Aelk Minsur constantly mines for intensely textured industrial and electronic soundscapes, and he succeeds once more with MΩ Test Report.
Tag: Glitch
yibai :: Hatch + Foster EP (EXILES)
The whole collection is a sharp and perplexing journey across experimental terrain that’s a step ahead of itself.
Oberman Knocks :: Khaptop Arc Phore EP (Errorgrid)
Errorgrid, who keep putting out darker sounds of the present future, opens UK-based Nigel Truswell’s account under his Oberman Knocks moniker. Khaptop Arc Phore then takes the imprints theme a step further with a four-track blackened IDM flood of distilled soundscapes.
Michael Valentine West :: Von Bock Strasse 18 (redux) (uvg212)
Seven years after its initial release, and the skilled sound sculptor returns with a revived and impacting EP.
Second Seasons :: Immense Heaven (Schematic)
The high-level experimental electronic grooves that Second Seasons derives are utterly perplexing as the album moves forward with intense propulsion.
Yella Gin :: I Was a Satellite of the Sun (Mestnost)
Although this album is set in space, its aural compositions combine technoid patterns, braindance, IDM, ambient, downtempo, and microscopic grooves with brittle melodic components that, in this limited edition cassette and digital release, manage to function nicely together here on Planet Earth.
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.
Stefan Vincent :: Pre Melancholy EP (MUSAR)
With juxtaposed rhythms and flickering beats, Dutch producer Stefan Vincent’s Pre Melancholy (released on MUSAR, June 2023) is a sweetened industrial and shuffled ambient-techno mélange.
Peltiform :: Like Phantoms (Section 27)
Their previous album—FUTURISM (Section 27, 2022—was billed as “exploring the farthest reaches of sandblasted electronics,” and Like Phantoms is a smooth progression forward. Despite being “underground” since 2009, Section 27’s releases consistently push IDM and experimental electronic boundaries, inching closer and closer to the surface.