| Anne Guthrie Codiaeum variegatum | 4.0 |
| Polwechsel Polwechsel 2 | 3.5 |
| Koboku Senju Selektiv hogst | 3.5 |
| Radu Malfatti, Kevin Drumm & Lucio Capece The Volume Surrounding the Task | 3.0 |
| Roananax / Obliq The Berlin Series, N. 3: Roananax 1999. Obliq 2014 | 3.5 |
Roananax was composed of Axel Dorner (trumpet), Robin Hayward (tuba), Annette Krebs
(electroacoustic guitar) and Andrea Neumann (inside piano & mixing board) and this archival
recording is billed by the label as a pioneering effort of the so-called "Berlin reductionism",
"though the music isn't necessarily what you'd expect". Actually, if you've heard almost any of
these improvisers in other settings, you can predict vaguely what should be going on. It's (still
quite nervous) textural improvisation not without soon to become tropes of the cutting-edge stuff
under the "EAI" rubric, but there's clearly some excitement of the newly (re-)found here.
Nevertheless, the Roananax side feels stellar in comparison to the let-down (for me) that is the B
side of the split album. Enter 2014, meet the new OBLIQ ensemble, composed of saxophonist Pierre
Borel, percussionist Hannes Lingens and Derek Shirley on electronics. The same ridiculously vague
"reductionist" tag is slapped on them even as they engage into pretty much the same vocabulary as
many Onkyo or Wandelweiser efforts from the past decade or so. Of course, advanced reviewers may
well find (as I see on the label's page) captivating details beyond the traditionally ear-piercing
sine waves or an evolution from the still fairly old-schooled improvisation on the A-side to the
egoless sounds of the newer ensemble. Do as you (dis)please... The coupling is still quite
strange. |
| Tetuzi Akiyama / Taku Sugimoto / Toshimaru Nakamura The Improvisation Meeting At Bar Aoyama | 3.5 |
| While maybe not astonishing (at least not anymore), The Improvisation Meeting at Bar Aoyama documents (with - as far as I can hear - imperfect fidelity and some of the recordings seem cut-off before the actual ending of those performances) an early phase of the Japanese improv scene. These are baby steps compared to what was to come, but that also means it's more accessible and easier to get into. There are also bits of jazz-related free improvisation in here - the "onkyo" purity isn't there yet, but there are quite a few moments in which it is clear they are looking for something else. |
| Lucio Capece, Julia Eckhardt, Christian Kesten.... Wedding Ceremony | 4.0 |
CD composed of two live performances in May 2007, Belgium (Gent and Brussels), in which the sextet
plays four composed pieces by four of the members (Kesten, track 1; Malfatti, track 3; Sugimoto,
track 4; Capece; track 5) and an improvised piece (relatively louder and busier than the other
ones). The second half of Capece's piece includes extracts of Guy Debord's text "The Society of
Spectacle" handed out by Capece or Kesten (not sure) to be read by the members of the public.
The ending didn't felt tacked on - it comes out almost as a necessary deconstruction as a
ritualistic quality, as Brian Olewnick points out, does strike me in most of the album. I guess
the title, "Wedding Ceremony", did influence my reading, but doesn't that happen a lot with these
abstract improv albums with figurative titles?
Anyway, the performers avoid being harsh, monotonous or too quiet (I don't get the lowercase jokes
in this case). There's always something going on and the end results stand on their own. This is
the first time I'm hearing an album with Kesten on it, so I hardly realized when (if) does he
"sing". But I'll probably come back to this one, it's worth the effort. |
| Hong Chulki, Jin Sangtae and Kevin Parks 音影 | 4.0 |
| Otomo, Rowe, Sugimoto Ajar | 4.0 |
| Choi Joonyong, Hong Chulki, Sachiko M and Otomo Yoshihide Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves | 3.5 |
| In a post-Good Morning Good Night world, this seems unbelievably warm and dynamic in its tendency towards less sparse improvisation (improvisation with a capital I). Still, the warm-up minutes of this album were preparing me for an actually pretty sound garden with characteristic Japanese robot birdsong - turned out it was just a warm-up, although when sustained tones eventually step in the frame, it's all arguably more bearable. Still, not quite "sweet" enough for my liking and the "distant curves" turned out to be obnoxious "tactile" obstacles. I guess you may retain it for the interplay (Brian Olewnick claims that the pitches used resemble those of the instruments of a traditional quarter or something like that). Nevermind the curves, here's the cuts. |
| Toshimaru Nakamura / Ken Ikeda / Tomoyoshi Date Green Heights | 4.5 |
| Common Objects Whitewashed With Lines | 4.0 |
Are these accomplished musicians mimicking/mocking/inter/retextualizing sounds of what we like to
call "the real world"? They're just doing their thing - or rather these sounds had to be affirmed
in this way. Inevitably, with such improvisations you can't say anymore that they're mere
(abstract) expressionism - you have to firmly suggest their debt to the world and be prepared to
receive it as a sound world in itself. You can't tell that these improvisations were not recorded
in a short period of time.
For the kind of artistic pursuit I were to associate with a musician like John Butcher, I'd say
this double-set album works pretty well as a short definition. Not something for everyone, but not
something to be done by everyone. Be proud, modernism. |
| Tetuzi Akiyama and Anla Courtis Naranja Songs | 3.5 |
| Taku Unami and Takahiro Kawaguchi Teatro Assente | 4.0 |
| Gunter Muller and Taku Sugimoto I Am Happy If You Are Happy | 4.0 |
| Keith Rowe and Graham Lambkin Making A | 3.5 |
| Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama Semi-Impressionism | 4.0 |
| Greg Kelley and Jason Lescalleet Forlorn Green | 3.5 |
| Nmperign and Jason Lescalleet Love Me Two Times | 3.5 |
| Taku Unami Malignitat | 3.0 |
| Sachiko M Salon de Sachiko | 3.0 |
| 4G Cloud | 3.5 |
| AMM Newfoundland | 3.5 |
| AMM Before Driving To The Chapel We Took Coffee... | 4.0 |
| AMM Tunes Without Measure Or End | 2.5 |
| AMM AMMMusic | 4.0 |
| Keith Rowe and Toshimaru Nakamura weather sky | 4.0 |
| Keith Rowe The Room | 3.5 |
| Sachiko M + Ryuichi Sakamoto Snow, Silence, Partially Sunny | 4.5 |
Sakamoto is fucking literally playing the fucking piano over (actually under) Sachiko's sine
waves! Actually, Sakamoto is merely scratching the insides and perhaps the outside of the piano
for the first 1/3, while Sachiko never stays more than 2-3 minutes on the same frequency... and
the "bursts" are cuter than ever! So it's a decent compromise in the vein of Nakamura's
collaboration with Arve Henriksen on Egrets Crystal. Sadly, the last part changes too much the
atmosphere and they seem to give up on actually interacting, so you're left with something that
sounds you're listening to two different solo recordings in the same time. This maybe won't make
you get into Onkyo overnight, but it's an album that can be actually listened to with some
pleasure... not just ear-bleeding. ;) |
| Franz Hautzinger Gomberg | 5.0 |
| Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues & Jassem Hindi Ur | 3.5 |
| ASMR-friendly improvisation?... Dunno what else to say, but there are lots of awesome textures to be found on Ur II-IV. And Guilherme is quite rocking the radio yet... but otherwise not exactly a stand-out among the latest offerings from the Rodrigues crew. I am looking forward to hear more from Jassem Hindi, a player of Saudi origin who seems to have done a duo with another prolific improviser, Axel Dörner and not much else yet. |
| Ferran Fages and Ernesto Rodrigues Cru | 4.0 |
| Michael Pisaro and Toshiya Tsunoda Crosshatches | 4.5 |
| Guionnet /E. Rodrigues/G. Rodrigues/Murayama Noite | 4.0 |
| Devin DiSanto and Nick Hoffman Three Exercises | 3.5 |
| Jurg Frey and Radu Malfatti II | 4.0 |
| Vanessa Rossetto Exotic Exit | 4.0 |
| Luciano Maggiore & Enrico Malatesta talabalacco | 3.0 |
| Not a duo improvisation, but two paired recordings - a gimmick that is not so unpredictable anymore in the field of erstwhile and stuff, but stops here short from providing a... percussionist's wet dream. Instead, this is a pretty cold and vaguely satisfying, ultimately forgettable dream... |
| Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues & Carlos Santos Cyclic Symmetry | 4.0 |
| An unusually minimalist suite from the Rodrigues string duo, coupled with field recordings by Carlos Santos that seem sometimes tacked on and easy in a way (including cicada and seagull sounds that are among the clearest in the whole Creative Sources catalogue). But the results are alluring to say the least, not without a certain broody mood that also characterizes the more sparse music one can hear on, say, Another Timbre in general or even Wandelweiser records in particular (except Cyclic Symmetry isn't so "isolationist" and lowercase, aside the silences between parts and the breaks in which the two instruments don't dominate the soundscape). |
| Axel Dorner Trumpet | 3.5 |
| Ernesto Rodrigues, Christine Sehnaoui & Axel Dorner Nie | 4.0 |
| Johannes Nastesjo & Vasco Trilla Gingko | 4.0 |
| Ernesto Rodrigues, Emidio Buchinho & Ricardo Guerreiro Fall | 4.5 |
| Ernesto Rodrigues, Neil Davidson and Wade Matthews Erosions | 4.5 |
| Ernesto Rodrigues Musique de chambre | 3.5 |
| Windy and Carl Antarctica (The Bliss Out, Vol. 2) | 3.5 |
| Windy and Carl Drawing of Sound | 3.5 |
| Windy and Carl Depths | 3.5 |
| Windy and Carl Consciousness | 4.0 |
| Walter Wanderley Rain Forest | 4.0 |
| Tosca Suzuki | 5.0 |
| Teen Daze Four More Years | 4.5 |
| Swandive Anyone on the Air? | 4.0 |
| Swandive Intuition | 4.5 |
| Saltillo Ganglion | 4.5 |
| Sunday Munich Vinculum | 4.0 |
| Sunday Munich Pneuma | 4.5 |
| Sneaker Pimps Bloodsport | 3.5 |
| Sneaker Pimps Splinter | 4.0 |
| Sneaker Pimps Becoming X | 4.5 |
| Steve Roach Structures from Silence | 4.0 |
| John Maus Love Is Real | 3.0 |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Lover Boy | 3.5 |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti The Doldrums | 3.5 |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Worn Copy | 4.5 |
| Rangers Suburban Tours | 4.5 |
| Chris Potter Follow the Red Line - Live at the Village Vanguard | 4.0 |
| Chris Potter Gratitude | 4.5 |
| Cornelius Fantasma | 4.5 |
| Cornelius Point | 4.0 |
| Cornelius Sensuous | 4.0 |
| Pizzicato Five Happy End of the World | 4.5 |
| Pizzicato Five The Sound of Music | 4.0 |
| Pizzicato Five Pizzicatomania! | 4.0 |
| Peaking Lights Cosmic Logic | 2.5 |
| Peaking Lights Lucifer | 4.0 |
| Peaking Lights 936 | 4.5 |
| Alexander von Schlippenbach Pakistani Pomade | 4.0 |
| Evan Parker The Snake Decides | 4.0 |
| Evan Parker Monoceros | 4.0 |
| Pan Sonic Vakio | 4.0 |
| Pan Sonic Kulma | 4.0 |
| Nite Jewel Am I Real? | 3.5 |
| Toshimaru Nakamura No Input Mixing Board | 4.0 |
| Toshimaru Nakamura Egrets | 4.5 |
| Tom Ze Todos os Olhos | 4.0 |
| Os Mutantes Os Mutantes | 4.5 |
| Alvin Curran Fiori chiari, fiori oscuri | 3.5 |
| Alvin Curran Canti e vedute del giardino magnetico | 3.5 |
| Luc Ferrari Presque rien | 4.0 |
| Helmut Lachenmann Mouvement (-vor der Estarrung); ....zwei Gefühle. | 4.5 |
| Helmut Lachenmann Schwankungen am Rand | 4.0 |
| Sofia Gubaidulina Chamber Music With Double Bass | 4.0 |
| Sofia Gubaidulina Repentance | 4.0 |
| Giacinto Scelsi Piano Suite No. 2 | 4.0 |
| Friedrich Cerha Spiegel; Monumentum; Momente | 3.5 |
| Anton Webern Complete Webern | 4.5 |
| Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 | 4.0 |
| Jakob Ullmann Fremde Zeit Addendum 4 | 4.0 |
| Antoine Beuger Florenski Septets | 3.0 |
| Antoine Beuger Sixteen Stanzas on Stillness and Music Unheard | 3.5 |
| Antoine Beuger Peckinpah Trios | 3.0 |
| Antoine Beuger Tschirtner Tunings for Twelve (Konzert Minimal) | 3.0 |
| Antoine Beuger Cantor Quartets | 4.0 |
| Antoine Beuger 24 petits préludes pour la guitare | 3.0 |
| Antoine Beuger A Young Person's Guide to Antoine Beuger | 4.5 |
| Antoine Beuger Two . Too (For Ewin-Josef Speckmann) | 4.0 |
| Antoine Beuger Un lieu pour etre deux | 4.5 |
| Antoine Beuger Keine fernen mehr | 4.0 |
| Antoine Beuger Silent Harmonies in Discrete Continuity | 3.0 |
| Antoine Beuger Calme etendue (spinoza) | 3.5 |
| Eva-Maria Houben Works for Double Bass | 4.0 |
| Eva-Maria Houben Works for Tromba Marina | 4.0 |
| Eva-Maria Houben Von da nach da | 3.5 |
| Eva-Maria Houben Druids and Questions | 3.5 |
| Eva-Maria Houben Works for Piano | 3.5 |
| Eva-Maria Houben Air - Works for Flutes and Organ | 4.0 |
| Radu Malfatti Rain Speak Soft Tree Listens | 4.5 |
| Radu Malfatti Nonostante III | 3.0 |
| Radu Malfatti Düsseldorf Oktett | 3.5 |
| Radu Malfatti L'effacage | 4.5 |
| Jurg Frey Weites Land, Tiefe Zeit: Raume 1-8 | 3.5 |
| Manfred Werder Stück 1998 Seiten 624-626 | 4.0 |
| Basic Channel BCD | 4.5 |
| Monolake Hong Kong | 4.5 |
| Pram Dark Island | 4.0 |
| Pram The Museum of Imaginary Animals | 4.0 |
| Broadcast Work and Non Work | 4.0 |
| Monocle Outer Sunset | 3.5 |
| Gunter Muller Eight Landscapes | 4.0 |
| Taku Sugimoto Opposite | 4.5 |
| Michael Pisaro Mind Is Moving I | 4.0 |
| Michael Pisaro Fields Have Ears | 4.0 |
| Michael Pisaro Continuum Unbound | 4.0 |
| Matrix Metals Flamingo Breeze | 4.5 |
| Alvin Lucier I Am Sitting in a Room | 4.5 |
| Alvin Lucier Music for Solo Performer | 4.0 |
| Love Spirals Downwards Temporal | 4.5 |
| Love Spirals Downwards Idylls | 4.0 |
| Love Spirals Downwards Ever | 4.0 |
| Love Spirals Downwards Ardor | 4.0 |
| Love Spirals Downwards Flux | 4.5 |
| Lone Ecstasy & Friends | 4.0 |
| Lone Galaxy Garden | 4.5 |
| Philip Glass Music in Twelve Parts | 4.0 |
| Philip Glass Glassworks | 4.5 |
| John Cage Complete Piano Music, Vol.1: "The Prepared Piano" | 4.5 |
| John Cage In a Landscape | 5.0 |
| John Cage Music for Four | 4.5 |
| Walter Marchetti Per la sete dell'orecchio | 4.5 |
| Sam Kidel Disruptive Muzak | 4.0 |
| Grischa Lichtenberger And IV (Inertia) | 4.0 |
| Air Premiers Symptomes | 4.0 |
| Air Moon Safari | 4.5 |
| Air 10,000 Hz Legends | 4.0 |
| Air Talkie Walkie | 3.5 |
| Lemon Jelly '64-'95 | 4.0 |
| Lemon Jelly Lemonjelly.KY | 4.5 |
| Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons | 4.5 |
| Leaf Rooted From Within | 3.0 |
| Leaf Made Into Itself | 4.0 |
| Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds | 4.5 |
| Graham Lambkin Community | 4.0 |
| Graham Lambkin and Michael Pisaro Schwarze Riesenfalter | 4.5 |
| Sarah Hennies Gather & Release | 4.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.0 |
| Sankt Otten Wir koennen ja Freunde bleiben | 4.0 |
| Sugar Plant Dryfruit | 5.0 |
| Klaus Schulze Mirage | 3.0 |
| Faust Faust IV | 4.0 |
| Conrad Schnitzler Blau | 4.0 |
| Conrad Schnitzler Rot | 3.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Logos Live | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Le Parc | 3.0 |
| Tangerine Dream White Eagle | 3.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Tangram | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Force Majeure | 3.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Rubycon | 5.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra | 4.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Atem | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Zeit | 4.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Alpha Centauri | 3.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Electronic Meditation | 2.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Ricochet | 4.0 |
| Cluster Sowiesoso | 4.0 |
| Cluster Grosses Wasser | 4.0 |
| Cluster Zuckerzeit | 4.0 |
| Harmonia Deluxe | 4.5 |
| Neu! Neu! | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk The Mix | 2.5 |
| Kraftwerk Minimum-Maximum | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk Kraftwerk | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk Kraftwerk 2 | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk Ralf und Florian | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk Radio-Activity | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn | 4.5 |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express | 4.0 |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine | 5.0 |
| Kraftwerk Computer World | 4.5 |
| Kraftwerk Electric Cafe | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk Tour De France Soundtracks | 4.0 |
| Pierre Schaeffer L'oeuvre musicale | 4.0 |
| Luciano Berio Sequenzas | 4.0 |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen Hymnen | 4.0 |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen Kontakte | 3.5 |
| Iannis Xenakis La Légende d'Eer | 4.0 |
| Pierre Boulez Sur Incises | 3.5 |
| Pierre Boulez Anton Webern: Complete Works Opp 1-31 | 4.0 |
| Luigi Nono Como una ola de fuerza y luz | 3.5 |
| Luigi Nono La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura (w) | 4.0 |
| Mauricio Kagel Acustica | 3.5 |
| Mauricio Kagel Ludwig Van | 4.0 |
| Mauricio Kagel Der Schall, für Fünf Spieler | 3.5 |
| Mauricio Kagel Zwei Akte; Rrrrrrr... 5 Jazzstücke; Blue's Blue | 4.5 |
| Mauricio Kagel Exotica | 4.0 |
| Mauricio Kagel Serenade / Chamber Works | 4.0 |
| Mauricio Kagel Pan; String Quartets I, II, III | 4.0 |
| Mauricio Kagel Playback Play | 4.5 |
| Jeph Jerman and Tim Barnes Matterings | 4.5 |
| Weather Report Mysterious Traveller | 5.0 |
| Herbie Hancock Head Hunters | 4.5 |
| Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles | 4.5 |
| Herbie Hancock Sextant | 4.0 |
| Mats Gustafsson Impropositions | 4.5 |
| Manuel Gottsching E2-E4 | 4.5 |
| Funki Porcini Fast Asleep | 4.5 |
| Funki Porcini Hed Phone Sex | 4.0 |
| Jan Garbarek Afric Pepperbird | 4.0 |
| Jan Garbarek - Bobo Stenson Quartet Witchi-Tai-To | 4.0 |
| Jan Garbarek Dis | 4.0 |
| Jan Garbarek It's OK To Listen To The Gray Voice | 2.5 |
| Jan Garbarek Madar | 3.5 |
| Jan Garbarek In Praise Of Dreams | 3.0 |
| Edgar Froese Aqua | 3.5 |
| Edgar Froese Epsilon in Malaysian Pale | 4.0 |
| Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel | 4.0 |
| Morton Feldman Patterns in a Chromatic Field | 4.0 |
| Morton Feldman String Quartet No. 2 | 4.5 |
| Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus | 4.5 |
| Charlie Parker Yardbird Suite | 5.0 |
| Miles Davis Porgy and Bess | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis On the Corner | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Get Up with It | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 5.0 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way | 5.0 |
| Lamb Fear of Fours | 3.5 |
| Lamb Between Darkness And Wonder | 3.5 |
| Lamb What Sound | 4.0 |
| Lamb Lamb | 4.5 |
| Crustation Bloom | 4.5 |
| Colour Kane A Taste Of | 4.0 |
| Cecil Taylor Unit Structures | 4.0 |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps | 4.5 |
| John Coltrane Olé Coltrane | 4.5 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 5.0 |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! | 4.5 |
| Sam Rivers Fuchsia Swing Song | 3.5 |
| Sam Rivers Contours | 4.0 |
| Anthony Braxton Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 | 4.0 |
| Anthony Braxton Dortmund (Quartet) 1976 | 4.5 |
| Anthony Braxton For Alto | 3.5 |
| Anthony Braxton 3 Compositions of New Jazz | 4.0 |
| Archie Shepp Mama Too Tight | 4.0 |
| Sun Ra Atlantis | 4.5 |
| Don Cherry Brown Rice | 4.0 |
| Don Cherry Eternal Rhythm | 4.0 |
| Don Cherry "mu" Second Part | 4.0 |
| Don Cherry "mu" First Part | 4.5 |
| Don Cherry Orient | 4.0 |
| Steve Reich Early Works | 4.0 |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians | 4.5 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 4.0 |
| Celer Engaged Touches | 5.0 |
| Celer Capri | 4.0 |
| Celer Continents | 4.0 |
| Camel The Snow Goose | 4.0 |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out | 4.5 |
| John Butcher Resonant Spaces | 4.5 |
| William Parker Painter's Spring | 4.0 |
| Peter Brotzmann Machine Gun | 4.5 |
| Bonobo Days To Come | 3.5 |
| Bonobo Dial 'M' For Monkey | 4.0 |
| Bonobo Animal Magic | 4.5 |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun | 4.0 |
| Alessandro Bosetti Zwölfzungen | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Boc Maxima | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Twoism | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 5.0 |
| Blue Foundation Life Of A Ghost | 2.5 |
| Blue Foundation Sweep Of Days | 4.0 |
| Blue Foundation Blue Foundation | 4.0 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 3.0 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 3.5 |
| Bjork Medulla | 3.5 |
| Bjork Volta | 3.5 |
| Bjork Post | 4.0 |
| Bjork Debut | 3.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 4.5 |
| Aidan Baker Black Flowers Blossom | 4.0 |
| Aidan Baker The Sea Swells A Bit... | 4.5 |
| Biosphere Dropsonde | 4.0 |
| Biosphere Autour De La Lune | 3.5 |
| Biosphere Cirque | 4.0 |
| Biosphere Substrata | 4.0 |
| Biosphere Shenzhou | 4.5 |
| UNKLE Never, Never, Land | 3.5 |
| UNKLE Psyence Fiction | 3.0 |
| Archive Londinium | 4.5 |
| Archive Controlling Crowds | 3.5 |
| Derek Bailey Aida | 4.0 |
| Derek Bailey Solo Guitar | 4.5 |
| Derek Bailey Music and Dance | 4.5 |
| Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity | 4.5 |
| Oren Ambarchi In The Pendulum's Embrace | 4.5 |
| Oren Ambarchi Grapes from the Estate | 4.0 |
| Oren Ambarchi Suspension | 4.0 |
| Oren Ambarchi Quixotism | 4.0 |
| Airiel Winks & Kisses: Dizzy | 3.5 |
| Airiel Winks & Kisses: Crackled | 4.0 |
| Airiel Winks & Kisses: Melted | 4.0 |
| Airiel Winks & Kisses: Frosted | 4.5 |
| Susumu Yokota Symbol | 4.0 |
| Susumu Yokota Wonder Waltz | 3.5 |
| Susumu Yokota Baroque | 3.5 |
| Susumu Yokota Laputa | 3.5 |
| Susumu Yokota The Boy and the Tree | 4.0 |
| Susumu Yokota Sound of Sky | 4.5 |
| Susumu Yokota Grinning Cat | 4.5 |
| Susumu Yokota Sakura | 5.0 |
| Tortoise Gamera | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship | 3.0 |
| Tortoise Standards | 3.5 |
| Tortoise Its All Around You | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 4.5 |
| Tortoise TNT | 5.0 |
| Tortoise Tortoise | 4.0 |
| Perfume Tree Dust | 4.0 |
| Perfume Tree Feeler | 4.5 |
| Perfume Tree A Lifetime Away | 4.5 |
| R/R Coseboom Beneath Trembling Lanterns | 4.5 |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Union Cafe | 4.0 |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Music from the Penguin Cafe | 3.5 |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Penguin Cafe Orchestra | 4.0 |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Signs of Life | 5.0 |
| Skip Spence Oar | 4.0 |
| The Orb Pomme Fritz | 3.5 |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld | 3.5 |
| Seefeel Starethrough EP | 4.5 |
| Seefeel More Like Space | 4.5 |
| Seefeel Quique (Redux Edition) | 5.0 |
| Seefeel Polyfusia | 5.0 |
| Seefeel Quique | 5.0 |
| Seefeel Succour | 4.5 |
| Seefeel (Ch-Vox) | 3.5 |
| Seefeel Seefeel | 3.0 |
| Monster Rally Coral | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 3.5 |
| Lovesliescrushing CRWTH (Chorus Redux) | 3.0 |
| Lovesliescrushing Tiny Shiny Stars | 4.0 |
| Lovesliescrushing Avianium (Microphona Magnetica) | 3.5 |
| Lovesliescrushing Girl. Echo. Suns. Veils. | 3.5 |
| Lovesliescrushing Glissceule | 4.5 |
| Lovesliescrushing Voirshn | 5.0 |
| Lovesliescrushing Chorus | 4.5 |
| Lovesliescrushing Xuvetyn | 5.0 |
| Lovesliescrushing Bloweyelashwish | 4.5 |
| Lunascape Innerside | 3.0 |
| Lunascape Mindstalking | 3.5 |
| Lunascape Reflecting Seyelence | 3.5 |
| Hooverphonic The Night Before | 1.5 |
| Hooverphonic No More Sweet Music | 3.5 |
| Hooverphonic The President Of The LSD Golf Club | 3.5 |
| Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane | 3.5 |
| Hooverphonic The Magnificent Tree | 4.0 |
| Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk | 4.5 |
| Hooverphonic A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular | 4.0 |
| Mandalay Empathy | 3.5 |
| Mandalay Instinct | 3.5 |
| Halou Wiser | 4.0 |
| Halou We Only Love You | 4.5 |
| Halou Wholeness and Separation | 4.0 |
| Halou Halou | 2.5 |
| Halou Sawtooth | 3.0 |
| Laika Wherever I Am I Am What Is Missing | 3.0 |
| Laika Good Looking Blues | 3.5 |
| Laika Silver Apples Of The Moon | 4.0 |
| Laika Sounds of the Satellites | 5.0 |
| Ekkehard Ehlers, Joseph Suchy & Franz Hautzinger Soundchambers | 4.5 |
| Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto Summvs | 3.0 |
| Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto Vrioon | 4.0 |
| Alva Noto Xerrox Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Alva Noto Transform | 4.0 |
| Autechre Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae | 4.5 |
| Autechre Digital Exclusive EP | 3.5 |
| Autechre Gantz Graf | 4.0 |
| Autechre Peel Session | 4.5 |
| Autechre Peel Session 2 | 4.0 |
| Autechre EP7 | 4.0 |
| Autechre Cichlisuite | 4.0 |
| Autechre Envane | 4.0 |
| Autechre Basscad | 3.5 |
| Autechre Anvil Vapre | 4.0 |
| Autechre We R Are Why | 3.5 |
| Autechre Anti | 3.5 |
| Autechre Garbage | 4.5 |
| Autechre Cavity Job | 2.0 |
| Autechre Lego Feet | 3.0 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 3.5 |
| Autechre Incunabula | 3.0 |
| Autechre Amber | 4.5 |
| Autechre Chiastic Slide | 4.5 |
| Autechre LP5 | 5.0 |
| Autechre Confield | 4.5 |
| Autechre Draft 7.30 | 3.5 |
| Autechre Untilted | 3.5 |
| Autechre Quaristice | 3.5 |
| Autechre Oversteps | 4.0 |
| Autechre Exai | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin On | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Cheetah EP | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 5.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 5.0 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Syro | 3.5 |
| Sun Araw On Patrol | 3.5 |
| Sun Araw Beach Head | 4.0 |
| Sun Araw Belomancie | 4.0 |
| Sun Araw The Inner Treaty | 4.5 |
| Steve Lacy Scraps | 4.0 |
| Steve Lacy The Door | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| Massive Attack 100th Window | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Protection | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 4.0 |
| Portishead Glory Times | 4.5 |
| Portishead Roseland NYC Live | 4.5 |
| Portishead Portishead | 4.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 5.0 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 4.0 |
| Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation | 5.0 |
| Earthling (UK) Radar | 4.5 |
| Portishead Third | 4.5 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 5.0 |
| Bowery Electric Vertigo | 2.5 |
| Bowery Electric Untitled | 3.5 |
| Bowery Electric Bowery Electric | 4.0 |
| Bowery Electric Lushlife | 5.0 |
| Bowery Electric Beat | 5.0 |
| Gerard Grisey Les espaces acoustiques | 5.0 |
| Arve Henriksen The Nature of Connections | 2.5 |
| Arve Henriksen Strjon | 3.5 |
| Arve Henriksen Chiaroscuro | 3.5 |
| Deathprod Deathprod | 4.0 |
| Supersilent 6 | 4.0 |
| Supersilent 8 | 4.0 |
| Supersilent 4 | 3.0 |
| Supersilent 1-3 | 4.5 |
| The Necks Athenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab | 4.5 |
| The Necks Sex | 4.5 |
| The Necks Aether | 4.5 |
| The Necks Aquatic | 4.5 |
| The Necks Hanging Gardens | 5.0 |
| The Necks Drive By | 5.0 |
| The Necks Mosquito / See Through | 4.0 |
| The Necks Mindset | 3.0 |
| The Necks Open | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Oscillons From The Anti-Sun | 3.5 |
| Stereolab Aluminum Tunes | 4.5 |
| Stereolab Fab Four Suture | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Cybele's Reverie | 3.0 |
| Stereolab The Groop Played "Space Age Batchelor Pad Music" | 3.5 |
| Stereolab Instant 0 In The Universe | 4.0 |
| Stereolab The First Of The Microbe Hunters | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Miss Modular | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Fluorescences | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Peng! | 3.0 |
| Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Mars Audiac Quintet | 4.5 |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup | 5.0 |
| Stereolab Dots and Loops | 5.0 |
| Stereolab Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night | 3.5 |
| Stereolab Margerine Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Sound-Dust | 4.5 |
| Stereolab Chemical Chords | 4.0 |
| Stereolab Not Music | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Sunburst and Snowblind | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Twinlights | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Love's Easy Tears | 5.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Tiny Dynamine | 4.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Echoes in a Shallow Bay | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Aikea-Guinea | 4.5 |
| Cocteau Twins The Spangle Maker | 5.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Cocteau Twins Singles Collection | 5.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Otherness | 5.0 |
| Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas | 4.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Milk and Kisses | 3.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Four-Calendar Cafe | 3.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 5.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand | 4.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll | 4.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Lullabies to Violaine | 5.0 |
| Can Ege Bamyasi | 4.5 |
| Can Tago Mago | 5.0 |
| Can Future Days | 5.0 |
| Mulatu Astatke Ethiopiques 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale | 5.0 |
