“Part fusion, part plunderphonics, The Radiant Radish is, as the title might suggest, a playful subversion of form,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7955027... @hausumountain.bsky.social @andrewforell.bsky.social

“Ping is not, Mumdance stresses, perhaps with tongue slightly lodged in cheek, a genre, more a feeling based on freedom from the tyranny of the kick drum” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7942230... @andrewforell.bsky.social

“As Mondo Lava the pair use old Casios, live percussion and range of acoustic and digital instruments to create a febrile mix of tropicalia, free jazz, doo-wop and psycho-boogie,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7930566... @andrewforell.bsky.social @hausumountain.bsky.social

“Helene Hauff and F#X (AKA Kris Jakob) produce a hyperkinetic form of minimal techno on their new collaborative album R4,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7896931... @andrewforell.bsky.social

“Seek No End is a work that creates space in which the subtle gestures develop significance through repetition and relation,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7894214... @andrewforell.bsky.social

“Funeral Music turns out to be an afternoon cocktail picnic of a record. Just enough to get you tipsy, not quite enough to have you reaching for the pills,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7853444... @andrewforell.bsky.social

“An atmosphere of nowhere towns in dank post-industrial landscapes scarred by decay, cut through by motorways to elsewhere informs Lancashire born Rainy Miller’s new album,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7839855... @andrewforell.bsky.social

“Amanda Mur draws on her homeland’s rich folkloric traditions, her classical training, interest in electronics and operatic vocal control to create music that feels both timeless and entirely modern,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7834534... @andrewforell.bsky.social

“H.D. Reliquary is the aural equivalent of a Joseph Cornell box. Glimmering passages abut broken remnants and besmeared artefacts in a cabinet of psycho-geographical invocations and dream symbolism,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7821850... @andrewforell.bsky.social

Lots of interesting stuff here. I covered recent LPs from Damian Anache, Hieroglyphic Being & Dustin Wong

“ Within his template minimal techno, Barker adds billowing ambient passages and intricate drum programming,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7809052... @andrewforell.bsky.social

“Kassian’s combination of Balearic beats, microhouse and plangent strings is a fine counterpoint to these intermittently dreary days,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7802824... @andrewforell.bsky.social

“A Grand Guignol lark for dancing goths and impenitent imps,” writes Andrew Forell. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi... @andrewforell.bsky.social

“If the original influence of trip-hop has been diluted by the echolalia of periodic revivals, soundtrack shortcuts and café friendly chillout compilations, in the right hands it can still be a potent brew,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7782779... @andrewforell.bsky.social

“Kilbourne’s approach asks how far you can reduce club music to its atavistic essence without losing its function and appeal,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7772964...

“Whether a metaphor for the persistence of creativity in the face of brutality or simply an oasis of calm in the eye of the storm, the music itself is lovely,” writes Andrew Forell. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7753033... @andrewforell.bsky.social

Wrote about some of my favorites of the year for Dusted

Wrote about new EPs from Cybotron & Helena Hauff on Tresor, Eazy Peazy by Man/Woman/Chainsaw on Fat Possum & Maloviento by Longabardi + Cecchitelli on LINEimprint

Wrote about the latest from Body Metta out now on @hausumountain.bsky.social