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    I like how theyre increasingly using specific and esoteric areas of science to tether to their spooky electro. The preview track is quite a bit lighter in tone than I was expecting. Usually Doppereffekt albums are sci-fi soundscapes, this is way more clubby like the earlier stuff. Excited.
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    Out April on Leisure Systems. https://leisuresystem.bandcamp.com/album/neurotelepathy
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    Out now. Good stuff, very twinkley.
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    Love the new age ambient stuff he put out as Jack Jutson. If he's doing a soft rock thing I trust it to at least be interesting.
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    IIRC he was randomly picking DATs from boxes that were in a general chronological order. Starts off fairly straightforward but things do begin to go back and forth in time quite quickly. The only real official word we have about some of these tracks is when they were remastered and tagged on as bonus tracks on the beepstores. Tbh I can't follow Richards categorisations on there. I wouldnt have guessed Clissold 101 was by Polygon Window, or that Sekonda was an offcut from ICBYD for example.
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    I don't think anybody was nerdy enough to do a full inventory on the sc trax and try and divvy them up into full chronolgical production order. I mean in general terms it would be possible but there are too many tracks where it is too difficult to pin down. I remember making a bunch of album adjacent playlists which I was satisfied were fairly accurate but there are still lots of outliers and head scratchers in the mix. I'll see if I can dig them out.
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    VIII is a highlight and sounds a bit like EP7 era Ae attempting dub reggae. The ambient cloudrap works, tho I probably wouldnt want a full album of it (...or would I ???). Like the rap track on Ultravisitor it adds a bit of an oddball freewheeling vibe to the whole thing.
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    I identify as a radioactive cockroach.
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    I wouldn't call it a big miss, but its not a massive success either. Tho I prob enjoy it as much as Colonial Patterns. Seems like it could have been a floaty freeform ambient album a la Oversteps or West Mineral records but the mood and flow is interrupted slightly by the two high tempo club tracks in the middle, and then the vocal one at the end. I wouldn't have minded so much if he commited to one new sound throughout but its like a hodgepodge of three.
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    That's a fantastic interview, very down to earth, lots of detail, no evasive mysticism.
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    Im actually glad we are getting a (truncated) version of EDM O as opposed to another grab bag compilation featuring old tracks that don't gel with each other.
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    I think 2002 was the year Watmm launched as well, or maybe the year I signed up. The two events are linked in my mind anyway. There was quite a bit of hype beforehand, mainly centred on the Alpha and Omega promo 12" and the church listening parties. I seem to recall Geogaddi got pretty much universal praise on here, unlike their later records.
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    Apparently some of these tracks are archive selections from the Shipwreck era. Interesting choice of label as well. It was the Princess Diana record last year that got me paying attention to them. They seem to put out an unlikely mix of oddball bedroom folk and throwback IDM.
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    APHEX TWIN - SYRO

    Key replied to chim's topic in Aphex Twin

    True It doesn't feel as bad to me this time. At least we've had some e.p.s, 12" live tracks and the sc dump to tide us over. Last time we only had youtube recordings and maybe Steinvord.
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    Given this a couple of listens now. I'd say its a return to the austere tone of Untitled Death. Out are the classic drum breaks and rave inflected singing of Motto and Love Crime, much more in the way of Derbyshire-esque shimmering malevolent drones. Good stuff 4 bags of popcorn and a blow-up druid. Y no vinyl tho Death of Rave? Are the pressing plant delays beginning to discourage smaller vinyl releases I wonder.
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    Surprised it's not EDM volume 3, still glad to be seeing more physical editions regardless and def not complaining that theyve chosen this one.
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    It's gonna take a bit of getting used to vox on a Huerco S record. At least its not a bog standard ASMR-baiting detatched female voice like on so much other ambient stuff at the moment.
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    I broadly agree with Sprinkles and think its a decent approach to take, although I imagine it would not be possible to do with a less sympathetic fanbase. Theres something to be said about developing a sense of mystery and exclusivity about the presentation ones work that feeds into the music itself. I didn't really get into Sprinkles til quite late in the game cause it was so hard to find.
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    Very much liking her work too. The variations in style, sometimes a track will be just a complex synth patch making psychedelic sounds, sometimes it will be a pseudo-Grimes/Cocteau Twins embryonic pop song. Quite a bit of the time its just vignettes of sound with a spoken word part, a repeated phrase. Like a punk musique concrete.
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    He's never been one to pigeonhole himself, the drill n bass of the first few albums, then the complete 180° turn into lo fi folk music then back. The new material (inc. Bananas ep) seems harder to pin down, like he's still trying to settle on a new voice. Better sound design and still a bit of that childlike weirdness in there, but a little blander. But then I remember feeling slightly disappointed at the time with 'Alright!' After waiting 5 years thinking he was going to be producing some epic a la Drukqs or Ultravisitor, and finding it a little too dumb for my tastes with its constant 4/4 kick, super loud monophonic leads. Think I must have been up my own arse cause it's clearly a great record.. maybe this new stuff is a grower too.
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    https://planet.mu/releases/addle/ Nice to see Bogdan releasing new material, and on Planet Mu. Sounds like a promising change of direction.
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    Only halfway thru but this one sounds a bit more nightclubby. The synths are a bit bendier, the filters are doing things vaguely approximating acid, there are bells that recall the mardi gras break. There's kind of a neon vibe to the production.
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    Got excited for a second before I realised it is just a repress of the Phases EP under a new name.
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    I remember the album coming out at the time but not the EP, I didn't discover it 'til years later on discogs. Can only assume it was like a promo single with b sides. It's difficult to describe the appeal of Bogdan, he has the same punk energy of RDJ, some decent drum programming, very childlike/offkilter sense of humour. My favorite release is probably Drum'n'bass Classixx showing a depth of knowledge and love of the genre but completely taking the piss out of it at the same time.
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