“[Enig’matik Records] explores rich soundscapes that often have deep emotional content, bringing music that really shines in a personal environment and invokes past memories with interesting and abstract visions.” Jake (aka Sun In Aquarius and Enig’matik director) connects with igloomag.com’s Five questions. Igloo Magazine :: When did Enig’matik Records start up and what was your [...]
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Known Rebel :: Hollow (Tympanik Audio)
These fully formed sonic escapades tap straight into the heart—broken up by interspersed vocal samples and crumpled digital debris—that has Known Rebel scraping the finest segments of pure emotion-packed electronics for its audience. A tinge of post-industrial and wobbly bass breaks through via remix support from Jaime Irles, Mothboy, Roel Funcken, Lucidstatic, 2methylBulbe1ol and Access [...]
VNDL :: Something for Someone (Abstrakt Reflections)
Not entirely drenched in diluted noise, each of the six pieces are meticulously threaded with dozens of textured sounds—often crumpling and overlapping each other until they burst. [Release page] Diving head first into a mass of fluctuated guitar plucks, VNDL manipulates everyday sound sources—dabbling into experiments with instruments, broken synthesizers, dizzying beatwork and stormy winds [...]
Access To Arasaka :: Geosynchron (Tympanik Audio)
Whether or not Access To Arasaka is trying to create soundtracks for extraterrestrial cafes, he’s certainly able to attract the attention of (us) earthlings by continually baffling the ears with high-definition audio sculpting. Sometimes it’s all about finding beauty buried in chaos which is precisely what Access To Arasaka (aka New York-based Rob Lioy) does [...]
V/A :: Emerging Organisms 4 (Tympanik Audio)
Emerging Organisms Vol 4 breaks the boundaries of previous entries in the series, reflecting both the increased diversity of the label’s output and the compounding production polish and compositional complexity that the contributing artists gain with each new release. [Release page] Another year, another array of emerging organisms appear on Tympanik Audio‘s annual compilation series. [...]
Ex_Tension :: Desert (Tympanik Audio)
The entire EP scans like the soundtrack to a full-on military operation and the introduction to “Desert” whilst perhaps a little lengthy, sets the scene brilliantly. Juddering bass pulses, scorched pads, the electronic tones of scanning equipment and the occasional intrusion of a tortured, twisted screech runs for a good eight minutes before anything approaching [...]
V/A :: When Light’s Drillin’ The Haze (Chroniques électroniques)
Throughout When Light’s Drillin’ The Haze is an ambient simmer that keeps its revolving doors in motion from start to end. Fragments of chiseled bass, broken synthesizers, deformed drum’n bass, downtempo melodies, microscopic rhythms, and recycled noise all tend to gravitate around this one central (ambient) theme. [Download] No. This is not a Tympanik Audio co-release, nor is it [...]
Anklebiter :: Queue (Tympanik Audio)
Casually maneuvering electronics, post-industrial, shoegaze and sublime noise in a polished collection of elegant distortion, Queue stays on track without falling into the surplus pile of mediocrity. [Release page] Following up from last years I Will Wait, a virtual sandstorm of intricate post-industrialized fragments, scraped melodic movements and pensive rhythms, Tanner Volz brings together a [...]
Millipede :: Powerless (Hymen)
Millipede gravitates towards a powerless vision of electronic fog and extracts from his cohorts the finest in audio sculpting amidst a difficult time during the creative process. [Purchase] Powerless, a collaboration project of like-minded musicians (including Caul, Brian Grover, Access To Arasaka, Candle Nine, Lucidstatic, Veil Of Secrecy, Autoclav1.1, Parca Pace and Tapage) casts a [...]
Access To Arasaka :: Orbitus (Tympanik Audio)
Skillfully moving brushed sounds into new spaces, Orbitus bridges the void between distant post-industrial phases intermixed with exp-fluctuations and remains timeless with its universal electronic tapestry. [Download] Disparate landscapes of loosened soil and microscopic layers seeped in electrical debris cascade in the darkness on Orbitus, a (free) digital-download album of extraterrestrial appeal. Time lays dormant [...]
TYMPANIK AUDIO :: 3View 2011.3
Despite significant changes in musical retail in recent years Tympanik Audio have successfully managed to maintain their popularity with a regular release schedule (mostly on physical formats) and a strong stable of both new and established artists. At the beginning of last year, Tympanik Audio opened their annual release schedule with a clutch of releases [...]
Access To Arasaka :: void(); (Tympanik Audio)
void(); is a combination of intricate, frenetic, glitchy beatwork and dark creeping atmospheric ambience. Sometimes perfectly cinematic and quite beautifully conceived, sometimes dark and ominous, and at other times random and abstract. [Listen | Purchase] With an avid interest in all things visionary and listing amongst his influences the American writer William Gibson and Russian [...]