Facade Electronics presses forward with Sampler V, a twenty-four–track compilation curated by Fax that channels fractured digital forms, restrained pulse, and weathered ambience—shaped through tape manipulation, field capture, and atmospheric rhythm—into a quietly forceful survey of uncanny abstract electronics from Mexicali, Baja California.
Tag: Sons of Melancholia
Sons Of Melancholia :: Desert The Non-World EP (Facade Electronics)
With Desert The Non-World, Sons Of Melancholia doesn’t just create music—he crafts environments, scenarios, and subtle emotional shifts. Highly recommended for fans of lowercase ambient, electroacoustic composition, or anyone interested in the outer edges of sonic storytelling.
2View — Sons of Melancholia :: Hyperliquid, Spectrical :: Among Lunar Glaciers (Perceptual Tapes)
These two works showcase the range and ambition of Perceptual Tapes. Hyperliquid journeys inward, guided by memory, solitude, and stillness; Among Lunar Glaciers voyages outward, imagining alien topographies in shimmering, distorted detail.
V/A :: Sampler IV (Facade Electronics)
Northern Mexico’s Facade Electronics’ annual compilation titled Sampler IV (aka Sampler IV. Present and future. Facade Electronics 2020-2025) shifts into their fourth of the series, representing fourteen tracks that spark and shimmer at all the right angles.
Sons of Melancholia :: Silencer (diametric.)
With plangent pads and heart-tug strings folded into deep bass pulses and off-kilter rhythms roamed through by a refined melodic sensibility, Silencer offers a view from and into […]
ALAN LOCKETT :: Elsewhereness mix
Igloomag’s Alan Lockett alias albient (mixcloud | soundcloud) dials in an ambient-electronic mix. Among its dream-scape streams and aether waves, reverb-trails and echo-veils, feature a number of recently igloo-‘viewed goodies. Here is elsewhereness… […]
Sons of Melancholia :: Beauty is Imperfection (diametric.)
“For fans of early Autechre and 90’s IDM music such as Beaumont Hannant, Stasis, Likemind and B12…” The press release of diametric.’s latest album makes […]

















