Experimental Electronic Music
No Beats Aloud’s inaugural compilation, Nostalgic Bandwidth Anomalies, navigates eighteen ethereal transmissions where ambient dronescapes, fragile textures, and cosmic echoes converge into a meditative journey across sound, space, and suspended time.
Scanner’s Forces, Reactions, Deflections distills three decades of restless sonic curiosity into a quietly breathtaking work that proves Robin Rimbaud is still redefining how — and how deeply — we listen.
What resonates is not just circuitry and signal flow, but spirit. These compositions drift between deliberate construction and serendipitous unfoldings—organized improvisation that channels the ethereal through cables and voltage.
Contrary Motion is an album for those who wish to embark on a journey of neurodivergence from the realm of traditional thought and soundwaves so as to access the remedies that will give them relief from the complexity of modern life. This is live audio that has been refracted through the studio by means of frequency hopping between Australia, Ireland and England.
The whole of The Phenol Tapes is a deep journey into the interior of Scanner’s creative mind as well as the lands of Captiva Island and comes highly recommended.
The Magic Carpathians Project have released a number of enchanting albums and recordings since 1998, but Khemia, from 2019, is perhaps their most transformative. It pairs well when listened to back-to-back with the new 2024 release Alchemeia from the ever prolific Scanner.
With a brief look at some notables along the road, Chang Terhune’s Music Mondays aims to shed light on both new and old(er) music over a wide spectrum of sound (and vision). This week, Music for Sleep — Super Deep Brown Noise, New Age Cassette Tapes, Scanner, Dune, Brian Eno, David Lynch, Aphex Twin, Marconi Union, Blade Runner, Star Trek, Singing Ice, and Open Ocean.
Further Translations is a collection of remixed works by Kenneth James Gibson. Each of the contributions examines, infers and expands upon the original materials with […]
Yage have taken a great bunch of pieces and turned them into something even more incredible, while scattering their own works (under the guise of FSOL) here and there.
Think of all of the most highly regarded compilations of this ilk, and I think you will find fewer with such a rich and diverse selection of artists, coming together to deliver a tour de force of ambient.
