Experimental Electronic Music
After first encountering Philippe Petit through The Haunting Triptych (2010), The Acoustic Cornet—released by Mahorka as a tribute to Leonora Carrington—emerges as a radical electro-acoustic work of abstract, collage-driven experimentation that fuses manipulated objects, elastic electronics, and avant-garde improvisation into a richly unpredictable sonic experience.
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.
Antonio Gallucci’s Hope for Nothingness as Something unfolds a luminous, meditative sonic theater, where meticulous avant-garde textures and subtle micro-intervals create an elusive ballet of sound and reflection.
Blending prog electronic tension, restrained club energy, and immersive urban atmospheres, Sinemis’s Farewell is less about moving bodies than about pulling the listener deeper into its futuristic inner world.
Big Blood’s digital only release Electric Voyeur, from the very tail end of 2024, is now out on vinyl from Psychic Sounds.
Analog 2025 is a thunderous, all-consuming surge of analog fury—an album that squashes, foams, and swirls with such raw sonic force it stops you dead in your tracks.
Elori Saxl’s Drifts And Surfaces opens with a stark electronic pulse, setting the tone for an album that reshapes her experiences on Lake Superior into three distinct, commissioned works. Expansive yet intimate, it explores the lake’s haunting duality and the fluid boundary between individual identity and the artistic communities that carry us.
Seabuckthorn, the project of guitarist and sound artist Andy Cartwright, crafts an evocative blend of ambient, electro-acoustic, and semi-classical textures on A Path Within A Path, released by Laaps. The album unfolds like an avant-garde chamber work, rich with spiritual depth, intricate guitar work, and collaborations that expand its introspective, transportive soundscape.
Bernhard Living’s Unanswered Questions continues his tradition of sparse, minimalist electronic compositions inspired by 20th-century composers—this time focusing on the conceptual and structural ideas behind works by Charles Ives. Each of the four tracks offers a thoughtful reinterpretation, distilling Ives’ complexity into ambient soundscapes that blend philosophical depth with musical restraint.
Intelligent Life is a quietly immersive collaboration between Jeff Düngfelder, Mike Brown, and Joshua Trinidad that merges downtempo electronics with jazz-influenced instrumentation. With trumpet, contrabass, and ambient textures woven into a meditative whole, the album invites deep listening and emotional stillness.
