Experimental Electronic Music
These musical works are a good antidote to the all too prevalent use of insecticide in our world. Even science fiction books, where the thinking one could hope, would be expansive and kindly towards other forms of life, has alien enemies represented as “buggers” like in Ender’s Game or all the invasion of bugs happening across the galaxy in Starship Troopers.
DISPLACES is an album that I’ll find myself drawn back to, or haunted by over and over, providing sometimes an intimate, intuitive understanding of something bigger than me, and others giving energy from some obscure source, or else… The thrill of not knowing exactly what will only keep expanding.
Across two live, fifty-minute transmissions, Spednar and eczem push their machines to the brink, sculpting raw voltage and fractured rhythm into immersive, ever-mutating electronic architecture.
Years on from his tape-wrangling beginnings, with two Japan tours and a cult following behind him, Joseph Bastardo’s mid-2025 release Polyshades should have marked a defining moment for both the artist and the outer edges of electronic music—even if its quiet arrival now makes this praise overdue.
With RhaD, Raffaele Pezzella fractures memory and signal into a dense, hallucinatory archive where lost transmissions feel disturbingly alive.
Across eight meticulously engineered cuts, John Nap’s C.C.T. fuses subterranean bass weight, corroded glitch textures, and restless breakbeat architecture into a sleek, nocturnal system of controlled sonic volatility.
On Relative Minor, Near The Parenthesis crafts a hushed, neo-classical ambient journey where delicate piano and drifting synths unfold with intimate, suspended beauty.
Akhira Sano transforms a soon-to-be-demolished family home into a fragile, room-by-room sound diary, shaping its creaks, air, and fading resonance into an intimate work of environmental memory.
On Aepochs, Trem 77 crafts a richly textured, immersive soundscape that blurs structure and stillness into a deeply reflective listening journey.
Captured in a single inspired hour on a humble Casio CT-770, Dreams of the Méditerranéant turns raw immediacy into transcendence—proof that mastery, not machinery, carries the music. With sea-soaked textures from Catharæ and Trem 77 and proceeds supporting SOS Méditerranée, it’s a reminder to create boldly with what you have—and let it flow.
