Xenophonic starts deceptively, the melancholy of its opening salvo that gives way to well-placed beats and a very human rhythm don’t prepare me for what lies ahead.
Tag: Electronics
Synalegg :: Violynt Tropiqs (3OP)
Blurring the transitional lines of coded linguistics and human touch, these outputs are sincere, colorful, and at times, thought provoking.
Inkipak :: Slightly Salted (Pingdiscs)
Hat’s off, as whilst many artists find the ghosts within the machines, it is a rare few that can truly bring out the humanity in the machines.
Jlin :: Rhythm, Variation, & Vulnerability (Soundfly Course)
Learn how pioneering producer Jlin creates deeply complex rhythmic tapestries of sound, brimming with emotion.
Craig Padilla :: Discovery of Meaning (Spotted Peccary)
Imagine the machines that shape electronic music, baffling and terrifying, bringing back harmonies and rhythms that describe an imaginary inward journey that our speakers or headphones (or earbuds) want to take with us into fabled and ever more wild and innovative sounds and places.
enereph | Production Unit Xero :: premoniss | Bukimi no Tani Genshō (Heterodox)
Merging uncanny sound worlds and dark droning synthesis to more direct and punchy post-industrial wastelands.
Beispiel :: Muster (Faitiche)
Sharing an infinite love for modular synthesizers and electronic ventriloquists fullest in their encircling surprises.
Slace :: SSD EP (Renraku)
Synths and Ableton playing a major role; the focus doesn’t remain locked on digital blips’n bleeps, instead, Moscow-based Slace drives a fork through melody-heavy and glitch-blasted rhythms.
Yaporigami :: Chaos Swallower EP (Analogical Force)
With a consistency for high calibre productions and inventively homaged compositions yet with a contemporary spin, this 5-tracker from Yaporigami feels right at home alongside their peers and is very much on brief for a release with the label.
Room of Wires :: Making music in total isolation
Talking to the two Andrews behind Room of Wires, and, in keeping with their way of working, this has all been done at distance. Room of Wires have never met—together they create uneasy electronic music.
Jhim :: Illusions EP (Concrete Collage)
Sonically, this intrepid 4-tracker from Jhim boasts clean sounds whilst holding intimate levels of fascination that takes us on a journey like no other.

















