exm manages to dive into blissful sound design elements that at once sound mechanical and arcane but somehow also exude emotivly magnetic attractions.
Tag: Abstract
Chaircrusher :: Stars Have Fallen (Triplicate)
Taking us back to early DeFocus, Delsin and Neo Ouija days where lightly sprinkled electronics birthed IDM’s trajectory into melodic and blissful moments, Chaircrusher captures familiar terrain with luminous sonic bubbles.
Roel Funcken :: S1.MK2 (Self Released)
By pushing and pulling on a vast tapestry of textured noises and glittery soundscapes, the exploratory nature of this album is offset by its attention to nuanced, imprecise and sparkling electronic flutter.
Terror Peaks :: Terror Peaks EP (MOTR)
Each piece contains enough content and creative fuel to keep our attention zoned in while shards of electro, breaks, and technoid forms are exposed with jazzier outer layers.
Fxbip :: Choke / Ame Polaire (Concrete Collage)
Fxbip shatters preconceived notions of nonsensical experimentation and instead focuses on unique (even if a bit turbulent) concrete sound collages that bend, flex, and splinter with a punctuated sheen.
Seigo Aoyama :: On The Drift (Audiobulb)
Darker strands mix with lightened pitter-patter tones that simply fade away. These unusually magnetic sonic traverses detail organic, nostalgic, and atmospheric forays that should be absorbed as a whole to even begin to capture its aural glow.
mōshonsensu :: Solemn Grandeur EP (Abstrakt Reflections)
If mōshonsensu wanted to capture that certain IDM soundscape from yesteryear, he certainly hits the target with Solemn Grandeur.
M. Rahn :: The Lost Archives (Seasides on Postcards)
The musical pieces are largely built on obsessional, flexible and fluidistic loops which generate a psy-trance like effect on the listener, it is immersive, gloomy, […]
Colin Dyer :: return null; EP (Schematic Music Co.)
Broken, sliced, diced and laser-blasted electronics aside—here we find Colin Dyer gravitate towards the outer edges of breakcore experimentation. Skittering beats, bass, ricocheting melodies and […]
C Mantle :: Anatomically Correct (Acre)
C Mantle’s unique ability to truncate strangely captivating angular exp-electro soundscapes—and swiftly obliterate them often at the same time—assures us that every scratch, screech, crunch, […]
















