Experimental Electronic Music
In a musical climate often fleeting, Cottage Industries remains a sanctuary for those who value intricate sonic storytelling. Neo Ouija, now 25 years in, shows no signs of slowing—only deepening its commitment to the craft, its artists, and its audience.
Flyphel emerges as a visionary construct—where Roel Funcken and EXM (Jeroen Bax), both seasoned sculptors of audio intricacy, converge to propel alien percussion into elevated dimensions.
An ambitious and quietly dazzling release, this is ambient music as architecture: expansive, intimate, and brimming with quiet wonder. A standout of 2025, and a testament to two artists in rare alignment.
If there were ever an EP that captured the intricate, ever-shifting rhythm of life through the lens of IDM, this would be it—vivid, alive, and soaring in full, resplendent color.
Through every granular texture and skewed rhythm, Planet Mu reaffirms its place as one of electronic music’s most vital and visionary institutions.
Discarded elements of broken rhythms, volatile drones, and mechanized auditory collisions are hurled together in an anarchic cascade of aural experimentation. Yet from this rubble, something transcendent emerges.
Though it navigates shadowy realms, How to Shoulder the Radiance of Revelations propels itself beyond time—a volatile meditation from some imagined ruin. Radiant in its disintegration, this is dub combusted and reassembled—glowing, feral, and spellbinding in the void.
Something deeper pulses beneath the surface here—Marshall Applewhite deciphers alien transmissions and machine-born structures through Out Through The Mouth, where technoid ruptures ripple around an atmospheric glitchscape.
Though built from machines, the soundworld pulses with something strangely tender, as if translated directly from a dream-state—cinematic, organic, and eerily intimate, flowing with a quiet, uncanny grace.
A culmination of Boddy’s ever-evolving soundcraft, Modulations IV stands as a testament to his lifelong exploration of electronic music and the synths that stitch harmony from chaos. Not just a collection of performances—it’s world-building through sound.
Melody is all but absent, replaced instead by interwoven mechanical filaments that thread each track together. It’s a lattice of IDM-laced circuitry, clanking and whirring toward coherence, like sentient machines in the act of debugging themselves.
