These are sculpted selections of field sounds, creating an informative flow for your listening enjoyment. Instead of instruments, the composer is using recordings and arranging selections from the spectrum of audio that has been captured.
Tag: Downtempo
Pleasurefields :: Shelter (Touched Music / Pleasure Wax)
Pleasurefields’ mix of acoustic instrumentation, electronic lushness and really accomplished vocals combine into a sublime cocktail.
Defrag :: Float (Hymen)
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!
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.
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