Pitchfork

Since its release, FM3's portable plastic loop player the Buddha Machine has been enshrined by the likes of Brian Eno, Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls), Thomas Fehlmann (the Orb), plus thousands of drone-friendly fans worldwide. Indeed, this very publication gave the device a respectable 8.2. So it's no surprise that the simple soundbox has launched an album, Jukebox Buddha, containing 15 tracks based on the Machine's nine loops.

Due out on November 7 on Staubgold, this ambient offering features contributions from Sun City Girls, Sunn 0))), Fehlmann, Jan Jelinek with Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann, Einstürzende Neubauten's Blixa Bargeld, Monolake's Robert Henke, Alog, Mapstation, and many other Buddha buddies.

According to a press release, the artists "stretch, compress, reconfigure, rub and dust, and generally fuck around with the nine floating loops clipped out from FM3's confrontational world of quiet." Sounds like a fifteenfold path to awesome.

Jukebox Buddha:

01 Wang Fan - "Xuanzhuan De Tuoluonidi"
02 Kammerflimmer Kollektief - "Gammler, Zen & Hohe Berge"
03 Aki Onda - "The Buddha in New York"
04 Adrian Sherwood & Doug Wimbish - "Karma-Cola"
05 Thomas Fehlmann - "Liquid Buddha"
06 Robert Henke - "Layer 02"
07 Blixa Bargeld - "Little Yellow"
08 Es - "3 Tietä Valojen Taa"
09 Gudrun Gut - "Rendering Buddha"
10 Mapstation - "Watching Paik's Video Buddha"
11 Jan Jelinek/Andrew Pekler/Hanno Leichtmann - "BuddhaMachineCommercial"
12 Sunn O))) - "BP//Simple"
13 Alog - "A Dragon Lies Listening"
14 Minit - "Winged Life"
15 Sun City Girls - "Dry Valley"