Minimal and stark in one breath, lush and inviting in the next. Crisp percussion thawed with lovingly constructed machine melodies. Perhaps I shouldn’t have agreed […]
Tag: IDM
Boards Of Canada :: Hi Scores EP (Reissue) (Skam)
Hi Scores proves that Boards Of Canada were skilled sound designers from the start. In their debut EP for Skam, Boards Of Canada signaled a […]
Mnemonic :: Result no. 7 (Halbsicht)
An album that offers grainy electrical bits and minuscule bytes—both upbeat and downbeat—venturing into experimental arcade-styled themes. Eerie, 8-bit modular blips and bleeps unfold on […]
Cygnus :: Tesseracter (Central Processing Unit)
Starker sounds are present but they are juxtaposed deeper and textured moments for a balanced outing. Central Processing Unit is getting back to its roots. […]
Room Of Wires :: Asylum Sneaker EP (Section 27)
Traversing a wide spectrum of broken electronic forms, Room Of Wires is definitely one to watch if Asylum Sneaker is any indication of what’s to […]
Weldroid :: Silicate Garden (tonAtom)
Silicate Garden paints a kind of tricky, gloomy path. The kind of blue atmospherics that are often left merely hinted at by IDM acts. Silicate […]
L.iet & Kurt Bogenholtz :: kurzwellengericht (HalbsichtTonträger)
The duo offers a distinctive, complex and neuro-electronic sounding alchemy where micro-sonic percolation meets hauntingly moving droney fragments. L.iet & Kurt Bogenholtz is the side […]
Forrest :: Beyond The Withered Hills (I, Absentee)
A complex and disarmingly creative record whose sounds speak of the mystical and the physical in the same airy breath. Forrest is a project of […]
Enkephalin :: Cloud Surfer EP (Kaometry)
Cloud Surfer doesn’t venture too far off the beaten path but does allow for an expansive array of carefully woven sounds to forage into the […]