Detroit-based Chris Todd has been at his craft for several years, venturing through an amalgam of dark and crunchy electronics, yet with this collection we see the artist lighten things up.
Author: Pietro Da Sacco
Mtch :: Pleth (Self Released)
Pleth sees a plethora of perplexing tracks expanding and contracting as Mtch (aka Mitch Cramer) dissolves hundreds of glitch morsels and recombines them into alien transmissions.
Tusk Mite :: P H ▽ T I S M S (Concrete Collage)
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.
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…
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