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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 …

Electronic / Experimental / Industrial / New Reviews / Noise / Post Punk

SISTER ODD – Bruise/Reuse (self released 2021)

18/05/2021 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

In the great abstraction of reality we’ve been living through, I always hoped that the upside would be frustrated musicians and non-musicians turning inward. While collaborative and band situations are …

Ambient / Electronic / Experimental / Industrial / Irish Music / Music / New Reviews / News / Noise / Post Punk / Prog

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 …

Electronic / New Reviews / Post Punk / Punk

I AM THE FLY – I AM THE FLY 7” EP (not on label 2020)

22/09/202022/09/2020 - by bozmugabe - 1 Comment

In a world of independent oddities, this is exactly how the humble 7” deserves to be delivered – high-concept, low-frill, electronic punk from the wonderfully named German duo I AM …

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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, …

Ambient / Electronic / Experimental / Irish Music / Jazz / modern classical / New Reviews / Noise

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 …

Electronic / Experimental / Industrial / Martial / modern classical / New Reviews

LAIBACH – The Sound Of Music (2018 MUTE RECORDS)

21/12/201821/12/2018 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Strange is the world of Laibach that it has taken 3 years for an audio document of this project to emerge. Given the publicity surrounding Laibach’s high adventures in the …

Electronic / Experimental / Irish Music / New Reviews / Post Punk / Uncategorized

STANO – Content To Write In I Dine Weathercraft – vinyl reissue (Allchival 2018)

27/10/2018 - by bozmugabe - 1 Comment

To get an idea how much of an anomaly Stano’s 1983 debut album Content to Write in I Dine Weathercraft really was, simply compare it to pretty much any other …

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THROBBING GRISTLE – Journey Through A Body – Vinyl Reissue (MUTE 2018)

25/09/201808/09/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Let us get pastoral for a minute – I have always had a love for the bright weak sunshine and shards of long shadow that break the lethargy of a …

Ambient / Electronic / Music / New Reviews

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

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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 …

Ambient / Electronic / Jazz / Music / New Reviews / Prog

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)

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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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COSEY FANNI TUTTI – Time To Tell (vinyl reissue 2017 Conspiracy International)

14/12/201708/09/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

2017 has been a busy year for Cosey Fanni Tutti. In February, Hull 2017 UK City Of Culture mounted the first major retrospective of Coum Transmissions, the pre-Throbbing Gristle performance …

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GARY NUMAN – SAVAGE – Songs from a Broken World (BMG 2017)

16/10/201716/10/2017 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

At a young and innocent age, I owned a copy of Gary Numan’s DANCE album. This was purchased for 99p in the bargain bin of Golden Discs, North Earl Street …

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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 …