Another exciting retro-modern album, Deep Desert Dweller is a great example of when an artist truly gets the Detroit sound of the early 90s.
Tag: Concrete Collage
Fxbip :: Beyond EP (Xephem)
8-bit breaks are crunched, deformed, and plastered against voice snippets, acidic squelches, and chiseled video-game moments. Basically, the whole kit and caboodle is discovered on Beyond by Montreal’s drill’n bass technician Fxbip.
Fxbip :: Choke / Ame Polaire (Concrete Collage)
Fxbip shatters preconceived notions of nonsensical experimentation and instead focuses on unique (even if a bit turbulent) concrete sound collages that bend, flex, and splinter with a punctuated sheen.
Tescon Pol :: Gai Lan (Concrete Collage)
A densely packed collection of ten pieces spanning over an hours worth of mind-bending tunes that have left this listener in a state of confusion […]
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2020
“In the midst of a global pandemic that has dominated 2020—roaming across a cinematic soundscape in flux, and surveying darker, perhaps stranger chasms—(artists) draw inspiration […]
Woodpecking Mantis :: Brainlores Vol.2 (Concrete Collage)
An exquisite take on acrobatic acid-drenched electronics and instrumental workouts packed with fluid drumming, bass, and shifting rhythm blasts, Brainlores Vol.2 packs a punch. An […]
Johnny Broke :: Warm Plastic Trousers (Concrete Collage)
Broken 8-bit breaks, braindance, drill’n bass, and acid-tinged electronic nostalgia from lost video games, here we see Johnny Broke (aka Wayne Adams) stretching his sounds […]
Lee :: Alcyonian (Concrete Collage)
Lee would have made a great fit with the Toytronic collective—his use of intricate melodic beat juggling, drum/drill’n bass, acid tinges and downtempo rhythms are […]
In Rotation :: May 2020
In rotation for the past several days/weeks/months, this multi-view column reveals the latest sonic landscape from several talented musicians. Plenty of brittle, glitch, abstract, noisy, […]