Experimental Electronic Music
Ikue Mori’s Of Ghosts and Goblins transforms the ghostly folklore of Lafcadio Hearn into a mesmerizing electronic séance—an album where myth, memory, and machine intertwine. Using her OP-1 as a spirit catcher, Mori conjures a world of shimmering sprites, fractured rhythms, and spectral beauty that feels both ancient and futuristic.
Originally released in August 2025 via Yorkshire’s boundary-pushing Frosti imprint, uoying introduced a luminous array of ambient compositions—expansive, emotive, and fluid. Now, Uoying Remixed (Not Yet Remembered) reframes those original soundscapes through a prism of reinvention, where each reinterpretation offers a parallel narrative that honors the source while venturing into elevated sonic dimensions.
Raffaele (Sonologyst) of Eighth Tower Records champions pioneering works from the (post)industrial and experimental scenes, with Capricorni Pneumatici among Italy’s key industrial artists. Their latest album, IX TAB, explores esoteric Maya mythology through mystical atmospheres and abstract electronic soundscapes for an immersive, uncompromising experience.
Ven Diagram’s You Are My Context EP on Detroit Underground is a compact yet potent blast of glitch-driven electronics, where each track balances on the edge of chaos and control. Across three selections, the release fuses experimental textures with rhythmic finesse, crafting a sound that’s as abrasive as it is addictive.
Skurken’s Nótt marks a striking evolution in Jóhann Ómarsson’s sound—retaining the emotive depth of earlier works while exploring a broader, more varied electronic palette. Released on the ever-reliable Touched Music, it’s a cohesive and heartfelt journey through texture, rhythm, and reflection that both honors the past and points clearly toward the future.
Evel remains unwavering in their pursuit of fringe electronics and mangled sonic artifacts, sustaining the IDM undercurrent with an ear for the abstract and the arcane. Somaticae’s ENIAC is a two-track, sixteen-minute plunge into disjointed circuitry and alien signal paths—where noise, rhythm, and atmosphere collide in cryptic harmony.
co/wa is the ambient, experimental debut of longtime friends Julian Watts and Jeremy Cohen—an exploration of sound, environment, and technology, captured in a day and shaped over a year. Released on their Alpine, Oregon-based label BOA CVC, the four untitled tracks drift through improvised synthesis and field recordings, inviting stillness through minimal, emotionally resonant soundscapes.
Fourier Transform dive into their archive, blending past releases with fresh reinterpretations across house, techno, and electro. Featuring original works from Dark Male, G-Prod, Inkipak, and The Vast Profound, the Remixes EP showcases five distinct remixes that span moods from introspective to floor-focused.
Black Magic Recordings bursts onto the scene with aenemonae’s dazzling debut—a tight, three-track suite where retro soul collides with future-facing sonics. In just 15 minutes, electro, breakbeat, and braindance melt into a seamless, electrified voyage.
After decades of quietly shaping the electronic underground, the Dormon brothers return with Colour Kinetica—an album that distills their legacy into a vivid, forward-facing statement. Multiplex’s latest stands as both a culmination and a rebirth, earning its place among the best of 2025 with precision, emotion, and enduring vision.
Relay For Death’s Mutual Consuming is a harrowing plunge into sonic decay — a corrosive, hypnotic environment where noise becomes ritual and collapse becomes clarity. Released on Helen Scarsdale, the album transforms the Spikula twins’ obsession with annihilation and survival into one of their most immersive and unsettling works to date.
