As a rule, Collage takes place somewhere up in the air. The ambient Collage assembled by Kadzuki Ikegaya opens with “Hourglass,” the hissing of summer lawns maintained by […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Aabzu :: It Came from Outer Space (Zoharum)
A hyperglycemic sci-fi adventure with a bracing mixture of beats and a soupçon of dub. Laptop shenanigans. A hyperglycemic sci-fi adventure with a bracing mixture of beats and a soupçon of […]
Paralelo :: Berlin Wall of Sound (UNOIKI)
Paralelo’s streamlined melodicism and tactile beats are slick in a way that makes their wall of sound easy to sidle up to and enjoy. In […]
Joux Joux vs Gerald Fiebig & Alexander Möckl :: Private Transport (Angstroehre RMX) (Attenuation Circuit)
Strokes against the grain, raising pleasant hackles and the level of distortion while adding dabs of what seems like nocturnal pneumatic roadworks. Private Transport (Angstroehre RMX) […]
Fatima Al Qadiri :: Asiatisch (Hyperdub)
Al Qadiri’s take is indeed spare and spacious but not so very bass rich, a pop music westernized with melodramatically sweeping and bleating synths and […]
Sayaconcept :: Nara (Asadoya Yunta) (Bit-Phalanx)
On this debut single by a singular Japanese duo, the three-stringed shamisen leads light, caressing vocals by the hand beneath the shade of subtle electronics […]
Offthesky & Radere :: The Season of Lost Buttons (Wistrec)
Jason Corder and Carl Ritger have joined to compose an ambient suite of Melvillian proportions, big, American and adventurous, even though its eccentric title sounds more appropriate […]
Tomonari Nozaki :: Une histoire de bleu (Invisible Birds)
Five möbius strips curving into ambient eternity. Prefacing the four, quarter-hour “chapters” of Tomonari Nozaki’s Une histoire de bleu are one hundred and sixty four […]