Overall, Satellite Era offers a surreal foray into the brittle electronic landscape of the past while forging straight ahead into the next decade with their Distant Arrays series.
A surreal foray into brittle electronic landscapes
Distant Arrays Volume 01 is the first edition of Satellite Era‘s new various artist series that “aims to diversify their collection of experimental IDM and club music.”
Within these four tracks, the label pulls all the stops via erratic and off-center pieces that twist and contort with precision. Such is the case with Istanbul-based Fosil where his “Retiform” contribution trickles through broken breaks, syncopated beats and low-end finesse. The Phoenix-based multimedia artist Tsone offers crunchy clicks’n cuts and synth washes on “SibDC” as Montreal’s Gonima cools things off with “Flashcore”—a delectable electronic mixture that merges ambient strands with sizzling beatwork from IDM of yesteryear. Closing with Portland’s Naudible, he remixes Roel Funcken’s “Newt Scamander” and forges a pathway carved from drill’n bass textures, deformed rhythmic weaving, and plush sequencing that seeks to elevate the original to a higher plane.
Overall, Satellite Era offers a surreal foray into the brittle electronic landscape of the past while forging straight ahead into the next decade with their Distant Arrays series. Highly recommended for fans of early Musik Aus Strom artists such as Funkstörung, Crunch, Quench, Funckarma, Aemic, Autophonic et al.
Distant Arrays Volume 01 is available on Satellite Era. [Bandcamp]
