Behind the title, Orbiting Souls, is the artist (Rutter alone here) reflecting on a friend’s demise, projecting a sense of surroundedness by souls departed. B12. A name […]
Tag: IDM
Kangding Ray :: Cory Arcane (Raster-Noton)
Insistent and incessant loops built from clustered assemblages of staccato chunks of sound achieve a kind of weightless velocity, churning heat out from the furious […]
LA Synthesis :: Agraphobia Relapse (De:Tuned)
There was a remix 12” released in ’95 but the De:Tuned gang have decided to go one better. Agraphobia Relapse collects a spread of artists […]
Sons of Melancholia :: Silencer (diametric.)
With plangent pads and heart-tug strings folded into deep bass pulses and off-kilter rhythms roamed through by a refined melodic sensibility, Silencer offers a view from and into […]
Markus Mehr :: In The Palm of Your Hand (The Remix EP) (Hidden Shoal)
The listener is immersed in a dense, tense, refined and exceptionally moving semi jazzy inflected minimal electronic experience. Bavarian based sound designer and electronic artist […]
exm :: llmnt (Touched Music)
The album abounds with weird, wonderful sounds, complex rhythms, cold, haunting melodies and a whole lot of dark, dim elements that make it a great […]
Nonima & Stormfield :: Stratosphere EP (Combat)
A chaotic storm bringing disarray, noise and confusion and leaving more of the same in its wake. Nonima & Stormfield’s Stratosphere EP is like a chaotic […]
The Black Dog :: Very Extended Play EP (Dust Science)
Dropping imminently is the Very Extended Play EP (Dust Science) by The Black Dog, a collection of remixed tracks from their latest album Neither/Neither. In […]
Frank Riggio :: Psychexcess II – Futurism (Hymen)
Psychexcess II – Futurism‘s unique vision into a dark world is an excellent record for late night flights both terrestrial and cosmic. Whereas Frank Riggio’s […]
Randomform :: Furtherfield (Detroit Underground)
A baffling foray into otherworldly electronic distortion spanning an hours worth of bewildered experimentation. Sorin Paun, better known as Randomform (and a few other alias’) […]
Robert Logan :: Flesh (Slowfoot)
A great work in not only atmospherics but deep composition relying not on conventional elements so much as the fine detailed placement of found sounds, […]

















