Experimental Electronic Music
Air Signs rests at its distinct sound. Everything is pieced together very well, and all the noises, melodies, and synths are family—they all align track after track. Deschamps has a gift for cohesion. Even when he’s working with degraded loops, reversed recordings, and heavily processed guitar, nothing feels fragmented. Everything belongs.
Albumin is limited to 500 copies on vinyl through Moving Furniture Records, and it’s exactly the kind of release that rewards deep, focused listening. Put it on, turn it up, and let the textures do the work.
rust/wave, his latest, takes a different approach. The Hamilton, Ontario-based artist has compiled a beautiful piece of ambient work, and rather than introducing itself as some ambient drone or sounding like that, it’s actually really melodic and beautiful. A peaceful listen.
Mastered and recorded at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm between 2024 and 2026, I Det Vassa Ljuset is based on close-miking of organic materials such as wood, metal, stone, and glass. These recordings have then been processed and transformed into software instruments that can be played live. Released on her own label Istid Records, I Det Vassa Ljuset is available digitally and on cassette.
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.
ITERAE belongs firmly in the latter category. It is immersive, challenging, elegant, and deeply rewarding. Joseph Branciforte and Jozef Dumoulin have created something rare: a work of experimentation that feels both intellectually rigorous and emotionally resonant. It is simply one of the best releases of the year. It is one of those recordings that reminds you why you listen in the first place.
A return forged in fire, Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun transforms memory into a weighty, luminous architecture of sound that feels both inevitable and enduring.
A delicious, bittersweet atmosphere gently envelops Progressus, carrying a sense of timeless grace and sentient enchantment throughout.
Emerging from Horizons one feels purified, transformed, and excited to pursue one’s own deep-listening journeys into natural places in our own local habitats that we can sanctify with awe and wonder.
DISPLACES is an album that I’ll find myself drawn back to, or haunted by over and over, providing sometimes an intimate, intuitive understanding of something bigger than me, and others giving energy from some obscure source, or else… The thrill of not knowing exactly what will only keep expanding.
With the passing of Éliane Radigue, experimental music loses a quiet revolutionary whose patient, enduring tones transformed listening itself into an act of presence.
