With two tracks spanning over 15-minutes each, exm creates vast, expansive, and utterly engaging worlds filled to the brim with magnetically charged rhythms that clatter and break apart.
Netherlands-based Jeroen Bax (aka exm) might be a recognized name on the Touched Music imprint and many self-releases, but he’s also just release a mind-boggling extended player for Germany’s Kaer’Uiks available as cassette and digital. As one of IDM’s leaders in the abstract-electronic arena, exm continues in his mission extract every possibly sound from his arsenal.
With two tracks spanning over 15-minutes each, Bax creates vast, expansive, and utterly engaging worlds filled to the brim with magnetically charged rhythms that clatter and break apart. Not unlike what most have come to expect from Booth’n Brown, exm creates captivating soundscapes made from a plethora of organic, almost lifelike structures that transform over time.
The title-track expands and contracts with disjointed and meandering melodies that eventually taper into noisier, glitch-infested mayhem in its final minutes—an evolving trip from start to finish. “19451663,” on the other hand, runs rampant with cascading modular blips and bleeps that rip apart to showcase its skittering electrical beauty. And this is what makes exm’s style so compelling—his use of wide-open spaces allows each sonic element to build off the last as his audience loses track of time in a surreal and vibrant audio manifest.
01411635 is available on Kaer’Uiks.
