Experimental Electronic Music
Welcomed by the superb quiet details label—responsible for classics in sculpted minimalist and lush dronescapes—Weeds is an other captivating, perfectly executed, and subtly moving, serene, granular sound experience for day-dreaming and serious meditative inner levitations affected by lonesome souls.
Caesura is a very listenable production, with consistent compositions and solid mastering; several familiar classical and acoustic sounds are infused all around.
On this two-tracker for Adepta Editions, Yaporigami (aka Yu Miyashita), a master sound sculptor, wraps distressed melodic landscapes with such strongly engulfing electronic structures that decompose before our very eyes.
Ecotone is a beautiful, serene, delicate, and compelling soundtrack which operates a great dialogue between contemporary classical and microtonal music with an electronic edge.
Sacred Sorceress reveals a great dose of ideas and subtle variations, navigating between pure electronic minimal abstraction, evanescent meditative flows, to more grounded monolithic rock riffs. Some spoken words and a vast array of samples are also used to reinforce the cinematic aspect and to make it more impactful.
Raw Øblations 3: Fed to the Crows is a short sharp shock of an EP by Sombre Lux.
Modular mayhem maestro Syl Kougaï makes a comeback with his Modular Series • Season-02 and the title of the first four episodes—A Journey into Organic Chaos—is fitting as it seamlessly takes us on a voyage through “reality-warping” soundscapes, industrial tropes, and crumpled electronic trails.
Two seasoned musicians covering upper atmospheric realms offer a reassuring, charming, yet fleeting escape with New Dawn.
The duo’s exceptional ability to create gritty compositions, minuscule glitch shapes, and abstract vocal data streams, all coalesce in The Longer Morrow, a potent auditory collection.
Whether it’s the soulful nature of his vocal samples, or the lush and downtempo beats that give it all a skeleton to cascade off of, or the exquisite synthetic textures throughout, Bvdub has found his vein of gold and continues to mine it without relent.
Snippets from the past carry distinct audio aromas, and varying balances of bitter, sweet and bold, here interfused with new touches. On Wadham Lodge, many moods have been coalesced, balanced and optimized to bring out nuanced sonic flavors.
