Experimental Electronic Music
Selected Remixes reflects Zach Frizzell’s collaborative ethos and transformative ear, reworking tracks from across the ambient and experimental spectrum. With his signature analog warmth, chthonic textures, and spectral drift, zakè reshapes source material into a cohesive suite of deep-listening reinterpretations that reveal his intuitive sonic alchemy.
In an increasingly busy, digitized world, this record is a quiet refuge. It’s the sound of connection—between collaborators, between memory and place, between heart and horizon. With their debut, Almost An Island have crafted something truly special: an album to live with, return to, and slowly get lost in.
Such an exploration might seem at first more fitted to harsh noise or the post-industrial genres, but the sounds here are lush and radiant, calming, relaxed. There is the pungent fragrance of death present, but it isn’t cloying, but something familiar and comforting.
If you, like me, may have been struggling to keep up with all the labels and artists you follow throughout the year, then compilations like Past/Present may come as some sort of godsend. Highlighting just about anything that Past Inside the Present have been pumping out in 2024, this compilation spans a lengthy three hours and showcases all the various shades of ambience that PITP specialize in.
What follows constitutes, for want of time for exhaustive description, a representative sample of some of the year’s rich late harvest…
Like an extended gaze on the infinite, or the sound of chronostasis, Ash is motion felt at a Brownian micro-level of timbre and harmonic shift.
A dialogue is set up between the cadence of ambient drone and the cascade of post-rock (rock sublimated) with an array of textures and strata perfused in a kind of slo-mo wide-sky outfolding.
Meanwhile, back in the chilly vastness of space, through the cosmic field recordings and analog electronics is felt the beating heart of the human, as syntheticopia continues to hum with hushed hymnals for stargazing souls.
Documenting the drift at the margins, a look back at Past Inside The Present’s showcase of the state of the art of ambient dronescaping, focusing on selected works from earlier in the year that may have gone under your radar.
Carefully curated by Evan Bartholomew (aka Bluetech), the album remains cohesive from beginning to end, and is a spot-on tribute to early synthesizer music—firmly rooted […]
