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Konrad Sprenger „Set“ (Black Truffle)
Konrad Sprenger „Set“ (Black Truffle) Konrad Sprenger’s „Set“ opens with a paradox. The ti…
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“Well, this is the shit, got get it” – “Straight Up. Without Wings. The Musical Flight of Joe McPhee”
"Joe McPhee is a living cultural World Heritage. This book is one of a great trio of autobiographies…
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Charli XCX “Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat”
Charli XCX’s remix album is like a hazy fever dream you wake up from at 3 AM, clutching at the fra…
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Charli XCX “Brat”
Here comes "BRAT". In which Charli XCX appears to have made an album that is so potently post-modern…
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AGF „poemproducer” / Laurel Halo „Atlas“
AGF „poemproducer” AGF Producktion (Morr Distriibution) After years in which AGF mainly worked c…
New Maxis for the Dance Floor
Just go and throw your little hands up: Dance Yrself Clean
Hodge „Sub 100“ / „Night Journeys II – Jessy Lanza Remix“ / Little Dragon „Frisco“ /…
Sparkly LA twosome bring their AOR-tinged meta-pop to London
Magdalena Bay live: fully-featured, total entertainment scenario
Piano prankster Gonzales once memorably opined, “I’m against music.. but for entertainment.” H…
(Club) Record(s) of the Month
Bleeps, house fragments & science fiction soundtracks
New 12-inches and much needed re-issues, from Baby Ford, Dj Python, Steffi, Romanthony, Stingray and…
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Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales „Consumed in Key”
"Chillys Transformation von „Consumed“ ist jedenfalls weit komplexer und nachhaltiger als ich zu…
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SUNN O))) „Metta, Benevolence. BBC 6Music: Live on the invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs“
SUNN O))) „Metta, Benevolence. BBC 6Music: Live on the invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs“ (Southern …
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Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas und Billy Bultheel „SEX“ & Pan Daijing „Tissues“
"Tissues", analogous to "SEX", made me think a lot about the untimeliness of such let's call it bore…
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Cat Power „Covers”
One thing remains to be said: Cat Power helps me. Nevertheless, this figure remains ambivalent. Not …
"Plural", by Gustavo Lamas, contains multitudes – An essay by Pablo Schanton
“Plural” refreshes its own space and time, overriding its original Zeitgeist”
"I am surprised by flashes of smiling faces, closed eyes, glimpsed gestures, rising daybreaks, never…
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Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders “Promises” (Luka Bop)
"Promises "also provides a space for the "silence" and the gaps between the structures... – Tobia…
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THOM YORKE ”ANIMA” (XL RECORDINGS)
"Anima" is Thom Yorke's third solo album after "The Eraser" from 2006 (his homage to Scott Walker) a…
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Colin Self „Siblings“ (RVNG Intl.)
"If this voice leaves you cold, you have long ago sold your humanity to the shadow beings." – Tho…
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Xiu Xiu “Girl with Basket of Fruit” (Altin Village & Mine)
"The tonal color of this record is black, dark black, end of the universe black" – Christina Mohr…
Record of the Week: „Working Class Woman“ by Marie Davidson
Marie Davidson: “The quality of your creative output does not depend on what is between your legs.”
"I don't want to be a niche artist, I'm not and never have been part of a cool clique, a gang, why w…
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Helena Hauff “Qualm”
"And since Hauff does not allow for a dramatic pause, the urgency never decreases, you almost dissol…
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TUNE-YARDS “I CAN FEEL YOU CREEP INTO MY PRIVATE LIFE”
The topics are politically current; it’s gender equality, American politics, the destruction of th…
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ALEXANDRA ATNIF “RHYTHMIC BRUTALISM 1 & 2”
" It is a bleak joy to experience how uncompromising Atnif approaches her sound material on “Rhyth…
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Cologne-Frankfurt-Osaka-Kyoto: 13 Records against mother Jetlag
For a long time, whenever I traveled, I cultivated a monoartistic listening ritual and spend all my …
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Alvvays “Antisocialites”
"Alvvays are contrasting themselves from similar bands by acting less one-dimensional. Their attitud…
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LCD Soundsystem “American Dream”
Many have therefore celebrated the new LCD Soundsystem album as a new beginning and rebirth, connect…
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Phoenix “Ti Amo”
Phoenix do of course know that they are not the band for explicit political statements, that people …
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Laurel Halo “Dust”
When somebody says about a musician that their newest album is “more accessible” it mostly equal…
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Algiers ”The Underside of Power”
James Fisher is singing, speaking and rapping with various tongues and equally complex colorations o…
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Kreidler “European Song”
Triggered by Erdogan, Trump, Putin and co. the four musicians from Düsseldorf deferred to the urgen…
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Dirty Projectors „Dirty Projectors“
The opener “Keep Your Name” immediately lets the listener feel that this is something very speci…
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Visible Cloaks / Melanie Velarde
The records of the week are all about archaeological quests, operations at the open hear and soft fe…
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The XX “I See You”
But it would be wrong to just talk about “I See You” ex negativo, because it is such a prolific,…
Records of the holy Week(s)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani … Rune Bagge & Schaake
At the end of the year, one does not only realize what moments and artifacts sticked most with him, …
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Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions “Until the Hunter”
With her side project The Warm Inventions with Colm O’Ciosoid (My Bloody Valentine) Hope also reve…
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The Notwist „Superheroes, Ghostvillains + Stuff“
"It is an object lesson on the modus operandi of the band, without containing the air of just presen…
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Skeleton Tree”
When hearing the album one witnesses how the singer tries to catch up to the music and again and aga…
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Planetary Assault System „Arc Angel“
It’s free to our imagination to guess where the “Arc Angel”, if we surmise it’s ship-ness, s…
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Britney Spears “Glory”
I would like to make it clear get-go, that it is in no way my intention to slam Britney Spear’s ne…
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The Julie Ruin “Hit Reset”
Kathleen Hanna, Kathi Wilcox, Sara Landeau, Carmine Covelli, and Kenny Mellman have so much verve an…
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Diverse “C 87”
This compilation helps to remember who big the gap between indie and mainstream used to be. Contact …
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ARBEIT SCHICKERT SCHNEIDER “ASS”
The newly formed trio starts his debut release “ASS” with a song in five stages, ingeniously nam…
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Mondo Sangue “L’Isola dei Dannati”
“L’Isola dei Dannati” from Luchino Martello don’t really exist: Mondo Sangue alias Yvy Pop a…
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Boys Noize “Mayday”
"The only surprising moment is “Starchild”, the song on which Poliça sings. For the first time …
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Oum Shatt “Oum Shatt”
"Personally, I’m very grateful for this album, but there is one thing I can’t forgive you, Oum S…
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Stabil Elite “Spumante”
All these songs tell of the end of the moment, of transience, that is sustained in the act of tellin…
Sara Hartman
“Germans are so refreshingly rude”
Sara Hartman opened up the gigs of the Ellie Goulding's world tour. And this was only one thing wher…
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James Blake “The Color In Anything” / Christian Naujoks „Wave“
Last night I dreamt, that I was lying in a hotel room with James Blake. Not, as one might expect, in…
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ANOHNI “Hopelessness”
Music in a time of omnipresent violence. A task that musicians are confronted with nowadays in light…
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Der Ringer “Glücklich“
"Glücklich“ appears like a lecture titled "Living in the digital world – compatibility of biolo…
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Various Artists “The Ladies of too Slow to Disco”
DJ Supermarkt has once again unearthed amazing songs, that are perfectly balanced between virtuosity…
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Pet Shop Boys “Super”
It would probably be exaggerated to label "Super" as the Eurodance record of the Pet Shop Boys. None…
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Iggy Pop „Post Pop Depression“
Iggy Pop has experienced everything there is to experience in life - and somehow made it out okay on…
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Santigold “99¢”
"99¢" has arrived and thankfully, it has turned out to be just the opposite of cheap and (he)artles…
