Experimental Electronic Music
Northern Mexico’s Facade Electronics’ annual compilation titled Sampler IV (aka Sampler IV. Present and future. Facade Electronics 2020-2025) shifts into their fourth of the series, representing fourteen tracks that spark and shimmer at all the right angles.
Where atmospheric waves coalesce, drifting sonic ice-sheets scrape up against each other as Identity Values subtly gains momentum while aligning with Audiobulb’s extensive Rolodex of abstract sound sculptors.
Clashing noises, odd scintillations, cavernous echoes, and granular moves insidiously come to the fore to enthrall or ravish the listener in an intoxicated and poisoned tellurian or subterranean ambiguousness.
At thirty-nine minutes, abstract dark drones and punctuated slices of musique concrète flicker across densely layered clicks and disheveled echoes.
Almost fifty minutes of improvised spazzing noise and dizzying breaks, all mastered rather loudly, make RiotxNoise far more than exciting; if the premise wasn’t enthralling enough, there’s also vocals and a damn harpsichord on this LP; now that’s good business if you ask me.
The meditative quality of Extended Imposter Syndrome effectively adds a human touch to a collection of static-filled background noises and ultimately is a terrific way to lift your spirits.
Obscured Instinct and the pale Folklore is a cavernous, hymnic, and drone collection with incantatory voices and weird experimentalism.
Gobelin Stitches only manages to reinforce Nebulo’s strength and capacity to rediscover raw musical ideas and stitch them into hundreds of unique spatial coordinates.
Easily a highlight of the series, the forthcoming compilation finale will include all seven releases rolled up into one high-powered assemblage. Watch out.
