A tough but colorful sideways trip through fragments of contemporary dance styles driven by riffs borrowed from the rave and returned quite broken. A warm, […]
Author: Chris Taylor
Topdown Dialectic :: Vol. 2 (Peak Oil)
While there’s no shortage of dubby electronica to explore at the moment, few producers have such an understanding of tension, the confidence to make bold […]
Earthen Sea :: Grass And Trees (Kranky)
The staccato rhythmic delays and mid to high frequency leads bring to mind the poppier side of Reich’s systems music without resorting to familiar phasing […]
Drew Daniel (Matmos) & John Wiese :: Continuous Hole (Gilgongo)
Instead, sequenced gates let in small bits of unsculpted, rough machine sound; short glimpses into windows of very chaotic places. While this technique may sound […]
Portable :: Alan Abrahams (Studio !K7)
Abrahams continues to push on, as singer, songwriter, performer, and citizen of the world. That more people may encounter his music is for the better. […]
Tom Knapp :: Mophoc Rez EP (Ge-stell)
A brief and promising introduction to an artist working deep within nonrepresentational sound composition. Shifting metallics, collapsing walls of illogical harmonics, and granular synthesis that […]
Drifting in Silence :: Artificial (Labile)
Unapologetically grand and emotional, this album will please those who like their ambient sounds tidy and ready for the big screen. Artificial marks a return […]
Rafael Anton Irisarri :: A Fragile Geography (Room40)
This release splits the difference between these two paths; dark and unsettled embers that only very rarely grow into larger flames, savoring a more focused, […]
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