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ICARUS PHOENIX – “80’S NIGHT DANCE PARTY SINGING ‘SEND ME AN ANGEL'”

Documenting 25 years of Drew Danburry’s film photography as an act of “anti-nostalgia” is an interesting idea. These photographs, candidly capturing people spanning the 90’s through the 2000’s living “in the now” reflects to us the ever-present miracle of being. Our everyday rituals only accrue meaning through the backwards look of nostalgia – which is …

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CHRYSTAL FÜR – “I’M LOSING YOU”

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Beautiful footage of arctic environments and the steady beat of waves on the beach match the equally elegiac music video for Chrystal Für’s “I’m Losing You”. The Portugese musician channels the Icelandic Bedroom Communities approach to contemporary neo-classical music. As stated in the press release, “Chrystal Für’s upcoming album Elusion (out this Friday 5/28) is an …

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MAGNETIC VINES – “MAGNETIC VINES”

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“Magnetic Vines” by the eponymous duo has created a slowly stirring composition around delicate guitars and gently plucked modular synth with a quiet, swelling orchestra hovering in the foreground. The video for “Magnetic Vines” is a static shot of a city at sunset that reveals a whole moving world the longer we stare at it. …

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ÆGIR – “LOOK AT PRETTY THINGS”

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Combining a woozy ambient sensibility to absolute spot-on Warp / IDM golden era percussive pattern and glitched out everything, the Icelandic artist Ægir presents a generative and self perpetuating landscape that starts in his neighborhood and ends in some portal to a Lawnmower Man dimension. RIYL if you are into Squarepusher, Autechre, Aphex Twin, etc.. …

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XANDER NAYLOR – “EXPORT FOR SCREENS”

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Xander Naylor presents a meditation on export settings “Export for Screens”. Heavy Z’s, Infinite Body doom-jazz influences on this dystopian track. In this pretty perfect summation, Naylor explains his track thus: “Horns inspired by Isaac Hayes and the groove masterworks of Sly & Robbie are present, but stitched together with the ominous post-industrial groove of …

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WE DREAM OF EDEN – “SHAPES AND TREES”

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On the latest single from We Dream of Eden’s upcoming album “Deeper Still” we hear Kirk Smith exploring vast worlds of sound in between the timbre of an upright piano and single microphone. “Shapes and Trees” contains a stunning visual companion of immersive footage of an old growth forest shot in crystal clear definition. “Shapes …

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Ohr – “CAPTAIN FOREVER”

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I love hearing label owners who are adept and talented musicians themselves. Cory Todd’s excellent label Atlantic Rhythms has solidly been releasing some excellent cassettes by artists / friends like Ki Oni and Dura. Taking the helm as Ohr, Todd’s approach to inherently emotional IDM and glitched landscapes with a heavy low-end is on full …

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PAUL COUSINS – “ASSEMBLAGE”

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Paul Cousins has entered a loving and nostalgic feature into the art of reconstructing analog formats in the digital realm. “Assemblage” is a living and breathing composition that ebbs and flows on the natural cadence of breath. Offering new data and information on each swelling upstroke. A new synth line unfurls itself, drones become more …

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LYCORISCORIS – “UTSUROU”

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The Japanese producer Lycoriscoris (just sound out that word and repeat it over and over….ahhh) has released a highly engaging new track and video that pulls from nostalgic vintage synths of Boards of Canada with the organic and world producing sounds of Christian Loeffler. Set to hypnotizing footage of sand art being produced, “Utsurou” is …

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DM STITH – “WAVING 3”

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Perspective changes everything. As we take this bee-eyed-view trip through a field of wildflowers, stems grow as big as trees and bulbs become sun-blocking eclipses. This new video by French filmmaker Frederic Tcheng gives is a moving and perspective-shifting visual accompaniment to DM Stith’s latest composition “Waving 3”. Stith’s breakthrough album Heavy Ghost is an …

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