This month we present a powerful two-hour excerpt from a four-hour session recorded with my friend and outstanding musician Paul Smith—aka Leonid—captured live at Nuevo Montacargas, showcasing his signature blend of acid ambient, bleep, electro, house, and techno from the softer edges of each genre.
Tag: Abstract
Noumen :: Altum (Central Processing Unit)
Andriy Vezdenko’s Noumen elevates Altum into a singular realm, where fractured rhythms, lush downtempo, and meticulously sculpted IDM converge into a dazzling, otherworldly journey.
Scanner :: Forces, Reactions, Deflections (quiet details)
Scanner’s Forces, Reactions, Deflections distills three decades of restless sonic curiosity into a quietly breathtaking work that proves Robin Rimbaud is still redefining how — and how deeply — we listen.
syringeee :: Plateau EP (Weirdrum) — [concise]
Daniil Chernov’s Plateau EP surges through six abstract, timbre-rich sound sculptures that morph from drone-fuzz murmurs to cinematic swells and fractured rhythmic architectures, culminating in a bloom of distorted yet delicate beauty.
Shubharun Sengupta :: Interstices (Printiig) — [concise]
Forged from molten noise and fractured signals, Interstices erupts as a singular ascent through glitch-scarred rhythms and microscopic sonic debris, compressing six turbulent extractions into one tightening, otherworldly pulse.
Dubree :: Ratio et Сaritas (Mestnost)
Time becomes a resonant vessel in Dubree’s Ratio et Caritas, carrying listeners through nostalgia, memory, and forward-moving emotion in one continuous, reflective current.
Windscreen Strings :: Prototype (Self Released) — [concise]
Prototype detonates with microscopic glitches and prismatic electronic pulses, distilling nine tracks of tangled melody and flickering rhythm into a single luminous surge of future-leaning sound.
Neosintetico :: The Voice of Energy (Pueblo Nuevo)
Chilean electronic maverick Julio Pérez Solis (aka Neosintetico) detonates The Voice of Energy with an 11-track blast of breakbeat, dub, electro, and industrial firepower, instantly staking his claim as one of 2025’s essential disruptors. Bass-driven reggae flashes, Kraftwerkian pulses, and brutal hybrid mutations collide in a turbulent, genre-scorching surge that hits like a rogue transmission from the future.
Johan Agebjörn :: Southern Forest (Constellation Tatsu)
Johan Agebjörn’s Southern Forest charts a vibrant, cosmic journey through the pine-shadowed landscapes of Sweden, blending earthbound atmosphere with sky-drifting electronic wonder. The result is a transportive, melodic world of ambient and downtempo rhythms that feel both deeply grounded and unbound by gravity.
Rafael Anton Irisarri :: A Fragile Geography: Reworks (Black Knoll Editions)
Ten years after its release, Rafael Anton Irisarri’s A Fragile Geography returns not as a relic, but as a living landscape reshaped by some of ambient music’s most visionary artists. A Fragile Geography: Reworks gathers their intimate reinventions into a unified, deeply felt expansion of the original’s emotional terrain.
















