This is music for detailed home listening, but also would be a joy to take in at a live show in a small club or larger festival stage. We miss you Maschinenfest!
Tag: Downtempo
Jeremie Mathes :: Silap Inua (Detroit Underground)
Taking us through uncharted worlds where sound design, fractured glitch, and nostalgic soundtrack moments reside.
Promising/Youngster :: AE03 EP (Adepta Editions)
Overall, a dynamic and diverse couplet that hits the sweet spot for contemporary abstract electronica with a nostalgic path.
4T Thieves & Pandacetamol :: Away Space (Kahvi Collective)
Buzzing synths evaporate as broken beats flood the senses; it’s a mesmerizing and hypnotizing collection of ambient electronic flutter for the next plateau.
SMPL SMPL :: Mistika EP (Specimen)
Rhythmic sound design, modular acrobatics, and bass-heavy, SMPL SMPL takes fractured industrial tropes and intermixes them with rugged downtempo electro.
Qebo & William Fields :: αlive (3OP)
Downtempo IDM escapades are αlive and well, taking us further and further into this decade.
Laconic Impression :: Epidemy (Acre)
Downtempo glitch-funk hip-hop and illbient breaks all rolled up into one massive smorgasbord.
Fragile X :: Human Condition (Cue Dot)
In this moving 9-tracker Human Condition, Gorecki explores emotive forms that are delicate and subtle on the broad strokes, with intensifying eclectic details baked within.
Chairweiner :: P1LL5 EP (EC Underground / Dead Money) — Vinyl giveaway US residents!
P1LL5 is an extended player we’re very excited about, its musical flashbacks, and forward-thinking soundscaped orchestration is on par with the likes of Plaid, Boards of Canada, Amon Tobin, Clark, and Meat Beat Manifesto—a press-release comparison we’re in total agreement with.
V/A :: Anthology Vol.2 (Free Sequence)
Some of the most up-and-coming Hungarian producers in the atmospheric, downtempo, and noisy experimental compositions from the country to date.
Tineidae :: Mothership (Cryo Chamber)
The spaced-out crystalline sequences, aerial swirling sounds and imaginative body of lysergic effects guarantee an immersive but also a continuously accessible and enjoyable experience.
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