It’s easy enough to get lost in the surreal and mind-numbing speed at which each piece cruises, yet if you dive in just a little farther, a myriad of complex and flickering melodies float just below its roughened edges.
Author: Pietro Da Sacco
Michael Valentine West :: COMMS EP (Polygon Network)
Where broken sound bytes and data crunching tend to blend, the tiniest melodic hiccups transition into densely packed electronics.
K.L.O :: Slow Mode (Colony Productions)
That smudged area between hip-hop, bass music, turntablism, manipulated vocoders, and abstract electronics is where you’ll comfortably find K.L.O’s Slow Mode album.
Wilder Gonzales Agreda :: 1994 EP (Superspace)
Are these opposing sonic forces or perhaps distant stars finding each other in The Milky Way? Ultimately, 1994 is a pleasant sojourn and a tangled mess, and we enjoyed every minute.
Badun :: Dreamers in the System (Leek)
In the same way that graffiti is written, painted, or drawn on a wall or other surface, Badun paints on an audible canvas that is quite flexible and confounding.
Stitxhes :: Lost In Translation EP (Detroit Underground)
Just as quickly as we’re able to visualize Stitxhes’ brooding panoramas, they vanish into thin air with only a few aftershocks to be felt afterwards. Powerful and engaged.
Snowbeasts & Solypsis :: Firelands (Ohm Resistance) — Video premiere
As the artists find their comfort zone in an assemblage of mangled industrial, bass, illbient, techno, downtempo, and even dub, Firelands showcases familiar shadows shifting in the dead of night.
Somaticae :: Présent Perpétuel EP (3OP)
All short pieces and utterly to the point, these brief soundscapes tend to levitate across a broad sonic spectrum where punchy percussive jolts and stabbing rhythms unfold at multiple angles.
4T Thieves :: Nomad’s Requiem (Werra Foxma)
Werra Foxma takes the opportunity to release these audible gems submerged in nostalgic flutter. Opening downtempo strands and melodic loops cascade…
iNFO :: Alkaline Glades (Móatún 7)
Michael Robinson (aka iNFO) has kept himself busy; this time he unveils a nine piece suite for Móatún 7 that continues in Sheffield bleep soundscapes and encompassing more of that 90s-era electronica polish.
Swartz et :: Desert Meditations (Utter East)
Capturing light waves and nostalgia, subtle melodic strands drift and fade away as we’re given the opportunity to let these sounds dissolve and cast their tones and drones upon us.
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