Records of the Week

AGF „poemproducer” / Laurel Halo „Atlas“

AGF „poemproducer” AGF Producktion (Morr Distriibution) After years in which AGF mainly worked c…

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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“ /…

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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…

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(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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Record of the Week

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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Records of the Week

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 …

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"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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Record of the Week

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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Record of the Week

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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Record of the Week

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…

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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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Record of the Week

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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Record of the Week Spezial

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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Record of the Week

Alvvays “Antisocialites”

"Alvvays are contrasting themselves from similar bands by acting less one-dimensional. Their attitud…

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Record of the Week

LCD Soundsystem “American Dream”

Many have therefore celebrated the new LCD Soundsystem album as a new beginning and rebirth, connect…

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Record of the Week

Phoenix “Ti Amo”

Phoenix do of course know that they are not the band for explicit political statements, that people …

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Record of the Week

Laurel Halo “Dust”

When somebody says about a musician that their newest album is “more accessible” it mostly equal…

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Record of the Week

Algiers ”The Underside of Power”

James Fisher is singing, speaking and rapping with various tongues and equally complex colorations o…

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Record of the Week

Kreidler “European Song”

Triggered by Erdogan, Trump, Putin and co. the four musicians from Düsseldorf deferred to the urgen…

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Record of the week

Dirty Projectors „Dirty Projectors“

The opener “Keep Your Name” immediately lets the listener feel that this is something very speci…

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Record(s) of the Week

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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Record of the Week

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,…

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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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Record of the Week

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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Record of the Week

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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Record Of The Week

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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Record of the Week

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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Record of the Week

Diverse “C 87”

This compilation helps to remember who big the gap between indie and mainstream used to be. Contact …

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Record of the Week

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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Record of the Week

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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Record of the Week

Boys Noize “Mayday”

"The only surprising moment is “Starchild”, the song on which Poliça sings. For the first time …

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Record of the Week

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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Record of the Week

Stabil Elite “Spumante”

All these songs tell of the end of the moment, of transience, that is sustained in the act of tellin…

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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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Record of the Week

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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Record of the Week

Der Ringer “Glücklich“

"Glücklich“ appears like a lecture titled "Living in the digital world – compatibility of biolo…

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Record of the Week

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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Record of the Week

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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Record of the Week

Santigold “99¢”

"99¢" has arrived and thankfully, it has turned out to be just the opposite of cheap and (he)artles…

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Animal Collective “Painting With”

We really ought to be thankful that Dave Portner/Avey Tare, Noah Lennox/Panda Bear, Brian “Geologi…

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Tortoise “The Catastrophist”

Well, and before I get reproached for being overly nostalgic again, I shall get straight to the poin…

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Record of the Week

Lawrence „Yoyogi Park“​

"Yoyogi Park" is the third part in a series of releases of ambient music whose artwork has been crea…

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Record of the Week

Jóhann Jóhannsson “End of Summer”

Jóhannsson stands for lived solidarity through music in a world that pretty much stands for exactl…

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