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Tag: Abstract
anthéne :: Air Signs (Dronarivm)
Air Signs rests at its distinct sound. Everything is pieced together very well, and all the noises, melodies, and synths are family—they all align track after track. Deschamps has a gift for cohesion. Even when he’s working with degraded loops, reversed recordings, and heavily processed guitar, nothing feels fragmented. Everything belongs.
Sound Synthesis :: Radical Meditation EP (Analogical Force)
Analogical Force remains a powerhouse label capable of balancing both forward-facing experimentation and deep respect for established electro and breaks traditions. Both approaches carry immense value, and perhaps the real excitement comes from hearing artists navigate the space between the two.
Boards of Canada :: Inferno (Warp)
I trust BoC to make something interesting and emotionally effective, but when it comes to their music’s meaning, they’re slippery and mysterious. Inferno is a collection of pieces that grapple with scary feelings, scary beliefs, and the inescapable feeling that you can only trust your senses so far.
Daniel Mayer :: _Matters_ Traces of Codes from Afar (Cero)
This succinct observation offers a glimpse into a language in which Mayer seems uniquely at ease. Through gathering otherworldly effects and artifacts that might otherwise be dismissed as errors, Matters animates unfamiliar forms and hidden possibilities.
Bernhard Living :: The Future is Not the End of History (Donemus)
In Bernhard Living’s works, there’s almost always a straightforward title to express the context behind each one, and there is always a description paired with the record to fully elaborate on its concept. That ends up making music as minimalistic as this far more interesting to me.
IUGA :: Meldrop (Unexplained Sounds Group)
A really enjoyable eerie, isolationist and wistful electronic ambient release with enough ideas and well-designed textures to enthrall the listener.
Jim O’Rourke & Jos Smolders :: Albumin (Moving Furniture)
Albumin is limited to 500 copies on vinyl through Moving Furniture Records, and it’s exactly the kind of release that rewards deep, focused listening. Put it on, turn it up, and let the textures do the work.
migloJE :: 303 (Self Released)
Here then lay a rich eleven-track homage to the enduring cultural and sonic impact of the Roland TB-303, blending acid house traditions with contemporary consciousness. Superb work.
threehz :: Archive 97–99 (PPRZ)
Archive 97–99 is a snapshot of someone absorbing that ethos in real time, two decades ago, and the recordings still hold up. Not because they’re groundbreaking, but because they’re honest documents of a producer learning their craft during one of electronic music’s most fertile periods.
Marat Koshkin :: Echoloto (Soak)
Each chopped rhythm feels tethered by fragile harmonic strands, giving Echoloto its identity as a multidimensional collection of fuzzy glitch-hop abstraction, steeped in grit, grain, and faded sonic residue.
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