On Colour Field, shimura bends shimmering glitch, ambient electronics, and 2-step-tinged rhythms into a ten-track journey where melodic fragments flicker through industrial tension and drifting light.
Tag: Electronics
V/A :: Sampler V (Facade Electronics)
Facade Electronics presses forward with Sampler V, a twenty-four–track compilation curated by Fax that channels fractured digital forms, restrained pulse, and weathered ambience—shaped through tape manipulation, field capture, and atmospheric rhythm—into a quietly forceful survey of uncanny abstract electronics from Mexicali, Baja California.
Remembering Ken Downie of The Black Dog
In this tribute, Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) reflects on the passing of Ken Downie—founding member of The Black Dog—whose absence leaves a rare and resonant silence in electronic music, shaped by intelligence, restraint, and a belief that machines could think, feel, and remember.
V/A :: Audio Scape (mindwaves-music)
Audio Scape is a finely balanced, genre-fluid electronic mosaic curated by Berlin duo ChillinBerlin, where eleven deftly sequenced tracks move seamlessly from abstract hip-hop and glitch to downtempo funk and braindance, sustaining intrigue from first pulse to final fade.
Room Of Wires :: If no other means are effective (Self Released)
Room of Wires’ fourth release from a physically separated duo splinters industrial IDM into luminous, reflective fragments, pushing deeper into shadow while letting space, breath, and nostalgic lightness rise gently above the darkness.
Virgo :: Collision With Chronos (Mighty Force) — [concise]
Virgo’s Collision With Chronos is a disciplined yet emotive IDM statement, where Detroit-inflected techno weight, ambient drift, and nostalgic breakbeat energy converge into a timeless, quietly celestial electronic architecture.
Parallel Worlds :: Transformation (Neo Ouija)
Bakis Sirros channels a lineage of early sonic explorers into a finely tuned modular language where vintage echoes, emotional expanses, and forward-leaning ambient motion converge, culminating in a transformative collaboration with Neo Ouija that stands as one of 2025’s most immersive electronic statements.
Uf0 :: HYPERSCANNING (Self Released)
Unfolding like a recovered archive of forgotten futures, HYPERSCANNING channels radiant ambient shimmer and IDM introspection into fifteen seamlessly interlinked pieces where Uf0 fuses celestial atmosphere, fractured melody, and breakbeat-flecked nostalgia into a quietly potent, ever-drifting whole.
Roel Funcken :: Drature EP (Science Cult) — [concise]
Roel Funcken sharpens his abstract modular language on Drature, unleashing interlocked rhythmic systems and rugged electronic textures that push his forward-thinking sound even further beyond its own frontier.
Simon Pyke :: Aurelume (Self Released) — [concise]
Aurelume unfolds as Simon Pyke’s eleven-track meditation on soft bleep and tone, where hazy melodies, drifting pulses, and restrained rhythm coalesce into a soothing, dreamlike statement poised between IDM and abstract ambient calm.
Tom Hall :: Boards 22_25 (Sonoptik)
Spanning eleven immersive hours, this nineteen-piece archive captures Tom Hall’s post-pandemic return to the stage, charting a 2022–2025 global arc of DSP-driven live performance where modular circuitry, fractured rhythm, and sculpted abstraction coalesce into relentlessly evolving sound architecture.
















