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West Coast by Junk Culture will be released on 22 March on Illegal Art
Illegal Art is a backstreet home for Okapi, Tank Girl, Steinski and The Bran Flakes,
creators of spray-painted soundscapes and gritty, sampled pleasures. A perfect fit then for Junk Culture, the label’s newest inhabitant.
Deepak Mantena has spent almost a decade operating under the [...]

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High Places – I Was Born – single review
After the hype that surrounded the initial appearance of some of High Places individual songs on the web, their 2008 compilation and release was somewhat mutely received. The fact that most of the songs were already in circulation  meant that their effective re-release was unlikely to create [...]

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For twenty years now Boredoms have been inspiring musicians and pushing sonic boundaries and are generally regarded as musical pioneers. Each of their albums and performances are unique and defy categorization. Fans of the band will be pleased to hear that a brand new studio album is scheduled for 2010, but in the meantime Boredoms [...]

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The London based ‘dream jazz’ outfit Polar Bear have announced that they have joined the Leaf Label and will be releasing their fourth album through Leaf  early next year.
The acclaimed jazz band are led by drummer Sebastian Rochford and features  Pete Wareham and Mark Lockheart who both play tenor sax, Tom Herbert on bass and [...]

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Tummaa by Vladislav Delay
Under the guise of Vladislav Delay, Finnish composer Sasu Ripatti releases his follow up to his critically-acclaimed electronic 2007 album Whistleblower with Tummaa. This new album is his first for the evergreen pioneering Leaf Label.
Tummaa is open, spacious, atmospheric and infectious experimental music which is best categorised as electronica experimentalism though in [...]

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