Experimental Electronic Music
Northern Mexico’s Facade Electronics’ annual compilation titled Sampler IV (aka Sampler IV. Present and future. Facade Electronics 2020-2025) shifts into their fourth of the series, representing fourteen tracks that spark and shimmer at all the right angles.
Diving head-first into Wankers United’s (also known as Thomas Lanza) most recent album, Zootech, for Evel, and we’re hypnotized by its melodic disintegration and glitch-laden groove.
Where atmospheric waves coalesce, drifting sonic ice-sheets scrape up against each other as Identity Values subtly gains momentum while aligning with Audiobulb’s extensive Rolodex of abstract sound sculptors.
This assemblage being the fourth of the series, cascades without form, veering between the boundaries of experimental sonic media and next-level hyper glitch mechanisms, and is curated within introspective, low-flying IDM/braindance morsels.
Overall, Last Drives is an intriguing, ominous voyage through sounds and moods. Each piece maintains momentum and is unquestionably worth the time to absorb, and perhaps return to time and time again.
Upon listening to Bernhard Living’s output, the music is extremely minimalistic and doesn’t actively try to be challenging in some way; so with how little there is that’s happening, I immediately knew that this was coming from someone who knew what they were doing.
At thirty-nine minutes, abstract dark drones and punctuated slices of musique concrète flicker across densely layered clicks and disheveled echoes.
Almost fifty minutes of improvised spazzing noise and dizzying breaks, all mastered rather loudly, make RiotxNoise far more than exciting; if the premise wasn’t enthralling enough, there’s also vocals and a damn harpsichord on this LP; now that’s good business if you ask me.
It’s tough, it’s kinda loud, and it’s definitely an entertaining EP, so if you’re on the lookout for some aggressive dubstep, this may do it for ya!
Zachary Gray is back with Trippin’ / In Arrears, in A Person Disguised as People’s A/B Series, a 2-track appetizer for the Trippin’ LP, forthcoming in Spring 2025.
Embedded with captivating atmospheres, Stone Leaf cogently creates subdued experimental electronic flutter that we’ll continue to revisit again and again.
