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Basictonalvocabulary (2023 Repress)

Total techno classic, reissued by Tresor. As surgeon’s sophomore album, Basic Tonal Vocabulary established him as a unique force in techno, appearing in the style’s golden year of 1997 armed with seven of the leanest, most disciplined, and outright killer dancefloor tools around. While insistent movers like ‘Rotunda’ and the skewed drive of ‘Krautrock’ define this LP, […]

Basic Instinct

Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone star in this 1990s thriller directed by Paul Verhoeven. When detective Nick Curran (Douglas) is assigned to investigate the case of a rock star murdered with an ice pick, he cant help but notice the similarity between the death and a scene in the latest book by the singers novelist […]

This Is Basic

BASIC is a mind-meld between Chris Forsyth, his frequent running partner (and formidable 6-string thinker) Nick Millevoi, and Mikel Patrick Avery (Natural Information Society). “This Is BASIC”, their debut album, is a complex and entrancing instrumental LP recasting forgotten scraps of guitar history into a moving mosaic of strings, skins and electronics. Taking inspiration (and […]

There Existed An Addiction To Blood

 CD/LP/digital-only ^CD/CS/digital-only Description: The science-fiction visionary Octavia Butler once declared that “there is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” The aphorism could apply to any art form where the basic contours are fixed, but the appetite for innovation remains infinite. Enter Clipping, flash fiction genre masters in a hip-hop world firmly […]