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A globally curated selection of music founded in London by Jean-Francois Goyette and now based in Hong Kong.

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  • May 16, 2014

    Arp Monastery
    Ghost Hunter


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    From the A-A archives:
    Post-acid slow-house – dreamy psychedelic electronics.


    Tags: Leftfield, Post-Acid, Psychedelic


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  • May 15, 2014

    White
    Semi Femme


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    Post-grunge: minimal no wave guitars and darkest post-punk.


    Tags: Neo-Grunge, No Wave, Post-Punk


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  • May 15, 2014

    Janet's Voice
    Gordan Morgan


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    Cosmic kraut beat and drone ambient.


    Tags: Cosmic, Drone, Krautrock


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  • May 14, 2014

    For So Long
    La Main


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    From the A-A archives:
    Delicate lo-fi lounge indie pop sentiments.


    Tags: Indie Pop, Lo-fi, Lo-Pop


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  • May 14, 2014

    Hot Mexican
    WTCHS


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    Math-punk garage dark reverberations.


    Tags: Garage, Math-Punk, Post-Punk


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  • May 13, 2014

    Nite Eyes
    Teen Image


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    Sountrack detournement – dense post-synth and dark echos of balearic beat.


    Tags: Cinematic, Dense, Post-Synth


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  • May 12, 2014

    It Hurts To Be Sixteen
    Silkies


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    From the A-A archives:
    Garage lo-fi bubblegum pop. Andrea Carroll cover.


    Tags: Garage, Lo-fi, Pop


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  • May 12, 2014

    Piano Concerto No. 3 In D Minor, Op. 30 - I. Allegro Ma Non Tanto
    Sergei Rachmaninov


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    Late Russian classical romanticism – flexible rhythms and fleeting moods.


    Tags: Classical, Piano, Romanticism


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  • May 11, 2014

    Exit Room 808
    Rene Hell


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    From the A-A archives:
    Post-synths of slow gliding dystopian deaths on VHS.


    Tags: Ambient, Cinematic, Post-Synth


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  • May 11, 2014

    Hollow Eyes
    Low Duo


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    Barebones garage and minimalist guitar post-punk.


    Tags: Garage, Lo-fi, Post-Punk


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  • May 10, 2014

    Ways Of The Night (Walk To You)
    Dorcelsius


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    From the A-A archives:
    Leftfield take on Balearic sonorities and mutant electro.


    Tags: Electro, Leftfield, Post-Acid


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  • May 10, 2014

    Inst
    Early Spring


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    A wall of guitar noise and psychedelic drones.


    Tags: Drone, Noise, Psychedelic


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  • May 9, 2014

    Stromboli
    Cumpire


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    From the A-A archives:
    The hollows of a bleak landscape as provided through recuperated film scores.


    Tags: Cinematic, Dark, Sample


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  • May 8, 2014

    Having Had Forgot
    Sam Goldberg


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    From the A-A archives:
    Post-rock lo-fi and psych semi-orchestral acoustics.


    Tags: Acoustic, Lo-fi, Post-Rock


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  • May 7, 2014

    Protection Now
    Sandra Electronics


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    From the A-A archives:
    Industrial rites and landscape of post-electronic psychedelics.


    Tags: Industrial, Post-Electronic, Psychedelic


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  • May 7, 2014

    Till Dawn (Revision)
    Route 8


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    From the A-A archives:
    Dark leftfield post-house mass. Miguel Flaco’s Deep South Revision.


    Tags: Dark, Leftfield, Post-House


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  • May 5, 2014

    Never Ending Journey
    Route 8


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    New forms of balearic IDM house.


    Tags: Balearic, Post-House, Post-I.D.M.


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  • April 24, 2014

    Pathways
    Dream Weapons


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    Motorway leftfield krautronica and maximalist dance beat.


    Tags: Krautronica, Leftfield, Maximalism


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  • April 23, 2014

    260
    Flatspit


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    Late night slow beat.


    Tags: Dark, Post-Dubstep, Post-RnB


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  • April 22, 2014

    Aaliyahuu
    Wombman


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    Mutant dub remix and appropriation of Aaliyah’s I Care 4 You.


    Tags: Dub, Mutant, Post-RnB


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  • April 21, 2014

    Ruby
    James Bay Project


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    Salvia techno maximalism meets otherworldly leftfield psychedelics.


    Tags: Leftfield, Maximalism, Psychedelic


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  • April 9, 2014

    Pumpin Blood (Edit)
    Nonono


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    A train-wreck of a hit is slowed down to dramatic intent. By Wilhelm Bearnhardt.


    Tags: Dark, Post-Dubstep, Post-Hip-Hop


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  • April 4, 2014

    Outcast
    Dreamgoat


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    Dreamy psych trap slowmo breakbeat.


    Tags: Breakbeat, Post-RnB, Trap


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  • April 3, 2014

    Careless Over You (Genius)
    Sasha Keable


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    Recontextualised to slow and seductive dark RnB. Genius Vision.


    Tags: Dark, Post-RnB, Slowness


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  • March 28, 2014

    Telepherique
    Fabriek De


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    From the A-A archives:
    Electronic hard and soft noise experimentation.


    Tags: Electronic, Experimental, Noise


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  • March 27, 2014

    Go Bananas
    Superlife


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    From the A-A archives:
    Naked post-minimalist Detroit mutant electro.


    Tags: Electro, Post-Minimal, Techno


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  • March 18, 2014

    Trace
    Flatspit


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    Dark and otherworldly dub atmospherics and whip beat.


    Tags: Atmospheric, Dark, Dub


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  • March 15, 2014

    Bills, Bills, Bills (Genius Vision)
    Destiny's Child


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    The post-minimalist RnB update – a dark barebones edit.


    Tags: Dark, Post-Minimal, Post-RnB


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  • March 10, 2014

    The Kudo Kato
    Kiwi


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    Kraut 4/4 beat structure and slow club maximalism.


    Tags: Dancy, Krautronica, Maximalism


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  • March 9, 2014

    Retrogrades
    #XI


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    RnB revisionism via cut and paste dubstep.


    Tags: Post-Dubstep, Post-RnB, Sample


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  • March 8, 2014

    Trap
    Flatspit


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    Bleakest point – slow trap & dark post-dubstep atmospherics.


    Tags: Dark, Post-Dubstep, Trap


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  • March 3, 2014

    Consumed
    Plastikman


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    Dark minimal techno and the seriality of barebones ambient.


    Tags: Dark, Minimal, Techno


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  • March 2, 2014

    Siamese Burn
    Alphabets Heaven


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    Leftield electronica and mutated dub psychedelics.


    Tags: Electronic, Leftfield, Post-Psychedelic


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  • March 2, 2014

    Voice Memo 10:19 13014
    Abbyss Daat


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    Leftfield post-dub psychedelics and mutated electronica.


    Tags: Electronic, Leftfield, Psychedelic


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  • February 28, 2014

    Den Haag
    Endfest


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    Doomwave minimal acid synth and 808 arctic boogie.


    Tags: Acid, Dark, Synth


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  • February 25, 2014

    A Dance With The Stars
    Gabriel Conti


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    Ethereal chillwave.


    Tags: Chillwave, Electronic, Ethereal


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  • February 20, 2014

    Quinoe
    S Olbricht


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    Lo-fi world-beat and soft anti-techno.


    Tags: Leftfield, Post-Techno, Post-World


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  • February 18, 2014

    Chan's Odyssey S.S.U.
    Anzano


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    Recorded live – superior and more extreme forms of italo-disco 808 maximalism.


    Tags: Italo-Disco, Maximalism


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  • February 17, 2014

    Voice Memo 4:10 PM 12214
    Abbyss Daat


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    In situ techno and the lo-fi sparseness of electro minimalism.


    Tags: Electro, Lo-fi, Post-Techno


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  • February 16, 2014

    Gentleman Of Leisure
    Wim Mertens


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    Modern classical seriality – a post-minimalist sequentialist nod.


    Tags: Contemporary, Modern Classical, Post-Minimal


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  • February 10, 2014

    Nathal
    Timoka


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    New steady forms of dormant and ethereal post-IDM.


    Tags: Electronic, Ethereal, Post-I.D.M.


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  • February 9, 2014

    Red Hot
    RP Boo


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    Sparseness of striped back samples and oscillating hip-hop beat breakage.


    Tags: Post-Dubstep, Post-Hip-Hop, Sample


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  • February 9, 2014

    We Hide Here
    Bearhead


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    Twoisms IDM fuzz.


    Tags: Electronic, I.D.M.


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  • February 5, 2014

    Plants & Lighting
    Heathen Earth


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    Electro-acoustic improvised recording & live cassette drone manipulation for Plants & Lighting radio show.


    Tags: Drone, Electro-Acoustic, Lo-fi


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  • January 30, 2014

    Blackpool Late 80's (Edit)
    Holden


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    A stunning Hotel International edit – landscapes of detuned-psych and dancy leftfield maximalism.


    Tags: Dancy, Leftfield, Maximalism


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  • January 27, 2014

    Prana
    Liam Back


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    Slow-moving post-house and hypnotic iberian beat.


    Tags: Dark, Electronic, Post-House


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  • January 23, 2014

    YMCK
    Crooks + Lovers


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    Sparse post-dubstep and anti-house.


    Tags: Leftfield, Post-Dubstep, Post-House


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  • January 22, 2014

    Close Cover
    Wim Mertens


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    Fleeting modern piano contemporary.


    Tags: Modern Classical, Piano


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  • January 21, 2014

    Choose Your Color Gipsy Dark
    Karpov Not Kasparov


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    Nonliteral interpretation of Balkanese sound through leftfield synths and 8-bit improvisations.


    Tags: Leftfield, Post-Synth, Post-World


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  • January 20, 2014

    Meadow Brook
    DGMCCLEAN


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    Soft hand-clapped ambient over post-synth landscapes.


    Tags: Ambient, Post-Synth


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