Adykt is representative of the continuous growth of experimental electronic music and where it can take us, the listener. And for all those beautifully disjointed sonic shapes and forms that engulf us, Dyadik remains on the right track.
Variety in all its alluring electronic shapes and forms
Bleep techno and leftfield electronics finds a new home on the freshly minted Dyadik imprint with three releases now under their belt. This time 100 limited edition double CDs are housed in a transparent jewel case and compiled by none other than Touched Music founder Martin Boulton (aka Min-Y-Llan) who also offers the sandblasted / vocally glitched hip-hop flavor of “Oliver Sutton, We On” as WRNR’s “Who Is There” and John Tejada’s “All That’s Left” glide through serene minimal techno fields. If there’s a word for Adykt, it’s variety in all its alluring electronic shapes and forms.
Elsewhere you’ll find more downtempo textures courtesy of Z-Arc and Drøn, while Buspin Jieber’s “Never Say These Words” dips into galactic technoid disco as does HRYM on “Heimferd” and the braindance pulse of The Gasman’s “If You Had One.” There are crisped, crunchy, and corrosive tunes highlighting Adykt‘s penchant for movement based and dance floor prone tunes—have a listen to Auberg1e, IDGlitch, Komarebi, Weld, and DTACK (remixed by Carbinax) as prime examples. But it doesn’t stop there.
Darker moods are explored via ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ’s “Foldable Micro Sandwich” as well as dialed’s bass-smeared breaks and Plaid-styled melodics rolling by on “The Cat’s Whiskers.” Bursting ambient bubbles and contemplative shades evolve thanks to siNq, MⒶ, Mint, and Murya. Blistered drill’n bass versus glitch shift on the aptly titled “Breaks and Morphoids” by the ever dependable Karsten Pflum and Serge Geyzel’s flickering beatwork on “Distance.” Then there’s the heavier bass infused techno avalanche by Urban Meditation (remixed by Pushkin) that simply doesn’t let up start to finish.
With all of the contributors offering there take on rhythmic and creative sound structures that expand to their breaking points, it’s exm’s “Kolder” that opens (and could have also closed) Adykt with perhaps the most emotionally engaged ambient electronica track of 2021. Hazy and cool to the touch, “Kolder” offers looped and delicately textured ivory keys that drift by as low-pressure bass tones and drones paint a vividly nostalgic landscape. Personal and reflective for those who take the time to experience it, exm quite simply delivers an astounding and powerful slice of life that could run for an infinity.
Adykt is representative of the continuous growth of experimental electronic music and where it can take us, the listener. And for all those beautifully disjointed sonic shapes and forms that engulf us, Dyadik remains on the right track.
Adykt is available on Dyadik. [Bandcamp]
