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  • CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

    Free internet music: Brothomstates – ReKobn-Tich-Ey

    by 5:4 January 13, 2021 • 10:06
    January 13, 2021 • 10:06

    Three years ago, i featured in my ‘Free internet music’ series a new release from Finnish musician Lassi Nikko, aka Brothomstates, who had surprised everyone at the end of 2017 by suddenly putting out a new 13-minute track after over a decade and a half of silence. In the final…

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    The Bug ft. Dis Fig – In Blue

    by 5:4 December 2, 2020 • 12:52
    December 2, 2020 • 12:52

    In order to write about In Blue, the new collaborative album from The Bug and Dis Fig, i need to break a couple of personal ground rules. #1: Don’t do nostalgia. #2: Don’t write about yourself. The reason i need to break those rules is because of the way In…

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    Autechre – SIGN

    by 5:4 October 16, 2020 • 15:57
    October 16, 2020 • 15:57

    In recent years i’ve realised that, more than with most artists, i tend to listen to each new Autechre release in the context of what came before. i know it’s hardly a mistake to listen like that – and it obviously makes sense for anyone wanting to appreciate it on…

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    Free internet music: Access to Arasaka

    by 5:4 January 17, 2019 • 14:44
    January 17, 2019 • 14:44

    Apologies for the silence on 5:4 for the last couple of weeks, but i’ve been completely wiped out by ‘flu during this time, and have only started to feel relatively human again in the last day or so. Very belated then, i’m going to spend the remainder of January in…

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  • Retrospectives

    Björk – Crave (Odd Duck Mix); Hearts & Bones; Undone

    by 5:4 October 11, 2018 • 12:41
    October 11, 2018 • 12:41

    In my most recent mixtape, exploring the noble art of the remix, i included a track by Björk – ‘Crave (Odd Duck Mix)’ – that i mentioned had been made available as a download back in 2001, but which was no longer available. There were in fact four tracks that Björk…

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    ionnalee – Everyone Afraid To Be Forgotten

    by 5:4 February 16, 2018 • 15:26
    February 16, 2018 • 15:26

    The fact that i’ve only written about Swedish musician Jonna Lee‘s music very occasionally belies the fact that i feel she’s one of the most inventive singer-songwriters at work today. This has been the case from the outset of her revamped career in late 2009, when she was posting anonymous…

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    Free internet music: Press Charges

    by 5:4 January 31, 2018 • 14:41
    January 31, 2018 • 14:41

    There’s so much i could write about in this series looking at free internet music, that i think it’ll be something i’ll have to return to regularly from now on. For the time being, though, i’m ending this series with an album that’s one of the most imaginative and effective…

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  • CD/Digital releasesFeatured Artists

    An inner conflict of cosmic proportions: Man Without Country

    by 5:4 November 10, 2013 • 17:25
    November 10, 2013 • 17:25

    Many’s the time i decide to write about a composer, group or artist and find it almost unconscionable that i haven’t done so already. That’s overwhelmingly the case with Man Without Country, a duo from south Wales whose unique brand of dreamy electronic pop has been doing the rounds for…

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    A spine-tingling fusion: Alone Architect

    by 5:4 November 8, 2012 • 20:00
    November 8, 2012 • 20:00

    A release i’ve been anticipating for a while came out recently: the self-titled debut EP from Alone Architect. Much of the best electronica-fuelled songwriting in recent times has emanated from Canada, and Alone Architect is no exception, being the project of Montreal musician Jeff Feldman. Feldman posted a couple of…

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  • CD/Digital releasesRetrospectives

    Kraftwerk: a remastered retrospective

    by 5:4 November 8, 2009 • 01:40
    November 8, 2009 • 01:40

    Of all words associated with the digital era, there’s one that is ubiquitous like no other: ‘remastered’. It has become tantamount to a religious dogma, that the works we have known and loved from our analogue heritage are holy treasures, deserving nothing less than to be preserved in æternum, and…

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    When worlds collide: the dazzling, bi-polar explorations of Hecq’s Steeltongued

    by 5:4 May 19, 2009 • 22:29
    May 19, 2009 • 22:29

    It’s perhaps not too fanciful to say that music today has two ‘poles’: one characterised by the presence of beats (in whatever form), the other by their absence. Occupying each end of an impossibly wide continuum, these poles have both had their creative bars set extremely high, from the intricate,…

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    Conflicted and inconsistent: the mentality and detriment of Venetian Snares

    by 5:4 June 12, 2008 • 12:01
    June 12, 2008 • 12:01

    Through the last few years, my opinion of Venetian Snares has been in the descendant. But from the outset, let’s be fair; while Aaron Funk has, on occasion, produced music that rarely rises beyond mere drivel – Songs About My Cats, Chocolate Wheelchair Album – he has also achieved some…

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    Versions, versions everywhere (plus a red herring): Autechre – Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae

    by 5:4 June 3, 2008 • 17:01
    June 3, 2008 • 17:01

    Early yesterday morning, after a number of the wrong kind of glitches at Bleep.com, the final tracks of Autechre‘s Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae became available. Versions, versions everywhere: and with this – after 44 tracks, totalling almost 5 hours – i think one can assume that the Quaristice project is at an end.…

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  • Thematic series

    Scandanavian sounds, part 1: Biosphere

    by 5:4 February 12, 2008 • 10:41
    February 12, 2008 • 10:41

    Music emanating from the Scandanavian countries is always interesting, and often unusual. Once upon a yesteryear, it was all Abba (70s), A-ha (80s) and Aqua (90s), but they’re probably as glad as we are that that’s ancient history, and the sounds of 21st century Scandinavia are altogether more absorbing. The…

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