Boards of Canada didn’t just shape how we hear music — they reshaped how we experience reality, and Geogaddi remains their most unsettling proof: a deliberately disorienting, symbol-laced descent where warmth masks dread and mystery is the message.
Tag: Nostalgia
Bastian Void :: Polyshades (Moon Villain)
Years on from his tape-wrangling beginnings, with two Japan tours and a cult following behind him, Joseph Bastardo’s mid-2025 release Polyshades should have marked a defining moment for both the artist and the outer edges of electronic music—even if its quiet arrival now makes this praise overdue.
Analept :: Corrosion / Collision (EC Underground) — [concise]
With endlessly looping synth forms and a soft, nostalgic glow, Corrosion / Collision unfolds as a calm, two-track journey through ambient fizz, drifting melodies, and quietly hypnotic momentum.
Derrick Stembridge :: Home (Labile)
Derrick Stembridge’s Home is a meditative ambient journey through memory and belonging, a five-part reflection suspended between sound and silence. Built from layered guitars, acoustic textures, and whispered vocals, it evokes the cyclical rhythms of place and time—how returning home can feel both like remembering and becoming.
Boards of Canada :: Music Has The Right To Children (Warp/Skam) — [flashback]
Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children stands as a quintessential cornerstone of downtempo electronic music—a seminal release that propelled the enigmatic duo of Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin into a boundless realm of nostalgic reverie. In this edition of our “Flashback” column, Anne Jackson revisits the album’s haunting landscapes, with particular focus on “Telephasic Workshop,” a track that encapsulates a paradoxical beauty: at once claustrophobic and transcendent in its sonic intricacy.
Mike Lazarev :: Tarnished Tapes and Saturated Signals (Dronarivm)
Each track feels like an artifact—a fragment of a forgotten broadcast or the warped soundtrack to a dream you only half-remember upon waking.
The 89th Passenger / Uf0 :: 001 EP (Beyond Jupiter) — [concise]
A sleek split 12″ release on the freshly minted Beyond Jupiter label offers an invigorating traverse steeped in hopeful energy, melodic textures, and finely crafted techno from two multi-talented producers.
Takeo Watanabe :: Piece of My Scape (Artificial Owl Recordings)
With eleven miniatures that pulse with glitchy nuances and a downtempo heartbeat, Watanabe guides us along unexpected paths, where abstract beats, gently plucked notes, and fuzzy rhythms harmonize in an elegant dance.
Single Cell Orchestra :: A.M. (Self Released)
An immersive ambient electronic album that captures emotional complexity with unflinching honesty, and comes highly recommended.
Inkipak :: Phokusd (Inkitrax)
Phokusd is a concentrated collection of smothered audio works detailing some of the finest experimental electronic music that doesn’t overstay its welcome and constantly exudes top-notch production values front to back.
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