Tag: IDM

[2View] Drift :: Manic EP / Radius Etc :: Alive & Thriving EP (The Consumers Research and Development Label)

The Consumers Research and Development Label is clearly not trying to be one thing, and that’s the most encouraging part of this reintroduction. A techno veteran finally putting out his own record after twenty years of platforming everyone else, sitting right next to a hip-hop travelogue built out of literal years of instability and constant movement, that’s a genuinely odd pairing on paper, and it works precisely because neither release is compromising to fit next to the other. They just happen to share a home.

The 89th Passenger :: Hidden Soul EP (Analogical Force)

Analogical Force has long occupied the productive tension between experimentation and the dancefloor’s accumulated memory. Hidden Soul sits firmly within that tension, fluent in its established language and meticulously composed. But perhaps the most exciting possibility lies just beyond that fluency: not abandoning the listener, but trusting them enough to take the familiar somewhere unfamiliar.

Signal_Black :: Disruptive Event (Evel)

Rather than treating glitch as surface decoration, Signal_Black builds an entire skeletal language around it. What emerges is a unified, tightly constructed collection of focused (yet splintered) electronics—one that pushes exploratory sound forward through distortion, fragmentation, and a distinctly futuristic sense of movement.

WE FORFEIT :: Radio Relativa #55

More techno from Bradley Strider, Death in Vegas, and Ryan James Ford with all three delivering their own expression of the sound with savage results. We have electro with Cultivated Electronics, To Pikap and Shipwrec, and breaks with DjRum and Withhold. Two hours of nonsensical anecdotes and lots of great music.