Catalyst doesn’t try to find the path of least resistance, instead, it takes the scenic route with decomposed drum work and broken rhythms galore.
Tag: Illbient
Aelk Minsur :: Everything is a Nail (Self Released)
Dilapidated soundscapes, broken beats, peculiar conversations, funky shapeshifting, and crunch-hop elements collide in these brisk moments cut with a diamond blade into 18 pieces.
Laconic Impression :: Epidemy (Acre)
Downtempo glitch-funk hip-hop and illbient breaks all rolled up into one massive smorgasbord.
SIMM :: Too Late To Dream (Ohm Resistance)
A subtly extreme culmination of sandblasted dub extracts and tempered downtempo slices.
Space Afrika :: Honest Labour (Dais)
A sprawling 19-track movement of textures, contorted ambient spaces and beautifully crafted open-ended melodic performances. Space Afrika have delicately created a vulnerable sonic tapestry that your senses believe to be almost entirely organic.
Signalstoerung :: UU (Hymen)
On this seven track album, one can easily decipher that a uniform cohesion between each piece is very well orchestrated. There are moments of heavy […]
DJ Olive :: Coco (Record Blanks)
Coco might be taken as a sequel to Bodega (its cover mosaic of NYC mom and pop shopfronts succeeded by Graffiti Tags of the World), serving up […]
6 & 8 :: City Plaintive (Xylem)
The challenging and singular sound textures offered by the duet intuitively explore the dark corners of our imagination, the mnemonic traces of the past, buried […]
Kajkyt :: Krst & Krst Remixes (God Records)
Its dark ambience, quasi-Byzantine liturgy and deceptively simple structure have been inspired by Slavic culture, the Orthodox Church and the less sanguine aspect of Jesus, […]
Larvae :: Exit Strategy (Ad Noiseam)
It’s hard not to get all poetical when talking about this album, with its vast textures and intricate details. It is slow, subtle and at […]
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