Some records ask to be heard; Philippe Petit’s Lightning Field 01. Constraint asks to be observed, documenting the unpredictable conversation between composer, electricity, and machine at the heart of modular synthesis.
Tag: Noise
fydhws :: oд почеток? EP (stotrojka)
fydhws captures brittleness within these sonic artifacts with remarkable clarity. While the liner notes illuminate the narrative, sound speaks just as powerfully on its own, mesmerizing through collapse rather than resolution.
Sutekh Hexen & Hissing :: SH:HS EP (Cyclic Law / Phage Tapes)
In the end SH:HS leaves me with a sense of how futile yet crucial it is for us to try to seek meaning in the endless chaos of existence.
Scorn-Fury :: Outside the limits of Your Sight (Rednetic)
Outside the limits of Your Sight arrives as something closer to an exploratory document than a straight club record, and the opener makes that clear immediately. It doesn’t set you up for what you’d expect, instead it eases in with something eerie and ambient, almost hesitant, like a producer deliberately withholding the more familiar version of himself to see how long you’ll follow.
1981OCTOBER5 :: Arrows of Time (Self Released)
Ultimately, Arrows of Time serves as a thoughtful reminder that artistic limitations often produce the most compelling results. By reducing options, 1981OCTOBER5 expands expression. By rejecting excessive processing, the artist uncovers remarkable warmth and intimacy.
Tegh & Adel Poursamadi :: Bayal بیل (Injazero)
Iranian experimental musicians Shahin Entezami (aka Tegh) and Adel Poursamadi reunite for their third collaboration album Bayal, a creative response of greyscale synthesis, violin, and traditional instrumentation to a 1964 collection of short stories by seminal Iranian author Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi.
Andrew Wood :: RadgePacketRemorse (1.44mb)
A uniquely curated collection that embraces “experimental electronic” less as a genre than as a method of investigation—rewarding passive listening, certainly, but revealing far more through careful examination. The album invites repeated immersion into everything hiding just beneath its fractured surface.
Mana ERG :: Concealed Under A Strange Tongue (XBDA)
Concealed Under A Strange Tongue suggests an elegant, diversified, and pleasant listening experience where meandering emotional chords meet spacious ambient electronica, processed field recordings, occasional sampled voice elements with a near new-age tone, and a neo-psychedelic/cosmic Americana feeling (for the sunlit psych-country-esque guitar sequences), along with near Steve Tibbetts-influenced mystic grooves.
Snowbeasts & Solypsis :: The Portent (Component)
For The Portent, Snowbeasts (Robert Galbraith and Elizabeth Virosa) drive punishing beats and low-end pressure, while Virosa’s drifting vocal lines remain suspended throughout. In contrast, James Miller’s Solypsis continually splinters structure, reshaping corrupted rhythms into unpredictable forms.
Caural :: Aura (Prism92)
Aura leans more toward the hip-hop beat era than straight IDM, experimental in spirit, with enough left-field nuance that it resists being filed simply as instrumental hip-hop. It’s a document of a producer figuring out his own DNA in real time, two decades before anyone thought to look back and call it influential.
Speaker Music :: Synoptic Audio (Planet Mu)
Within the latest Speaker Music transmission, Brown returns to the bastion of seriously adult musical content that is Planet Mu Records for the frankly exquisite Synoptic Audio. With its theme-first offering to the experience, De Forrest proposes sound itself as a system of critical inquiry.
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