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  • <a href="http://gestinson.bandcamp.com/album/masters-of-the-abstract-an-homage" _mce_href="http://gestinson.bandcamp.com/album/masters-of-the-abstract-an-homage">masters of the abstract (an homage) by g.e.stinson</a> Left coast guitar artist GE Stinson, a founding member of seminal New Age/fusion ensemble Shadowfax who moved onward to all manner of rich, gripping projects, has just reposted this 2011 "homage to some of the masters of abstract jazz and improvisation." I was going to

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  • New death-ambient hip-hop drone by 3:33, who cite Yoshi Wada, Terry Riley, Whitehouse and La Monte Young in the press release for their forthcoming 2CD album, Bicameral Brain, due October 29 on Parallel Thought. From the group's label bio: Too frequently, experimental music has automatically fallen under the generic label of “new” or “different”. Perhaps

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  • Keith Fullerton Whitman, electronic-music maven and proprietor of the early-electronica archival label Creel Pone and the brilliant avant-music e-tailer Mimaroglu Music Service, makes everyone’s morning with a new, very personal project uploaded to Soundcloud this morning. Here, in his own words, the explanation of Greatest Hits: On the eve of my 30th birthday, I began

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  • <a href="http://umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/collected-works-vol-1-the-moog-years" _mce_href="http://umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/collected-works-vol-1-the-moog-years">Collected Works Vol. 1 The Moog Years by M. Geddes Gengras</a> Compilations aren't generally things I spend much time recommending. But in the case of an artist as madly prolific as California synth muso M. Geddes Gengras, Collected Works Vol. 1, a new anthology from Mexican label Umor Rex, is a godsend. Subtitled

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  • Originally released on vinyl by the India Navigation label in 1982, Nothin to Look at Just a Record was composer Phill Niblock's debut LP, and has become something of a holy grail among lovers of early Minimalism and drone. The two works on the album, A Trombone Piece and A Third Trombone, were included in

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  • <a href="http://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-1" _mce_href="http://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-1">Steamroom 1 by Jim O'Rourke</a> A hefty, heady trove of new and recent music by Jim O'Rourke has just turned up on Bandcamp, priced inexpensively and available in a variety of file formats, lossless and otherwise. I've just bought Steamroom 1, a 2012 recording O'Rourke pressed up for his recent Japanese tour with

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