Its dark ambience, quasi-Byzantine liturgy and deceptively simple structure have been inspired by Slavic culture, the Orthodox Church and the less sanguine aspect of Jesus, […]
Tag: Abstract
Shackleton :: Music for the Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs (Woe To The Septic Heart!)
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. […]
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 […]
Qebrµs :: ⊶⊑∷⌊∴⊹∵⌉∷⊒⊷ E_P (Self-Released)
Bending and altering similar tones throughout, time shifts in atonal algorithms, almost intentionally set as a series of experiments that feed off each other. [Release […]
Oorutaichi :: Cosmic Coco, Singing for a Billion Imu’s Hearty Pi (Out One Disc)
Oorutaichi has created his own personal creole (named after himself) in which he sings his songs, and he has poured a can of 7-Up onto […]
















