Rich is one of contemporary electronic music’s wunderkinds, each successive work evoking a cinematic grandeur that’s breathtaking in its scope, narrative, and sonic execution.
Author: Darren Bergstein
David Lee Myers :: Strange Attractors (Crónica)
The man never fails to delight the mind’s eye and ear to match, whether using his trusty feedback machines or ripping out the very innards of a whole host of modular devices, synths, and other mysterious noisemakers.
Surface 10 :: A Stray Ending (DiN)
De Benedictis has always resisted the lure of ancient genre sirens—be they Berlin School graduates, post-Eno acolytes, or hirsute New Agers—instead adopting a unique, individualist strategem where such recognizable elements are but kaleidoscopic effluvium…
Belief :: Belief (Lex)
Hollon and Mozgawa aren’t necessarily reinventing genre per se so much as giving new elasticity to what is often a bright, beautifully fussy tableau of motifs executed with panache and charm that’s impossible to resist.
Philip Jeck (1952-2022) :: A Remembrance
Revisiting the idiosyncratic cycling sound eddies and steadfastly original catalog of soundsculpturist Philip Jeck, who passed into the space-time continuum’s Möbius strip on March 25, one is struck by his ability to regularly conjure a sense of tangible nonplace.
Komarebi :: Nebulous (Ping-Discs/Touched Music)
Komarebi not only has imagination to burn, he obviously exults in the sheer wonder of these sprightly creations; never in recent memory has such beatcraft […]
DARREN BERGSTEIN — Music journalist, aural provocateur :: Best picks of 2020
My list of 2020 picks (rather than best of’s) comprise what I consider to be distinctive, generally uncategorizable recordings that were the most memorable, stood […]
Robert Rich :: Neurogenesis (Soundscape Productions)
Neurogenesis sits atop a biospheric chassis upon which astride beautifully attenuated sequencer vectors, subtle phasic shifts, and a surfeit of bright starshine poking through the […]
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