Often paralleled among artists such as Richard Devine, Xanopticon, and Qebrus, the Chicago native tilts sound forms into a microcosm of glitch and mechanical gaps, exposing what is arguably the pinnacle of his discography.
Author: Pietro Da Sacco
Huxion :: Huxion (ata:empire)
The subdued ambient techno strands and melodic rhythms oscillate back and forth with thoughtfully placed atmospheric pulses, creating a sound as hazy as time itself.
Abu Ama + BedouinDrone :: Dawlat Lībiyyā (Mahorka)
After years of honing their craft, Bulgaria’s Mahorka releases their debut vinyl Dawlat Lībiyyā, produced by Abu Ama + BedouinDrone.
D-Fried :: The Spirit of the Young Poets (See Blue Audio)
The scene is full of muted blips and bleeps hidden beneath a multitude of waves that gently rise and fall, occasionally dipping into distant echoes of light and evolving drone tones.
Panopticum :: Apophenia EP (Nenormalizm)
Ultimately an EP that references early IDM years, including “connection” points such as Proem, Ochre, The Flashbulb, and Bad Loop—it’s succinctly mechanical and utterly balanced front to back.
Marco Simioni :: FOMO (Detroit Underground)
Another incredibly surreal album of cutting-edge experimental electronic music from a gifted sound design artist.
Esthetic & Reac-Zo :: Torii EP (Onset Audio)
Torii is a potent sonic transmission that is reminiscent of early Einóma, Traject, and Atiq & EnK where deconstructed tribal grooves are balanced over compacted beatwork and dark bass troves.
Affluencer :: aux4439 (mindcolormusic)
In its ten sonic Polaroids, which are wide and bursting with life, there are cracked clip-hop moments as well as early Skam and Toytronic days of murky electrical flows and brittle lullaby mechanics.
Valance Drakes :: Hate Devours Its Host (Amek Collective)
Definitely a planned voyage submerged in hundreds of warped electrical sound fields and swirling auditory debris, this is a mechanical and alien bombardment of the senses.
V/A :: Errormatic Vol.3 (Clean Error)
Clean Error have consistently been at the top of the heap; releasing experimental, glitch, ambient, and abstract IDM as the Errormatic series, which is now on volume 3, reveals an 11-track exploration while also acting as its own unique sphere of influence.
exm :: that little one in the corner (Waxing Crescent)
A massive, constantly expanding, throbbing brain that flickers through roughened Autechrean terrain and breaks up into hundreds of fragments as it passes into the subconscious.
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