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Ben Vida
Esstends Esstends Esstends
American composer Ben Vida provokes sounds in the ears of the listener, which don’t really seem to exist.
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This change from electronic to acoustic must have been intimidating as well as challenging for Clark.
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Bass Clef
Reeling Skullways
On Bass Clef’s fifths album, acid lines, 808 claps and IDM-snyth-worlds are greeting the listener in absolute freshness at the doorstep.
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Principles of Geometry
Burn The Land And Boil The Ocean
POG skillfully lead us through a universality of time and space back into a very present France at the beginning 21st century.
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Untold
Change In A Dynamic Environment Pt. 1
The first part of Untolds trilogy finally redefines the musical mirror of our dynamic society.
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Two synth-pop-veterans have reunited and are celebrating their love for techno
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After his celebrated second album »Underneath The Pine«, Chaz Bundick promptly comes up with a half-hour compilation of older songs.
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After a long break, Orbital want to proof that they´re still the biggest Techno-Act in the UK.
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Main Attrakionz
808s & Dark Grapes II
On »808s & Dark Grapes II«, Main Attrakionz from Oakland have created a drug-infused, urban dream world.
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The Black Seeds
Dust And Dirt
The Black Seeds play new music in such a serene manner that it gets all the more exciting for the listeners.
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Lotus Plaza
Spooky Action At A Distance
With »Spooky Action at a Distance«, Lockett Pundt seems to be revisiting the sound of his original band Deerhunter.
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Quantic & Alice Russell
Look Around The Corner
A musical visionary conducts a band that’s undeservedly underrated, carried by a voice from the present.
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On »Personality«, Scuba uses obvious ambivalences and plays them off against each other with great attention to detail.
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Willis Earl Beal
Acousmatic Sorcery
All this romance of a naive songwriter in Chicago, who only fiddles a bit with his guitar and ‘just wants to evolve’ doesn’t really fit Beal’s debut.
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Apollo Brown & O.C.
Trophies
On their first collaboration, Apollo Brown and O.C. deliver a quality team-play.
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Mouse On Mars
Parastrophics
»Parastrophics« is an acid-soaked ride to hell and back through the world of electronic music.
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This very first re-release of Guelewar-songs is quite a sensation.
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Luke Roberts
The Iron Gates At Throop And Newport
Luke Roberts moved from Brooklyn back to his home town Nashville and recorded an unpretentious and personal album.
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Opio
Vultures Wisdom Vol.2
There is no need to prove anything to anybody for Opio these days. Still he comes loose like in the good old days and delivers a fresh and laidback LP.
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Michael Kiwanuka
Home Again
A sound to drown in, a voice to lean on. The Briton’s debut fulfills all expectations above and beyond.
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Shlohmo is at his best when he’s got the blues. But he actually wanted a vacation from it with his new EP.
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Gang Colours
The Keychain Collection
Gang Colours creates furnishing music in its best sense and presents a subtle and deep record.
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Keith Fullertown Whitman
Generators
These two tracks were originally recorded live and then completed by Keith Fullertown Whitman on the basis of similar ground material.
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This is what Boards of Canada, Flying Lotus and Clams Casino would sound like if they produced a track together.
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First Serve
De La Soul's Plug 1 And Plug 2 presents First Serve
First Serve manages to do the splits between the madness surrounding current Hip Hop crews and all the keep-it-real hoo-ha of old-established rappers.
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This album makes it clear that there’s a difference between shouting, yelling and screaming.
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An album full of virtuosity: classical instruments, old drum-machines, warbling à la Fiona Apple – wrapped up in a coating light as a feather.
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There are 35 people involved in this project around Geoff Barrow and 7STU7 from the environment of Portishead and producer Katalyst.
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The exciting debut of the American composer Robert Turman can be revisited now.
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There’s an absentminded, aimless naivety entrenched in the current record by the Canadian elve-singer Grimes.
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Krazy Baldhead
The Noise In the Sky
He is and will remain the outcast within the Ed Banger-universe, even though his new record stands less in the tradition of the conservatory’s classical sound.
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This record could be the breakthrough for Jonathan Meiburg and his band Shearwater.
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Common
The Dreamer, The Believer
Together with producer No I.D. Common gets back on track with his ninth album.
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Prinzhorn Dance School
Clay Class
Once again, Prinzhorn Dance School from Britain prove their keen sense of good timing and tread an artistic, abstruse and gloomy path with their second album.
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Gensu Dean brings together rap heroes of the nineties for his classic boom bap sound. The potential of this get-together hasn’t been used though.
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Copywrite
God Save The King
Ohio-based MC Copywrite delivers sharp and smart rhymes over beats from RJD2, Bronze Nazareth or Marco Polo on his fourth official album God Save The King
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Lee Fields is the most famous non-famous in soul and funk. His new album will – once more – not bring him the attention he’d deserve though.
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Sean Born
Behind The Scale
Together with a big part of the Mello Music Group’s artist-repertoire, Sean Born has created an album that’s yearning for the spring.
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Dirty Three
Toward The Low Sun
The dirty three Jim White, Mick Turner and Warren Ellis are back – although they have never really been gone.
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The Maccabees
Given To The Wild
The Maccabees from Britain have a surprise in store: from the perspective of their musical development, the new album is the band’s very own »Sergeant Pepper«.
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Californian rapper and producer Busdriver keeps evolving into a singer and presents a sound that doesn’t have much to do with what you would call Hip Hop.
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