Experimental Electronic Music
The IDM association is inevitable, but the record’s appeal lies in the way its intricate programming and psychedelic synthesis suggest not the familiar mechanics of the genre, but the cold expanse of galaxies, the silence between stars and the strange beauty of things drifting without destination.
Rusuden’s achievement lies in an exceptionally intelligent sonic vocabulary, where beauty emerges through melody, ambience, texture, tone and timbre. Fat bass thumps underpin shimmering synthesizer sonics, while accessible neo-funk grooves provide the connective tissue for twelve assured, mature compositions.
The original remains the gravitational center, its melancholic beauty providing the connective tissue between these contrasting approaches. Four perspectives, one expansive vision, and enough rhythmic invention to keep the whole thing moving. All quite delicious.
Across the fourteen tracks, CRACKS rejects reducing human suffering to mere political rhetoric or grandiose powerplay spectacles. Instead, the musical and tonal dissonance and innate musical human tenderness become a language of resistance, demonstrating how experimental music such as here can bear witness to the ills of vulnerable people’s once seen as commodities.
Molecular Recordings delivers two uncompromising statements of hard-edged techno, with Ma Haiping’s Velocity Unlocked and a six-track compilation (Structure Series 3) putting the focus squarely on relentless kicks, pressure-cooked grooves, and music built to flatten a dancefloor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’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.
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