Tag: Best of 2025

Multiplex :: Colour Kinetica (Bricolage)

After decades of quietly shaping the electronic underground, the Dormon brothers return with Colour Kinetica—an album that distills their legacy into a vivid, forward-facing statement. Multiplex’s latest stands as both a culmination and a rebirth, earning its place among the best of 2025 with precision, emotion, and enduring vision.

Pabellón Sintético :: Machine for living (Cyclical Dreams)

Pabellón Sintético is the astral sound project of Argentine artist Pablo Ariel Bilbao, merging analog and digital synthesis to explore cosmic ambient and Berlin School-inspired electronics. His latest album, Machine For Living, blends cinematic textures, pulsating sequences, and immersive atmospheres into what’s been called “architectural fine electronic ambient.” Meticulously crafted, it unfolds as a luminous journey through memory, imagination, and the infinite horizon of sound.

Hideki Umezawa & Giuseppe Cordaro :: Terrarum Murmur (Amish Records / Required Wreckers)

Terrarum Murmur is a collaboration between Japanese composer Hideki Umezawa and Italian electroacoustic artist Giuseppe Cordaro, born of a shared residency on the volcanic island of Stromboli in 2023. Blending field recordings, modular synthesis, and deep listening, the work captures the subtle vibrations of geological time. Far from spectacle, it invites us to hear the earth as a quiet, continuous presence—shaped by patience, precision, and a deep respect for sound as both material and method.

Braulio Lam :: Blanco y Negro (Facade Electronics)

Braulio Lam’s latest on Facade Electronics dives into the quiet intensity of analog sound, where ambient textures, glitch rhythms, and minimalist tones unfold with meditative precision. Across ten tracks, he crafts a stark yet emotive landscape—marked by dub echoes, digital decay, and restrained beauty—inviting reflection through the subtle interplay of noise, silence, and structure.

Benoît Pioulard :: Stanza IV (Disques d’Honoré)

Stanza IV is the latest chapter in Benoît Pioulard’s ambient series—a richly textured collection of slow-moving, analog-driven compositions blending guitar, tape loops, field recordings, and synths. Deeply meditative and emotionally resonant, the album is paired with Stanza IV [Versions], a full-length rework collection featuring artists like Clarice Jensen, Arovane, and Markus Guentner, offering new dimensions to Pioulard’s immersive sound world.

zakè :: Selected Remixes (Zakè Drone)

Selected Remixes reflects Zach Frizzell’s collaborative ethos and transformative ear, reworking tracks from across the ambient and experimental spectrum. With his signature analog warmth, chthonic textures, and spectral drift, zakè reshapes source material into a cohesive suite of deep-listening reinterpretations that reveal his intuitive sonic alchemy.

Tom Hall :: Trip Computer album launch @ Gray Area (San Francisco 8/16/2025)

Tom Hall presents Trip Computer album launch—a powerful new audiovisual performance marking two decades of exploration in experimental sound, systems, and synthesis. Featuring special guests r beny, Testu Collective, Amma Ateria, and Sharkiface, this event brought together boundary-pushing artists for an immersive night of sonic and visual experimentation.