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HEATSICK
"Re-Engineering"
(PAN)

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Formerly known as one half of the British avant-drone and noise duo Birds Of Delay the expatriated Steven Warwick now indulges in soaking up Berlin hipster dancefloors with nothing more than a simple casio keyboard. Intrinsically skeptical towards the traditional album format Warwick is struggling hard to let “Re-Engineering” not fall into gooey mixtape schemes. Sometimes however it seems to just slip his hands and these moments happen to be the most insightful and define the record as a thought-provoking cybernetic poem that shifts its single elements in a complex pattern of the post-modern bonmot…

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BOARDS OF CANADA
"Tomorrow's Harvest"
(Warp)

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Returning from the dead after a 7-year hiatus, the mighty BoC share a new vision of post-urban wasteland culture by means of a vast sonic palette that ranges from their trademark pastoral synth nostalgia to precisely spliced hip hop tropes and then to much darker and more unsettling terrain.

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GARDLAND
"Syndrome Syndrome"
(RVNG Intl.)

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Just like their label-mates Blondes, the Australian duo of Alex Murray and Mark Smith deal in largely improvised techno abstractions, but different from Blondes’ academic background, Gardland’s textures are much darker and grittier. Their modular…

All words have been swallowed by the ill-working system. But then again, "words are just words, words are just words, that you'll soon forget…". So, there's only the list. And pretty pictures to look at. And some sonic evidence. That's not enough for you? Come on, it's 2013!

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CHROMATICS
"Kill For Love"
(Italians Do It Better)

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DEAN BLUNT
"The Narcissist"
(Hippos In Tanks)

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MONOLAKE
"Ghosts"
(Imbalance Computer Music)

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FAY
"Din"
(Time No Place)

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SHACKLETON
"Music For The Quiet Hour / The Drawbear Organ EPs"…

Whenever another year breaks off and fades into the next one, those in the position to know are eager to keep track of those tongue-tied remnants of the immediate past to fill up our virtual museums for the next 500 terabytes and counting.
Be it just to edge your self-penned random identity or to namecheck those destined for fame before anyone else does, gathering lists will always remain a helpless practice to negotiate the fact that things keep passing us by, that we have little influence on how to shape our surroundings, that the space we live in slowly returns…