(new wired australia,2011)
Canberra based duo Spartak return with their third album Nippon on the New Weird Australia. This new release sees the duo expand on the loose improvisations of their previous work by taking in a more brittle electronic edge, alongside a reclaimed punk attitude, with recordings edited from performances in Kyoto, Tokyo and Osaka on their recent japan tour presented by flau. These shows revisited the original mode of Spartak music – pre-composed key phrases forming the core basis of the performance each night. This common thread lends itself nicely to the various pieces, tieing them together as a suite, while varying in nature
.RIYL: triosk, radian, the necks, supersiient, tarentel

(whereabouts,2011)
This Ambient/Drone is an overly beautiful production of Yui Onodera, the Portuguese Drone artist who leads the Beautiful Schizophonic and Japanese Ambient scene. Its sensitive Drone that is like an aggregate of particles floating in the air and the soundscape that is scaled up with its processed natural sound and the full-of-sights piano sound are well described in the work. elfog's magnificent Vibraphone (M-4) which conveys the image of a boundless swamp.
RIYL: david tagg, emanuele errante, celer, 12K

(self,2011)
Tape Loop Orchestra is new project of Andrew Hargreaves as known as The Boats. All recorded with tape loop systems, we can hear his another personality on this album, fragile and worm melody, seasoned electronics, calm ambient. all are simply beautiful.
RIYL: Stars Of The Lid, William Basinski, Bvdub, Rafael Anton Irisarri

(record,2011)
"Mizu no Kioku" (the memory of water) is the soundtrack for atelier drop around, made by hofli (solo project of Takashi Tsuda aka; Radiosonde). hofli used and edited several types of water-sounds in the kitchen, drain, bottle of water, and also rain, dew and the sea. there are minimal melodies from his guitar and electronic loops inspired by water samples.packaged in a beautiful box conteining a accordion paper sleeve.
RIYL: sawako, jodi cave, chihei hatakeyama, miki yui, 12K

(whereabouts,2011)
This is the first collaborative work of naph, who plays delicate and gentle stream of time in acoustic sound, and Chihei Hatakeyama, who keeps releasing Ambient/Drone with repeatedly processed sound images that could be heard far off beyond the horizon. It is full of graceful sounds that are thoughtfully created to be more natural, deeper, and tenderer. Drone which expresses the time and space by continuous or discontinuous changes, naturfull ambient by the use of field recording, and the pile-up of pellucid guitar sounds travel to bring serenity to the listeners through the air.
RIYL: taylor deupree, lawrence english, celer, sawako,ioscil, 12K

(whereabouts,2011)
Material or formless? Concepts or changes?
The concept of time and how we grasp what "time" means varies by person while it controls our behaviors. The favorite time, the relaxed time, the anxious time, the change by time, and the memories and the forgetfulness.
what if it's put in sounds? All 10 tunes written by 10 japanese musicians, who had kept thinking over the “time”, create a current of lenient time, piling up afterimages.
feat. el fog, tatsuhiko asano(geist), mujika easel aka eishi, naph, tadahiko yokokawa and more

(grainfield,2008)
Morning October is the live recording of Aoki, Hayato (Radiosonde). He played chroma-harp and melodion for morning at Haco (hayama/japan) from 6am .Reconstructed and Pseudo-Stereo created by TSUDA,takashi (radiosonde) at PNdB atelier and mastered by SHOJI,hiromits. one of the most beautiful record for early morning.
RIYL: mountains, tape, richard skelton,

(grainfield,2008)
Morning July is also the live recording of Aoki, Hayato (Radiosonde) on same time of "Morning October". this records is recorded mainly guitar. Aoki played the guitar with slow stroke, the melody is quiet calm and beautiful. the jacket made by Aoki, Hayato. Metal Works by Yuki Sakano.
RIYL: pullman, jim o'rourke, f.s.blumm, preston reed,

(home assembly,2010)
"This is a beauty. When Richard (Adams) told us, at the beginning of this year, that he had written a song for the forthcoming World Cup we were a little sceptical to say the least. Now the months have passed by and the World Cup is almost upon us and we had forgotten all about this song, when just last week Richard sent us the finished version. We couldn't believe our ears, it's fantastic!
All the ingredients are there; great lyrics, a stirring string section, punchy drums, trademark Adams bassline, emotional commentary and a rousing, singalong chorus. It's a rollicking great tune!
Bringing to mind New Order's classic 'World in Motion' married with the melancholic pop of mid-period Go-Betweens. It's the perfect soundtrack for drowning your sorrows after that quarterfinal exit on penalties." - home assembly
RIYL: Hood, Go-Betweens, New Order

(starnet muzik,2009)
This is debut album of Radiosonde (Aoki, Hayato & Tsuda, Takashi) and also new masterpiece of 'picturesque music' from an observation balloon, with guitar (pastoral melody, pointillism, atmospheric drone), chroma harp and some electronicsincluding the song of birds (Varied Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul), crickets, cicadas in Mashiko, Japan.

(dear air,2010)
2nd full album from Mujika Easel (aka Eisi) with Kanazu Tomoyuki (sax).
RIYL: Orla Wren, Eisi, Kanazu Tomoyuki

(dear air,2010)
"dear Air" is a creative label hosted by Mujika Easel in Japan. In 2010 traumerei and Haruka Nakamura are received as producers, and sincere creation activities are done to the essence of “composition” with musicians and photographers, and artists, etc. This work “pneuma” is the first compilation album of dear Air, which is an anthology woven to 12 songs from concern with the scenery, temperature, shape, moment, touch, existence, and the aspect, etc. While each of the elements is glowing individually, the autonomous folklore is transmitted as a certain story. Although the form of the album is compiled from various artists’ work, songs draw close, intertwine each other and take listeners to another world, as if the production of a single artist does.
feat.El Fog, Kanazu Tomoyuki, Mujika Easel, Haruka Nakamura, Yamori Kota and more.

12 songs, most of them were newly composed, recorded about 60 minutes long in total. Special package, 12 artworks each artist contributed in.

(not on label,2010)
Recommended is this fresh enterprize from the French group Ödland. "Ödland is interweaving highly alluring chamber music with the spirit of British bonbon artpop babes Lollipop Train, amalgamating ragtime splinters, animals’ voices and innocent whispers into something half chaste, half supersexy, playful and beguiling all the way." -Filles sourires-

(mobeer,2010)
Happenstance is new project from Karl Eden and Chris Stewart (Need More Sources). 3inch CD,6tracks!

(lost tribe sound,2010)
Lost Tribe Sound isn't a sound as much as a shared emotional connection to music. Maybe it's something in the ether, a moment in time that unites this gorgeous selection of organic, gentle and at times exploratory music that transcends genre, technique, or even location. Melding well-established artists with precocious newcomers from as far afield as Australia, Turkey and even the Philippines, Lost Tribe Sound: One showcases the incredible cello of Aaron Martin, the nocturnal devotions of Part Timer, and the raw acoustics of Benoit Pioulard amongst its 70 odd minutes of musical imagination that demonstrates the limitless possibilities of music. Brimming with rarities and tasters of forthcoming releases, Lost Tribe Sound: One isn't merely a selection of some of the most vital, idiosyncratic and heartfelt music around, but also a statement of intent. Brimming with earthy, woody music that creaks and rumbles, these sounds conjure up those inexplicably elusive yet intensely powerful emotions and will envelop you like a forest floor coming to life.
feat.Helios, The Remote Viewer, Benoit Pioulard, Gavouna, Aaron Martin, Tokyo Bloodworm, Brael

(tomlab,1998)
Novisad early masterpiece from tomlab available now. last stock!
Kristian Peters was born in 1980 and lives in Rostock, Germany. He has been producing electronic music since the winter of 1993/94, also releasing the splendid Adlib album for Kraak . The first Novisad CD from January 1999 was a wonderful early Tomlab, and a big favourite in Manchester.
Novisad was produced with his good old 386 computer that only had a soundblaster 1.0 card built in and CD tracks the WinDAT program, a simple cut & paste program together with CoolEdit 1.5. This may sound simple. Packaged to a cardboard sleeve, is a difficult to found item.
RIYL: Marsen Jules, Colleen, Dale Berning

This album is a collection of outtakes and misshapes, prepping you for the proper "Defragments" by Andrew Hargreaves. That billing sounds far too dismissive of what this disc actually presents however: across thirty minutes Hargreaves - one half of The Boats - spins through some delightful sound collages assembled from various warm and scratchy recordings, all of which forms a disjointed but ultimately excellent body of work in its own right. In general terms these compositions tend to give the effect of sketches, as if they've been set to tape without too much of a narrative form being imposed during their construction. Instead, a piece such as 'Novena For A Recidivist' seems to hover in place, basking in its own disintegrating loveliness. Snatches of hiss, beaten-up piano and general electronic sleight of hand all play their part, and similarly 'Confusion In Consequence' is almost too heart-wrenching for its own good - Danny Norbury adds to the air of dusty, dilapidated elegance with some magnificent cello work that intertwines nicely with Hargreaves' swishing recording textures and hesitant piano musings. There are a few short, sub-minute-long tracks thrown in here that really underline the fragmentary feel of the album, but they're every bit as important as the longer, more developed contributions. 'Graphoagramm' is a brief bass interlude, referencing dub and tape delays, while the forty-second spillage of analogue grain that is 'Grammaphone' sets the pace for one of the album's standout compositions, 'Trained By Kindness', whose jarring mix of synth arpeggios and weary piano tunes works a treat. If these only represent outtakes, the finished album must be quite something.

(under the spire,2010)
A soundtrack by Jørgensen for a documentary film titled Kim, about a Danish World War II resistance fighter. String contributions come courtesy of fellow soundtracker, Peter Broderick, who also lines up on the bonus remix disc with other big names like Greg Davis, Jasper TX, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Seasons (Pre-Din), Rameses III and Machinefabriek. Jørgensen's hour long score for the film is an impressive feat, pooling together a wide selection of compositions that takes in neo-classical styled piano and string pieces as well as more abstract concrète and drone works. On the one hand, 'Hanne & Kim', 'Til Canada' and 'Palimpsest (For Strings)' rub shoulders with the lyrical, Max Richter school of film scoring, but then Jørgensen goes and upsets all expectations by unleashing an incredible electronic soundscape like 'Isvinter'. The likes of 'Love (Radiomontage)' and 'Astoria' prove to be especially outstanding as ambient drone-style entries, and the frozen-over 'Luxembourg' would be worthy of Stephan Mathieu. As a single-disc album, this would be a mightily strong release, but the remix disc makes it all the more essential. Kranky's Chris Herbert puts in an outstanding entry with his panoramically detailed twelve-minuter, 'Fissures', while Peter Broderick extends and develops 'Palimpsest (For Strings)' adding wordless vocals to the equation. Combining elements of two different pieces, Jasper TX fashions an epic electroacoustic monolith with 'Modstand/Til Canada', while the customarily brilliant Greg Davis extends piano keyings off toward the horizon with the infinitesimally modulating drone opus 'Light Breath'. An excellent double-album that's certainly among the very best Under The Spire releases to date.
RIYL: Peter Broderick, Max Richter, Type Records

(under the spire,2010)
This release on under the spire is an album from John McCaffrey (Part Timer) under the new guise of Upward Arrows. Here are a few words from John.
“The tracks on Upward Arrows were made especially for Under The Spire – the name Upward Arrows is an allusion to the thousands of church spires that pepper the world, all pointing upwards like arrows aimed at the sky.
Instead of giving Chris an album of ‘Part Timer’ material, I wanted to do something different; something that fit with my understanding of the UTS sound and which was still linked to my music as Part Timer. Looking through the files on my hard drive, I found lots of sounds from collaborative pieces I had done recently and many partially completed tunes. I started to combine snatches of these sounds with field recordings, recorded some new parts and assembled 10 tracks that felt right together."
RIYL: Elvium, Fennesz, Greg Davis

(lost tribe sound,2011)
The music of Part Timer has a rare kind of stillness and beauty, an ambient pastoral folk that evokes sunshine glistening through dew on a cold winters morning. His music is the antidote to bluster, an opportunity to step away from the noise and freneticism of daily life and sink into a world of stately simplicity. It moves along like a gentle exhale of breath, a lush, sublime, shimmering beauty, evolving slowly, the gentle strumming of guitar, low organ drones, melodica, glockenspiel, ukulele or tin whistles, all flowing together like a hushed whisper designed solely for your ears. Then there’s these understated electronic flourishes that skitter around the edges, an earthy organic form of digitalia that occasionally provides a certain textural density to the tunes, like a frequency beamed in from afar.
RIYL: Elvium, Fennesz, Greg Davis

(nothings66,2010)
Sketches for Albinos is Matthew Collings's solo project from Iceland Reykjavik.
A sworn friend, Ben Frost's tour support. An additional production for the Amusement Parks on Fire. C.J.Boyd(Sounds are Active), Federico Durand(Spekk), Fieldhead(Home Assembly), Reykjavik!(Kimi Records)... he makes a lot of the remixes and he plans to release new stuff as Matthew Collings name from Bedroom Community this year. He performs many shows in UK tour with Multiple Electric Guitars and local Reykjavik positively and plays with Nico Muhly, Ben Frost, Tim Hecker, Kangding Ray(raster-noton) in Iceland Airwaves2009.
Camped out somewhere in deepest, iciest Iceland Sketches for Albinos makes music from the ends of the earth. He who was swallowed in nihility scratched at tape as if he totally filled his mind, and all began from what record it. Making the tape, the music of Sketches for Albinos born from the process that he records an indistinct thing of this world moves your feelings as a sort of photograph album and a sketchbook by what you listen to. Fleeting moments... Leftover breeze at the end of a storm...
With a cold tone, there are overwhelmingly warmth and beauty will give a wavering to anyone's emotion. The quiet and calm, and strongly even echoed coldest sound !
RIYL: Sigur Ros, Kyte

(home normal,2010)
Northern Songs is the blissful sound of Chris Weisman leaving his body and dissolving into the universe; he sounds very free. Greg Davis (electronic music composer, fractal maker) helps the usually obsessive Chris (psychedelic four-tracker, music artist) surrender to the void. The falling away of self is quite literal: Chris recorded a batch of songs, then turned the tapes over to Greg without instructions for completion (there’s a special luxurious bath you get to take when you stop deciding). Rather than perfecting the material, Greg’s treatments make it radically and beautifully incomplete; the pop song is unmastered, its closed forms opened to nature (this music has no inside and no outside (this guitar solo sounds friendly and tall (these computer sounds are showing me the thing in the tree that makes it alive
RIYL: Beach Boys, Beatles, Tape

(home normal,2010)
Tobias Hellkvist is a multi-instrumentalist from Sweden. To date he has released two full-length albums, Evolutions being his third.
Whilst much of Tobias work has previously revolved around acoustic guitar elements, Evolutions takes us into denser minimalist textures. That isn’t to say the acoustic elements are absent from Tobias’s latest work, as the subtle use of guitar, zither, accordian and glockenspiel processing throughout the whole album shows. It’s simply that the acoustic elements in Evolutions are more subtly woven into the fabric of the beautiful dirge-like textures.
RIYL: Ethan Rose, Hammock, 12K

(home normal,2010)
Michael Santos is a London-based artist who has previously released on U-Cover, Benbecula an Baskaru.
One of the first things to strike you about Memory maker is the unusually physical presence it has: it's a great way of announcing yourself. From here onwards you might notice a counterpoint between the album's all-round mellifluousness and the recurrence of a kind of intensive, buzzing belligerence that recalls the aesthetics of certainRaster Noton records, or the more stringent moments in Steinbruchel's catalogue.
RIYL: U-Cover, Machinefabriek, 12K