The sound artist slightly abandons the downbeat and avid IDM tendency of his musical textures to embellish his style of eerily fixated droning motifs and densely layered patterns.
Tag: Ambient Drone
Tapes and Topographies :: Modalities (Simulacra)
Todd Gautreau’s fourteenth outing in Tapes and Topographies guise, is a set of ten impressionistic sonic vignettes painted with delicacy in vaporous colors.
Grandbruit :: Adaptation (Élan Vital)
Adaptation adds to a growing back catalog, with languorous, looping motifs accruing through judicious entrainment into an overall suite whose doleful resonance is as strong emotionally as timbrally.
Monolake :: Archaeopteryx (Imbalance Computer Music)
Robert Henke returns after what seems a long lie-down with a bumper bundle of tech steppers and IDM flexers in his ninth Monolake album, Archaeopteryx. […]
Elsewhereness revisited #18 music for distancing
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blah, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, along with new companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]
Alva Noto :: Xerrox Vol. 4 (Noton)
While Alva Noto’s predilection for pristine sound design remains undimmed, Xerrox Vol. 4 sees a further move from his prior output’s buttoned-up asceticism towards more […]