Exploraciones Al Vacio works because it refuses to play nice. The field recordings, the layered textures, the deliberate pacing, it all adds up to something that feels purposeful rather than indulgent.
Tag: Drone
Ruben :: Chambers EP (Self Released)
What makes Chambers work is that it doesn’t feel like an experiment for the sake of it. The processing serves the music, not the other way around. It’s the kind of release that sneaks up on you, not flashy, but it sticks. By the time it’s over, you realize there’s more going on than you initially thought. This is a strong showing from Ruben, and for a limited run of 30 cassettes, it punches well above its weight.
Moonphase :: Dark Assembly (Petroglyph)
Dark Assembly is at once cold, organic, desolate, and turbulent. The album unfolds like a powerful ascending electronic ritual, shrouded in a vertiginous blackened aura where cinematic tension and spiritual desolation coexist in fascinating balance.
Yulyseus :: Nothing Under Heaven (n5MD)
The nostalgia embedded within Nothing Under Heaven is particularly striking. It is not tied to any singular past, nor does it lean on sentimentality. Instead, it manifests as a kind of emotional afterimage. A sense of having felt something deeply without being able to fully recall its shape. This gives the music a haunting familiarity, as though it is reflecting something the listener already carries but has not yet named.
A-Sun Amissa & Lauren Mason :: Water Scores (Gizeh)
Once voiced by Mason, water becomes both storyteller and observer—flowing through calm, chaos, evaporation, and return. Around this, A-Sun Amissa builds a rich soundscape using drone, classical instruments, processed guitars, synthesizers, and subtle samples.
Dragon :: Interlinked EP (Ryu) — [concise]
Mechanical soundscapes surge through Interlinked, a five-piece set by Dragon that offers little in liner note detail, channeling attention instead toward exacting design, brittle glitch-industrial grit, and rhythmic frameworks that pivot and pulse across layered, chiseled beats.
Andrew Anderson :: Thresholds (Elevator Bath)
Thresholds is an album that stays with you. It subtly alters the way you listen. It opens a door into a liminal space where sound becomes memory, and memory becomes atmosphere. In doing so, Andrew Anderson has created a work that is both deeply personal and universally evocative, a rare and rewarding listening experience.
Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken :: Soundtracking the quiet years
Euan grew up in a mostly quiet, non-musical household where records were scarce and music lived mainly in car rides soundtracked by Fleetwood Mac and Whitney Houston—until a childhood Walkman and Lionel Richie cassette sparked a lifelong, deeply personal connection to sound.
BlackHazr :: BlackHazr (Mahorka)
This new project follows a stylistic inclination inspired by primordial resonances and natural manifestations from peripheral zones deserted by humanity.
Hatchback :: Phaser For The Ocean, Chorus For The Moon (Lo Recordings)
Lo Recordings proves once more its ability to extend the field of modern-day electronic experimentation, always bringing to the fore a community of talented sound artists with broader visions in terms of musical language.
syringeee :: Plateau: Bonus Treats EP (Weirdrum) — [concise]
Late 2025 marked the arrival of Plateau, introduced as an EP surging across six abstract, timbre-rich sound sculptures. A few months on, a set of bonus treats emerges—four new pieces extending that journey along a brisk, polished braindance continuum.
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