Experimental Electronic Music
Appealing and introverted feelings pass over the full album, trembling at the sounding surface with a hazy solemnity. Colorful and warm, the soundscapes are spiritually nurturing; enriched by subtle melodic lines and cultivate a sensation of freedom and lightness.
The five track Danse Macabre (including an added bonus) is an analog blend of old-school electro-nics, Kraftwerk vs. Drexciya robotics, and punctuated machine funk.
Rough echoes and distortion are sliced into crumpled electrical sound fields that finally fade into oblivion—each selection an extension of itself.
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.
