Despite Shackleton’s fondness for doomsday scenarios, this is one very uplifting collection. The length and width and breadth and grasp of Shackleton is absolutely equatorial. […]
Tag: Abstract
Shlohmo :: Bad Vibes (Friends Of Friends)
Bad Vibes is a collection of colourful, tinplate toy butterflies, whose hinges creak and fly wheels wind down erratically. [Release page] A member of the genial-sounding […]
Fluorescent Grey :: Ambiente 2005—2012 (Record Label Records)
Just as you begin to somehow digest these strange oscillations, it’s almost as if Fluorescent Grey’s intent was to subliminally confuse the ears as industrialized […]
Jean Piché :: Heliograms (Digitalis)
At first glance you might be expecting another analogue synth-fest, well, nothing could be further from the truth as Heliograms was apparently one of the […]
Xambuca :: Joulupukki (Erototox Decodings)
Each track is a vigorously constructed matrix of beats, flexible but muscled and oiled up, arranged in a lattice of suggestion and ideas. [Release page] […]
Err0r_500 :: Paths that lead to nowhere (Self-Released)
Contemporary-delicate neoclassical sequences blissfully punctuated by thundering-fractal electronic noises. [Release page] Err0r_500 is a French multi-directional ambient post-rockin’ electronic project formed by the sound designer […]
Takaaaki :: Netsu (Rotoreleif)
Focusing more on the voids buried between beat and bass, Takaaaki finds dark crevasses and pulls them up to the surface with a lively, almost […]
Laurel Halo :: Quarantine (Hyperdub)
Halo trowels through a soft soil of idea-rich, melodic self-accompaniment, an impressive display of compositional dexterity, complementing bass and electric piano with a hefty role […]