Johnny McDowell’s cable.percussion delivers a vivid array of sculpted breakbeats and weathered braindance textures on Bleach, a six-track collection where glitch flickers at the periphery and emotional resonance surfaces from the very first moments.
Tag: Techno
Factsimile :: Its all in the facts (Neo Ouija)
Life scatters its milestones unevenly—some slip into obscurity, while others remain etched in the mind, vivid despite their distance. These rare memories, intimate and haunting, reawaken with uncanny clarity when immersed in soundscapes like those crafted by Factsimile.
Blackploid :: Cosmic Drama (Central Processing Unit) — [concise]
Cosmic Drama doesn’t look back; it projects forward—an evocative transmission from the next frontier of electronic sound.
Cognition Delay :: Dazzled By The Dark (Mahorka)
With consistent releases since 2022, the duo has steadily built a name and reputation in the challenging and adventurous world of electronic IDM music, distinguished by a dystopian experimental edge.
Kero X Gotshell :: Vacuum (Detroit Underground) — [concise]
Vacuum weaves glitch and sci-fi techno into an atmospheric fabric both hypnotic and volatile, its fragments orbiting in strange harmony. An echo from a future imagined long ago—contained, uncontained, and defiantly singular.
Grant Deane :: A Coruscating Hope (◢sidehatch)
A Coruscating Hope bends its structures into semi-familiar dance contours, then dissolves them. It’s here that a subtle storm of grayscale noise and electrical charge animates an intricate, shifting sound world—where experimental electronics meet a shadowy, tactile form of techno.
The Mellowtrons :: Protected EP (Voidstar Productions) — [concise]
A frenetic voltage crackles—diffuse yet finely honed into serrated, dub-drenched silhouettes—across Protected by The Mellowtrons (aka Lee Walker).
Snowbeasts & Solypsis :: Extinction Burst (Component)
Despite a 2,500-mile distance and sprawling solo discographies, Snowbeasts and Solypsis operate here as if face-to-face—crushing boundaries, igniting audio wreckage, and forging bold new altars of sound.
Terrace :: Branches (De:tuned)
The 2LP draws on the past while delivering a considered statement on the present. This is deep and engrossing music, tracks that have been given time to grow and mature under the ear of a pioneer of machine music.
Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson :: Detroit Techno — [flashback]
In this [Flashback] column, Anne Jackson explores the origins of Detroit Techno, a genre born in the early 1980s from the city’s underground dance scene. Pioneered by African-American artists Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson—collectively known as the Belleville Three—techno fused elements of funk, electro, and early electronic music. Shaped by Detroit’s industrial backdrop and the socio-economic challenges facing its residents, the genre became both a form of artistic innovation and a powerful outlet for expression within the African-American community.
Swagger Life :: Purity, innovation and constant improvement
Otis Cox is a DJ, producer, graphic designer, visual artist and photographer now based in Hasselt, Belgium. As Swagger Life, he released “Hyperfake,” a deconstructed […]
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