Experimental Electronic Music
For an artist whose work is rooted in the landscapes and quiet moments of Patagonia, Tesoros is Lumtz at his most personal and his most generous—sharing an archive of walks, notes, and small musical experiments as if handing you his journals and saying, here, take a look. Most listeners will find something in it. The ones who slow down enough will find quite a lot.
Iranian experimental musicians Shahin Entezami (aka Tegh) and Adel Poursamadi reunite for their third collaboration album Bayal, a creative response of greyscale synthesis, violin, and traditional instrumentation to a 1964 collection of short stories by seminal Iranian author Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi.
Piercing electronics and cinematic sonic extensions are folded into colossal forms across Jérôme Chassagnard’s Hora Fugit, an 11-track suite that constantly contracts and expands.
Even as the music voyages across the celestial empyrean of space, he opens up new territory, diving downwards into the underworld where the mysteries of Orpheus (poet, musician, prophet) are encountered in their cavernous depths. Here the Orphic lyre is a synthesizer. Here it is a collection of psychotronic modules who route electricity to the point where it tingles with lucid scintillation. This is a third ear music awakening the inner senses to subtle vibrations.
In Rotation across the past several weeks and months, this multi-view column surveys a shifting electronic landscape shaped by bold and forward-thinking artists. Expect fractured rhythms, glitch aesthetics, abstract experimentation, mechanical precision, industrial pressure, melodic detours, and bass-heavy electro transmissions from Alavux, Annie Hall, Delta Division, Koloah, Low Battery Orchestra, Modul, neuroboy, Nocto, R.I.O.T, Trofusin, and Voltaire.
Now You Exist gives me hope that maybe 2018 was not the last time we heard from The Field, because perhaps 2026 won’t be either. In all seriousness, this seems to be a proper comeback in a year of proper comebacks. This EP will not disappoint any longtime fan, but maybe it’s only the beginning of a new era for Willner, who hopefully hasn’t run out of ink—or MIDI tracks.
Moonshadows is dedicated to the most impressionistic, oceanic-tinged, and neoclassical dimension of his music. The pieces are built around the piano’s delicate, gently moving, semi-improvised detached melodies. Repetition, stillness, and peacefulness form a body of feelings.
Knowing what Foel built this record out of—a difficult mental health stretch, a fascination with landscapes that are beautiful and hostile in equal measure, a process built on chaos eventually resolving into order, Gwasgaru earns its title honestly.
A uniquely curated collection that embraces “experimental electronic” less as a genre than as a method of investigation—rewarding passive listening, certainly, but revealing far more through careful examination. The album invites repeated immersion into everything hiding just beneath its fractured surface.
Endless Corners is a fun EP that takes you on an emotional ride and easily ranks as one of the strongest braindance releases of the summer. For those who grew up on Rephlex, who know the feeling of a perfect hi-hat pattern landing exactly where it should, who understand what it means when an acid line locks into a string arrangement and suddenly everything makes sense, this record is going to hit somewhere deep.
Sacred Drift is an enjoyable listen, and the clicks, reminiscent of the click-hop movement that emerged in the early 2000s from artists like Microstoria, Pimmon, and early Matmos, bring back those familiar click sounds that add curiosity to glitch textures of an ambient piece.
