As Standalone Complex unveils relatively condensed track lengths, they somehow converge into dreamlike sound-escapes of emotive clarity, mechanized beauty and organized ambient-industrial bliss. [Release page] Atra Aeterna (aka Zack Mitchell) […]
Tag: Experimental
Khafru :: Mirrors Become Doors At Night EP (Loomis & Jones)
Breaking down barriers between emotive instrumental industrial and pleasant layers of magnetized fluctuation, glitch and ambient-noise, Mirrors Become Doors At Night is a refined audio […]
Brendan Byrnes :: Micropangaea (Spectropol)
Considered perhaps as a hybrid-electronic album with instrumental incisions, Micropangaea is an accomplished body of work that sparks several corners of the condensed, vibrant and […]
Maëror Tri :: Emotional Engramm (Zoharum)
The trio’s distinct sound was the result of its refined treatment (the seven pieces were three years in the making) of acoustic instruments, primarily guitar, […]
Malloc :: Louisian Stars EP (Artificial Music Machine)
Louisian Stars is a fascinating foray of pieces through which time has no meaning. Dizzying loops, skips, clips and effervescent audio shadows somehow tranquilize the […]
Øe :: Transfer (Murmur)
Transfer is a wonderfully absorbing mix of elements, digital micro-events, rumbling timbral drone sequences with a deep sense of introspection and meditatively cerebral experience. [Release […]
Andy Stott :: Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
Andy Stott’s formula is as potent, intoxicating and unsettling as ever and you just know that a few minutes into any particular track, one of […]
V/A :: Accretion (Tympanik Audio, 5-year Anniversary Compilation)
For fifteen dollars, the price of cappuccinos and pastry for two, you get half a gigabyte of high-quality MP3s, which amount to nearly four hours […]
Alex Cobb :: Passage to Morning (Students of Decay)
In a world drowning in ambient droning, Alex Cobb’s methods may be familiar, his materials no more than the tropes of the territory, but outcomes […]
Marihiko Hara & Hideki Umezawa :: Jigokuhen (Wist Rec.)
The “sound report” composed in tandem by Marihiko Hara and Hideki Umezawa, multimedia artists from Kyoto and Tokyo, respectively, is quiet and scraggly, just as […]
Datacrashrobot :: Disassembler (Battery Park Studio)
As Disassembler embarks on its direct mission of controlled electronics, there are textured layers of mechanical rhythms buried underneath sheets of lost signals. As Sorin Paun (aka […]
















