Experimental Electronic Music
“The DiN ambient label was set up by Ian Boddy in 1999 to release ambient electronica that bridged the gap between the analogue sound of the early 70’s synth pioneers and the digital soundscapes of the more experimental modern exponents of electronic music.” Now celebrating their 25th Anniversary with a colossal 20 track compilation (CD/Digital), Ian Boddy discusses the label and its history with Philippe Blache.
With versality, skills, and a delectable sense of transcendental escapism, every musical contribution brings tone textures, patterns, timbral experimentations, harmonic progressions, and processed sound motifs to ravish your ears.
The modular maven channels something of an early TD sound-feel via post-Kosmische textures, motifs, and rhythms; new projections in the head cinema, strangely familiar, yet otherworldly.
Otherworldly yet strangely familiar, sometimes sounding oddly more organic than electronic, at once beauteous and mysterious, huge and delicate.
A sonic exploration of place and time, past, present and future, via synths and field recordings, Tone Maps is another exhibit in a growing display of prowess in crafting deep evolving compositions.
FLC pushes the sonic envelope into more atomically intense innerscaping; couched as it is in sprawling tracts from brooding pulse (“Still Canyon”) to queasy drones (“Hypogeum”), chthonic atmo (“Thawing Ice Temples”) to percolating celestial (“Rain Clouds Descending”)…
Dreamtides is another widescreen work that plays out like a sonic dream journal, with vivid illustrations of unreal landscapes couched in slow-elaborated recursions of languorous synth-tones.
