Muon: From The Cold (live)

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By Low Lai Chow in New Music on Thursday 22 December 2011

Muon describes themselves as ‘a music collective delving through electronic experimentation and beat-science, fusing together bricolages from genres as diverse as IDM, ambient trip-hop, occult channeling and jazzy cinematic soundscapes’. Which is also, in one word, gorgeous.

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Otto Von Schirach: Laptops and Martinis

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By Marie Antoine in New Music on Tuesday 20 December 2011

IDM and Breakcore artist Otto von Schirach started operating few years ago in Miami. I discovered them through this clip created by the Japanese artist Motomichi Nakamura.

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Collaboration between Burial and Four Tet

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By Samuel Birtwistle in New Music on Wednesday 2 November 2011

Two great artists coming together to make some great, dark, ambient electronica with garage-feel drum loops. As we know, the elusive Burial has been gathering more commercial acclaim after being nominated for a Mercury Prize in 2008. His style of tinny garage drums coupled with ghostly samples is a perfect fit alongside Four Tet’s often complex IDM or ambient straight electronica. The two have been combining a lot recently, producing great records, and even producing an EP with Thom Yorke of Radiohead which is also worth a listen.

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Bogdan Raczynski and Bjork: Who Is It

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By Samuel Birtwistle in New Music on Tuesday 1 November 2011

Bogdan Raczynski is an old name to many in the realms of “intelligent dance music” after his first release in ’99 under the wing of Aphex Twin’s Richard D James’ Reflex Records. Since his first release, he has rarely changed his form: creating heavy laden beats flooded with strained and strange vocals, often reminiscent of early Aphex Twin or Squarepusher.

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Awesome animation for the Vaetxh song Mass

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By PK in New Music on Monday 10 October 2011

This is the incredible animation for the Vaetxh (pronounced vay-tex) song Mass by the equally mazing Henning M. Lederer.

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Berlin photographer Matthias Heiderich

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By Alison Zavos in New Photography on Wednesday 28 July 2010

Matthias Heiderich is a Berlin-based photographer. This work is from his series entitled Color Berlin. Along with photography, Heiderich is also a musician and records electronica-IDM-experimental music under the name, Massju.

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