out of stock €12.16
2
Cat: FAITICHE 008. Rel: 22 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Fragments One
Fragments Two
Jackdaw
Forest Weaver
Dipper
Wood Pigeon
out of stock €9.68
3
Cat: BF 032. Rel: 15 Oct 12
 
Quartz
Jaw Jackin'
Forgetting & Learning Again (feat Kerry Leatham)
Strangling You With The Cord
Close Call/Chop Cuts
out of stock €5.82
4
Cat: ST 003. Rel: 29 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Boxcat
Schwee
Cauliroot
Coalapps
Lingle
Review: The third Sullen Tone release in as many months from the anonymous Old Apparatus collective is the second to come from an individual member of the group - this time attributed to A. Levitas. Showing an even starker change in tone than the previous EP, Alfur sees the Old Apparatus sound shed the caked on grit to reveal something significantly lighter in tone; the stumbling beats of "Boxcat" seem to experiment with cloudy hip-hop structures, while "Schwee" combines foggy murmurings with firm square waves and starry arpeggios recalling early grime gone shoegaze. "Cauliroot" provides a sparse arrangement of breezy windchimes and hesitant broken-beat, while "Coalapps" takes melodies drifting just out of focus and combines them with lush 2-step beats. Finally, "Lingle" takes pitchshifted vocals and a ghostly atmosphere that isn't a million miles away from the ghostly steppers R&B of Tri Angle artists Holy Other and oOoOO - but in this case the atmosphere is even more pressurised. Another essential EP from the Old Apparatus camp.
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out of stock €7.54
5
Cat: DSR 034LP. Rel: 08 Oct 12
 
Coldwave/Synth
Dancing & Singing
Soundsequence
Water
Fire
Vibration
Root Of 1 = 1
J.S.C.A
Shortwavetransmission
New
Circle
Whereami
Soundtrack
Sawtooth
Fish
Singsang
HZ Waltz
Review: As one of the landmark releases of electronic music recognised by few, it's little wonder that the self-released vinyl version of Monotonprodukt 07 from 1982 fetches astronomical prices online. When listening to the polyrhythmic studies of Konrad Becker, it's quite startling how great an impact his work had on both the experimental and dance music factions of electronica. While overtly bleak in tone, the measured maths of the industrial pulses and tones calls to mind Autechre at their most primordial, and yet overall this is an album that radiates humane warmth through fuzzy tones and distorted vocals. Don't expect this reissue to stay around for long.
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out of stock €24.31
6
Cat: WDNTLP 001. Rel: 29 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Bless My Heart
Manchester
Lonely At The Top
Snow Theme
This Dog Can Swim
Southpaw
Tomorrow
Riquelme
USSR
The Life Of The Mind
Laroche
Talk To Strangers
Review: Since debuting on Werk Discs in 2007, Lukid - otherwise known as London-based producer Luke Blair - has proved himself to be one of the UK's foremost producers of experimental beats, operating in the zone where hip-hop, dubstep and squashed techno overlap. Where his previous album was a dark, muggy affair, Lonely At The Top - although similarly stifling - feels like a much more colourful record. The downtempo soul of "Bless My Heart" is like FlyLo on downers but still ripples with flouresence; "Lonely At The Top" is like the squashed dubstep of his classic track "Chord" but through a prism of flange, and Southpaw, although highly compressed and crushed still has its brief moments of rainbow effervescence. But it's the stumbling, Actress-like shuffle of USSR and the hazy 80s pop memory that is "The Life Of The Mind" that show Blair to have a mastery of more experimental shapes and oblique moods. Highly recommended.
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out of stock €13.38
7
Cat: CAT 213CD. Rel: 22 Oct 12
 
Hyperwave
K Bos-K Lax
Snuskpadda
Psychic Probe
Ska Train
High Camp
Spectrolite
Teardrops
Moonstone
Leap Through Time
Rings Of Saturn
Sentimenthol
Safari
Miss August
Birthday
Dyson Sphere
Western
Neptune
Magnetic Shield
Export
Weather Channel
Base Camp
Jupiter
Terminal
Vernal Equinox
Solar Eclipse
The Field
Review: Curiously, this trip into the hyperactive mind of Finnish producer Aleksi Perala was first released as a digital-only album back in 2009. Here, it finally gets a release on CD, alongside a bonus disc of largely ambient material that echoes his excellent work under the Astrobotnia guise. While enjoyable, it's the skittering electronica, braindance techno and effervescent IDM of the original album that most impresses. Perala seems incapable of sticking to one style, and his joyous experiments take in breakbeat-driven intelligent techno ("Lep Through Time"), 8-bit junglisms ("Rungs of Saturn"), electro squelch ("Teardops") and Squarepusher-ish percussive dexterity ("High Camp").
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out of stock €13.13
8
Cat: PINGIPUN 35. Rel: 29 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Scarlet Pitch Dreams (Robert Lippok - Three Sided Home remix)
Narratives Inside The Pieces (Opiate rework)
About Me & You (Stefan Schneider - Spiegelmotiv version)
Scarlet Pitch Dreams (RSS Disco & Sugarwater remix)
Scarlet Pitch Dreams (FS Blumm - Old Splendifolia version)
About Me & You (Peter Preston - Without Me But You remix)
out of stock €8.74
9
Cat: ZCKR 06. Rel: 29 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
L-11F
D-010
O-FF5
P-200
E-201
X-100
out of stock €8.74
10
Cat: FOCUS 25. Rel: 29 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Track 1
Track 2
Review: Mark Fell's Sensate Focus project has been responsible for some seriously exquisite pieces of techno since its first release back in January. Each record has delivered a wide spectrum of sounds, ranging from bizarre drone excursions to more bass-driven rhythms but never ceasing to inject its primary 4/4 elements. "X" is a stunning journey into tribal space drums and meandering, UK-flavoured percussion - an undeniable spawn of the London-Berlin connection. Over to side B, "Y" is another remarkable groove, one which fuses the remnants of UK jungle together with chopped up garage vocals and sporadic synth melodies, all wrapped up into a broken beat arrangement; making 2.5 a fine addition to this already impressive catalogue. Big!
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out of stock €10.21
11
Cat: MM 058. Rel: 15 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Emmplekz Theme
Delvsolvhalv
Izod Days
Muted Sunday Winding
Cleaver Squared
Vacuum-Packed For Failure
The Square Quill
Bocanet
Coughing For Belgium
Summertime Blues
Rude Solo (Kinderflekz)
Vague Leakage
Structural Damage
Emmpledge
Review: It's getting almost impossible to keep up with the amount of Ekoplekz releases at the moment, and though some fatigue may have set in with even his most ardent fans, this however, marks the debut of something a bit different: eMMplekz, a collaboration between himself and fellow radiophonic enthusiast Mordant Music. Weaving their decayed library music through monologues of the mundane that recall a slightly more sedate but possibly less coherent Mark E Smith, IZOD Days is one of the strongest statements from both, combining their influences into a warped, but quintessentially British package.
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out of stock €12.41
12
Cat: DSR 050LP. Rel: 05 Nov 12
 
Coldwave/Synth
M Kurtz
Loss
NCR
Kino
Cherish 8
Half A God
out of stock €19.21
13
Cat: STRIKE 139. Rel: 29 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
The Iron Door
Chronovision
Escape
Shadowplay
No Evasion
Stone Circle Maze
Mystery Ride
The Inner Workings
Wheels Of Time
Red Stones
Spiral
out of stock €12.64
14
Cat: 50WEAPONCD 10. Rel: 29 Oct 12
 
Bass
Morning Shiver Down The Black Wood River
Hope's Soliloquy
Me & Them
Heart's Soliloquy
My Dreams Are Made Of Steam
Handsome Dances The Dance
Time Will Show You Who I Am
The Herald & The Lamb
Shoulders
Review: Under his Anstam guise, Lars Stoewe seems to specialize in the sort of moody, hard-to-pigeonhole fare that flits in the crawl space between murky IDM, experimental dubstep and nightmarish ambience. Stones and Woods, his second album, builds on the formula first explored on his 2011 debut, Dispel Dances. Typically, it refuses to sit still, showcasing a trademark style that often puts clandestine atmospherics above rhythmic naval-gazing. Ironically, it's when he melds the two - such as on the distorted live drums and odd noises of "Me & Them", or high-speed "Handsome Dances The Dance" - that Stones and Woods really hits home.
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out of stock €10.46
15
Cat: ERATP 43SP. Rel: 15 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Endalaus II
For Teda
out of stock €8.51
16
Cat: RM 450. Rel: 15 Oct 12
 
Vaporware
Scanops
Review: Bee Mask aka Chris Madak is a master of ambient, drone electronics and everything in between; he's even been picked up by none other than Will Bankhead for one of his phantasmal cassette excursions on the revered TTT catalogue. This latest EP comes on Australia's Room 40, a label which has been putting out some breathtakingly leftfield music for a number of years now. Title track, "Vaporware" combines a bleepy, Warp-like ensemble of sonics with a stunning background of cascading pads to create a dreamy landscape of melodies which sound nearer to modern classical than to anything electronic. On the B-Side, "Scanops" is another chimerical excursion into distant voices, lingering pads and rippling synthesizer experimentations. Recommended!
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out of stock €15.81
17
Carpathian Ridge
The Tangent Universe
The Artifact & Living
Middlesex Times
Manipulated Living
Philosophy Of Time Travel
Liquid Spear Waltz
Gretchen Ross
Burn It To The Ground
Slipping Away
Rosie Darko
Cellar Door
Ensurance Trap
Waltz In The 4th Dimension
Time Travel
Did You Know Him?
Mad World
Mad World (alternate version)
out of stock €25.54
18
Rhythmes Circadiens
The Garden Of Forking Paths
out of stock €16.53
19
Cat: DUCD 04. Rel: 22 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Plonked Spectral
Erkwerks
Oxin2lin
TipTopBD808
Varseop
Morro
Etch N Sketch
Plasmik
Vapor Wave Acid
York Capacitor
ReneAnalogueSeq
Plonked Spectral (Vaetxh Oort Cloud remix)
Oxin2lin (Valance Drakes remix)
Plonked (S Gordan-Loopshaunt remix)
out of stock €11.66
20
Cat: HRMN 020. Rel: 29 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Baku Hipster
Baku Hipster (Mouse On Mars remix)
Mad Barber
Mad Barber (Baba Zula remix)
Mad Barber (instrumental)
out of stock €7.05
21
Cat: NOTOWN 010. Rel: 15 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Canterbury (part 1)
Canterbury (part 2)
Lifting
RGB
Brothers Fowl
Blueberry
Ish
Spirit
Review: Glasgow's Dam Mantle is back in action on NoTown. The producer has been putting out some serious records as of recently and his long-awaited LP is a perfect reflection of the Scotland-based artist's wide-ranging abilities in the studio. From the exquisite, neo hip-hop rhythms of both part 1 and 2 of "Canterbury" to the jazzy, Detroit-filtered house beats of "Lifting", the boy shows no signs of sterility. The title track, "Brothers Fowl" also portrays subtle skills in amalgamating everything from future garage beats to deranged electronic melodies, all wrapped up into a neat UK bass vibe. But it's tracks like "Ish" and "Spirit" which truly showcase Dam Mantle's skills in creating something dark, progressive and fresh but undeniably musical at the same time. Top stuff.
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out of stock €20.18
22
Cat: FAITICHE 5L. Rel: 22 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Sonne = Blackbox
Jubilaum
Nach Europa
Trabant
Or Dor Melanor
Uranotypie
Strahlungen
Der Chor Der Oktaven
Illusorische Planeten
Permutationen
Shepard Monde
Signalfluss
Homoostat
Refrain Fur Einen Formanten
De Planetarum Influxu
out of stock €19.45
23
Cat: DW 007. Rel: 22 Oct 12
 
Soundtracks
Halloween II Theme
Laurie's Theme
He Know's Where She Is
Laurie & Jimmy
Still He Kills
The Shape Enters Lauri's Room
Mrs Alves
Flats In The Parking Lot
Michael's Sister
The Shapes Stalks Again
Operation Room
Mr Sandman
out of stock €18.48
24
Cat: ST 013. Rel: 15 Oct 12
 
Rob A Bank Rob
Mengi Dem Disco Leggi
Scissormouth
Pimpdaddy
Kamikazee Peloton
Shaz Tate
Rapture
Bali Hai
out of stock €9.68
25
Cat: SILCD 1301. Rel: 15 Oct 12
 
Soundtracks
Prologue From The Fog
Theme From The Fog
Matthew Ghost Story
Walk To The Lighthouse
Rocks At Drake's Bay
The Fog
Antonio Bay
Tommy Tells Of Ghost Ships
Reel 9
Main Theme (reprise)
The Fog Rolls In
Blake In The Sanctuary
Finale
Radio Interview (with Jamie Lee Curtis)
Ghost Story
The Journal
Seagrass Attack
Andy On The Beach
Where's The Seagrass?
Stevie's Lighthouse
Something To Show You
An Evil Plan
Weatherman
Walk To Lighthouse
Dane
Morgue
The Fog Approaches
Knock At The Door
Fog Reflection
Andy's In Trouble
The Fog Enters Town
Revenge
Number 6
The Fog End Credits
out of stock €12.64
26
Cat: NON 34. Rel: 29 Oct 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
En Bu
Riku Ro
Ddeku No Bo
Bokoboko
En Bu 2
Kon Ki
Kowai Koiru
Riku Ro 2
out of stock €14.58
27
Cat: DRUNK 029. Rel: 08 Oct 12
 
On Vanishing Land (intro)
Pendulum Waltz
Ringstone Round
Ultra Warble
Skala Shadow
Silver Rain
Abyss Ababa
Neutronik III
Kelvin Flats
Sub Continent
Effluvia
Induction Channel
Trubshaw Test
On Vanishing Land (outro)
Review: Although he has released a staggering amount of material over the past few years on the likes of Editions Mego and Mordant Music, Ekoplekz's Intrusive Incidentalz Vol 1, released through Peverelist's Punch Drunk imprint remains our favourite of his radiophonic excursions, which makes us particularly excited that he's returned for a second volume. Like the best library music compilations that party inspire his analogue oddities, Intrusive Incidentalz Vol 2 is perhaps how Ekoplekz is best enjoyed, keeping its tracks short and sweet, and evoking 60s sci-fi and misty black and white nostalgia alongside its moments of slow burning dread.
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out of stock €12.41
28
Cat: ILL 003. Rel: 15 Oct 12
 
On Blast Off
Ancient Astronauts
out of stock €5.35
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