Experimental Electronic Music
With a brief look at some notables along the road, Chang Terhune’s Music Mondays aims to shed light on both new and old(er) music over a wide spectrum of sound (and vision). This week, Mahmoud Ahmed—Ethiopian vocalist of Gurage descent born May 8, 1941 in the Mercato district of Addis Ababa.
With Skysleep Interference Works, another kaleidoscope of musical color, the psychedelic IDM maestro returns, fusing organic soundscapes, drifting rhythms, and instrumental electronics once more.
Serving as a hub for creative exploration and positive self-expression, ECU is the go-to independent record label for international talent, delivering top-tier electronic music worldwide.
Signs captures Purelink’s alchemy at its most liquid and immaterial, mapped in mutations of glitch and glass, rhythm and sound, drum and space by turns subdued and subterranean, elevated and remote.
A whirling patchwork of disconnected sound sources and blips that nevertheless work well together.
This week, 2023 Passages: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mars Williams (The Psychedelic Furs), Andy Rourke (The Smiths), Sinead O’Conner, Teresa Taylor (Butthole Surfers), Vivian Trimble (Luscious Jackson), Dave Jolicoeur (Trugoy Dove), and Tom Verlaine (Television).
Otherworldly yet strangely familiar, sometimes sounding oddly more organic than electronic, at once beauteous and mysterious, huge and delicate.
A potent mix of muffled analog acid and ambient accents that flies low to push us through the new year.
