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Publication of the November issue enables textura subscribers to win CD copies of the exceptional Experimedia releases Illusion of Safety'sThe Need to Now and Koen Park's Everything in Shadow, and what might be one of the prettiest electronic releases of the year, Rist's bucolic Weekend (Mü-nest).
Chaz Knapp: Vie comme un Parasite Faisant la fete (Phantom Channel); Fisk Industries: Triptych (Highpoint Lowlife); Kalte: The Lanthanide Series (Stasisfield); Kriss: no.mad EP (unfoundsound); The Red Box: Radioactive Princess (Concrete Moniker)
DECEMBER 2008, NO. 51
Articles
2008 Top 10s and 20s
Backtracking with orchestramaxfieldparrish
Albums
A Gilbert Play: Lay-by (Dreamboat Music / a girec)
Alva Noto: Unitxt (Raster-Noton)
Amplifier Machine: Her Mouth is an Outlaw (12k)
The Antripodean Collective: Funcall (Extreme)
A Setting Sun: Empty Sound (Moodgadget)
Auton: Any Where Out of the World (Structures Sonores)
Pierre Bastien: Visions of Doing (Western Vinyl)
Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry: Vryashn (Gears of Sand)
Byetone: The Death of a Typographer (Raster-Noton)
Chartreuse: No More Paths to Sounder Sleep (Thor's Rubber Hammer)
Milton Cross: Light in the West (Digitalis)
dot tape dot: Repainted (spa.RK)
EOC: Information Warfare (Ai Records)
Erstlaub: I Am The Line Drawn In The Sand Between The Living And The Dead (Highpoint Lowlife)
The Foreign Exchange: Leave It All Behind (Hard Boiled)
Gregory And The Hawk: Moenie And Kitchi (FatCat)
Robin Guthrie: 3:19 Bande Originale Du Film (Darla)
Helios: Caesura (Type)
Ezekiel Honig: Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band (Anticipate)
Ryoji Ikeda: Test Pattern (Raster-Noton)
Kontakte: Soundtracks to Lost Road Movies (Drifting Falling)
Kromestar: My Sound (Dubstar)
Luomo: Convivial (Huume)
Menahan Street Band: Make the Road By Walking (Daptone/Dunham)
Motorcitysoul: Technique (Simple Records)
Moustache Mountain / Forrest / Ontayso: Anyteazers / Swepstone Songs / Dune (U-Cover)
Lisa Nordström: 7 States of Passion (Kning Disk)
NOW: The Hepadaboo (Flau)
Roger O'Donnell: Songs From the Silver Box (Great Society)
Panic Lift: Witness to Our Collapse (Hive Records)
The Postmarks: By-The-Numbers (Unfiltered)
Jonas Reinhardt: Jonas Reinhardt (kranky)
Sasse: Toinen (Moodmusic)
The Sight Below: Glider (Ghostly International)
Sleeps In Oysters: We kept the memories locked away like the beetles of our childhood, or How to appreciate someone who's always around. (Seed Records)
Terminal Sound System: Constructing Towers (Extreme)
Thisquietarmy: Blackhaunter (Elevation)
Robert Scott Thompson: Frozen Light (Aucourant)
Nikos Veliotis / Anastasis Grivas: Vertical (Low Impedance)
Xela: In Bocca Al Lupo (Type)
Kemialliset Ystävät / Sunroof!: Split #19 (FatCat)
Compilations / Mixes
Matthew Dear: Body Language 7 (Get Physical)
VA: Basswerk Sessions Vol. 3 (Basswerk)
VA: Cosmic Balearic Beats Vol. 1 (Eskimo)
VA: Deep Sensations II (NRK)
VA: electr-ohm compilation 2 (electr-ohm)
VA: Saturday, I'm In Love (Diynamic)
VA: The Silence Was Warm Vol. 2 (Symbolic Interaction)
VA: What We Did & What We Do (Mixed by Oliver Koletzki & Florian Meindl) (Stil Vor Talent)
EPs
The Bug: Ganja / Flying (Ninja Tune)
DJ Aakmael: Music EP (Uzuri)
Jimmy Edgar: Nothing is Better (Moodgadget)
D. Gookin: When You're Lonely Everybody's A Celebrity (Moodgadget)
Hearin' Aid Presents D-Frost Beats: //dATA-BWoY (Eat Concrete)
Le Technique: Le Technique (Moodgadget)
Mr. Messiah: The Dublab 7-inch (Automation)
Nudge: Infinity Padlock (Audraglint)
Olde Soul / Double K: Taking me Places / Face to Face (Content)
Pendle Coven: Iamnoman EP (Modern Love)
VA: Vacant Passages Volume 1 (Drifting Falling)
Ben Watt: Guinea Pig (Buzzin' Fly)
JANUARY 2009, NO. 52
Article
2008 Artist Picks
Albums
3ofmillions: Immediate (Space Dairy)
Activities of Dust: A New Mind (Adluna)
ÆRA: Index of Dreaming (Faith Strange)
ÆRA: To The Last Man (Faith Strange)
Aether: Artifacts (Exponential)
Another Electronic Musician: Five (n5MD)
Robbie Avenaim: Rhythmic Movement Disorder (ROOM40)
Concrete Cookie & The Maggot Farmer: Mondegreen (Force of Nature)
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words: Lost in Reflections (Fang Bomb / iDEAL Recordings /
Release the Bats / When Skies Are Grey)
DJ Olive: Triage (ROOM40)
Extrawelt: Schöne Neue Extrawelt (Cocoon)
Mark Fell: Attack On Silence (Line)
Funckarma: Vell Vagranz (n5MD)
Jim Haynes: Eraldus / Eravaldus (Elevator Bath)
Hypnoz: Breath of Earth (Zhelezobeton)
Interbellum: Over All of Spain the Sky is Clear (Flingcosound)
Kenneth Kirschner: Filaments & Voids (12k)
The Peggy Lee Band: New Code (Drip Audio)
M16: Black Corner: After the Beat Sessions (Persistencebit)
Antoni Maiovvi: Electro Muscle Cult (Seed Records)
Manual: Confluence (Darla)
Jim McAuley: The Ultimate Frog (Drip Audio)
Misophone: Where has it gone, all the beautiful music of our grandparents? It died with them, that's where it went... (Kning Disk)
Momus: Joemus (American Patchwork)
Monno: Ghosts (Conspiracy Records)
Rick Reed: Dreamz / Blue Polz (Elevator Bath)
Rigil: Concertina Heart (Dynamophone)
Rist: Weekend (Mü-nest)
Ethan Rose: Oaks (Holocene)
School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms (Ghostly)
Sei A: Editing Shadows (Missive)
Susanna: Flower of Evil (Rune Grammofon)
M.Templeton & aA.Munson: Acre Loss (Anticipate)
Vic Mars: Kanransha (Symbolic Interaction)
Compilations / Mixes
VA: A Cleansing Ascension (Elevator Bath)
VA: Famous When Dead 6 (Playhouse)
VA: GPM100 (Get Physical)
VA: Tessera (Sushitech)
Sven Väth: In the Mix: The Sound of the Ninth Season (Cocoon)
EPs
AristeiA: How To Kill A King (AristeiA)
Ass / Rickard Jäverling: No love lost, David (Kning Disk)
Cardopusher: Mutant Dubstep Vol. 2 (Spectral Liquid)
Oliver Hacke: Dues and Needs (Trapez Ltd.)
Konntinent / Adam Flynn: If I Could Buy A Map Of Hope... (Sonicpieces)
Lawrence: Divided (Spectral Sound)
Millie & Andrea: Blackhammer / Gunshot (Daphne)
VA: Spectral Remixed (Spectral Sound)
Voice of the Seven Woods: The Journey (Kning Disk)
Yard: Detrit (Binary Dilemma)
Established in August 2004, textura is a monthly publication of experimental and electronic music-related reviews, interviews, and articles. A huge thank you to Celer and Deadbeat for their generous contributions to this month's issue, to all of the label heads who contributed to the 2008 Favourite Labels article, and to Experimedia and Mü-nest for suppyling the CDs for this month's contest giveaways.
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