Album of the month
Net Feature/ Wang Changcun: "The Klone Concerts"
Nurtures the enigma: The missing link between the melodical sensitivity of Debussy and the hypnotic energy of Rave.
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Latest Experimental CD features
The Black Dog: "Further Vexations"
2009-07-03
Two albums in one: A political message with a consoling and reconsiled ending.
Metal Visions International 6
2009-07-01
A planet forged of steel: Exploring Metal releases from all around the world.
Pablo Reche: "Conexión ep"
2009-07-01
By no means conciliatory or comforting: A remarkably controlled experiment.
Vital Weekly 683 + 684
2009-07-01
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the last two weeks.
Tortoise: "Beacons of Ancestorship"
2009-06-30
Wipes the slate clean: Itching and twitching as men and machines battle over supremacy.
The Milk & Honey Band: "Dog Eared Moonlight"
2009-06-30
Less jittery and more staidly British: Soft-spoken pop with a little waltz-time here, a bit of faraway slide guitar there.
Latest Classical CD features
Jerry Gerber: "Waves"
2009-05-25
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Embedding virtuosity in irresistibly catchy tracks: The virtual orchestra is at the verge of widespread acceptance.
Net Feature/ Wang Changcun: "The Klone Concerts"
2009-05-03
Nurtures the enigma: The missing link between the melodical sensitivity of Debussy and the hypnotic energy of Rave.
DVD Feature/ Helene Grimaud: "Living with Wolves"
2009-04-14
Not that contradictory any more: Neither an adaptation, rehash nor extension of Grimaud's best-selling novel.
Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Fazil Say: "Beethoven/ Ravel/ Bartok/ Say"
2009-03-19
The future belongs to her: Kopatchinskaja's tone has been shaped by generations of musicians and a continuum of composers.
Rachel Barton Pine: "Beethoven & Clement Violin Concertos"
2009-02-12
Get your kicks: Musical figureskating.
Floraleda Sacchi: "Minimal Harp"
2009-01-27
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Great for self-therapeutic purposes: A quality selection inspired by Zen rather than encyclopedic genre definitions.
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05-29 - Vital Weekly 680
05-29 - Tomas Phillips: "Six Notes"
05-29 - Wumpscut: "Fuckit"
05-25 - Vital Weekly 679
05-19 - Misound: "Stanze Di Te"
05-18 - Lawrence English: "It's up ...
05-17 - Yoshi Wada: "Earth Horns ...
05-16 - Mitch Marcus Quintet: "The ...
05-15 - Vital Weekly 678
05-15 - Lawn: "Silver"
05-14 - Barzin: "Notes to an ...
05-14 - Vidna Obmana & Steve ...
05-13 - Jasper TX: "Singing Stones"
05-11 - Seaworthy: "1897"
05-10 - Vital Weekly 677
05-08 - Sharam: "Get Wild"
05-07 - King Roc: "Chapters"
05-02 - Vital Weekly 676
05-01 - Steinbrüchel: "Sustain"
04-24 - Vital Weekly 675
04-22 - Maarten van der Vleuten: ...
04-21 - The Sea and Cake: ...
04-20 - Luka Bloom: "Eleven Songs"
04-17 - Vital Weekly 674
04-16 - LP Feature/ Cut Iowa ...
04-14 - POW Ensemble: "Homage To ...
04-13 - Vital Weekly 673
04-13 - Hugh Masekela: "Phola"
04-07 - Rent Romus: "Grid"; "You ...
04-07 - Fever Ray: "Fever Ray"
04-05 - Vital Weekly 671 & ...
04-05 - :papercutz: "Lylac"
03-31 - Net Decks 24
03-25 - Atom TM: "Liedgut"
03-24 - Metal Visions International 5
03-24 - Evil Madness: "Demoni Paradiso"
Latest news & stories
Tokafi: Change of Address
2009-02-25
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On March 1st, tokafi is moving. If you're an artist or label intending to send us promotional material, please read on!
Nicolas Bernier & urban9: Sound Dimensions
2009-02-25
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It is easy to see why two dynamic media, like music and film, should be able to complement each other. But what happens when the equation becomes asymmetrical and moving ...
Francisco Lopez & Lawrence English: Mysterious acronyms and a strong amusicality
2009-02-25
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The year is still young but we are pretty positive that no acronym will beat the title of the collaborational release between two titans of the experimental scene in terms ...
Dirty Demos: Navigating Around Boxes
2009-02-23
Given the name of his label, it might seem slightly ironic that Adam Baker isn't accepting any music submissions at the moment. On the other hand, "Dirty Demos" really has ...
Balmorhea: All is Wild, All is Silent, All is Full of Expectation
2009-02-19
Rob Lowe and Michael Muller are content. In fact, they're very content. Early next month, their eagerly anticipated third full-length will be released by Western Vinyl and right now, the ...
Tamerlan: Hypnotizing the Crowd
2009-02-18
According to Timur Iskandarov, the man behind the mask of Tamerlan, his project can be considered "a mixture between dark ambient, neoclassical, and experimental music". And indeed, his mediaevally tinged ...
Lasse-Marc Riek: Islands of Acoustic Victims
2009-02-17
For a field recorder, the line between work and leisure is always a hard one to draw. German Phonographer and Sound Artist Lasse-Marc Riek had already visited the islands of ...
E. Ryan Goodman: Plain Moody Playing
2009-02-16
At least over here, the coldest days of the year may already have passed. And still there are nights when you want to cuddle up on your sofa, light up ...
Latest Movie Reviews
Encounters of the Belgian kind: Eldorado
2009-06-29
Odd places, strange stories with peculiar people – this sounds like the characteristics of Finnish movies, especially those by odd-life-expert Aki Kaurismäki. Lately also Belgian filmmakers have presented some very ...
A century's history in Germany: The Count and the Comrade
2009-06-05
If one hears about a historical documentary film, dealing with a communist and a count who was a co-conspirator of the Stauffenberg-attentat and the 20th July-resistance, as a German, one ...
Andrea Juan's Antarctica Project
2009-05-20
Andre Juan is a multimedia artist hailing from Argentina. Since 2004, she has dedicated a large part of her work to drawing attention to the plight of the antarctic continent. ...
Hotel Sahara: A ship might come
2009-05-17
There is a little town in Mauritania, at the edge of the Sahara desert in Western Africa, at the seaside. This town, which Europeans hardly ever have heard about, is ...
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04-15 - Interview with The Black ...
04-09 - The Quarrel Quartet
04-08 - Teresa McCollough
02-16 - Interview with Jan St ...
02-12 - Richard Pinhas
01-30 - Interview with Caspian
01-30 - Gábor Boldoczki
01-21 - Los Angeles Electric 8
01-21 - Leonard Elschenbroich
01-15 - Jon Mueller
01-15 - Luis Orias Diz
01-07 - Interview with Robert Ashley
01-07 - Interview with Richard Barbieri
01-01 - Interview with Lymbyc Systym
12-30 - Interview with Logoplasm
12-29 - Interview with Arms And ...
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Christoph Denoth is achieving the impossible: His programs are conclusively covering all composers who have seminally contributed to the Classical Guitar repertoire over the past few centuries while somehow avoiding ...
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