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Germany’s ToiToiToi returns to Ghost Box with Vaganten, an LP of wayward electronics, Medieval plunderphonics and Chaucerian machine music
Retro-futurists Plone return after two decades with Puzzlewood, a magical mechanical mystery record that couldn’t be more at home on Ghost Box
David Mason takes a far more meditative but no less effective turn with this new digital-only Listening Center long-player
Jon Brooks’s How to Get to Spring on Clay Pipe Music invites nature indoors with a set of beautifully necessary pastoral electronics
Stewart Gardiner wanders down a holloway into an out of time world to speak with Vic Mars about his Inner Roads and Outer Paths LP for Clay Pipe
Justin Hopper, Sharron Kraus and Belbury Poly have brought the thinnest of places to vivid life in this oddly comforting avant-garde wonder
Heat Death, Dalham’s third LP and first for Castles In Space, is a thrillingly original electronic work that draws comparisons with early Boards of Canada
The Dark Outside’s Stuart McLean talks to Stewart Gardiner about avoiding digital, hollowing out old books and his new soundtracks-for-books cassette label
Jon Brooks’s latest project for his Café Kaput digital label takes a left turn into techno and acid house, and is just as thrilling as anything he’s done
Radiophonic cues seep out from liminal spaces on Possum and electronic groans give way to fragile piano work on White Boy Rick