Experimental Electronic Music
Crafting enigmatic soundscapes, Michael Valentine West—unsurprisingly also scoring soundtracks for several independent films—delivers seven tracks jam-packed with sophisticated glitch elements, evoking a resemblance to his previous audio compositions but with a greater emphasis.
A short collection of audio experiments through the collision of friable, sandy, eroded textures.
After the radical Ilvnt Dsrpt EP (Detroit Underground, 2023), MTCH decides to take us on a journey through the looming atmosphere of corrupted lost data on Qurv Trysr for Point Source Electronic Arts.
The Itself of Itself corresponds to the most obscure and psychoactive abstract and radical tendency of Bass Communion’s music.
Driftmachine collaborates with Andreas Ammer on Sonic Behaviour, a celebration of sound and noise that juxtaposes poetry with dubby, hypnotic soundscapes and siren wails.
These murals could just as easily be on the outside of a large city block, or sequestered inside of a dimly lit jazz café where modal post-bop has mutated into tranquil harmonic abstractions that hover like smoke above the tables of a transfixed clientele.
“A mosaic of the human experience,” indeed, Carbon Based Shrine is a somber, illbient-tinged, and introspectively dark soundscape with sporadic bursts of lighter parts piercing through the ashes.
Malasomma (also known as Marco Malasomma) produces a soundtrack for this language; featuring skewed audio worlds that ebb and flow, occasionally delivering noisier constructs to heighten the tension.
Aelk Minsur constantly mines for intensely textured industrial and electronic soundscapes, and he succeeds once more with MΩ Test Report.
Errorgrid, who keep putting out darker sounds of the present future, opens UK-based Nigel Truswell’s account under his Oberman Knocks moniker. Khaptop Arc Phore then takes the imprints theme a step further with a four-track blackened IDM flood of distilled soundscapes.
The high-level experimental electronic grooves that Second Seasons derives are utterly perplexing as the album moves forward with intense propulsion.
