Once hard to make and harder to find, acid techno’s raw communal spirit is revived in Acid Trip, a deep-dig compilation that reconnects today’s algorithm-lost listeners with the fierce underground legacy of Djax-Up-Beats.
Reviews
Dr. Nojoke :: Cliknopium I EP (CLIKNO)
Dr Nojoke’s Cliknopium 1 on CLIKNO delivers three sleek, dub-tinged minimal techno cuts that channel classic moods while pushing the sound into a crisp, forward-looking club space.
Abul Mogard :: In a Few Places Along the River (Soft Echoes)
With its long-awaited vinyl release via Soft Echoes, In a Few Places Along the River by Abul Mogard emerges as a work of immersive duration and sculpted resonance, where sound unfolds as a patient architecture of depth, silence, and inner attention.
Chris Russell :: Lumen (Spotted Peccary Music)
On Lumen, Chris Russell trades the shadowed tones of Noir (Projekt, 2024) for radiant piano-laced atmospheres that echo his debut Labyrinth on Spotted Peccary Music, crafting eight luminous soundscapes that feel like stepping through a veil into widening light.
V/A :: Insects (Dustopian Frequencies)
These musical works are a good antidote to the all too prevalent use of insecticide in our world. Even science fiction books, where the thinking one could hope, would be expansive and kindly towards other forms of life, has alien enemies represented as “buggers” like in Ender’s Game or all the invasion of bugs happening across the galaxy in Starship Troopers.
Francesco Fabris :: DISPLACES (Bedroom Community)
DISPLACES is an album that I’ll find myself drawn back to, or haunted by over and over, providing sometimes an intimate, intuitive understanding of something bigger than me, and others giving energy from some obscure source, or else… The thrill of not knowing exactly what will only keep expanding.
Spednar / eczem :: .XOR / TXX (Tarantella)
Across two live, fifty-minute transmissions, Spednar and eczem push their machines to the brink, sculpting raw voltage and fractured rhythm into immersive, ever-mutating electronic architecture.
The Horn :: Troglodyte Tracks (Self Released)
Steve Horn returns with Troglodyte Tracks, a taut, hard-hitting set of electro-funk cuts that dig into the roots of machine music while driving it forward with grit and purpose.
Bastian Void :: Polyshades (Moon Villain)
Years on from his tape-wrangling beginnings, with two Japan tours and a cult following behind him, Joseph Bastardo’s mid-2025 release Polyshades should have marked a defining moment for both the artist and the outer edges of electronic music—even if its quiet arrival now makes this praise overdue.
RhaD :: Ghost Music Library (Unexplained Sounds Group)
With RhaD, Raffaele Pezzella fractures memory and signal into a dense, hallucinatory archive where lost transmissions feel disturbingly alive.
John Nap :: C.C.T. (Heterodox)
Across eight meticulously engineered cuts, John Nap’s C.C.T. fuses subterranean bass weight, corroded glitch textures, and restless breakbeat architecture into a sleek, nocturnal system of controlled sonic volatility.
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