While the futuristic sci-fi tropes are not uncommon in the electro genre as a whole, they are rarely so tastefully integrated into meaningful abstract sound motion without feeling forced or pasted on.
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Music Within :: Interwoven (Self Released)
“Music is also an opportunity to take listeners on a guided journey over a period of time. In the same way that an author can transport a reader to a specific place in their mind, so too can music transport listeners.” ~ Rob McAllister / Music Within
Roel Funcken :: Data Curation (EC Underground)
Rarely adhering to one rhythmic construct within the confines of a song, individual phrases are crafted to their logical conclusion with real thought as to what should come next.
Ion Driver :: Sustain EP (Self Released)
Sustain is a baffling collection maneuvering through the vastness of glitch-space and seamless, cinematic sound design.
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan :: Districts, Roads, Open Space (Castles In Space)
Overall, D, R, O S makes for a diverting work of wry mischief-making social comment in sonic documentary clothing couched in ’70s/80s library sonics and retro-fit synthesis.
Burial :: Streetlands EP (Hyperdub)
Burial shows he’s unafraid of forging ahead even if it strays from his hits. This is aural cinematography created by a master storyteller working not in words but in sound itself.
Beyond the Clones :: Moon Bird (Self Released)
It’s all here, as subdued as it can ever be. Beyond the Clones doesn’t outright produce music that hits you in the face, but rather, massages our subconscious.
Tim Story :: Rust Smudges (Dais)
Each composition on Rust Smudges progresses ever so gradually, filling space while suspending time.
Desensitized :: Chaos in Premonition (Spotted Peccary)
Well, maybe there are some ghosts waiting for you, but nothing to hold the rest of us back. Tis all reliably strange. What does music sound like after death? Chaos in Premonition.
Lokom :: Vor Reflex EP (EC Underground)
Broken bass and electronified hip-hop sounds are in full force with Lokom’s latest for EC Underground as Vor Reflex exudes funk and glitch elements torn to shreds.
Philippe Blache :: The Ever Sounding Sea Of Grief (GH)
The Ever Sounding Sea Of Grief delivers frozen sculptures of electronic ambient where bleakness, austerity and sublimity rise from a grainy, tumultuous and rumbling sea of noises, drones and textures.









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