Experimental Electronic Music
Foraging through massive amounts of data and reconstituting them into byte-size recordings that have sporadic start and end points, The Best Of Yellow Yellow Salamand’r is a perplexing and dense assortment worth diving into head-first to unravel its mysterious trip.
This is theater, this is a type of dark story told by sound and I want to go back. There is something behind me now.
This one slipped by our radar earlier this year (May 2022)—Fetcho (aka Brandon Knocke) delivers a wide range of sonic delights and we’re back on track with his self-titled on Schematic Music Company. Busting through in-your-face electronics and polished braindance elements…
The signal feeds into the synthesizers, transforming the sounds—bubbling, oscillating, bursting; and it all clearly demonstrates those ideas from musique concrète.
Found sounds, field recordings, and sputtering beat patches evolve and eventually break down as loosened melodic strands bend and twist.
It’s an evocative work with broad, expansive gestures, downshifts that resonate in the bellows of a planet, and soaring updrafts. The subtractiveLAD must flow! Stop […]
From silence, impermeable space EP transitions, and fades away as if nothing ever happened. As if these peculiar disheveled electrical bits were perhaps a mirage; that once we’ve wiped our eyes to see better, only vanishes into thin air.
The industrial onslaught and torn dark-ambient noises all seem to coalesce, as if to migrate from some arcane machinery.
