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John Foxx – Metamatic (1980)

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    Kenneth Kirschner – June 23, 2013

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    In the last few years, US composer Kenneth Kirschner has been exploring very large-scale compositional structures – three pieces since 2023 have had durations of over 3 hours – so i thought it would be nicely contrary to feature one of his shorter pieces, June 23, 2013, which has a …

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    Oklou & Casey MQ – For the Beasts

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    Today’s bit of freely-available music is by French musician Marylou Mayniel, aka Oklou, whose fantastic album Choke Enough was one of my best albums of 2025. Earlier in her career, around a decade ago, she put out a number of self-released EPs, one of which, For the Beasts, was a …

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    Robert Henke – Oomoo

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    Who’s up for some January stasis? German composer Robert Henke‘s 10-minute piece Oomoo is a beautiful demonstration of ambient stillness. It dates from late 2007, and is, according to Henke, based on “a single recording of a longer pad-sound of a Yamaha SY77 synthesizer” which “has been sampled, transposed, filtered …

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    D’Incise – the fields remain while the recorder has long vanished

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    i’ve been revisiting the music of Switzerland-based sound artist D’Incise (aka Laurent Peter) lately, and one work in particular i’ve found myself coming back to again and again and again. For many of his releases, Peter gives succinct information elaborating their inspiration and / or production, but for his 2012 …

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    Re:Enactment – Kittens

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    i’m not going to pretend i can really hear the lyrics. But then, that’s not what drew me to Australian band Re:Enactment in the first place. They’re one of a sizeable number of a projects i discovered following first contact with Ektoise, whose assorted members have been active under a …

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    Techdiff – P.Conv

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    Best Albums of 2025 (Part 1)

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    Patricia Alessandrini & Marco Fusi – Proximity, Distance

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    Aya – Hexed!

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    Quinquis – Eor

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    Enno Poppe – Körper

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    HCMF 2025 (Part 2)

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    HCMF 2025 (Part 1)

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    Chiyoko Szlavnics – Memory Spaces

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    Sacrum Profanum 2025 (Part 2)

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    Sacrum Profanum 2025 (Part 1)

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    Fermata HCMF

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    Dieter Ammann – Glut – music for orchestra

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    Olev Muska – New Estonian Waltzes; Sander Saarmets – Bleu Précieux

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