Experimental Electronic Music
Norway-based producer/musician Karl Endreson’s downtempo electronic project has been active since 2006, purveying nature-inspired soundscapes mixing ambient textures and trip-hop beats with guitar and field recordings, steeped in atmosphere infused with a deep sense of melody and nostalgia.
Field of Coincidence is the debut album documenting the collaboration between LA-based artists Jesse Perlstein (Sontag Shogun, AxOxH) and Michael Robert Chadwick (Fake Sword, Plum Professional), aka Trellis. Perhaps the perception of coincidence can serve as a link to folk psychology and philosophy as well as supernatural, occult, or paranormal claims, psychological reasoning, and the statistical probability of chance events.
Venetian maestro Gigi Masin, active since the early tape era, threads MIDI phrasing with soft techno patterns and submerged tonal layers.
Melting Days is constantly in motion—loops building, layers arriving and dissolving, rhythms surfacing and retreating, and that restlessness is what keeps it from becoming background music. It demands a kind of attention that most ambient records politely decline to ask for. Ten albums in, that quality hasn’t dulled. If anything it’s sharper.
Pentagrams Of Discordia seem to vaporize sound itself, blending traces of past, present, and future until their downtempo worlds begin to intertwine. Beats become memories, melodies become distant signals, and atmosphere takes over as the guiding force.
Rather than simply calling out for someone to remain, Geyzel uses these five tracks to explore what happens when you finally stop holding everything in. Its hidden strength is found in that openness: a willingness to wander through uncertainty, sit with absence, and ultimately let it all out.
Luca Young crafts a hypnagogic birthing enclosure in the space created by this music, a space open for manifesting further gifts of reflective imagination.
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.
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