Experimental Electronic Music
It comes but once a year, WE FORFEIT’s top tracks of 2022. Tough year, seems to be the mantra of life there days. Nevertheless, the lads bury the spike of reality with a selection of nourishing sounds that guarantee to warm away the horrors staring back at you.
Since his first releases in the late 1990s, he’s always made music that bears a resemblance to his peers while being wholly unique.
The album’s almost cyber-punk and relentlessly austere energy also veers into musical territory inhabited by Ghostly International-signed acts.
Where earlier notable artists such as Funckarma, Funkstörung, Gescom, and Proem are touching points, Suumhow successfully shape their sound as the new benchmark connecting them together.
Meet Mike Griffin, the sonic wizard behind Energy No. 13, hailing from the dynamic music scene of South Florida. With roots deeply entrenched in the world of rock and metal, he made a thrilling transition into the electronic music realm during the mid-1990s…
Listening to Stasis’ output from the 1990s, Quondam Sequences inhabits a different space. The earthy tones that characterize Pickton’s sound are present, but they are not central. Instead, this three tracker explores a shifting focus where new ideas and instruments begin to merge.
It’s a treacherous drum’n bass maze to navigate—where braindance, extremely saturated beats, low-end breaks, and explosive rhythms collide with the might of a fully-loaded semi truck.
Rather skeletal in nature, Polyrhythmic Electronica is mainly dialed in on the glitched out percussion from classic drum machines that sit comfortably atop squelchy synth bass tracks—best enjoyed on a night time drive through the city.
For this renaissance name, the style has changed: Steady 70/140BPM grime beats now meet IDM and evocative breaks.
Often paralleled among artists such as Richard Devine, Xanopticon, and Qebrus, the Chicago native tilts sound forms into a microcosm of glitch and mechanical gaps, exposing what is arguably the pinnacle of his discography.
Behind an unabashedly bass-heavy backdrop, Lovetrip astonishingly and consistently maintains a clear palette of beats with a perceptible groove. Having listened to three of his albums on the Móatún 7 label, my curiosity has only increased.
