Tag: Electronics

Sleep Underwriter :: The Hexadecimal Era (Aduaine)

With The Hexadecimal Era, Sleep Underwriter delivers an album that celebrates electronic music’s past with joy and aplomb while sounding completely alive to the present moment. Here, then, is another superb release from Dublin’s Aduaine, a label whose catalog continues to set an impressively high bar through both consistency and relentless quality.

LoMo :: 29526 (Neo Ouija)

29526 is a return under another name and, at the same time, a departure. LoMo delivers to Neo Ouija an album capable of conversing with the ambient techno tradition and with the more introspective sensibility of IDM, sustained by writing that is lucid, visionary and deeply musical.

Digitonal :: The Night Album (Just Music)

There is a sense of parring back with The Night Album. Electronic elements are present, but they are employed subtly and without over elaboration. Instead, it is Dobson’s own interaction with string and wind that is returned to with a renewed impetus and vigor. Captivatingly understated, Digitonal captures the glory of stopping and considering those forgotten sounds. An audio salve in an all too loud world.

The Bug / Dis Fig :: Ladybug 1 EP (Pressure)

The finest quality of Ladybug 1 comes from its ability to treat dub as an art of emotional memory. Each return of the theme seems to erase something and make it more vivid at the same time. In the leaner versions, rhythm becomes a heavy step through smoke, reverbs widen like liquid metal, silences speak with the same intensity as the impacts.

Abul Mogard / Rafael Anton Irisarri :: Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun (Black Knoll Editions)

Mogard and Irisarri sign a compact, intense work, capable of giving sonic matter an almost moral dimension, a request for attention toward the deep time of listening. The album advances like a great dark current crossed by inner gleams, and delivers music that seems shaped through slow fire, patience, rigor, vision. Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun is one of the highest proofs of their creative alliance, a work in which density becomes light and light, at last, acquires weight.

Kid Bucle :: Memorabilia EP (Isness/Analogical Force)

Isness, the label’s sister imprint focused on more atmospheric and introspective electronics, arrives at its third release with Memorabilia EP, introducing Kid Bucle—the new alias of Ibrah PM, previously known as Malsum within the drum and bass scene. It marks both his debut on the label and the start of a new chapter, working out of Valencia, Spain.