Maneuvering through dilapidated ambient-electronics, alien concrète reverberations and clicks’n’cuts, data swirl and digital flutter.
Reviews
Gilbert :: Shift the Focus EP (030303)
Gilbert pulls on a range of influences and inspirations without ever allowing his style to become overly nostalgic or specific. Instead, he employs a fluency of composition that brings a real uniqueness to his sound.
Drape :: Forage/Presence (Infraction)
Clear space there may be between early and late Drape—Forage staying smaller, up-closer, Presence going wider and higher, post-production lending granularity to instrumentation…
Onepointwo :: Frequencies (noci miste)
Radio broadcasts, air traffic control, music from another era—get trapped and swirled in with the communications of vast and disparate alien cultures…
Scanner :: The Homeland of Electricity (DiN)
Cohesive from beginning to end, Scanner’s second release for the DiN label does not disappoint—especially if you are into moody atmospheric sound experiments that defy categorization.
Autechre :: Chiastic Slide & LP5 reissues (Warp)
…I like to think of Chiastic Slide and LP5 as the last albums Autechre made on planet Earth before gliding into another dimension.
OdNu :: My Own Island (Audiobulb)
Guitar flickers intertwine with delicate synth tones and drones on My Own Island. It’s a creative surplus of dense yet minimalist extractions that call out to nature; an organic overflow of simplicity.
Kenneth James Gibson :: Groundskeeping (Meadows Heavy Recorders)
The grounds are vast and somber, the groundskeeper has unlimited access to the universe of the night, rich keyboard-string intonations, slow dark moods, atmospheric with rare moments…