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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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