Experimental Electronic Music
Re: Echo Mist Light offers a spellbinding collection of re-imagined pieces based on the initial album by Wahn. This release celebrates the 500th release of the independent imprint, a well-known publisher which cannot be missed by avid followers of adventurous and multifaceted forms of electronic music.
The Precipice is the clearest proof yet that the trust between Boulton and Bax runs deep enough to produce something genuinely singular. It’s the sound of two producers who stopped negotiating with each other and started finishing each other’s sentences.
The Cardboard Falcon is a profoundly vibrant, impressionistic, cinematic, slow-moving, and melodically oriented neoclassical album that will lead the listener to a state of serenity and contemplation.
Intelligent yet playful, We Thought It Was Normal is an assured statement from an artist continuing to refine an already distinctive electronic language.
Mount Analogue is a landmark work from a master artist in tribute to the great chain of influence that goes from one seeker to another, from one artist to another. I consider it another essential clue in my own quest for discovering an applying obscure knowledge.
Always willing to push miles ahead into abstract electronic substructures while reaching back for acid, rave, jungle, breaks, and ultra-low-end vibrations, this is music whose physical impact feels every bit as potent now as it might have in the mid-90s.
Photographic Memory is essentially the city chopped fine until it stops sounding like a city and starts sounding like weather. It’s made to be heard as a continuous mix, but Speake wants you to feel free to dip in and out.
Norway-based producer/musician Karl Endreson’s downtempo electronic project has been active since 2006, purveying nature-inspired soundscapes mixing ambient textures and trip-hop beats with guitar and field recordings, steeped in atmosphere infused with a deep sense of melody and nostalgia.
Field of Coincidence is the debut album documenting the collaboration between LA-based artists Jesse Perlstein (Sontag Shogun, AxOxH) and Michael Robert Chadwick (Fake Sword, Plum Professional), aka Trellis. Perhaps the perception of coincidence can serve as a link to folk psychology and philosophy as well as supernatural, occult, or paranormal claims, psychological reasoning, and the statistical probability of chance events.
Venetian maestro Gigi Masin, active since the early tape era, threads MIDI phrasing with soft techno patterns and submerged tonal layers.
Melting Days is constantly in motion—loops building, layers arriving and dissolving, rhythms surfacing and retreating, and that restlessness is what keeps it from becoming background music. It demands a kind of attention that most ambient records politely decline to ask for. Ten albums in, that quality hasn’t dulled. If anything it’s sharper.
