The year has seen a stream of bold outings from Samurai Music‘s experimental d’n’b arm, Samurai Horo–the likes of ASC, Fis, Synth Sense, Ena, and Pact Infernal lately […]
Tag: IDM
Valance Drakes :: Struggle Experienced Internally (Detroit Underground)
Bold, pitched percussion loops lay down the basis for each of these tracks, slowly filling with more density, adding a sense of tension and development […]
Luxus Varta :: Everything is Nothing (Hubble Telescope Series 1) (Solar One Music)
Following Elektronische Werke and The Crystal Issue Cycle comes The Hubble Telescope Series. This latest set of releases are an homage to the eponymous instrument […]
DROWNED RECORDS :: From Bremen with bite
Drowned Records has some similar characteristics to ZCKR. Both labels have released music from Qnete, a homegrown talent with a penchant for raw and thumping […]
Der Noir :: Blue (Love Blast/Subsound)
Blue depicts that line between elation and melancholy, expanding the boundary dividing these emotions to produce a superb piece of electronics. I first came across […]
SHIMMERING MOODS :: Multi-View
Attempting catch-up on unretentive Dutch ambient-electronica label, Shimmering Moods, we content ourselves with fleeting flick-throughs—passing post-its popped on a shamelessly billowing summer-winter catalog. First up, Dimitar Dodovski, sometime […]
Venetian Snares :: Your Face EP (Planet Mu)
Your Face is ineloquent, unstructured, crazy, obtuse, perverted. It’s a powerful spectacle of sound that’s debilitating and irritating all at once. Same old Venetian Snares […]
Delsin delivers B12’s Orbiting Souls
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 […]
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 […]
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