A beautifully chilling droning leitmotif, occasionally betrayed by a too few many sound effects—clacking train tracks, mobile phones, a cat meowing. Very creepy rooms, filled […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Infinite Particles :: Infinite Particles (Reverb Worship)
Plainly evocative of first night, then day, first deep underground, then scented meadow air, their self-titled debut is docile and pliant but stands at a […]
Tastatur :: Electric Lounge Machine (Everest)
As dance music, it is robotic and demands a sense of humor as well as balance; as brain music, its lithe synthesizer modulations stimulate and […]
Ulaan Markhor :: Ulaan Markhor (Soft Abuse)
This self-titled album is the work of one Steven R. Smith, a Californian who has been recording since the mid-nineties and has previously explored East […]
Christiaan Virant :: Fistful of Buddha (CVMK)
Fistful of Buddha is also yet another articulation in the continued evolution of the original Buddha Machine, which in its fourth-generation edition features loops extracted […]
Marc Barreca :: Tremble (Palace of Lights)
Tremble comes at you like a cloud of bacteria, nigh impossible to distinguish specific elements. Its only purpose is to move, spread, collide, and thrive. […]
Rioteer / Urbanfailure / Gotharman / Axiomid :: Instant Satisfunction (Urbsounds)
Water and wine or oil and water? It swishes around—each artist has at least one very strong, very memorable track, but swallowed whole, all the […]
Osmiroid :: Double review (Self-Released)
There is not so much a defining sound as a characteristic approach that serves as a crucible to shape and distort hearts and minds as […]
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