These producers have no boundaries or limits, and are drawing from the world they know where it is possible to marry piano, harsh percussive sounds and layers of noise…
Tag: Drone
Tapes and Topographies :: Modalities (Simulacra)
Todd Gautreau’s fourteenth outing in Tapes and Topographies guise, is a set of ten impressionistic sonic vignettes painted with delicacy in vaporous colors.
Blakmoth :: Parallels (Errorgrid)
Equal parts captivating and chilling; the manner in which Blakmoth crafts dark ambient trajectories is simply perplexing.
Grandbruit :: Adaptation (Élan Vital)
Adaptation adds to a growing back catalog, with languorous, looping motifs accruing through judicious entrainment into an overall suite whose doleful resonance is as strong emotionally as timbrally.
symmDROME :: enumerator (Point Source Electronic Arts)
Building upon a vast mechanical soundscapes, enumerator projects itself as a massive structure composed of eight elements that bend and deform.
Chad Mossholder :: Lighghthouse (Schematic Music Co.)
High-frequency electronic tone fragments seamlessly elide with crotales and sizzling phantoms, mingling with brisk tempo fragments.
Zero Ohms :: Cloudwalker & the Ascent (Spotted Peccary)
Taking advantage of interrupted sleep patterns, many of the tracks on Cloudwalker & the Ascent were laid down in the hour just before dawn, their inspiration distilled from dreams, often with the Moon & Venus smiling through the open backdoor of his cabin.
Notein :: Salire (3OP)
A transitional work that carries narrative like that of an original soundtrack.
William Fields :: Fire EP (dingn\dents)
Fire blends disparate and often broken rhythms surrounded by scorched melodic blips and bleeps that, while seemingly difficult to absorb, are as abstract as sound-art can possibly get.
Merrin Karras :: Silent Planet (A Strangely Isolated Place)
The joy of hearing Side A fade out, walking over to the turntable, flipping the record to Side B and dropping the needle again to hear the clang of a gong that starts things up again. It’s a gift to play a part in an album’s forward motion.
Ikuko Morozumi :: Ignition Switch (Detroit Underground)
Teetering on previous industrial forays, Morozumi ascertains a flourishing evolution in style and substance that encounters fresh nuances in glitch and IDM.

















