Experimental Electronic Music
In this tribute, Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) reflects on the passing of Ken Downie—founding member of The Black Dog—whose absence leaves a rare and resonant silence in electronic music, shaped by intelligence, restraint, and a belief that machines could think, feel, and remember.
Room of Wires’ fourth release from a physically separated duo splinters industrial IDM into luminous, reflective fragments, pushing deeper into shadow while letting space, breath, and nostalgic lightness rise gently above the darkness.
Virgo’s Collision With Chronos is a disciplined yet emotive IDM statement, where Detroit-inflected techno weight, ambient drift, and nostalgic breakbeat energy converge into a timeless, quietly celestial electronic architecture.
Aurelume unfolds as Simon Pyke’s eleven-track meditation on soft bleep and tone, where hazy melodies, drifting pulses, and restrained rhythm coalesce into a soothing, dreamlike statement poised between IDM and abstract ambient calm.
Closing out 2025 in unified motion, Neo Ouija’s Signal 25 distills one of IDM’s leading imprints into a singular, flowing statement—and to mark the release, five CD copies are up for grabs in a special giveaway.
A quiet, breath-stealing immersion into Canada’s untamed calm, Provincial Park VIP Mixes captures wilderness wonder through drifting ambient currents and subtle pulses that feel both intimate and boundless.
Veelargo’s Drealusions drifts across rolling green horizons, guiding listeners through seven nostalgia-rich electronic chapters where early-IDM shimmer, surreal atmospherics, and emotive circuitry fuse into a vividly shifting dreamscape.
Autechre’s journey from their early, beautiful electronica to their later, mind-bending, experimental sound is a marathon of brilliance and confusion, where diamonds still emerge from the chaos but only after sifting through some of the most bewildering, abstract music ever created.
Raw Øblations One condenses the ferocity of Errorgrid’s shadow-forged sonic world into a single, volatile strike—seven essential transmissions and one long-lost Nundale relic fused into a relentless surge of industrial intensity, experimental grit, and boundary-shattering electronic craft.
This month we present a powerful two-hour excerpt from a four-hour session recorded with my friend and outstanding musician Paul Smith—aka Leonid—captured live at Nuevo Montacargas, showcasing his signature blend of acid ambient, bleep, electro, house, and techno from the softer edges of each genre.
Johan Agebjörn’s Southern Forest charts a vibrant, cosmic journey through the pine-shadowed landscapes of Sweden, blending earthbound atmosphere with sky-drifting electronic wonder. The result is a transportive, melodic world of ambient and downtempo rhythms that feel both deeply grounded and unbound by gravity.
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