Experimental Electronic Music
I can assure you there is no greater telling of a chapter of electronic history, set in a modern context, than this collection. A brand-new decade in retro colours, still vibrating with the naïve possibility that perhaps this time the future really would be different. Whether it was the intention to set out to communicate these themes, Acid Punx 3 did that to me. For me. Great job.
Gridlock’s Trace returns, and this is a classic industrial IDM release. As a reissue, there’s nothing here that’s reinventing the wheel in regards to production, it was released at a time where this type of sound was innovative and thriving.
With ENEMY, KMFDM prove—42 years into their own brutalist continuum—that the beats still slam, the identity is unmissable, and while the grooves and craft hit exactly as promised, the righteous anger now lands more as familiar ritual than freshly aimed provocation.
Scarper takes a high-octane approach to his already accelerated exp-electronics trajectory.
Listening to Stasis’ output from the 1990s, Quondam Sequences inhabits a different space. The earthy tones that characterize Pickton’s sound are present, but they are not central. Instead, this three tracker explores a shifting focus where new ideas and instruments begin to merge.
There is something about Skinny Puppy that is tribal. It’s like they were able to draw something out of the terroir of the land they grew up and lived on and infused that Cascadian vibe into the music.
Ephemeral Nature caps three superb years with a superb three tracker, a track to celebrate each year of this quality New York label. Maybe it’s […]
This is a compilation that selects some of the most heartening and inviting aspects of modern electronic music. Photic Fields can, by now, claim more […]
With the level of quality that the NY label is espousing it is little wonder that it is an imprint turning heads. 2013. It’s a […]
Undefined shapes mix with familiar echoes before waves of the new wash away these scraps of recognition. Mind the gap as you pass into Metropolis. […]
While all of Skinny Puppy’s post reunion albums have had their peaks, Weapon is their strongest and show the band in prime form. Maintaining a political […]
