SubtractiveLAD is an explorer of worlds, each track is its own individual experience, as he pilots his inner emotions through outward expression. An electronic odyssey […]
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In Rotation :: Multi-view (April 2018)
In rotation for the past several weeks, this multi-view reveals the latest sonic landscape from 20 talented musicians. Plenty of brittle, glitch, abstract, noisy, mechanical […]
SubtractiveLAD :: Valve & Ellipsis double review (Self-released)
Valve and Ellipsis follow a similar musical register where flexible tones, dense layers of sounds and aerial guitars lead the listener to a personal quest, to a feeling […]
SubtractiveLAD :: Sustain / Release (Self-Released)
A clearly recommended corpus of warm and delicately touching ambient compositions. SubtractiveLAD is the project of Vancouver-based sound designer Stephen Hummel. A handful of materials have been […]
SubtractiveLAD :: Nucleus (Self-Released)
A percussive darker energy unfolds in the opening nucleic chapters as a mechanical tone sets the pace. In the closing chapters, miniature stretched symphonies shimmy […]
Stephen Hummel :: Meld (Self-Released)
With a handful of genres lapped over each other, Meld is an adventurous foray of raw electronics melded to lyrical lava flows that trickle into […]
Anklebiter :: Queue (Tympanik Audio)
Casually maneuvering electronics, post-industrial, shoegaze and sublime noise in a polished collection of elegant distortion, Queue stays on track without falling into the surplus pile […]
“Hello, Goodbye” :: SubtractiveLAD video essay by Director Tanner Volz
“This has taken me four months to write; time to call it done and put it out there. This is a long ramble of an […]
P2P :: A potential solution to appease file-sharers and artists?
Stephen Hummel further investigates a potential solution to appease file-sharers and artists as well as his views on live and recorded music. One of the […]
V/A :: The Reconstruction of Fives (n5MD)
The reconstruction, however, is a mixture of form with shoegaze and ambience balanced against the shadow’s of sharply organized electronic noise; a virtual plateau of […]
Igloo Trax Vol.2 :: The Most Music (Igloo Magazine)
“…Igloo Trax Volume 2: The Most Music (a digital download release commemorating Igloo Magazine’s 10-year anniversary) can be described as a vivid cross-section through a […]
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