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Some reviews of stuff that came in 2019:

Lake Haze - Glitching Dreams (2019)
Lake Haze, aka Gonçalo Salgado's newest album on UK based E-Beamz label 
is one-of-a-kind release. According to E-Beamz, the album "ushers a new 
phase in the label's output", and marks the beginning of a new direction 
which the release perfectly encapsulates. Fast breakbeats, trenchant 
TB303 lines, intertwined with slow, undulating and pretty melodies. 
Personal favorites are "Plant_Dust", which indeed start with 'dusty' 
sounding drums, soon joined by a divine melody, as well as Radius_X34, 
an otherworldly track filled with wonder and agitation.
For fans of: EOD, Aphex Twin, Ross 154/Newworldaquarium, and Drexciya.
https://e-beamz.bandcamp.com/album/glitching-dreams


Langwar - Langwar (2019)
Recorded in 3 days in Friesland, Dutch industrial trio Langwar released 
a must-listen musically picturesque album. Shadowy and dim, with Jessie 
Hoefnagel's (Stekkerdoos) luminous voice. Industrial soundscapes, spoken 
word, reminiscent of an interbellum orchestra made up of ghosts stuck in 
an abandoned resonant theatre. We hope to hear more of Langwar in 2020! 
https://langwar.bandcamp.com/releases


No Hay Banda Label (Rotterdam/Utrecht)
For the past year, Rotterdam/Utrecht based No Hay Banda, run by Koen 
Bouman, has been brewing fresh releases by inviting artists to curate 
their personal musical takes on cult classic films. This merging of sound 
and cult cinema has resulted in unconventional radio mixes which are 
then released on limited edition cassette tapes. One artist who has 
appeared so far is RJM VanderHeyden, who re-scored softcore/arthouse 
classic Contes Immoraux (Borowczyk, 1973), a "four tales display of 
sexual transgression throughout the ages told in reverse order". The 
label also releases a catalogue of imaginative scores to never-to-be-
made films, the first instalment of which is called "Vier Rivieren" ("four 
rivers"), produced by Ipanema, a new project by Rotterdam-based musician 
Bram Nigten.
https://soundcloud.com/nohaybandatapes