From the first beat, “2026” lifts the listener into a buoyant state of motion—shimmering synths and restless rhythms carrying a clean, forward-looking energy that feels like a graceful farewell to the past and an open-armed step into what’s next.
Tag: Jeroen Bax
Faex Optim :: Solar Drift (Touched Music)
Faex Optim channels his gift for luminous, emotive electronics into a radiant new chapter with Touched Music, crafting an ambient journey whose every shimmer, drift, and pulse feels like a quiet beacon of hope.
exm :: F T (Self Released) — [concise]
exm (Jeroen Bax) returns with F T, a 29-minute continuous composition that blurs the line between structure and entropy. Immersive and ever-morphing, it unfolds as a single, hypnotic current of glitch, melody, and abstract machinery—an intricate study in controlled sonic chaos.
Roel Funcken & exm :: Flyphel (Science Cult)
Flyphel emerges as a visionary construct—where Roel Funcken and EXM (Jeroen Bax), both seasoned sculptors of audio intricacy, converge to propel alien percussion into elevated dimensions.
exm :: Solar (Touched Music) — [concise]
Solar blends characteristic brittle electronic textures with smooth, precisely crafted structures and tightly wound glitch elements.
Heogen :: Heogen (Touched Music)
Both Martin Boulton (aka Min-Y-Llan, Touched Music founder) and Jeroen Bax (aka exm) build incredibly surreal audio worlds. As their earlier releases were characterized as a “real demonstration of powerful synergy,” this eponymous release draws a recognizable pulse.
exm :: fjirtich (Self Released)
It’s almost as if these soundscapes are about to collapse; microscopic rhythms vanish and a skeletal outline is all that remains in its final minutes.
Heogen :: Inantiphsea (Touched Music)
There is wonderful fusion is styles and influences under the Heogen moniker, fusing the complex and surreal composition style of exm (aka Jeroen Bax) with the melodic and rhythmical style.
exm :: that little one in the corner (Waxing Crescent)
A massive, constantly expanding, throbbing brain that flickers through roughened Autechrean terrain and breaks up into hundreds of fragments as it passes into the subconscious.
V/A :: Touched By Silence (#2) (Touched Music)
Think of all of the most highly regarded compilations of this ilk, and I think you will find fewer with such a rich and diverse selection of artists, coming together to deliver a tour de force of ambient.
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