exm (Jeroen Bax) returns with F T, a 29-minute continuous composition that blurs the line between structure and entropy. Immersive and ever-morphing, it unfolds as a single, hypnotic current of glitch, melody, and abstract machinery—an intricate study in controlled sonic chaos.
Electronic alchemy in motion
An unraveling begins with F T, a 29-minute immersion bound into a single continuous arc—an extended dispatch from one of electronic music’s most deft architects of sonic complexity. exm, the alias of Jeroen Bax, returns with a slow-burning release that channels distant, abstract machinery into a churning, otherworldly transmission.
Through warped contours and ever-shifting structures, the piece mutates—glitches bloom and fade, granular noise dances across intricate surfaces, evoking something both ancient and artificially enhanced. Composed of seamlessly interlocked movements, it flows like a fevered dream: disjointed, unpredictable, yet strangely coherent. Midway through, bent vocal fragments surface and dissolve, folding into rhythms that crackle and twitch beneath flickers of melody and unstable percussive bursts.
As minutes pass, tonal shifts expand the soundscape—from shimmering ambient techno pulses to hushed, corrosive beauty; from industrial echoes of imagined futures to weightless drifts through deep space. Bax meticulously assembles layers of melodic residue, and breathing glitch-scapes into a structure that resists collapse, despite its volatility.
The result is a sprawling, meticulously disordered journey—a living, electronic organism in constant transformation, pulling the listener into its orbit of beautifully orchestrated chaos.
F T is available on Bandcamp.
