As The Cosmological Constant opens up slow in its intended listening session, Bitbasic’s approach becomes clear, he plays games with the listener, toying with genre, pulling from IDM, glitch, trip-hop, and jazz without settling into any one space.
Tag: Experimental
rheom :: _ 729.root (Polygon Network)
_729.root functions less as compositions in the conventional sense and more as active scaffolding for expression—temporary sonic architectures that think through signal, texture, and constraint, that lead the artists rather than being led by them.
Yu Miyashita / Yaporigami :: IDM Collection 21-25 / The Structure of Silence (The Collection Artaud)
The 23 tracks that make up IDM Collection 21-25 / The Structure of Silence create a sonic fortress of shadow and light, featuring many rooms with complex infrastructure and sharp angles. There are geometric rhythms throughout, like gears that wind up, dismantle and reconfigure themselves, warmed by vapors of tone that slip through the cracks. As a sound designer and producer, Miyashita displays a masterful understanding of space.
Morphtables :: Absurdance (Mestnost)
Morphtables balances precise braindance programming with technoid structures, shaping a downtempo melodic pull where fractured breaks and electronic details settle into a distinctly IDM framework.
Vijunns :: 1991 (Hyperreal Projects)
This release is excellent on its own, but with so little material, it almost feels like something you’d listen to in anticipation of the next Vijunns release. Given how great the music on 1991 is, I certainly hope there’s more to come soon.
S. Salter :: Ara EP (Plusha)
Ara is a three-track 8-minute mini-EP that spans a wide emotional and sonic range across three compositions, illustrating S. Salter’s evolving language of composition, which is detailed, emotive, and increasingly expansive in scope.
Marco Simioni :: MSdrift++ EP (Fear of Silence)
What makes MSdrift++ resonate is its command of opposites: discipline and chaos, function and experimentation, familiarity and risk. After decades immersed in electronic music, one truth remains constant: the highest level of craft is not choosing between leading and following. It is possessing the rare ability to do both.
Zeta Reticula :: The Human Scientific Vessel EP (Eudemonia)
Taken together, The Human Scientific Vessel is archetypal in structure but carefully executed, operating within a well-defined tradition while still asserting its own clarity of voice through precision, layering, and rhythmic intelligence.
Marconi Union :: Multiforms: Ambient Transmissions, Volume 3 (Just Music)
Marconi Union seems to have removed weight from everything, allowing only the emotional core of the materials to filter through: soft drones, slowly shifting harmonies, reverbs opening like irises, barely hinted pulses, melodic glimmers that surface and dissolve within the same breath.
Danalogue :: Teleportations (Castles In Space)
From bubbling synths to irresistible basslines, Teleportations makes every stop on its cosmic journey worth visiting.
Job Karma :: Tschernobyl Vinyl Re-Release (Rope Worm)
Tschernobyl serves as an immersive depiction of such a wasteland and as a medium to cement the band’s feelings regarding the catastrophe. Both the music and the various vocal samples scattered throughout feel incredibly apt for painting images in the listener’s head; a sense of melancholy is sometimes present, while at other times the tracks become rougher and much more industrially influenced.
Recent Posts
Bitbasic :: The Cosmological Constant (Glitchpulse)
rheom :: _ 729.root (Polygon Network)
Yu Miyashita / Yaporigami :: IDM Collection 21-25 / The Structure of Silence (The Collection Artaud)
Morphtables :: Absurdance (Mestnost)
Vijunns :: 1991 (Hyperreal Projects)
S. Salter :: Ara EP (Plusha)
Marco Simioni :: MSdrift++ EP (Fear of Silence)
Zeta Reticula :: The Human Scientific Vessel EP (Eudemonia)
