Experimental Electronic Music
The Magic Carpathians Project have released a number of enchanting albums and recordings since 1998, but Khemia, from 2019, is perhaps their most transformative. It pairs well when listened to back-to-back with the new 2024 release Alchemeia from the ever prolific Scanner.
Colin Swenson, a talented audio sculptor from Minneapolis, Minnesota, goes by the name Dollarstore Keyboard and showcases his distinctive sound design in the four-track EP Visitation.
“Lucky Charm” exudes a reflective melody with danceable electronics and broken beats that we’re welcoming with open ears. An utterly refreshing and colorful track.
Renowned German producer and DJ Boris Brejcha, better known as the Joker, allowed us to listen to two teases off their upcoming album, Level One—both are pummeling techno tracks, so I have faith that the full album will be just as serious.
Like Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott, bvdub’s Leaving alludes to the end of a person’s life. The music uses a dark-ambient approach to bring the listener to this point in the present.
The album sounds like an enlargement of the sounds and spaces of their first album, an exploration shared by artists and friends who gravitate around this […]
These themes explore the surprise at finding unexpected joy even at our darkest moments when our worst fears are realized and facing the unique stresses of adulthood by retaining a sense of childlike joy.
Suggesting an exploration of the interplay between geographic spaces and sound, the feeling is of wandering, both in physical and metaphysical senses. The atmosphere fully uses the glitchy modality, like the sound of an old movie, heard underwater, at night.
