Experimental Electronic Music
The 23 tracks that make up IDM Collection 21-25 / The Structure of Silence create a sonic fortress of shadow and light, featuring many rooms with complex infrastructure and sharp angles. There are geometric rhythms throughout, like gears that wind up, dismantle and reconfigure themselves, warmed by vapors of tone that slip through the cracks. As a sound designer and producer, Miyashita displays a masterful understanding of space.
Sporadic broken beats and dark ambient strands collide in Allis’ twin cuts, where deconstructed electronics pulse with shadowy futurism and restless, splintered rhythm.
Focal Point drafts a clear-cut yet sophisticated sonic statement by combining throbbing yet subtly nuanced bass with gloomy ambient and downtempo timbres. Absolutely riveting.
Walls sees a diversification with its lean towards IDM in this release that again makes the label champions of representing the undergrounds best.
With a consistency for high calibre productions and inventively homaged compositions yet with a contemporary spin, this 5-tracker from Yaporigami feels right at home alongside their peers and is very much on brief for a release with the label.
IDMMXXI-R flexes all manner of sound sources—broken, shattered, and retrofitted with a dense consistency.
“In the midst of a global pandemic that has dominated 2020—roaming across a cinematic soundscape in flux, and surveying darker, perhaps stranger chasms—(artists) draw inspiration […]
In rotation for the past several weeks, this multi-view reveals the latest sonic landscape from seven talented musicians. Plenty of brittle, glitch, abstract, noisy, mechanical […]
