Experimental Electronic Music
De Benedictis has always resisted the lure of ancient genre sirens—be they Berlin School graduates, post-Eno acolytes, or hirsute New Agers—instead adopting a unique, individualist strategem where such recognizable elements are but kaleidoscopic effluvium…
This is art, something to listen to, not something for just relaxing or for exercising, or sleeping. This is a compelling listen because the darnedest […]
Focused on sound morphologies and various electronic manipulations taken from natural sources and green field recordings, sometimes covered by eerily static drone vibes and granular organic textures.
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.
The signal feeds into the synthesizers, transforming the sounds—bubbling, oscillating, bursting; and it all clearly demonstrates those ideas from musique concrète.
Radio broadcasts, air traffic control, music from another era—get trapped and swirled in with the communications of vast and disparate alien cultures…
While listening to this work one can relate to sounds from a slow-paced edIT to Funkstörung, Matmos, Burial and Autechre, all mixed together inside a Gregorian-reverbing chamber.
Showing no particular shape, the album cascades through the mind’s ear as brisk ambient bits flutter and fade away.
We are in the middle of a mysterious and frightening forest, surrounded by trees, lightened by a starry sky. And Amelie’s floating voice gets us lost.
The pieces that make up Amaro are what happens when you take a bunch of citrus and herbs and ferment them together, and then distill them. “Trafic” video premiere.
Their eponymous EP on Serendip Lab is a powerful mix of the Santeria via Saturn Miami bass power techno of Otto von Schirach and the IDM, mystique-concrete stylings of the mysterious Thomas Denis.
