Experimental Electronic Music
A veteran of groundbreaking music-video and visual collaborations, Ben Stokes puts his most personal stamp on Dimensional Holophonic Sound (DHS), his singular project blending acid electronics, old-school analog imagery, and experimental video production. Simultaneously, Stokes has built a distinctive career at the intersection of sound, art, technology, and visuals.
Concept Record not only works as a creative tool; it demonstrates what can be created when Professor Ben’s instruction is heeded. The concept is to use this record alongside other records to make new records, while providing a legitimate D.H.S. album of its own right—one that embraces the features that help make physical records so fun and appealing.
Icosagon marks 20 years of IDMforums, bringing together artists from across the community’s history in a two-volume release that reflects its collaborative spirit and evolving sound.
Forged in the pressure systems of London’s underground, Nima arrives not as a debut but as a bass-heavy declaration—channeling decades of inner-city innovation, sound-system lineage, and lived nocturnal experience into a record that pulses with survival, resistance, and resolve.
A shadowed presence permeates Basement Room, a four-part suite of scattered drums, downtempo dubstep, and creeping darkness, where smothered bass, ghostly echoes, and drifting textures blur time into a surreal, ambient flow.
Rooted in Bristol’s dub and breakbeat heritage, Liquid Crystal State plunges into a shadowy realm of low-end pressure and sonic disorientation. Across four immersive tracks, Adam Winchester molds found sounds and heavy textures into a murky, rhythmically fractured journey that blurs nostalgia and the avant-garde.
It’s tough, it’s kinda loud, and it’s definitely an entertaining EP, so if you’re on the lookout for some aggressive dubstep, this may do it for ya!
Massive bass and smudged beats galore, Coma Tek dismantles acid-core electronics and fissured grooves,
A welcomed return with a key and immediately transportive album in the subterranean, ethereal and dark-ambient galaxy to start the year in timeless beauty.
INFOHAZARD exemplifies Renraku’s vision of releasing audible tectonic plates scraping against each other like we’ve not heard before.
Colliding the sounds of broken techno, experimental IDM and leftfield breaks, Manchester based label Mute Artefact present their compilation SHH!.
