This summer, Aphex Twin chose D’Arcangelo to open for his show in Verona, Italy. In other words, this is the perfect occasion for a thorough retrospective interview with the experimental twins.
Tag: IDM
Global Goon :: The Acid Arcana EP (Adepta Editions) — Video premiere
A powerful collection with Johnny Hawk polishing acid-drenched mayhem, blistering electronics, and a penchant for old and new-school flares.
Mōshonsensu :: Izanagi & Izanami (Self Released)
Once in a while a release lands in your ears that grasps you and won’t let you go, and this time for me it’s Izanagi & Izanami by Mōshonsensu.
2view :: 4T Thieves & Cognition Delay (Mahorka)
Both albums reveal abstract electronics and downtempo layers with Abdicant and Pandacetamol remixing tracks on 4T Thieves’ album.
Dragon :: Sonance Manifold (Point Source Electronic Arts)
Pummeling percussive onslaughts, post-industrial glitch extracts, and condensed data processing seem to be the focal point, while Dragon’s persistent and futuristic audio/visual scope operates at the highest level.
LPF12 :: minorThreats (Self Released)
The beat kicks in now and then, there are moments of ambience sometimes exploding into a driving beat. This just might be a bridge form of music, belonging to beatless space and belonging to the dance floor at the same time.
Aelk Minsur :: Ground Redux (Self Released)
The Arizonian continues to find buried treasures in the form of bumpy dark-beat morsels, agitating and stirring them to create surreal and dystopian landscapes.
Eden Grey :: Vortices EP (Triplicate)
Diving straight into early synth soundscapes and vortices, literally, Eden Grey’s latest EP captures vintage electronic forms and crunched rhythms.
Hecq :: Form EP (Mesh)
An unsurprising and blissful quintuplet to cool warm summer nights as Hecq smashes it in true form.
elshuffles :: Who Bang The Noise (Safety)
Who Bangs The Noise offers fifteen tracks, tangling a myriad of found sounds, subtle clicks, and atmospheric layers traversing an emotional power.
V/A :: Fifteenth Listen (People Can Listen)
Bright and bubbling, turbulent and treacherous, cascading and colliding, each piece dives into rhythmic transformations, somehow linking to form flexible electrical connectors that we continue to gravitate towards.
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