After a three-year hiatus, Mindwaves Music awakens from hibernation and is rebooting with a brand new compilation called Pnyø. Eleven exclusive and previously unreleased tracks, […]
Tag: IDM
Resting Cell :: Cellular Memory (Virtual Urban)
Resting Cell is a true synth player and can really draw up some extremely vivid musical landscapes—places we can all escape to if need be. […]
Quarantine Q’s :: Deadbeat
Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat, is a Canadian transplanted to Berlin (as a musical technology educator) via the US techno scene. A veteran of the North […]
WE FORFEIT (Mix 21) :: 20 Y(Ae)rs of Electronica 1996-2016
There is a hope that such a mix will introduce and reintroduce people to some of these past treasures of electronica (in Robbie’s book this […]
Single Cell Orchestra :: Remember The Future (Celldom)
The exhortation in the album’s name—Remember the Future—helps me keep in mind the unbounded forward-facing optimism we felt in the warehouse raves in late-90s Oakland […]
Tulpa :: Checks Cashed EP (TruthTable)
Gesamkunstwerk this isn’t, and it doesn’t try to be. Recommended if you’re in the mood for a journey continuously laid out by hand and machine, […]
Eldorado Omega :: Beatkits (Self Released)
With Beatkits we see the Atlanta-based producer opening his modular machines with expressive, downbeat rhythms slithering all around us with an edgy quirkiness. An analogous […]
Kero :: Highways EP (Detroit Underground) — “Lodge” video premiere
Kero reveals Highways—a 5-track extended player of (abstract) electronics that is cleverly pulled together with a downbeat flow and tracks aptly sub-titled as major freeway […]
FARWARMTH :: Momentary Glow (Planet Mu)
FARWARMTH eschews anything traditional or melodic, and what emerges from his experimental compositions are sometimes would-be rhythms—sometimes huge swaths of frequencies which clash and collaborate […]
The OST :: The OST (Self Released)
The OST. The official soundtrack. This is the official soundtrack to the world. I won’t say another word. Have a listen. But first, make sure […]
Michael Fakesch :: Marion (20th Anniversary Edition) (Bit-Phalanx Music)
Marion unleashed a blistering selection of coherent robotic rhythms that somehow still feel very much alive and necessary so many years later—and now with added […]

















