This is dark, lonely music; terrifying in one respect and cruelly honest. And within this rawness, this discord, there are wonderful moments. One of the […]
Tag: Dark Ambient
Kane Ikin :: Modern Pressure (Type)
Ikin harnesses various trajectories, folding early ’80s industrial and no wave into techno’s pulse, dub’s low end, and eerie Carpenter-esque menace. Drones loom and static sparks […]
Five questions with Keosz
From the depths of Slovakia Erik Osvald a.k.a. Keosz speaks briefly about inspiration, musical influences and of course his debut album, Be Left to Oneself—an […]
V/A :: Mid Atlantic Death (Great Circles)
A compilation of contrasts set in the rust clad cast of Great Circles. If you wanted to crack this Philadelphia label, sample its metallic taste […]
2 8 1 4 :: 新しい日の誕生 (Dream Catalogue)
新しい日の誕生 (Birth of a New Day) isn’t an album that begins, it’s one you arrive at, as if slowly waking from a fever dream in […]
Beneath the surface of Blackwater :: Interview and Mix
And what is that sound? Techno I would say. Not specific enough? Add some of the following and you’ll get a picture. Black. Psychological. Industrial. […]
Unland :: Die Ruhe nach dem Sturm (Midira)
Deeply engaging throughout, Die Ruhe nach dem Sturm offers a journey by a group currently at its best creative form. Unland has developed a unique […]
Ionophore :: Sinter Pools (Malignant)
Sinter pools is a dark, ethereal and glitchy electronic album with moments of thrilling aspirations and post-modern inspired sound morphologies. A good musical discovery which […]
Huron :: Fissure EP (Mindtrick)
An emblematic burrow of sculpted sound and vision, morphed and collected to the nth degree, Fissure maneuver’s leftfield ambient layers and industrial-electronic precision in a […]
Astrowind :: Semikarakory (Frozen Light)
Unresolved tension is the interpretive fog that cannot be penetrated by even the most intent listener. Ambivalence is the stuff of which the thick impasto of Semikarakory […]
Badrich :: Viscosity (Technicolor Yawn)
Purely in a (dark) field of its own, yet effortlessly delivered, Viscosity is a detailed foray into deconstructed electronics melded to blackened ambient sheets. Robotic noise boxes dancing […]
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