★Nakid
A Day Or Two
*300 copies limited edition* Japan’s exceptional Nakid label follows up AOTY-worthy records from goat (JP) and Kakuhan with a total curveball, the first album in years from Max Loderbauer (Sun Electric) and Tobias Freund’s cult Non Standard Institute. Delving deep into the aether with a double LP - almost an hour and a half in length - featuring ruined, vaporous and engrossing ambient variations on a theme, it comes highly recommended if yr into Selected Ambient Works Vol II, Chained Library, Ja…
Geist II
*300 copies limited edition* Having made his mark on these pages over the last few years with appearances as part of Japan’s cult entities Goat and YPY, Koshiro Hino’s turn last year as Kakuhan took things to a whole other level with an album that felt like some alchemical mix of elements borrowed from Autechre, Photek, Arthur Russell and Mica Levi - a complete stylistic futureshock that worked as well in the club as it did fuelling extended flights of the imagination.
For 2023, Hino takes us i…
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Meakusma [Generators]
*300 copies limited release. In process of stocking* Keith Fullerton Whitman brings his 3-part Generators series for Japan’s NAKID label to a close with a third and final instalment that ravishes the senses with hybrid analogue/digital systems tekkerz. Hazing into a solemn start of floating organ and slurred drums, the first part fizzes into action with pranging irregularities, tentatively allowing the system to voice varying pitches and nimble rhythms that resemble balletic footwork plies as mu…
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GRM [Redactions]
*In process of stocking* Studio Redactions comprised of field- & location-recordings of Wire Shelving in the Mimaroglu offices (Cambridge), the Long Island Ferry (Bridgeport to Orient Point), Windchimes (Somerville), Bell Tree & Bamboo (Banff), Coal-Powered Trains (Stamford), Vocoded actions from Kraftwerk (Berlin), and various musicians and environments captured in the Metro around Paris (Flute player, Senegalese drummer, ecc)
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GRM [Generators] Parts 1 & 2
In process of stocking Fractal head rearrangement from Keith Fullerton Whitman on his first vinyl release in what feels like years, here blessing Japan’s Nakid label with a new instalment in his forever-evolving Generators project, arcing from bleeping post-Kosmische sounds into completely unexpected drum mutations in footwork and grime modes. It’s properly head melting gear that links the algorithmic mind-fukkery of Laurie Spiegel with the floor-bending rhythmic experimentation of Mark Fell, Ri…
Diffractions
* Edition of 500 * Mark Fell and Will Guthrie join forces for the second time this year with ‘Diffractions’, the 2nd in a two part series released via the new NAKID label set up by Koshiro Hino of Goat / YPY fame. On 'Diffractions' the pair push ever deeper into percussive R&D informed/inspired by Gamelan and Carnatic musics - massively tipped if you’re into anything from Autechre’s Confield-era abstractions to Milford Graves’ fluid drumming or even the insular soundworld of The Necks.
Rhythm ha…
Infoldings
* Edition of 500 * ‘Infoldings’ combines synthesis and sinew in unpredictable, pointillist arrangements where Will Guthrie plays against patterns derived from Max MSP patches by Mark Fell. The album’s two tracks are in this sense different to the man-machine concept of Fell’s acclaimed ‘Intra’ album, where he triggered performances by Portugal’s Drumming Grupo De Percussão to play a metallophone designed by Iannis Xenakis. Here, the pair find common/contrasting purpose in a probing of rhythmic s…