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July 24th, 2010

Elli et Jacno
Main dans la main

French minimal electronica ode to public displays of affection. True love indeed.

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July 19th, 2010

Crystal Castles
Celestica (Thurston Remix)

The most improbable collaboration between the king of noise rock and pleasant hip 8bit-ers.

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June 30th, 2010

Takako Minekawa
Fantastic Cat

More art electronic psychedelia from Minekawa.

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June 29th, 2010

Takako Minekawa
Micro Mini Cool

If candy ravers could have done something significant, it would have been this. Too bad Japan did it 10 years before.

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June 16th, 2010

Takako Minekawa
Cloud Chips

Cute-yet-harsh hard bubblegum electronics straight from 1990′s Japan MDMA culture.

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June 15th, 2010

ICK
Societé d'Ombres

French industrial influenced electro-punk done right.

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May 30th, 2010

Abstrackt Keal Agram
Nietzche

Slow, slightly glitchy melancholic electronica with sampled sadness.

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May 29th, 2010

Principles Of Geometry
Ninehundredandeightyeight

Just like some rapidfire 80′s hiNRG cartoon show intro in breakbeat form.

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May 21st, 2010

Principles Of Geometry
Colfax

Soothing retro-futurism.

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May 14th, 2010

Alexander Robotnick
In The Krypta 1

Low fidelity electronic spy movie music from the Soviet era.

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May 8th, 2010

Black Moth Super [...]
Zodiac Girls

Long, dense, psychedelic synth arpeggios.

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May 7th, 2010

Sapan-Jagmohan
Giraffe Trapping Music

Bollywood early electronica.

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April 14th, 2010

Klaus Schulze
Signs Of Dawn

End of world vibrato / arpeggio hymn.

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April 11th, 2010

KG
Gyorgys

Break-beat cinematic i.d.m. ambient from Gooom record label kings.

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April 10th, 2010

Gonjasufi
Ancestors

Mutant electronica with hip hop rhythms direct from the Warp:2010 compilation.

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April 8th, 2010

The Droids
The Force (SSUK edit)

Almost two-step-esque revision of the original French spacy-disco hymn.

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April 6th, 2010

Liaisons Dangereuses
Liaisons Dangereuses

And to think that all this coldness is analog.

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April 5th, 2010

Nocturnal Emissions
Never Give Up

Tribal/military-beat influenced minimal E.B.M.

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March 29th, 2010

Metronomy
What Do I Do Now

Sad arpegio meets vocoder in rapid autumn bursts of wind.

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March 23rd, 2010

Dark Day
No, Nothing, Never

Ex-DNA Robin Crutchfield creates the minimalist soundtrack for abandoned inner-cities.

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March 18th, 2010

John Bender
Knuckles

Passive-aggressive minimal dystopian electronic music. Original record packaging was apparently dipped in plaster.

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March 16th, 2010

Williams
Ships in Hamburg

Static and engulfing minimal techno.

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March 15th, 2010

Quiet Village
Can't Be Beat

Slow mutant disco sampled dancing.

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March 12th, 2010

Crash Course In Science
Flying Turns

Wiki could not say it better: They avoided the sounds of conventional instrumentation by using toy instruments and kitchen appliances.

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March 9th, 2010

Bakterielle Infektion
An Evening In Berlin

Electronic Body Music kings are always on the lookout for colder-than-cold dystopian references.

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