Experimental Electronic Music
Rather than relying on brute force, Beatrice M. favors restraint, allowing space, texture and movement to do the heavy lifting. The result is a sophisticated, deeply atmospheric debut that confirms her as a compelling new voice within Bristol’s ever-evolving bass continuum.
Always willing to push miles ahead into abstract electronic substructures while reaching back for acid, rave, jungle, breaks, and ultra-low-end vibrations, this is music whose physical impact feels every bit as potent now as it might have in the mid-90s.
From noise to nice. Harsh to honed. Squelch to sculpture. Ectospasm is a 10/10 top-tier proposition for anyone still prepared to leave the comfort of the known and go poking around in whatever is moving about underneath it.
Occupying a threshold between rugged electro forms and industrial glitch polish, LIMEN exists seemingly light-years beyond conventional notions of time and space.
Earth Trax delivers an engrossing ambient techno record that thrives on deep bass, dub textures, and remarkably fluid pacing. Equal parts hypnotic and atmospheric, Everlasting Flame is a modern take on the genre that rewards a full, uninterrupted listen.
In Rotation across the past several weeks and months, this multi-view column surveys a shifting electronic landscape shaped by bold and forward-thinking artists. Expect fractured rhythms, glitch aesthetics, abstract experimentation, mechanical precision, industrial pressure, melodic detours, and bass-heavy electro transmissions from Alavux, Annie Hall, Delta Division, Koloah, Low Battery Orchestra, Modul, neuroboy, Nocto, R.I.O.T, Trofusin, and Voltaire.
Sacred Drift is an enjoyable listen, and the clicks, reminiscent of the click-hop movement that emerged in the early 2000s from artists like Microstoria, Pimmon, and early Matmos, bring back those familiar click sounds that add curiosity to glitch textures of an ambient piece.
Within the latest Speaker Music transmission, Brown returns to the bastion of seriously adult musical content that is Planet Mu Records for the frankly exquisite Synoptic Audio. With its theme-first offering to the experience, De Forrest proposes sound itself as a system of critical inquiry.
Mutual Motion gathers 25 artists across 24 tracks into a release animated by movement, bodily response, and stylistic multiplicity—an expansive survey of modern club mechanics operating at full physiological intensity.
Originally published in Melody Maker on May 11, 1996, Mark Roland’s review of Meat Beat Manifesto’s Subliminal Sandwich captured the arrival of a record that would go on to become one of electronic music’s most influential and genre-defining releases; republished here with permission, 30 years on.
Graham Dunning emerges with Quern (Jollies Records) from a period of academic research into sound and self-built instrumentation with a collection that feels both tactile and purposeful.
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