Rontronik (Ron Croudy) is not just a music producer and DJ/Controllerist; he’s a sonic architect weaving beats and melodies into immersive experiences. His journey into the realms of electronic music began over a decade ago, fueled by a passion for diverse sonic landscapes and a relentless drive for experimentation and innovation.
Tag: Experimental
Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das :: Black Box Revenant EP (Self Released)
A revenant returns as a spirit after death, and art can be an experiment in new forms, one might not like it all. For me, “Burn I” and “Burn II” were tough, but then “Dome 2080” is Extraordinarily Awesome! Yes, very good.
Solypsis :: Sifting Through The Ashes (Compiled by Skymall) (Self Released)
A grueling feast of grit and glitch that celebrates 25 years of music-making—Skymall prepares an unforgiving mix consisting of blistering electro, breaks, rhythmic noise, and magnetized distortion.
mōshonsensu :: A Tribal Realm (Self Released)
A Tribal Realm is a captivating visual-audio trip that offers a hypnotic and ethereal auditory experience.
Galati :: Cold As a February Sky (Glacial Movements)
A representative and well-crafted album of modern day ambient synthedelica with everything you may like regarding textured lush atmospheres which invite to explore the great unknown while being immersed in natural primordial stillness.
Faded Saga :: Faded Saga (ENRECO)
Sun-soaked, abstract, and vintage-sounding electronics with fuzzy melodic rhythms.
Cressida :: The Flying Dagger EP (Shaw Cuts)
The Flying Dagger displays a solid batch of tracks that go as hard as the concept behind the project would lead you to believe. To match various fight scenes and the thrill of revenge, the beats on this EP do need to go rather hard, and they certainly succeed at that.
Matmos :: Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Matmos are masters of the electronic concept album, and I was delighted that the archive in question is the plethora of “sound” albums released by the maverick founder of Folkways, Moses Asch. Beyond the concept, these glitchy, rhythmic, noisy, textural pieces are a joy to listen to and behold.