Experimental Electronic Music
A quarter of a century on from optimal.lp’s release, then, its timelessness is still palpable, even enhanced, with the reissue’s addition of three tracks made while working on it, plus a new take on the closing “Tank” (digital only): in prepping the reissue, running one of the masters through a customized reverb unit, he began recording the outcome of this haptic past-inside-the-present dialog.
With a brief look at some notables along the road, Chang Terhune’s Music Mondays aims to shed light on both new and old(er) music over a wide spectrum of sound (and vision). This week, Music for Sleep — Super Deep Brown Noise, New Age Cassette Tapes, Scanner, Dune, Brian Eno, David Lynch, Aphex Twin, Marconi Union, Blade Runner, Star Trek, Singing Ice, and Open Ocean.
A soft-tempo prescription to counter post-pandemic capitalist accelerationism.
While Alva Noto’s predilection for pristine sound design remains undimmed, Xerrox Vol. 4 sees a further move from his prior output’s buttoned-up asceticism towards more […]
After the debauchery and destitution of Christmas consumption WE FORFEIT return with a post yuletide message of music, musings and good will. Although Robbie likes […]
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging, tube-d, cloud-ed, and camp-ed up, complete with companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]
A luxurious, active listening success. “Discreet Music” (1975) filled the first side of the album of the same name on Brian Eno’s short-lived Obscure Records label. A creative paradigm […]
Igloo Magazine is happy to present a very special and deeply personal mix by Drew Sullivan, the creative mind behind Slow Dancing Society. “I wanted […]
