With ambient synth swells, hardened glitch-mechanics, crunchy and ethereal soundscapes’n scrapes, Island Flux Remixes continues to be a magnetically charged giant drifting on IDM waters.
Reviews
illocanblo :: Liminal Rhythms (EC Underground)
The initial EP showcases the Russians’ skill at odd blips, bleeps, and low end manipulation as well as acid breaks and pulsing electro hijinks in full gear. A stand-alone and exceptional EP, the remix compilation that follows is equally perplexing.
Bovaflux :: Strange Tales (mindcolormusic / [d]-tached)
Symons’ skillful sonic reconfiguration and melancholy rhythms are as sugary as anything we’ve heard recently, serving as a soundtrack to a bygone era, and Strange Tales stands tall as a pinnacle effort.
The Boneless One & Real Motherfuckers Don’t Talk Shit! :: The Split EP (Detachment)
These aren’t tracks to set the mind to, this is body music to lose yourself and your troubles in. Forget it all in the wail of the TB303.
Hexalyne / Lain :: Evel 46 (Evel)
The tiniest particles and granular rhythms here are seductive and as abstract as ever, but it’s the evenly dispersed ambient threads that hold the disparate parts together so effectively.
V/A :: Artist Showcase – 4th Edition (Point Source Electronic Arts)
The Artist Showcase series offers a community of like-minded sonic sculptors a platform to present their enigmatic but perplexing structures for the world to interpret.
Ital Tek :: Timeproof (Planet Mu)
Timeproof simply functions as a gloomy and spacious soundtrack to lost planets thanks to the static fizz-fuzz sounds and bewitching textures that Ital Tek carefully extracts from his machines.
Hidden Orchestra :: To Dream is to Forget (Lone Figures)
Brisk and bumpy electronica is submerged in organic soundscapes and sonic vistas that appear out of nowhere.
Recent Posts
Music Mondays 014 :: Jazz Hands
Aseq :: Thrones (KOMBINE)
Panopticum :: Multisensory Metaphors EP (Polygon Network)
Rudy Adrian :: Beyond the Sleepy Hills (Spotted Peccary Music)
rinse.repeat :: A New Braindance Era EP (Clean Error)
CHXFX :: Rafter Castanets (Plastic Horse)
Lucus :: Vectorising (Adventurous Music)
Maps and Diagrams :: Islands (Handstitched*)
