Lovetrip’s latest album channels the spirit of Warp Records’ early-’90s Artificial Intelligence era, drawing on the emotive depth and sonic innovation that defined legends like Autechre and B12. Rather than replicating the past, it reimagines it—delivering a richly textured, forward-looking homage that stands as one of 2025’s most compelling electronic releases.
Tag: Downtempo
Skurken :: Nótt (Touched Music)
Skurken’s Nótt marks a striking evolution in Jóhann Ómarsson’s sound—retaining the emotive depth of earlier works while exploring a broader, more varied electronic palette. Released on the ever-reliable Touched Music, it’s a cohesive and heartfelt journey through texture, rhythm, and reflection that both honors the past and points clearly toward the future.
Multiplex :: Colour Kinetica (Bricolage)
After decades of quietly shaping the electronic underground, the Dormon brothers return with Colour Kinetica—an album that distills their legacy into a vivid, forward-facing statement. Multiplex’s latest stands as both a culmination and a rebirth, earning its place among the best of 2025 with precision, emotion, and enduring vision.
Ert :: Denmark EP (People Can Listen) — [concise]
Denmark is a six-track journey through ambient-inflected IDM, where emotion meets machine in concise, richly textured vignettes. Blending fractured rhythms, synthetic warmth, and glitch-laced nostalgia, it captures fleeting moods with both precision and heart.
Nazareno [bassi] :: No/Tempo (Adepta Atanor Collection)
Nazareno [bassi] delivers three inventive tracks on a limited 8″ lathe cut for No/Tempo. From glitchy bursts in “Discussion” to the warped vocals of “No Now” and the funky breakbeats of “I Love Tempo,” the release blends rhythmic chaos with electronic innovation, adding fresh energy to Adepta Editions’ Atanor Collection.
Andrew Nolan :: Monochrome Vol. 2: Tentacles Of Spiritual Contagion (Phage Tapes)
Erratic and unsettling yet undeniably gripping, this set builds upon warped foundations of industrial dub, mutated jungle, and disfigured hip-hop structures. It’s an excavation—reaching backward while marching toward a future of controlled chaos and sculpted dissonance.
Andrey Rasputin :: RELIKT-1 (Mestnost)
Downtempo currents rise and recede, while fractured synth odysseys hold everything in a gravity of their own. It’s future-facing, deeply textural electronic music—crafted by a multidimensional talent—and a work that resists erosion.
Night Owl Committee:: Drownded EP (Isness/Analogical Force) — [concise]
As Drownded flows, it wavers between freeform exploration and meditative stillness, riding an arc that’s as hypnotic as it is grounded.
Peltiform:: TRIPTYCHS (Section 27)
Poised between sci-fi drift and ambient disintegration, this collection stands as a sleek, introspective traverse—shaped by three luminaries of experimental electronic art.
The Mellowtrons :: Protected EP (Voidstar Productions) — [concise]
A frenetic voltage crackles—diffuse yet finely honed into serrated, dub-drenched silhouettes—across Protected by The Mellowtrons (aka Lee Walker).
















