Forms of Paper
In a worthy tribute to the life and legacy of one of the great artists of our time, the always fantastic, Monterrey, Mexico, based imprint, Aurora Central, returns with a stunning reissue of Steve Roden's seminal 2001 full length “Forms of Paper”. A landmark in the history of Lowercase music - the idiom that Roden helped pioneer - unfurling like an alien, microscopic landscape, it's one of the true marvels of post-millennial sound practices that remains as effective and radical nearly two and ha…
Balance
Recorded across the Atlantic in 2001 and originally issued by Mille Plateaux the following year as part of that label's defining run of millennial glitch and click & cuts releases, Balance remains the lone collaborative outing between two of the era's most influential label-running architects: Frank Bretschneider, co-founder of Raster (later raster-noton), and Taylor Deupree, founder of 12k and LINE.
The record was made the long way around. Bretschneider and Deupree, working from Berlin and Broo…
Aix
Aix is an outstanding piece of work by Italian electro-acoustic savant Giuseppe Ielasi, originally released in 2009 on Taylor Deupree's 12k label, the follow-up to 2007’s August (12k) and Ielasi's first collaboration with Nicola Ratti as "Bellows", also out in 2007 (Kning Disk). Originally only released on CD (12k), the album got a very limited vinyl issue on Czech label Minority Records in 2010. Keplar presents this extraordinary and timeless collection of 9 evocative minimalist soundscapes on …