Though confined to a single disc, Chalant – Memento Mori is a sprawling work itself, a collection of memories garnered from a slew of answering machine messages left by friends, relatives and colleagues, tracing his own roots and timeline, from when his son was just a boy to the news that he had just made [...]
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Sense :: AXxil of Macial EP (Detroit Underground / Psychonavigation)
Without falling from the edges of slippery ice sheets, each percussive puncture is evenly paced amongst a myriad of leavened ambience gluing these sonic pictures together. There’s a distinctive warmth to experimental electronics, especially when emanating from Adam Raisbeck’s machinery. As subtle darkened strands hover over alien bleeps, sharp beats flicker and tear apart only [...]
Sense :: Selected Moments Volume 1 (Psychonavigation)
Raisbeck delivers track after track of meticulously produced and emotionally charged mood music of the highest calibre that both recalls but never imitates a myriad of musicians with intoxicating nostalgic touches. There were two albums released in 2011 that vividly and effortlessly spanned and embodied two discrete eras of modern electronic music, whilst retaining their [...]
Cuttooth :: Elements (Psychonavigation)
Cuttooth’s skillful use of direct electronic manipulation and subtle ambient flourishes allows Elements to feel at home with the listener. Even with the abundance of static-charges, sparkling digital fuzz and ashes of yesteryear’s ambient-electronic tendencies, it all simmers in one cohesive extension of lost time. [Release page] Cuttooth (also known as Nick Cooke) breaths life into [...]
Maschine :: Maschine (Psychonavigation)
The ten tracks on offer aren’t just mere extrapolations of glitch, instead, they bend and contort with the skill and finesse of Autechrean-inspired grooves. [Release page] Flying unusually under-the-radar for the past half-year, Maschine’s latest self-titled affair jumps straight to the top of our pile and maintains solid footing. From the cover-arts blurred oscillation and [...]
V/A :: Mindfield (Psychonavigation)
Like passing through the past two-decades of ambient, techno, electronica, noise, IDM and any other possible sub-genre, Keith Downey (label boss) has inadvertently retraced the foundations of the scene and given it a fresh new face. Like an archeological discovery, ancient electrical artifacts are now presented with a 2011 spin, creating for a new trajectory [...]
Five questions for Psychonavigation
Igloo Magazine sat down with Keith Downey, label owner and operator of the now decade young Psychonavigation Records outfit to discuss, via hyperspace, a few key points regarding its start-up, progress and future. Catch a glimpse of Psychonavigation’s history and stay tuned for their latest collection of tracks compiled on the July 29th release of [...]
Lackluster :: Remixselection_one (Psychonavigation, CD)
It’s almost inevitable by now that most people who have scratched the surface of electronica and IDM will have come across at least one reference to or example of the work of the prolific Lackluster and a summary of his discography of released works to date would take too long to adequately flesh out here. [...]