fydhws captures brittleness within these sonic artifacts with remarkable clarity. While the liner notes illuminate the narrative, sound speaks just as powerfully on its own, mesmerizing through collapse rather than resolution.
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Minimal Audio x EPROM :: Memory Rites
EPROM’s Memory Rites distills his unmistakable approach to sound design into an accessible new plugin format, giving producers a direct entry point into one of electronic music’s most influential sonic worlds.
rRine :: Beautiful Mutation (Self Released)
Beautiful Mutation earns its title in the most understated way possible. Nothing here announces itself as beautiful and nothing announces itself as mutated, but somewhere in the combination of degraded textures, swelling pads, and fractured rhythms, something emerges that is unmistakably both.
Entidad Animada :: Pequeño clima doméstico (Umor Rex)
Pequeño clima doméstico is radically atmospheric: it blends equally well with the sounds of traffic or chirping birds, with a slow Sunday morning with a book or with the Monday after sending emails while working from home, and is sure to improve any of these moments in a humble but powerful way.
James Bernard :: In A Small Room, Decades Ago (Past Inside The Present)
In A Small Room, Decades Ago sounds like a return to the exact point where ambient ceased to be background and became consciousness. A warm, immersive, necessary record, engraved with the care of one who knows that certain machines, when listened to with love, still preserve the heartbeat of those who first switched them on.
zakè, Ossa, ASC :: Microliths and Momentary Drifts (Zakè Drone)
Overall, Monoliths and Momentary Drifts stands as more than mere sequel to Syntheticopia, in line with ELM pioneers’ future basing, redolent not so much of machines of loving grace as of a sort of more beautiful human life, albeit ever anchored to earthly reality.
Abul Mogard / Rafael Anton Irisarri :: Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun (Black Knoll Editions)
Mogard and Irisarri sign a compact, intense work, capable of giving sonic matter an almost moral dimension, a request for attention toward the deep time of listening. The album advances like a great dark current crossed by inner gleams, and delivers music that seems shaped through slow fire, patience, rigor, vision. Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun is one of the highest proofs of their creative alliance, a work in which density becomes light and light, at last, acquires weight.
Kid Bucle :: Memorabilia EP (Isness/Analogical Force)
Isness, the label’s sister imprint focused on more atmospheric and introspective electronics, arrives at its third release with Memorabilia EP, introducing Kid Bucle—the new alias of Ibrah PM, previously known as Malsum within the drum and bass scene. It marks both his debut on the label and the start of a new chapter, working out of Valencia, Spain.
Third Person :: Third Person (R&S)
For over four decades, R&S Records has built its reputation on championing music that redraws the boundaries of electronic sound, making Third Person’s remarkable debut feel less like a surprise than the label’s latest leap into the unknown.
Earth Trax :: Everlasting Flame (Lapsus)
Earth Trax delivers an engrossing ambient techno record that thrives on deep bass, dub textures, and remarkably fluid pacing. Equal parts hypnotic and atmospheric, Everlasting Flame is a modern take on the genre that rewards a full, uninterrupted listen.
Scorn-Fury :: Outside the limits of Your Sight (Rednetic)
Outside the limits of Your Sight arrives as something closer to an exploratory document than a straight club record, and the opener makes that clear immediately. It doesn’t set you up for what you’d expect, instead it eases in with something eerie and ambient, almost hesitant, like a producer deliberately withholding the more familiar version of himself to see how long you’ll follow.
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Minimal Audio x EPROM :: Memory Rites
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Entidad Animada :: Pequeño clima doméstico (Umor Rex)
James Bernard :: In A Small Room, Decades Ago (Past Inside The Present)
zakè, Ossa, ASC :: Microliths and Momentary Drifts (Zakè Drone)
Abul Mogard / Rafael Anton Irisarri :: Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun (Black Knoll Editions)
Kid Bucle :: Memorabilia EP (Isness/Analogical Force)
