Tag: Abstract

The Bug / Dis Fig :: Ladybug 1 EP (Pressure)

The finest quality of Ladybug 1 comes from its ability to treat dub as an art of emotional memory. Each return of the theme seems to erase something and make it more vivid at the same time. In the leaner versions, rhythm becomes a heavy step through smoke, reverbs widen like liquid metal, silences speak with the same intensity as the impacts.

Abul Mogard / Rafael Anton Irisarri :: Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun (Black Knoll Editions)

Mogard and Irisarri sign a compact, intense work, capable of giving sonic matter an almost moral dimension, a request for attention toward the deep time of listening. The album advances like a great dark current crossed by inner gleams, and delivers music that seems shaped through slow fire, patience, rigor, vision. Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun is one of the highest proofs of their creative alliance, a work in which density becomes light and light, at last, acquires weight.

Tokoro Wohnen :: Bing Industries (Flaming Pines)

This is an experience more than it is an enjoyment. Listeners drawn to the more experimental end of ambient and drone will find this a strong, solid four-track selection—patient, deliberate, and unconcerned with easy resolution. Bing Industries understands something the shale bings themselves prove: that what’s left behind doesn’t disappear.

Ert :: Lotus EP (Weirdrum)

Future garage as a genre has always carried a melancholic undercurrent, rooted in the post-dubstep era, it borrowed the half-tempo swing and emotional weight of UK bass music and stretched it into something more introspective. Lotus takes that lineage and strips it further, removing the dancefloor elements almost entirely and leaving only texture, stutter, and atmosphere.