This is music pushing impetus and intention to the extreme, gluing together gorilla-XX fury, experimentation and possibility at the very tip of collapsibility and ruin, remaining just faithful enough to sanity to preserve its musical heart.
Author: Will Dawkins
CURSES :: Next Wave Acid Punx TROIS! (Eskimo)
I can assure you there is no greater telling of a chapter of electronic history, set in a modern context, than this collection. A brand-new decade in retro colours, still vibrating with the naïve possibility that perhaps this time the future really would be different. Whether it was the intention to set out to communicate these themes, Acid Punx 3 did that to me. For me. Great job.
The 89th Passenger :: Hidden Soul EP (Analogical Force)
Analogical Force has long occupied the productive tension between experimentation and the dancefloor’s accumulated memory. Hidden Soul sits firmly within that tension, fluent in its established language and meticulously composed. But perhaps the most exciting possibility lies just beyond that fluency: not abandoning the listener, but trusting them enough to take the familiar somewhere unfamiliar.
Ekzon :: Ambient Series Volume 2 (Self Released)
In a world increasingly obsessed with acceleration, Ekzon offers something altogether more radical—the opportunity to pause, listen, and feel the architecture of the moment dissolve gently into light.
IXRQ :: Form & Fashion EP (SEQ:RUN)
For fans of CPU, Carl Finlow and electro’s wider continuum, IXRQ’s command of the language will be immediately apparent. But this isn’t simply reverence for what has been. These are familiar components arranged with enough curiosity to remind us that electro’s future has never been about inventing the machine. It’s about continuing to find new things for it to say.
Leo :: Cicada Burnt EP (Peak Oil)
Leo’s latest six-track EP, Cicada Burnt, is a stunningly crafted collection of teknoid soundscapes where cutting-edge pulses scatter love bullets of intent with serious depth, weight and imagination.
IKKo :: Cheerleader EP (Roulette Rekordz)
Nicolas Ladoux returns as IKKo with Cheerleader, a five-track release that continues his exploration of neo-industrial electronics through a distinctly European lens.
Tricky :: Different When It’s Silent (False Idols)
Tricky turns the difficult stuff into sound rather than sermon, and the result is an album that feels less like an elegy than a deeply lived affirmation of being here. No, not a return to form. The form was never abandoned. Instead, a deeply resonant expression of a singular experience eventually known finally by all. Alpha to Omega.
Kyo Na :: Sound Waves EP (Wol)
Across five neat pieces evoking introductions, mountains, flow, waves and threads of home, Kyo Na conjures conceptual atmospheres that remain suggestive rather than literal.
In Rotation :: The May–July 2026 Dispatch
In Rotation across the past several weeks and months, this multi-view column surveys a shifting electronic landscape shaped by bold and forward-thinking artists. Expect fractured rhythms, glitch aesthetics, abstract experimentation, mechanical precision, industrial pressure, melodic detours, and bass-heavy electro transmissions from Alavux, Annie Hall, Delta Division, Koloah, Low Battery Orchestra, Modul, neuroboy, Nocto, R.I.O.T, Trofusin, and Voltaire.
Nathan Fake :: Hypercube EP (InFiné)
The inclusion of the original album version closes the circle, reaffirming the strength of a composition capable of surviving such radical reinterpretation. Not merely a remix package, but a study in how distinctive source material can continue evolving without losing its identity.
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