Articles by Bryon Hayes

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  Zeitgeber

  Zeitgeber

  PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2013

  Techno wizard Speedy J has laced his beats with the odd dose of noise in the past, but on the eponymous debut LP from Zeitgeber (his collab...

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  Tricky

  False Idols

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2013

  Patti Smith opened her legendary Horses album with the line: "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine." Tricky's debut on his newly mi...

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  Netherworld

  Alchemy of Ice

  PUBLISHED May 22, 2013

  Alessandro Tedeschi runs Rome's Glacial Movements imprint, a self-described purveyor of "glacial and isolationist ambient" music. As Nether...

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  Vole

  The Hillside Mechanisms

  PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2013

  This trio, who became a quartet after the release of this record, revel in ecstatic improvisation, yet aren't afraid to tie their music to...

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  Halasan Bazar

  Space Junk

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2013

  With heartbreak as his muse, Danish songwriter Fredrik Eckhoff feverishly recorded the 12 songs that became Space Junk. Enigmatically, he m...

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  Fela Kuti

  The Best of the Black President 2

  PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

  Fifteen years after his death, the musical legacy of Fela Kuti — the king of Afrobeat — continues to thrive. A living legend wh...

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  Troller

  Troller

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2013

  In the cassette underground, there are a few gems released every year that rise to the top of the pile. These ultra-limited, yet undeniably...

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  Sculpture

  Slime Code

  PUBLISHED Jan 8, 2013

  "Hypnotic" and "hallucinatory": these are the words most appropriate to describe both the auditory and visual aspects of mixed media duo Sc...