This is an odd bird indeed, a blue 12-inch of just-outside hip-hop sound collage from Portland’s Audiocrip, featuring a wraparound half-sleeve emblazoned with handwritten graffiti-style track listings and the title (and claim), Blue Yo Speakers.
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Occasionally, when making notes for an album, I’ll find myself writing about characteristics of each song in order to look for patterns.
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The English duo Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides (PWHMOBS) are developing increasingly masterful ways to create resourceful and radically organic textures.
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Merzbient is indeed an apt title for Soleilmoon’s 12-CD box set, because only in the context of his concurrent harsh noise output could this be considered anything close to the “ambient” music we’re comfortable with today.
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Pauline Oliveros named this groundbreaking piece after one quite well known woman and one virtually anonymous one.
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The anonymous artist Black Swan knocked me out earlier this year with its Experimedia debut, In 8 Movements, leaving me extremely curious about the next step.
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Duncan Malashock is a multidisciplinary visual artist, writer, and musician from Brooklyn (New York (New York (USA))).
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The rarest and smallest of releases—a one-sided 7-inch!
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A lot of people claim to be influenced spiritually by the Minutemen, but Brisbane’s Per Purpose packs quite a bit into this six-song, probably 9-minute EP, establishing themselves as one of the closer sonic cousins to that legendary band.
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Toronto’s Induced Labor is scuzzy, crusty thrash—extremely short, noisy punk songs.
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This tape from Gowanus, (Brookyn (New York (New York (USA))))’s Fabrica Records features one of the many aliases of local experimental musician Adrian Varallyay.
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A confession: this humble 7-inch from Ernestina Forbis’ heavily blacklit How I Quit Crack project is the kind of release for which I wish I knew more about electronic pop and didn’t spend my early adulthood obsessing about guitar quite so much.
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Lousy Robot is a band from Albuquerque, NM whose power pop has given them some measure of regional success.
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