Experimental
ALBUM REVIEWS
New Music From the Edges
A - Z OF ALL Experimental ALBUMS
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A
- ARP: In Light
- Leo Abrahams: Unrest Cure
- Leo Abrahams: Honeytrap
- Acoustic Guitar Trio: Acoustic Guitar Trio
- Mike Adcock/Clive Bell: Sleep It Off
- Noel Akchote: Perpetual Joseph
- Akchote/Auzet/Ferrari: Impro-Micro-Acoustique
- Masami Akita & Russell Haswell: Satanstornade
- Mitchell Akiyama: If Night is a Weed and Day Grows Less
- Akufen: My Way
- Eric Aldea: Saturno o Cipolla ?
- Alog: Duck-Rabbit
- Alog: Amateur
- Oren Ambarchi: In The Pendulum's Embrace
- Amiina: Kurr
- Paolo Angeli: Nita - l'angelo sul trapezio
- Angels Of Light: We Are Him
- Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
- Aphex Twin: Drukqs
- Hans Appelqvist: Tonefilm
- Arcane Device: Engines of Myth
- Martin Archer: English Commonflowers
- Martin Archer/Geraldine Monk: Angel High Wires
- Art Bears: The Art Box
- Asa-Chang & Junray: Jun Ray Song Chang
- Asa-Chang & Junray: Tsu Gi Ne Pu
- Masayo Asahara: Saint Agnes Fountain
- Astrobotnia: Part 01
- Aufgehoben: Messidor
- Aufgehoben: Anno Fauve
- Autechre: Untilted
- Autechre: gantz_graf DVD
- Autechre: Quaristice
- Autechre: Draft 7.30
B
- Derek Bailey: BIDS
- Derek Bailey: New Sights, Old Sounds Solo Live
- Derek Bailey: Derek Bailey/Franz Hautzinger
- Natasha Barrett: Isostasie
- Bathyscaphe: Road Movie
- Battery Operated: Chases Through Non-place
- Battles: Mirrored
- Clive Bell & Sylvia Hallett: The Geographers
- Benge: Meme Tunes
- Bent Object/FoAM: In Human Format
- Berthiaume/Bailey/Frith: Soshin
- Biosphere: Autour De La Lune
- Biosphere: Shenzhou
- Bird Show: Green Inferno
- Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: The Iridium Controversy
- Bjork: Medúlla
- Black Dice: Broken Ear Record
- Black Dice: Creature Comforts
- Black Dice: Beaches and Canyons
- Black Faction: Reworked
- Blast: Altra Strata
- Boards of Canada: The Campfire Headphase
- Bone: Uses Wrist Grab
- Boom Bip: Seed To Sun
- Brian Eno: Curiosities Volume 1
- Brian Eno: Music For Films / Apollo / Thursday Afternoon / More Music For Films
- Broadway Project: In Finite
- Broadway Project: For The One E.P.
- Broadway Project: Compassion
- Broadway Project: The Vessel
- Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It In People
- Harold Budd: Avalon Sutra
- Burnt Sugar: The Rites
- John Butcher: 13 Friendly Numbers
C
- The Caretaker: A Stairway
- Neil Carver & Martin Archer: Artefacts
- Kim Cascone/Keith Rowe: with hidden noise
- Casino Versus Japan: Whole Numbers Play The Basics
- Cerberus Shoal: Claiming the Knoblessone
- Eugene Chadbourne & Susan Alcorn: An Afternoon in Austin
- Sylvain Chauveau: Un Autre Decembre
- Cinélux: Cinélux
- Clue to Kalo: Come Here When You Sleepwalk
- Colour and Pattern: Colour and Pattern
- Column One: Electric Pleasure
- Corker/Conboy: Radiant Idiot
- Corker/Conboy: In Light Of That We Learned Later
- Cornelius: Point
- Cornelius: Sensuous
- Viv Corringham/Rick Wilson: Glimpses of Recognition
- Curlew: North America
- Alvin Curran: Maritime Rites
D
- DJ Scud: Ambush
- DNTEL: Life is full of Possibilities
- Dabrye: Instrmntl
- Dabrye: One/Three
- Daedelus: Love To Make Music To
- Daedelus: Invention
- Dafeldecker, Kurzmann etc: Dafeldecker, Kurzmann etc
- Dead Hollywood Stars: Junctions
- Deadbeat: Wild Life Documentaries
- Deadbeat: Journeyman's Annual
- Deathprod: Deathprod
- Taylor Deupree: January
- Thomas Dimuzio: Slew
- Diskjokke: Staying In
- DoF: If More then Twenty People Laugh, It Wasn't Funny
- Tod Dockstader & David Lee Myers: Pond
- Bob Drake: The Skull Mailbox (and other horrors)
- Bob Drake: 13 Songs and a Thing
- dieb13/pure/siewert: just in case you are bored, so are we
E
- Earth: Hibernaculum
- Jimmy Edgar: Color Strip
- Efterklang: Under Giant Trees
- Ekkehard Ehlers: Politik braucht keinen Feind
- Eight Frozen Modules: Crumbling and Responding
- Einóma: Undir, Feilnótum
- Einóma: Milli Tonverka
- Einstürzende Neubauten: Kalte Sterne (early recordings)
- El-Muniria: Stanza 218
- Electric Company: Greatest Hits
- Stephen Emmer: Recitement
- Encyclopaedia presents: Circle and The Square
- Evil Moisture: Killer Nuts
- Max Eastley and David Toop: Doll Creature
- end: science/fiction
F
- F*ck Buttons: Street Horrrsing
- Fantomas: Suspended Animation
- Farmers Manual: RLA (recent live archive) DVD
- Faust: Faust IV
- Faust: BBC Sessions
- Faust: Patchwork
- Janet Feder: Speak Puppet
- Fennesz: Venice
- Fennesz/Sakamoto: Sala Santa Cecilia
- Fennesz/Sakamoto: cendre
- Szam Findlay: Die Hautfabrik
- Morgan Fisher: Hybrid Kids 1 (A Collection of Classic Mutants)
- Fontanelle: Style Drift
- Burnt Friedman: Can't Cool
- Burnt Friedman: Secret Rhythms
- Fripp & Eno: The Equatorial Stars
- Fripp & Eno: Beyond Even
- Robert Fripp & Theo Travis: Thread
- Fred Frith: Accidental
- Fred Frith: Gravity
- Fred Frith: Speechless
- Furt: Defekt
- Furt: Dead or Alive
- Future 3: Like
G
- Victor Gama: Pangeia Instrumentos
- Ron Geesin: Biting The Hand: BBC Radio Broadcasts 1969-1975
- Githead: Art Pop
- Lutz Glandien: The 5th Elephant
- Glenn Branca: Lesson No 1
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Yanqui U.X.O.
- John Greaves & Peter Blegvad: Kew.Rhone
- Growing: Color Wheel
- Mat Gustafsson/Sonic Youth with friends: Hidros 3
- Guy, Riley, Wachsmann: Improvisations are forever now, 1977-79
- gaudi:testa: Continuum
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- HIM: Remix Series#1: Japan
- Carl von Hausswolff: Ström
- Hazard: Wind
- Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid: Tongues
- Boris D. Hegenbart: [somethingmovinginsideplasticbox]
- Henry Cow: Concerts
- Henry Cow: Western Culture
- Henry Cow/Slapp Happy: Desperate Straights
- Hexstatic: Master View
- Kim Hiorthøy: My Last Day
- Andrew Hodson: Map Music
- Homelife: Flying Wonders
- Homelife: Guru Man Hubcap Lady
- Hons: Ferner Liefen
- Martin Horntveth: Fast Motion
- Hrvatski: Swarm & Dither
- John Hudak: Room With Sky
- Hanne Hukkelberg: Rykestrasse 68
- Olaf Hund: Valseuses
- Huntsville: For The Middle Class
- Hwyl-Nofio: Hymnal
- Hypo: Karaoke Acappella
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J
K
- K-Space: Going Up
- Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Hysteria
- Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Cicadidae
- Kawabata Makota and the Mothers of Invasion: Hot Rattlesnakes
- Kid 606: Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You
- Kinski: Alpine Static
- Kinski: Down Below It's Chaos
- Konk Pack: Warp Out
- Konono No1/The Dead C: FatCat Split Series 18
- Thomas Köner: Nuuk
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M
- Madrid: Warm Waters
- Takagi Masakatsu: Eating
- Takagi Masakatsu: Journal for People
- Massacre: Killing Time
- Matmos: Supreme Balloon
- Max Tundra: Mastered by Guy at the Exchange
- Melt Banana/The Locust: Split 7"
- Mice Parade: Obrigado Saudade
- Mileece: Formations
- Mileva: Stories Survive Sequels
- Minamo: Beautiful
- Minamo: Shining
- Mnemonists: Gyromancy
- Moha!: raus aus stavanger
- Moha!: Norwegianism
- Monade: Monstre Cosmique
- Monolight: Free Music
- Tadd Mullinix: Panes
- Mummy Fortuna's Theatre Company: Born of Man & Flies
- Murcof: Martes
- Múm: Summer Make Good
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- Nauseef/Mori/Quintus/Courvoisier: Albert
- The Necks: Chemist
- The Necks: The Boys
- Neu!: Neu!
- Joanna Newsom: Ys
- Phill Niblock: YPGPN
- No-Neck Blues Band and Embryo: Embryonnck
- Noid: Monodigmen
- Ogurusu Norihide: Humour
- Ogurusu Norihide: Modern
- Nos Phillipé: Shh...Camille
- Nostalgia 77: Songs for My Funeral
- Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto: Insen
- The Notwist: Neon Golden
- Novel 23: Architectural Effects
- n.ln: Astronomy for Children
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- Jim O'Rourke: I'm Happy and I'm Singing and 1,2,3,4.
- O.Blaat: Two Novels: Gaze / In The Cochlea
- OOIOO: Kila Kila Kila
- Lothar Ohlmeier and Isambard Khroustaliov: Nowhere
- Collin Olan: rec01
- Yoko Ono: Yes, I'm A Witch
- Opsvik & Jennings: Commuter Anthems
- Einar Orn: Ghostigital
- Outward Sound Ensemble: Cloudburst
P
- Arturo Parra: (A)cousmatique
- Andrew Pekler: Strings + Feedback
- People Like Us: Recyclopaedia Britannica
- Pharaoh Overlord: 3
- Phonophani: Oak Or Rock
- Piano Magic: Popular Mechanics
- Richard Pinhas: Event and Repetitions
- Polmo Polpo: The Science Of Breath
- Robert Poss: Distortion Is Truth
- Pram: Dark Island
- Prefuse 73: Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
- Psapp: Tiger My Friend
- Pulseprogramming: Tulsa For One Second
R
- Bogdan Raczynski: Renegade Platinum Mega Dance Attack Party: Don The Plate
- Radian: Juxtaposition
- Radiophonic Workshop: BBC Radiophonic Music
- Maja Ratkje: Voice
- Rechenzentrum: Directors Cut
- Recon: White Label
- Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music performed by Zeitkratzer live
- Peter Rehberg: Fremdkoerper
- Replicant Rumba Rockers: A Rather Interesting Mix
- The Rip Off Artist: Pet Sounds
- Alexander Rishaug: Possible Landscape
- Hans Joachim Roedelius and Tim Story: Inlandish
- Marina Rosenfeld/SFO: Drop, Hop, Drone, Scratch, Slide & A for Anything
- Rowe/Ambarchi/Sachiko M/Yoshihide etc: Thumb
- Olaf Rupp: Scree
- Rupp/Buck/Williamson: Weird Weapons
- Michael Rüsenberg: La Défense, Stage Urbain
S
- Sack und Blumm: Kind Kind
- Sand: Still Born Alive
- Irmin Schmidt &Kumo: Axolotl Eyes
- Ulrich Schnauss: Far Away Trains Passing By
- John Schuller: Lesser Angel of Failure
- The Science Group: Spoors
- Scorn: Plan B
- Greg Segal: In Search of the Fantastic
- Set Fire to Flames: Sings Reign Rebuilder
- Set Fire to Flames: telegraphs in negative/mouths trapped in static
- Elliott Sharp: The Velocity of Hue
- Sheffield/Rippie: Variations
- Sigur Rós/Hilmarsson: Angels of the Universe
- Sigur Rós: Hvarf-Heim
- Sigur Rós : Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
- Rank Sinatra: Chairman of the Bored
- Six Organs Of Admittance: Shelter From The Ash
- Sk/um: í págu fallsins
- Skyphone: Fabula
- The Sleazy Listeners: The Romance Is Over
- Small Rocks: Carbon Dating
- Roger Smith: Green Wood
- So: So
- Son of Clay: The Bird You Never Were
- Sonna: Smile And The World Smiles With You
- Souvaris: A Hat
- DJ Spooky: Rhythm Science
- Spring Heel Jack: Oddities
- Squarepusher: Go Plastic
- Squarepusher: Do You Know Squarepusher
- Steel Water Light: Steel Water Light
- Stern/Guerra: Stitch
- The Styrenes: In C
- Sunburned Hand of the Man: Fire Escape
- Super Numeri: Great Aviaries
- Supersilent: 8
- Supersilent: Supersilent 1-3
- Supersilent: Supersilent 6
- Susanna: Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos
- Susanna and the Magical Orchestra: List of Lights and Buoys
- Sutekh: Collected Remixes 1999-2005
- Sutekh: Incest
- Svalastog: Woodwork
- Sybarite: Placement Issues
- David Sylvian: When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima
- si-cut.db/Full Swing: vs stephan Mathieu and Douglas Benford
- [sic]: And Rabbits Named Friday
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- Nobukazu Takemura: Sign
- .tape: Flying over Banugues (loops and sketches)
- Taylor Deupree/Christopher Willits: Mujo
- Telefon Tel Aviv: Fahrenheit Fair Enough
- Tenniscoats: Totemo Aimasho
- Terje Isungset: Iceman Is
- Thilges 3: Mak
- This Heat: This Heat
- Steven Kovacs Tickmayer: Repetitive Selective Removal of One Protecting Group
- The Tiger Lillies: Urine Palace
- Tin Hat Trio: Book of Silk
- To Rococo Rot: ABC123
- Toah Dynamic: Cops Hate Our Love
- Tonne: Soundtoy
- David Toop: Sound Body
- Tortoise: It's All Around You
- Town and Country: C'Mon
- Toy: Toy
- Transient v Resident: Medulla
- Trapist: Ballroom
- Trapist: Highway My Friend
- The Treecreepers: At The Mill
- Triosk: The Headlight Serenade
- Tu M': Just One Night
- Pedro Tudela: La Ou Je Dors
- Tussle: Telescope Mind
- Tuxedomoon: Vapour Trails
- The Tycho Brahe: This is The Tycho Brahe
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V
- Mark Van Hoen: The Warmth Inside You
- Various Artists: Touch 25
- Various Artists: Lisboa Reloaded (DVD)
- Various Artists: Chamber Music (James Joyce)
- Various Artists: Pataphysics
- The Vegetable Orchestra: Automate
- Venetian Snares: Doll Doll Doll
- Michael Vogt: Argonautika
- Von Sudenfed: Tromatic Reflexxions
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- Scott Walker: And Who Shall Go To The Ball And What Shall Go To The Ball
- Warmdesk: Guero Variations
- Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen: Storm
- Chris Watson: Weather Report
- Wevie Stonder: Drawing On Other People's Heads
- White Noise: An Electric Storm
- Keith Fullerton Whitman: Playthroughs
- Christopher Willits: Pollen
- Paul Wirkus: Inteletto D'Amore
- Stephan Wittwer: Streams
- Jah Wobble: I Could Have Been A Contender
- Wobble/Jeck/Liebezeit: Live in Leuven
- Wooden Shjips: Volume 1
- Wooden Shjips: Wooden Shjips
- Robert Wyatt: Comicopera
- Robert Wyatt: Cuckooland