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From Musique Machine:

Acid Mouthers Temple & The Melting Parai – In O To Infinity’
‘In O To Infinity’ finds the always rewarding Acid Mother Temple homing their sound into a more repetition and loop based proposition with each of the four near on twenty minute tracks staying in the same chosen key through-out their lengths. It all creates a deeply hypnotic, trance inducing and triped-out jams that stand as some of the projects best work thus far, with each track offering it’s own distinctive tripped & spaced-out vibe.

Kouhei Matsunaga – Self VA.
It’s part of the lifespan of any genre to be expanded radically, to find itself crossbred and mutated and ultimately become not a container but a starting point. It happened with jazz, it happened with pretty much every form of popular music, and it has most definitely happened with anything that gets nominally filed as “electronic”. What started with the smooth burble of Human League and Yaz has turned into the glitch-stutter-and-stretch of Autechre, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, and—yep—Kouhei Matsunaga.

Hatred In Eyes – Nothing To Condone
Hong Kong based ‘Hatred In Eyes’ may have quite a clichéd Power Electronics name, but this ep is an rewarding and at times quite original sounding mixture creativity seared PE with some sombre, muffled & unexpectedly emotional string loops.

Noma – Hung By Hair… The Music For
If there’s one distinct advantage that imaginary soundtracks have over the regular type, it’s that a godawful movie cannot stand in the way of enjoyment of the music written for it. What’s more, a good imaginary soundtrack sets loose your imagination and creates, before your mind’s eye, a galore of visual imagery that can be as awe-inspiring, as unsettling, or as heart-breaking as your own gray matter can manage. I guess that all music, in a sense, has that quality – that it may conjure up imagery, stories – but it is especially the brand of evocative instrumental music, adorned with enigmatic and/or generic titles, that drowns us in cinematic scenes that exist only in our mind.

From Sonomu:

Stanislav Vdovin, December 24 (CDR Rat Hole)
The date December 24 does not have the same connotation in Russian society as it does in the West. Here, it is Christmas Eve. In Russia, it is just another wintry day, with Orthodox Christmas still two weeks away. Thus the idea that this recording has anything to do with the Nativity Feast must be…

Kevin Drumm, Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions)
Kevin Drumm is one of preeminent alumni of Chicago´s rich improvisational, experimental scene, most often armed with that most straightforward of instruments, the guitar, which he treats according to his own set of varying parameters. After years of loud and noisy productions, Drumm now seeks…

Tu´m, Monochromes Vol. 1 (Line)
Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli, operating as Italian multimedia duo Tu´m, rounded off the first decade of the twenty-first century by kicking off an audio-visual project featuring “chamber music [of] fragile atmospheric colours”. Four of the first audio pieces have been gathered on the…

Tanya Tagaq, Auk (Jericho Beach Records)
Tanya Tagaq may well be the most exciting aboriginal artist yet to emerge from North America. Her art is unclassifiably idiosyncratic yet in demand from an ever-widening audience. In early 2010 alone, she appeared in concert with Kronos Quartet, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and a brace of…