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Review: Fresh off releasing one of the best Frustrated Funk 12"s in some time, West Coast electro explorer Chris Roman aligns with another respected vessel of the Dutch scene in Shipwrec for his latest album North Bend. Roman has been plying his trade for well over a decade now but has really found his creative groove of late. North Bend arrives some 13 years after his debut album, Esemplastic, and its nine tracks find a producer fully confident in the kind of electro he's now producing. Rich in atmosphere and futuristic texture, North Bend is an album that demands your attention from the off and feels quite at home on Shipwrec.

Review: It has somehow been over a decade since Galaxian put out their last album. We Are Power finds them head in an all new direction as they ruminate on "the confrontation and power clash between humankind, nature, the spiritual and mechanistic industrial growth societies." Monologues make that explicit in places, while the Glaswegian's productions are generally a little softer than in the past. There are ambient beauties amongst more kinetic electro kickers and caustic techno cuts that fire every synapse in your body. It's an expansive work and we are very much glad they are back.