A powerful and perplexing giant that showcases sandblasted electronics combined with intricate sculptures, with very little breathing room and just a sliver of melodic strands.
Tag: Sound Design
Arovane :: Polymer (Quiet Details)
Zahn, though, never lets any innovation imperative efface the musicality at the heart of the matter; his compositions lie on a cline between minimalism and sound design in a melodic ambient zone…
Dragon :: Sonance Manifold (Point Source Electronic Arts)
Pummeling percussive onslaughts, post-industrial glitch extracts, and condensed data processing seem to be the focal point, while Dragon’s persistent and futuristic audio/visual scope operates at the highest level.
Aelk Minsur :: Ground Redux (Self Released)
The Arizonian continues to find buried treasures in the form of bumpy dark-beat morsels, agitating and stirring them to create surreal and dystopian landscapes.
Legiac :: Vespertine (Riddim)
It’s not that nothing stands out—it’s that everything stands out. If this was an exam I’d have the hardest time revising and retaining all the details. Challenging […]
Cercle Futur :: La Guerre Comme Expérience Intérieure (Roulette Rekordz)
A high-octane mélange of surreal experiments in sound design, elevating fractured electronic music and modular machines.
Adrien d’Elzius :: Straight from the Void (Pt.1) EP (Self Released)
Crisp and crunchy acid swirls inhabit Straight from the Void (Pt. 1), the first EP of three as Adrien d’Elzius breaks through rugged electronic sound space.
Zyxt :: Athenaeum EP (Self Released)
Also known as Portland and Datascraper, the IDM-aficionado continues to extract every morsel of sound from his machinery.
Richard Devine :: Algoraves, IDM, and COVID-19
An interview with Richard Devine by Wilder Gonzales Agreda from April 2020. Reprinted with permission (Vanguardia Peruana). Complex rhythms, ultrasonic, and brainy psychedelia Richard Devineis […]
K.L.O :: Slow Mode (Colony Productions)
That smudged area between hip-hop, bass music, turntablism, manipulated vocoders, and abstract electronics is where you’ll comfortably find K.L.O’s Slow Mode album.
Somaticae :: Présent Perpétuel EP (3OP)
All short pieces and utterly to the point, these brief soundscapes tend to levitate across a broad sonic spectrum where punchy percussive jolts and stabbing rhythms unfold at multiple angles.
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