From Andrew Pekler: Typically, library music albums were not available to the general public but were marketed directly to film, TV and commercial production companies. Judging by the information provided on the record sleeves, these consumers of library music were assumed to have little interest in the identities of the individuals who actually wrote and played the music, the musicians’ names often being relegated to the very small print. read more

12k presents the latest solo work from Italian composer Giuseppe Ielasi. August is the 4th full-length cd from Ielasi following his critically acclaimed debut Plans (Sedimental, 2003) and the stunning Gesine and s/t (Häpna, 2005, 2006) read more

Minneapolis’ Huntley Miller has thus far carved out a niche in modern electronic music with a pair of EPs and a well received series of remixes for the likes of Dosh (Anticon) and Fog (Lex); their utter
beauty notwithstanding, these experiments in tension & release and melody & mechanics are a mere prelude to his proper debut Natura Morta. read more

Thirteen years after starting to work under the Dntel moniker and almost six years after releasing his last Dntel full-length, Life is Full of Possibilities (Plug Research), Jimmy Tamborello has painstakingly built and birthed Dumb Luck, an album five years in the making. read more

Rutger Zuydervelt, a man better known to the experimental music world as Machinefabriek is somewhat prolific; a fact you might have gathered from his steady flow of super-limited edition 3” cdrs which seem to slip out relentlessly month after month. read more

Even though you may have heard 10,000+ albums in your life time, every now and then, you come across a piece of music or a band which still surprises you. Discovering such unheard music is every music lover’s ultimate drug. Roam the Hello Clouds convey the excitement that feeling of discovery brings. Not only is their musical concept adventurous, it also sounds great – a rare combination that will make many lovers of jazz and/or electronic music delirious. read more

Apparat, aka Berlin’s Sascha Ring, has had one hell of a year. His collaboration with Ellen Allien, the critically acclaimed album Orchesta of Bubbles, forged electrifying new connections between techno, electro and pop music. They developed the material into an electrifying live show that wowed clubs and festival audiences the world over. read more

Raster-noton’s flagship signal - olaf bender, frank bretschneider and carsten nicolai - is something like the reference group of one of the pivotal labels of new minimal electronic music. read more

Christopher Willits is a ceaseless creative force focused on teasing out the most from his instrument of choice – the guitar. With ‘Plants and Hearts’, he sets out on a divergent exploration of the tonal qualities of guitar, rendering out a composition that references in equal doses the minimal harmonic shifts of Terry Riley and the phasing works of Steve Reich. read more