Experimental Electronic Music
There’s something particularly satisfying about hearing forgotten tracks recovered, revisited and finally released for others to discover. Off-Cuts (2014–2021) doesn’t feel like a scattered collection of archival material; instead, it comes across as a carefully gathered snapshot of a creative period, proving that these pieces still have plenty to say.
A label that kept going, kept releasing, kept refining a shared aesthetic without compromise or concession to trends. aux4444 pt.1 carries all of that history in its drum patterns and melodic builds, and it sounds better for it. This is what underground electronic music looks like when it’s done with genuine conviction over a sustained period of time.
Durable Oxide announces itself with DOX-001—the debut release from a new Portland, Oregon-based label intent on delivering decisive electronic atmospheres. It’s a strong opening statement for a label to make, and Radio Free Money earns it.
Leo’s latest six-track EP, Cicada Burnt, is a stunningly crafted collection of teknoid soundscapes where cutting-edge pulses scatter love bullets of intent with serious depth, weight and imagination.
Across eight tracks, Germano channels a stunning miasma of electronic and acoustic instrumentation, art-house aesthetics, and installation-worthy musical spaces.
Such sleek, rhythmic glitch sees rinse.repeat at it again with this oversized extended player, running just over twenty-four minutes and moving through modernized, mechanized electronic flutter.
Nicolas Ladoux returns as IKKo with Cheerleader, a five-track release that continues his exploration of neo-industrial electronics through a distinctly European lens.
The Precipice is the clearest proof yet that the trust between Boulton and Bax runs deep enough to produce something genuinely singular. It’s the sound of two producers who stopped negotiating with each other and started finishing each other’s sentences.
Mount Analogue is a landmark work from a master artist in tribute to the great chain of influence that goes from one seeker to another, from one artist to another. I consider it another essential clue in my own quest for discovering an applying obscure knowledge.
Photographic Memory is essentially the city chopped fine until it stops sounding like a city and starts sounding like weather. It’s made to be heard as a continuous mix, but Speake wants you to feel free to dip in and out.
Field of Coincidence is the debut album documenting the collaboration between LA-based artists Jesse Perlstein (Sontag Shogun, AxOxH) and Michael Robert Chadwick (Fake Sword, Plum Professional), aka Trellis. Perhaps the perception of coincidence can serve as a link to folk psychology and philosophy as well as supernatural, occult, or paranormal claims, psychological reasoning, and the statistical probability of chance events.
