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Under the Island: A Compilation of Experimental Music in Ireland 1960-1994 – CD/digital (Nyahh Records 2023)

04/10/2023 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

This compilation is a multigenerational exploration of fringe recordings by Irish artists and the result of very deep digging into the dertritus of recorded sound. Some of these people I’m …

Ambient / Experimental / Folk / Irish Music / New Reviews / Noise

One Leg One Eye – …And Take The Black Worm With Me – LP (Nyaah Records 2022)

22/10/202222/10/2022 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

This is a shit-weather album. The first time I gave it a spin, it was sunny outside and whatever this music does to get its hooks into my brain wasn’t …

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ROGUE SPORE – A Decade of Ironing Board Electronics 2010-2020 (RS9-2020)

02/11/202007/11/2020 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

For your auricular displeasure, Irish electronic entity ROGUE SPORE presents a new release celebrating 10 years of noise, esoteric and amphibious electronic experiments. A DECADE OF IRONING BOARD ELECTRONICS 2010-2020 …

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ZEROPUNKT – Clap Your Hands And Say No (2020)

02/11/2020 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Dublin based Zeropunkt continues its probing of cosmic noise and progressive spontaneity with a new album, the group’s second under the current name, and squillionth if you include the material …

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CARTER TUTTI VOID – TRIUMVIRATE (Conspiracy International 2019)

24/09/201927/09/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

TRIUMVIRATE lands after an exceptionally busy couple of years overhauling and reconstituting the back catalogues of Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Throbbing Gristle, and the high-grade reissues keep coming, …

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ZEROPUNKT (formerly ¡NO!) – Bitch Nails – digital single (self-released 2019)

02/03/201902/03/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

When you are willfully divergent and askew to the point that logic dictates your bandname as ¡NO!, its ungooglability is going to bite you sooner or later. In my clunky …

Ambient / Experimental / Folk / Irish Music / modern classical / New Reviews / Noise / Prog

MICHAEL O’SHEA – Michael O’Shea – vinyl reissue (Allchival 2018)

24/02/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

All City Records continues its worthy Allchival series with a long overdue reissue of the one and only album by street musician Michael O’Shea, originally released in 1982. Beyond the …

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LIGHTS A.M. – Lightworker – digital single (self-released 2018)

21/09/201821/09/2018 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Although theoretically anyone with a laptop, a couple of externals, and a genuine ability to self-edit can build some worthy ambient electronic fodder, high quality seams of creativity appear to …

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NIK TURNER AND YOUTH – PHARAOHS FROM OUTER SPACE (Painted Word Music 2018)

18/09/201804/03/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

This is a collaboration that looks cautiously promising on paper. I occasionally stumble across Nik Turner’s musical endeavours, and while I cannot confess to being much interested in anything jazzy …

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KLAUS SCHULZE – Silhouettes (SPV/Oblivion 2018)

06/08/2018 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Until I read the announcement of this release in late March, I honestly didn’t think there would be another Klaus Schulze studio album. Official but vague statements about serious health …

Ambient / Electronic / Industrial / Irish Music / Music / New Reviews / Noise

LUXURY MOLLUSC – Osseous Labyrinth Vestibule (Cursed Monk Records 2018)

15/05/2018 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

The world of recorded noise is a divisive one – deeply personal to those who construct it and abhorred by those who, often for very logical reasons, have no taste …

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CHRIS CARTER – Chemistry Lessons Volume One (Mute Records 2018)

06/04/201808/09/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

This was never going to be anything but intriguing. Although Chris Carter’s legacy as a synthesist is clear to anyone with an ounce of lateral thought, the wider scourge of …

Ambient / Electronic / modern classical / New Reviews

HAWKSMOOR – HAWKSMOOR (Negative Drive Records 2018)

27/03/201827/03/2018 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

As a long-term enthusiast of what could be loosely termed Berlin school electronics, my ears are constantly peeled for contemporary material observing the original gene pool as a reference point, …

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LAURIE ANDERSON & KRONOS QUARTET – Landfall (Nonesuch Records 2018)

15/03/201812/02/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

This is an exciting prospect. Kronos Quartet was always one of those entities that just kept popping up on my radar, not because (at least initially) I went looking for …

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¡NO! – Sediments (Little Gem Records 2017)

15/11/201715/11/2017 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

The enigmatic ¡NO! entity has been lingering on the fringes of Dublin’s musical underground of the last 3-4 years, sporadically birthing a handful of CDR, cassette and download releases, and …

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CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS – DERELICTS (Blood Music/Leftfield Records 2017)

13/10/2017 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

It has been 6 long years since the last studio album by Gothenburg’s Carbon Based Lifeforms. In 2011, the curious TWENTYTHREE stepped away from the beats and accessibility of their …

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LAIBACH – Also Sprach Zarathustra (Mute 2017)

12/10/2017 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Last time we encountered Laibach in its full glory, the group had shape-shifted yet again, switching to subversively accessible mode with 2014’s wonderful SPECTRE. Technically, Mina Špiler has been part …

Ambient / Archive Reviews / Electronic / Industrial / Martial

LAIBACH – Iron Sky: The Original Film Soundtrack (MUTE RECORDS 2012)

05/10/2017 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Iron sky – Laibach’s release pattern over the last decade has been increasingly erratic and with the long-term core of the group down to Ivan Novak and Milan Fras, along …

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CARTER TUTTI VOID – Transverse (Mute Records 2012)

05/10/201708/09/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Carter Tutti Void is a much-anticipated return to the Carter Tutti field of work for Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti. It has been somewhat neglected since the wonderful FERAL VAPOURS OF …

Ambient / Archive Reviews / Electronic

SOLAR FIELDS – Until We Meet The Sky (Ultimae Records 2011)

04/10/201716/10/2017 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

The Solar Fields output over 10 albums has been eclectic, amorphous and impressive, shifting vehicle every couple of albums and facilitating a pick’n’mix outflow of high grade downbeat and ambient …