Arvo Part - Lamentate

-Arvo Part is extremely inspiring to listen to, he finds beauty in the most simplist of things, I suggest everyone takes the time to check out some of his work. If not this album try "Alina"

Ellen Allien And Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles

-Great album from two of the masters of techno.

Malcolm Middleton - into the woods

-Discovered this thanks to Mr holden

Mountains - Sewn

-Following on from their indescribably good eponymous LP, the Mountains return with the second part of their startlingly accomplished vision on 'Sewn'; bringing together a genuine love of Eno then fermenting it through a charcoal base of enticing micro-sound bleaching which instantly evokes comparisons to Jan Jelinek, Fennesz et al. The chosen appellation of Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, The Mountains have garnered some serious and well deserved praise through their wheezing and gorgeously textured soundscapes, opening 'Sewn' with the effulgent sun-set peaks of 'Sewn One'. Whilst this expansive horizon of frosted-glass noise is fantastically welcome, The Mountains know how to craft a striking contrast; immediately juxtaposing this billowing introduction with the intricate acoustic guitar and dappled forest percussion of 'Sewn Two'. Elsewhere, 'Simmer' crackles with digital lint and fuzz before unfolding into a chiming masterpiece, 'Hundred Acre' moulds wave after wave of splintered beauty around glittered electronic snow-falls, whilst 'Sheets' brings down the lights through a clutch of dulled analogue. The hills are alive...

Kaito - Hundred Million Light Years(Kompakts)

-Kompakt need i say more?

I'm Not A Gun - 2006 - We Think As Instruments

-Following the release of 'Our Lives On Wednesdays' it was hard to see where the ever prolific John Tejada and Takeshi Nishimoto could take their I'm Not A Gun Project... Yet rather than being precipitated by a lack of ideas, the potential stale-mate arose through their combined talents having given birth to an almost perfect album. We assure you; hyperbole doesn't even come into this. So what have they gone and done with 'We Think As Instruments'? Played a f*cking blinder, that's what. Adopting an approach which sees Tejada's white-hot programming skills coming more to the fore, 'We Think As Instruments' allows a fluid exchange between a spectrum of electronics and traditional instrumentation that is both utterly exhilarating and intuitively reciprocal. Opening with 'Soft Rain In Spring', Tejada and Nishimoto cast a web of digital filament which revels in its own fragility, before a exhalation of humid bass, chiming guitars and live drumming coalesce into a svelte piece of music that has real force despite its semi-skimmed constituents. Downing some high-protein aural fodder, 'Ripple In The Water' emerges from some gorgeous piano and fizzing electronics to deliver a striking sermon on the power of instrumental music, with staccato rhythms whipping a frenzied peak from a muted palate (think Mogwai but forced to ditch their scarred-sky operatics). Elsewhere, 'Blue Garden' displays Nishimoto's sublime finger-skills through a beautiful swirl of creamy instrumentation, 'Continuous Sky' refracts what sounds like distant vocals through a faraday's cage of buzzing static and broiling drums, whilst 'Rush Hour Traffic' is the sound of a hard-drive caught in a summer cloud burst. Shotgun!

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