Test Dept, pioneers of industrial music’s revolutionary spirit since the 1980s, have partnered with Canadian label Artoffact Records to release curated box sets and a new album in 2026, continuing their legacy of politically charged, boundary-pushing sound and announcing a European tour in late 2025.
Author: Don Haugen
Federico Mosconi feat. Barbara De Dominicis :: Frammenti (Dronarivm)
Frammenti is a vivid and thoughtful collaboration. Through Mosconi’s detailed sonic worldbuilding, De Dominicis’s intimate vocal work, and Salvadori’s poetic narratives, the album becomes a moving study of memory’s scattered, shimmering remains.
Stars of the Lid :: Music for Nitrous Oxide (30th Anniversary Reissue) (Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing)
In 2025, the record feels as vital as ever—it reminds us that silence, space, and subtlety are not signs of absence, but of deeper presence. Music for Nitrous Oxide remains a benchmark of ambient music’s emotional potential, a quietly monumental achievement whose influence continues to unfurl, like a sunrise that never quite arrives—and never needs to.
kaoshipnótico :: Ascensores, aeropuertos, escaleras, ahorcamientos, castraciones (earsheltering)
Rather than relying on brute force, kaoshipnótico crafts dynamic tension across the album’s jagged structure. Found sounds, metallic screeches, circuit-bent textures, and industrial rumble all collide in waves of distortion that suggest both panic and ritual.
Almost An Island :: Almost An Island (Past Inside the Present)
In an increasingly busy, digitized world, this record is a quiet refuge. It’s the sound of connection—between collaborators, between memory and place, between heart and horizon. With their debut, Almost An Island have crafted something truly special: an album to live with, return to, and slowly get lost in.
Onepointwo :: Rec.Collapse (Astra Solaria)
Onepointwo delivers a powerful, boundary-defying release that captures the sound of systems breaking down and new ones emerging in their place. It’s fierce, future-facing, and absolutely worth your attention.
Yann Novak :: Continuity (Room40)
Released on Lawrence English’s long-running Room40 label, Continuity is a conceptual and sonic triumph—an ambient album that dares to interrogate the very structures through which we process and interpret the world.
A-Sun Amissa :: We Are Not Our Dread (Gizeh)
This is music made with total creative freedom, by a group perpetually evolving. Rather than repeat themselves, A-Sun Amissa continue to carve out their own shadowy corner of the experimental world—one where dread becomes catharsis, and ruin gives way to reverie.
Sons Of Melancholia :: Desert The Non-World EP (Facade Electronics)
With Desert The Non-World, Sons Of Melancholia doesn’t just create music—he crafts environments, scenarios, and subtle emotional shifts. Highly recommended for fans of lowercase ambient, electroacoustic composition, or anyone interested in the outer edges of sonic storytelling.
Slowcream :: dan/s (No.Nine)
If the remaining six tracks of dan/s follow the lead of this opening trio, Slowcream’s return marks a significant chapter not just in his own evolution, but in the broader conversation surrounding contemporary electronic music as a platform for critical, interdisciplinary expression.













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