Having first been exposed to the landmark 90s releases of Gas (a.k.a. Wolfgang Voigt) on the Mille Plateaux label courtesy of the Nah Und Fern box set (2008), I can personally attest to their timeless and enduring quality. All those early albums (Gas, Zauberberg, Königsforst, and Pop) didn’t strike me as “dated” or “retro” the way many electronic albums from that era do, chiefly due to GAS’s deft management of all those ethereal and hypnotic 4/4 loops.

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Although the entire internet was well and truly rocked to its foundations a few months back by the triumphant return of Tokyo-born “composer, performer, producer, and environmentalist” Ryuichi Sakamoto to the hallows of original music-hood after an eight year hiatus and illness battle, it remained a mystery at the time as to precisely what FORM the experimental musician’s album-making-muse would take: 24-hour opera about a fictitious meeting between Claude Debussy and the Dalai Lama

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THIS IS NOT a footwork DRILL, people. This is the REAL (and dangerously funky) THING.

After teasing, tempting, and tweakin’ us all up with that classic “Listen up, this is where I’m headed next” stopgap EP trick, Gary, Indiana-based producer Jlin is back to make good on those erstwhile musical provocations by o’-to-the-fficially announcing that her sophomore LP, Black Origami, will be released into the dancehall-wilderness on May 19 via Planet Mu.

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Ok. No bells, whistles, sirens, trumpets, hollas, tootles, hoo-has, friggin’ ding-dongs, or excessive fanfare. No cute animal pic, hot geetar lick, or Trump meme shtick. No justifying a 17-paragraph “east coast tour dates” news story because of childhood llama-drama-trauma. No sauced, incoherent attempt to tie in an album tracklist with my current grocery list. No no…NO! NO DRAMA. None of that is needed, because simply put: there’s a new Actress album out April 14 on Ninja Tune!

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