It’s easy enough to get lost in the surreal and mind-numbing speed at which each piece cruises, yet if you dive in just a little farther, a myriad of complex and flickering melodies float just below its roughened edges.
Tag: IDM
Autechre :: Draft 7.30 & Confield Reissues (Warp)
One could imagine Autechre’s music as a lumbering, semi-amorphous creature cannibalized and synthesized with parts from electro, hip-hop, industrial, noise, free jazz, and plain old experimental music.
Dr. Atmo & DF Tram :: Wish For The Sun EP (SEALT)
The ambient maestro, Dr. Atmo, and the downtempo electronic music producer, DF Tram, have collaborated on an album that is really out of this world.
Antonina Car :: Immersed Sensibilities (Time Released Sound)
Immersed Sensibilities is an attempt to transcribe feelings, stories, and events into a synthetic, self-contained sonic universe.
Michael Valentine West :: COMMS EP (Polygon Network)
Where broken sound bytes and data crunching tend to blend, the tiniest melodic hiccups transition into densely packed electronics.
Stitxhes :: Lost In Translation EP (Detroit Underground)
Just as quickly as we’re able to visualize Stitxhes’ brooding panoramas, they vanish into thin air with only a few aftershocks to be felt afterwards. Powerful and engaged.
Meemo Comma :: Loverboy (Planet Mu)
Loverboy, sees the artist pivot from the experimental back-catalog and dive-deep into a fully-fledged euphoria of bass’n breaks. Perhaps to describe in one word: Energy.
4T Thieves :: Nomad’s Requiem (Werra Foxma)
Werra Foxma takes the opportunity to release these audible gems submerged in nostalgic flutter. Opening downtempo strands and melodic loops cascade…
Aphex Twin :: …I Care Because You Do (Warp) —28 years later
The 90s were unrepeatable and …I Care Because You Do proves it. Composed between 1990 and 1994, it is a paradigm of the advanced adolescent.
Valance Drakes :: A Weak Shield Protects Not EP (Urban Virus)
Nine minutes and an infinity we can’t even fathom, Valance Drakes delivers transparent soundwaves just barely reaching the lower atmosphere. Massaging ghostlike glitch for us mere mortals.
Mantle of Gets :: Lisbon D300422D5409 (Uchelfa)
This recording, with all its dust, debris, and dense sound sculptures, dives straight through the magnetosphere and doesn’t hold back.

















