Experimental Electronic Music
Empire of Sand provides impeccably built darkened droning soundscapes with an emotional and nihilistic apex. The whole sonic architecture is centered on assaultive, multi-layered harsh electric guitar patterns; micro-noisy, grainy ambient electronics; and a grandiose, spellbinding dystopian cinematic component.
Cosmos in Collision’s Unwound arrives two years after The Passage of Time and confirms the direction of an ever-evolving project, capable of building dense and cinematic atmospheres. The cover artwork is an original watercolor by Cosmos in Collision, visually translating the narrative arc of the record: three chromatic fields blending from indigo to black, crossed by a white thread that slowly thins until it disappears.
Coniglio has made an album that honors the craft of earlier soundscape practice while carrying it into a private, contemporary meditation on cause, chance and presence. It is beautiful, grave, lucid, quietly overwhelming.
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.
Austin-based composer/sound designer TJ Dumser (Six Missing) returned to roots for drift, sway—eschewing scale for intimacy in a minimal set mixing guitar loops and vintage synths with tactile timbres to create soundscapes for deep listening, reflection and filmic ambience.
(Mood Starters) is a dark, hypnotic, and eerie techno-ish industrial album surrounded by dystopian themes of a humanity trapped in an uncertain future, standing before unspeakable malefic forces.
The songs flow right into each other and are only composed of what seems to be a few layers each, but there is a fond fuzziness to them, that glistens like the light reflected off the water. There is a slight melancholy tinge to the music, but it’s not overpowering.
A peaceful, singular, and cozy post-ambient journey made of lush sounds, with some chilling moments based on fragmented memories, that will ravish listeners of digitalized tape music and carefully crafted, slowly moving soundscapes.
Following chilling mysteries emerging from Arctic expeditions and unveiling the metaphysical strength captured in ice-cold landscapes, the droning sound art project Netherworld (alias Alessandro Tedeschi, founder of Glacial Movements Records) is back to the forefront.
Operating as Simon Pyke (aka Freeform) and various collaborative ventures, unveils Drift Works—twelve fractured post-ambient sketches unfolding in slow, seamless disintegration.
Mastered and recorded at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm between 2024 and 2026, I Det Vassa Ljuset is based on close-miking of organic materials such as wood, metal, stone, and glass. These recordings have then been processed and transformed into software instruments that can be played live. Released on her own label Istid Records, I Det Vassa Ljuset is available digitally and on cassette.
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