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When the September issue is published, textura subscribers will be eligible to win CD copies of the new Dreamsploitation release Soft Focus Sound of Today (From Here To There Records) and the new Laibach DVD Volk (Mute).

SEPTEMBER 2008, NO. 48

Articles
From Prog-Rock to Chamber-Electronic: A Brief History of Classical Fusions
Slow Dancing Society: Top 10 Albums That Changed My Life

Albums
Atjazz: Full Circle (Mantis)
Bramble: Emergence (Bottle Imp)
Steve Brand: Bridge to Nowhere (Hypnos Secret Sounds)
Jefrey Leighton Brown: Dreams (Jaffe Records)
Build Buildings: Ceiling Lights From Street (Build Buildings)
Ciaran Byrne: Nine Lives Causeway (Psychonavigation)
The Chap: Mega Breakfast (Ghostly)
ch.pm: Alien Genome Project (Ambidextrous)
Colorlist: Lists (Off)
Dalglish: Ideom (Record Label Records)
Darkened Soul: Bathys (Hypnos Secret Sounds)
Alec Empire: The Golden Foretaste of Heaven (Eat Your Heart Out)
Fjordne: The Last 3 Days of Time (Dynamophone)
Flint Glass: Circumsounds (Tympanik Audio/Brume Records)
Galerie Stratique: Faux World (Static)
Giardini di Mirò: Dividing Opinions (Monopsone)
Glinkowski Slaton Sparacino: Trio Slicnaton (Slicnaton Publishing)
Goldmund: The Malady of Elegance (Type)
The Great Mundane: When Falls Arrive (Psymbolic Sounds)
The Green Kingdom: Laminae (The Land Of)
M. Griffin: Fabrications (Hypnos)
Hakobune: We Left the Window Open Sometimes (Symbolic Interaction)
Johnny Hammond: Fantasy (Juno Records)
Jacaszek: Treny (Miasmah)
Jasper TX: Black Sleep (Miasmah)
Nat Kendall Presents: Songbird Sing (Rock Shock It! Records)
Keplers Odd: Strena Seu De Nive Sexangula (Fractured Spaces)
Kotra: Reset (Kvitnu)
Life Toward Twilight: I Swear By All The Flowers (Bottle Imp)
Now Ensemble: Now (New Amsterdam)
Obfusc: Cities of Cedar (Boltfish)
Samarkande: 3 Synapses (Samarkande)
The Samuel Jackson Five: Same Same, But Different (Differential)
São Paulo Underground: The Principles of Intrusive Relationships (Aesthetics)
Sawako + Daisuke Miyatani: Hi Bi No Ne (Schole)
Mike Shannon: Memory Tree (Plus 8)
Slow Dancing Society: Priest Lake Circa '88 (Hidden Shoal)
Stray Ghost: Losthilde (Highpoint Lowlife)
Strings of Consciousness: Fantomastique Acoustica (Off)
sub-ID: BFF (1320 Records)
Robert Scott Thompson: Poesis Athesis (Lens Records)
Your Hand In Mine: Every Night Dreams (Inner Ear)
Zainetica: Soul Paradox (Rednetic)

Compilations / Mixes
30Hz: Re-Herded (Lot49)
VA: The Reprogramming Project (Plastic Supply Company)
VA: Solos In Stereo II (Solos)

EPs
Ellen Allien: Out (Bpitch Control)
Ellen Allien: Sprung (Bpitch Control)
Build: Build (New Amsterdam Records)
Jennifer Cardini & Shonky: Tuesday Paranoia EP (Crosstown Rebels)
Chic Miniature: Chic Miniature EP (Crosstown Rebels)
dublee & Den: dublee & Den (Op.disc)
Ebola: Mutant Dubstep Vol. 1 (Spectraliquid)
HeatdeatH: II (Static Station)
Taro Kawasaki: Sing Me A Song EP (Drifting Falling)
Monika Kruse: Changes in Perception Part 2 (Terminal M)
Daniel Land & The Modern Painters: Imagining October EP (Saint Cecilia Records)
Laura: Yes Maybe No (Elevation)
M16: Agenzia 13 (Persistencebit)
Modeselektor: Happy Birthday! Remixed (Bpitch Control)
Skream: Hedd Banger / Percression (Tectonic)
SonVer vs Elelphant Leaf: 3 Songs (Line Out Records)

OCTOBER 2008, NO. 49

Articles
Ten Questions with Hatchback
Thoughts of You: Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue
Kenny Larkin Top 10
Michna Top 10

Albums
Alpha Aesar: Alpha Aesar (I, Absentee)
The Alps: III (Type Records)
Anduin: Forever Waiting (SMTG)
Beaten By Them: Signs of Life (Logicpole)
Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry: Vector (Experimedia)
Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry: Shpwrck (Experimedia)
Bird Show: Bird Show (kranky)
Bitcrush: Shimmer and Fade (n5MD)
The Boats: Faulty Toned Radio (Flau)
Boduf Songs: How Shadows Chase the Balance (kranky)
Harold Budd & Clive Wright: A Song For Lost Blossoms (Darla)
Callers: Fortune (Western Vinyl)
Derek Carr: The Digital Space Race (Psychonavigation)
Matthew Robert Cooper: Miniatures (Gaarden Records)
Cristal: Re-Ups (FSS)
Dreamsploitation: Soft Focus Sound of Today (From Here To There Records)
Gore: Mean Man's Dream (FSS)
Hatchback: Colors of the Sun (Lo Recordings)
Inverz: Songs (Granny Records)
Monika Kruse: Changes of Perception (Terminal M)
Lights Out Asia: Eyes Like Brontide (n5MD)
Miya Masaoka: For Birds, Planes & Cello (Solitary B)
Miya Masaoka: While I Was Walking, I Heard A Sound... (Solitary B)
Michna: Magic Monday (Ghostly)
Model 500: Starlight (Echospace Detroit)
Mr Cooper: What Else There Is (Project Mooncircle)
Near The Parenthesis: L'Eixample (n5MD)
Patron and Patron: Gen (Nonine)
Procer Veneficus: Saltwater & Glassmoon (Stellar Auditorium)
Raglani: Of Sirens Born (kranky)
Red Snapper: Pale Blue Dot (Lo Recordings)
Max Richter: 24 Postcards in Full Colour (FatCat)
Roots Manuva: Slime & Reason (Big Dada)
Michael Santos: The Happy Error (Baskaru)
Sempervirens: Dirge of the Dying Year (Stellar Auditorium)
Shed: Shedding the Past (Ostgut Ton)
Sleepingdog: Polar Life (Gizeh)
Spectral Lore + Underjordiska: Split Album (Stellar Auditorium)
Andy Stott: Unknown Exception (Modern Love)
Taub: Bedtime Stories (Nonine)
The Third Man: Clarion Call (Ai Records)
Uzi & Ari: Headworms (Own Records)
You May Die in the Desert / Gifts from Enola: Harmonic Motion Volume 1 (Differential)
Zèbra: The Black & White Album (Symbolic Interaction)
Zilverhill: +Eötvös+ (Adeptsound)

Compilations / Mixes
DJ /Rupture: Uproot (the Agriculture)
VA: Diaspora: Cottage Industries 5 (Neo Ouija)
VA: Total 9 (Kompakt)

EPs
John R Carlson: In November (Parvoart)
John R Carlson: Recollections (Parvoart)
Intrusion: Tswana Dub (Brendon Moeller & Phase90 Remixes) (Echospace Detroit)
Keenhouse: Civic Transit (Sunlinxx)
Joe Lapaglia: Days Behind (Moodgadget)
Model 500: Starlight (Mike Kuckaby S Y N T H Mix / Intrusion Dub) (Echospace Detroit)
Duncan Ó Ceallaigh: Ecclesia Semper Reformanda (Parvoart)
Frank Omura: Unshaven Face (Moodgadget)
Shigeto: New Crossings (Moodgadget)
The Sight Below: No Place For Us (Ghostly)
Steinbrüchel: Mit Ohne (12k)
Van Der Papen: Majestic (Parvoart)
Warez: Sound (Moodgadget)

NOVEMBER 2008, NO. 50

Article
2008 Ten Favourite Labels

Albums
Arastoo & AEMAE: Ostrakon (Isounderscore)
Benoît Pioulard: Temper (kranky)
Greg Davis & Sébastian Roux: Merveilles (Ahornfelder)
Deadbeat: Roots and Wire (Wagon Repair)
Formication: Ghosts (Omnia Exeunt in Mysterium) (Harmful)
Stefan Goldmann: The Transitory State / Voices of the Dead (Macro)
Gultskra Artikler / Lanterns: Berezka / Monkey Lament (Other Electricities)
Hauschka: Ferndorf (FatCat)
Hexes & Ohs: Bedroom Madness (Noise Factory)
Koushik: Out My Window (Stones Throw)
Library Tapes: Fragment (Kning Disk)
Library Tapes: A Summer Beneath the Trees (Make Mine Music)
Moon: Tales of Long Dead Ladies (Interregnum)
Pillars and Tongues: Protection (Contraphonic)
Rumpistol: Dynamo (Rump)
Kamran Sadeghi: Through Thickness (Dragon's Eye)
Signal Deluxe: Motyl (Abolipop)
Windy & Carl: Songs for the Broken Hearted (kranky)

Compilations / Mixes
Kuniyuki: Kuniyuki Remixed (Mule Musiq)

EPs
Canyons!: Trapdoor / Diamonds 3" (hellosQuare)
MRK1: Get Out Clause / Infection (Earwax)
Spartak + John Chantler: Split 3" (hellosQuare)
Andy Vaz: Different Times (Yore)

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