Experimental Electronic Music
This collaboration started the same time as the label in 2021 (during the global pandemic) as we struggled to reconnect with the world around us. Track ideas were started in Spain by inoperative system as simple sketches and finished in the USA by b0t23.
Fasme manages to bring everything together in this cheerful and optimistic assemblage by taking even the smallest melodic snippets and transforming them into larger rhythmic feats.
Especially notable are occasional bursts of crisp, digital static. I enjoyed imagining that the performance was a kind of industrial construction itself—as though I was hearing music while looking at its naked guts.
Regarding Jon Mace’s background, artistic inspiration, music-making process, and any surprising insights that his followers should be aware of, it is an honor to speak with him through a series of questions and answers on behalf of Igloo Magazine.
Pulse Five is not just a retrospective on the wonders of FSOL, it is a celebration, a point of return and new beginnings for listeners to experience the intrepid audio endeavors of these sonic sculptors.
With a brief look at some notables along the road, Chang Terhune’s Music Mondays aims to shed light on both new and old(er) music over a wide spectrum of sound (and vision). This week, the mesmerizing compositions of Vladislav Delay, Oval, and Autechre.
Acrylic paints and paper art loaded with intrigue, ambient noise and introspection, lo-fi, tape-based pieces in short-form compositions.
Satellite Era shows how many great producers are out there in need of being discovered by a wider audience, even amongst the advanced music connoisseur bubble.
