Experimental Electronic Music
Twenty years in the making, Lapsus celebrate with this really neat compilation of slick IDM. Not always do various artists compilations have much reason behind them, but they’re always more appreciated than “best hits” or “singles” compilations; VINT, in particular, happens to also have thought behind it, as it’s not just a series of random tracks put together.
Diaphanous invites the listener to immerse in quiet, oceanic, delicate, and infinitely lush textures based on beautiful tone colors, velvet-like tranquil atmospheres with occasional glimpses of sorrowing melodies.
Through Flow Zone, a sweet eight-track suite that combines melodic veils and abstract electro-nic structures, CRC X VC-118A provides a feast of acidic electro and breaks in this calming assemblage for Touched Music.
The album title of this duet of paired longform tracks from Inquiri and bvdub is perfect for the Past Inside the Present label. What is our past, but a life in setting suns? And what is our present but the hope for more sunsets and sunrises.
From a higher plateau, four immersive and strange explorations create gut-punching patterns throughout.
Deborah Martin & Cheryl Gallagher’s hope is that these musical impressions will take you, the listener, on the same imaginative and magical journey to Tibet that they experienced.
Such a varied sonic-sculpting foray manages to expose powerfully blistered electronic panoramas this side of the galaxy.
“Suumhow is what happens when two childhood friends who discovered electronic music together in their teens and then reunite 20 years later.” On the heels of their 5th album, appropriately titled 5ilth—available on n5MD October 25, 2024—Suumhow took some time out of their schedule to discuss the good old days of IDM, their backgrounds, processes, and beautifully choreographed sonic glitches.
