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Tag: Best of 2024
zakè :: B⁴+3 (Zakè Drone), zakè & Benoît Pioulard :: eve (Past Inside The Present)
Double review for zakè’s B⁴+3 (Zakè Drone) and zakè & Benoît Pioulard’s eve (Past Inside The Present)—proceeding to windblown drones and bells tintinnabulating across the sound field.
Morakh :: Helix (Mestnost)
Encompassing distant field recordings, nostalgic IDM from a bygone era, and the bewilderment of how sound can alter one’s emotions, the plethora of positive grooves on this recording are endless.
iNFO :: Parallel Realities (Touched Music)
The tracks on this release show such carefully constructed rhythms, with no hi-hat out of place, and each rhythm synergetically adding to the establishing layers of sound to create something much greater than the sum of its parts.
Pera Sta Ori :: Hix Hax EP (To Pikap)
Pera Sta Ori returns to his roots with rave, breaks, and jungle soundscapes on the four-track EP, Hix Hax, for To Pikap.
Serge Geyzel :: It’s Cancelled EP (Adepta Editions)
It’s Cancelled is a top-tier EP for 2024, and is a strong and comprehensive collection of six tracks with mind-blowing tectonic tempos, low-flying bass-beats, and magnetized electro-nics.
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan :: Your Community Hub (Castles In Space)
Your Community Hub is a great take on a classic style of electronic music. While it’d be easy to discredit this LP as just rehashed old techniques, the execution is what ultimately sets it apart, so much so that if this style happened to resuscitate in a couple years to come, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan would be one of the names to hail and remember—and I promise—it’s not that challenging to do so.
NYORAI :: Shinkirō (蜃気楼) (Mahorka)
A well-balanced album of emotive experimental electronic music that aims to expose finer visual-audio fragments in its dense sound design. An upper-level release we’ll keep in constant rotation.
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