Overflowing robust beatwork and rugged melodic strands are featured start to end. If Toytronic was the go-to imprint for brittle and punchy IDM of the past, […]
Reviews
Anemone Tube :: In the Vortex of Dionysian Reality (Blossoming Fern)
Cohesive, intriguing, inspiring and worth to be listened for fans of death industrialism, as well as subterranean dark ambient. Blossoming Fern are new comers in […]
Geotic :: Abysma (Ghostly International)
There’s never a dull moment on Abysma, and casting it as “passive listening” does it a bit of a disservice, in fairness. It’s a magical […]
Pattern Behavior :: Omens (The Crime League)
Omens immediately catches the attention. Musically it brings to the fore a series of menacing and enthralling cinematic ambiences with a clear 80s retro feel. Pattern […]
Monoform :: Mea Culpa (Touched Music)
Monoform crafts definitive basslines, mechanized beatwork, and slightly chilled-ambient noodling—consistently leaning on distant, dense and mysterious/melodic sonic sculpting. Yet another benchmark release by Touched (Music For […]
Nickolas Mohanna :: Chroma (Karlrecords)
Chroma illustrates a disjointed 8-pc sonic tapestry, one that is sewn together by extraterrestrial acoustics making for a perplexing experience. Fuzzy, abstract and discordant noises are […]
Aegri Somnia :: Endtime Psalms (Cryo Chamber)
A convincing corpus of intoxicating, dystopian and lugubrious alien soundscapes that could be used as a representative soundtrack for adventurous and futuristic metaphysical movies by […]
Valesmere :: 2xc_Castle (Daddy Tank)
2xc_Castle is soul-driven, acid-etched, machine music, one that encapsulates layers upon layers of subdued harmonics, and leaves only dust particles in its path. Valesmere is […]
Techno’s Outer Limits :: April 2017
First transmission of 2017 from Techno’s Twilight Zone of EPs/12″s and LP, with notes in the margins. https://youtu.be/COnuKIvWZks James Shaw, the artist known as Sigha, we’re told […]
Eff Dst :: Blackout (Hymen)
Dense, fluid, and evolved, piano keys embark on soundtrack-driven environments as a propulsive bass assault shimmies its way throughout. Somewhere in the mist between foggy, […]
P è n i n ș o l a r :: Interrum (Clean Error)
A leftfield electronic pendulum that slices through the genre range including subterranean glitch-techno, and a medley of articulated sonic effects. P è n i n […]
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