Experimental Electronic Music
The whole album hints at a long, gently unwinding story featuring natural expectant essences, but often with a certain melancholy just within the sphere of feelings. Calming sequences are ever present, often interspersed with fundamental elements of sedate joy.
Lasting close to 70-minutes, this is an extraordinary collection that flexes in experimental appetite, showcasing what I believe to be contemporary IDM at its best.
A sprawling 19-track movement of textures, contorted ambient spaces and beautifully crafted open-ended melodic performances. Space Afrika have delicately created a vulnerable sonic tapestry that your senses believe to be almost entirely organic.
As you get to know the tracks more, you will also get to know Heogen more—from the fully immersive arrangements, melodies that feel like kisses, and rhythms that will have you moving your mind and body.
Yasuragi Land serves as an invitation to listen closely to what the reality is telling and decipher all of its accompanying messages, delivering a blissful experience even on the littlest of the little things.
The title speaks to loss and transition, grief and new horizons, confusion and transitions, with each piece consisting of a broad range of instrumentation, ambient environments and connective aesthetics.
Diamond Eater, Part 5 of Detroit Underground’s Hyperglitch series curated by Woulg, attempts to not only extend the glitch genre, but also extrudes further details buried in its tangled outer shell.
Deeply conceptual—conjuring time, space and even extraterrestrial life, exploring feelings that are intensified to the point of wildness, with the purity of spirit.
A salvaged live disintegration from the golden age of IDM brainhacking.
An explosive two track trip to tide us over, available on 7″ vinyl and digital, George Kontogiannidis’ Pera Sta Ori moniker (aka ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ) drives his message of old-school, rave centered electronics to the core.
As noted on the press-release, William Fields “explores the limits of algorithmic composition and code-based digital technology,” with Bokuseki revealing eight complex soundscapes that flicker, fade and fracture.
