Anthropology Vols. 2 & 3 has about it a melancholic cast, more rainy-day Autumnal evening than sun-dappled Aestival afternoon. A review of Anthropology Vol. 1 (2009) prompted this […]
Reviews
Drop Logik :: Phase Lift EP (Plastic Sound Supply)
Nestled between cohesive electronics, hip-hop, glitch, jazz and bass lies this vaporous extended player making its way into a meandering calm stream. Magnetic waves spinning […]
Polyklinik :: Mental Market EP (Bedroom Research)
This blend of abstract hip-hop should not work—its beats so thoroughly exhausted by the Brainfeeder crew and deconstructed by its heirs—but Polyklinik’s variations are rich […]
Xu & Rooms Delayed :: Seaweeds (Triple Moon)
An overwhelming contemplative drone ambient release and a truly absorbing excursion through intimate and delicate process music. The young and independent net-label Triple Moon presents […]
Assalti Industriali :: Assalto Primero (Instruments of Discipline)
This is hammer and horror material, tracks that have grown out of the industrial traditions without becoming subsumed into the duller side of modern Techno. […]
Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens :: JWS (Self-Released)
Disjointed data slivers, fractured melodic breezes, microscopic chants, rhythmic mechanics, weaving low-end glitch, modular buzzing, broken beats and crumpled downtempo all seem to converge on […]
Pascal Savy :: Adrift (Eilean Rec.)
Savy’s pieces strike an interstellar chord, evoking distant static interference, coldness, rotation, darkness, and sudden but brief illumination. The first sounds of Pascal Savy‘s Adrift […]
D-Fried :: Peak Shift Effect (Clean Error)
In a way, D-Fried’s Peak Shift Effect, rewards the listener willing to lose her or himself in the beautifully painted electronic landscapes Saludes so graciously […]
Displacer :: Electric Dreams (The Crime League)
An assured and mature sound that manages to rescue IDM from its solipsistic focus on conceptual electronica. Displacer’s Electric Dreams is an often dark, moody […]
Everyday Dust :: The Principality of Dustland (Sparkwood)
Everyday Dust has achieved a record replete with stimulating visuals, haunting quality, and lasting impact. I have listened to Everyday Dust’s The Principality of Dustland somewhere in […]
Dissolved :: Temporal Breathing (Self-Released)
Bits and bytes tethered into abstract yet wondrous data streams; Temporal Breathing is laced with memorable audible fractures as dark and light hues pepper the […]
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