Experimental Electronic Music
Overflowing delivers an oceanic body of shifting harmonies, melodious vibes, and cool, soft-rock resonances. Sparse textural ambient motifs punctuate the ensemble, as in the granular and free-flowing “Sunbird.” Emotionally, the music is entirely connected with hope and gentle bitterness.
Each Monolake release is, of course, sui generis with a context and sound never to recur, but Interstate is unique in its way—document of a vital musical and cultural moment capturing paradigm shifts in (pre-)millennial music production; its deep textured electronics and ever-morphing cyber-rhythms a snapshot of two phonauts boundary-surfing with then cutting edge tech, causing ripples that became waves that would break over the ’00s and beyond.
This music tells of the passage of time, with sparse humorous and facetious tones punctuating the moodier ensemble. Each track is elaborated and designed as a subtle, sentient vignette in the mind of a daydreaming smoker and ordinary thinker who opens his soul and invites the listener to witness his hope, fear, despair, and intricate yet playful reflections.
Olùsìn [Worshippers] moves with the gravity of a procession seen from a great distance: slow synth masses, vocal apparitions, soft percussive grammar, low harmonic pressure, field material absorbed into the body of the music.
Empire of Sand provides impeccably built darkened droning soundscapes with an emotional and nihilistic apex. The whole sonic architecture is centered on assaultive, multi-layered harsh electric guitar patterns; micro-noisy, grainy ambient electronics; and a grandiose, spellbinding dystopian cinematic component.
Since first joining the n5MD roster in 2013, Zaragoza has consistently expanded the artistic possibilities of the Ocoeur project. Greener Grass, Clearer Water represents another significant step forward, demonstrating an artist increasingly comfortable allowing restraint, patience, and subtlety to become primary compositional tools.
Somatic Responses and John Healy, specifically on this release, have spent over three decades refining the specific space between force and sweetness that their catalog occupies. Operational Ambivalence doesn’t reinvent that space. It just inhabits it with the kind of confidence that comes from thirty years of knowing exactly where you live.
Kine 3 is a newer sound built off the classic. Roel Funcken has described the Kine series as emerging from a need to process a large body of work—dividing material into categories, finding what felt raw and process-driven and unfinished in the best possible way.
Mind Maps 7 stands as another richly rewarding chapter in an extraordinary body of electronic music—one that continues to push gently at the boundaries of ambient, downtempo and sample-based composition without ever losing its sense of warmth or wonder. Long may these maps continue to unfold, pointing listeners towards the kind of electronic music that still feels capable of surprising, transporting and quietly reshaping the landscape around it.
Human Music: Live Improvisations I serves as both a statement and a philosophy. What I hear is a collection of live performance recordings, each about 6-7 minutes long, one player/performer using layers and loop technology to play many instruments at once in a live setting, creating classical flavored music improvisations and instrumental expressions with haunting vocals that are entirely without word content, just emotional tones that bend and transmit.
Rooted in tranquil flora and fauna, mōshonsensu captivates not only through dissolving ambient currents, but also downtempo fragments, distant voices, and darker tendrils that surface in subtle, measured movements
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