Poladroïd :: Roentgenizdat (Roulette Rekordz)
Poladroïd packs eight lean, muscular tracks with throbbing bass, fat drum-machine punch and just enough EBM grit to keep the whole thing moving.
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Artificial Island :: Another World (Remastered) (Self Released)
Across Another World, Artificial Island keep things measured and textural, allowing minute sounds, gentle rhythms and shifting layers to carry much of the album’s character.
mico nonet :: The Cardboard Falcon (Ninevolt Labs)
The Cardboard Falcon is a profoundly vibrant, impressionistic, cinematic, slow-moving, and melodically oriented neoclassical album that will lead the listener to a state of serenity and contemplation.
25 Years of Igloo Magazine (Evel / Igloo Trax)
This sprawling, sandblasted opus brings together a stellar constellation of avant-garde visionaries—Meat Beat Manifesto, Proswell, Cathode Ray Tube, AZ-Rotator, Rontronik, ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ, Scape One, Roel Funcken, Deru, Kindohm, Vytear, and Robert Logan—each sculpting sound into surreal, shimmering form.
The 89th Passenger :: Hidden Soul EP (Analogical Force)
Analogical Force has long occupied the productive tension between experimentation and the dancefloor’s accumulated memory. Hidden Soul sits firmly within that tension, fluent in its established language and meticulously composed. But perhaps the most exciting possibility lies just beyond that fluency: not abandoning the listener, but trusting them enough to take the familiar somewhere unfamiliar.
Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok :: The Sky Was Out of Tune (Morr Music)
Natural recordings, soft rhythms, distortion, metallic noises, melody, and digital artifacts continually lean against one another without settling. By the end it feels less like eight compositions and more like half an hour spent inside a system that was continuously adjusting itself while you were listening, and never quite finished.
Fields We Found :: Landscape 07 (quiet details)
Landscape 07 unfolds in breaths: slow waves advance, overlap, recede and return in subtly altered forms. The movement is continuous, yet it can escape a distracted listener. You need to stop, allow the piece to find its own pace and follow its changes as you might follow shadows moving across a field.
Pulsar + Demetrio Cecchitelli :: Fade In Brighter Age (Mahorka)
A mesmerizing collision of ambient, jazz, electronics and ritualistic textures, this album unfolds like a deep-space journey that never loses its human pulse.
Irezumi :: Downfall (Brique Rouge)
Irezumi returns with a deeply immersive ambient journey where granular textures, subtle electronic details, and melancholic atmospheres unfold into a beautifully restrained world of sound.
Interstellar Seance :: Synaptic Cliffs
What began as an ordinary box of records arriving at work quickly turns into a strange trip down the rabbit hole of Synaptic Cliffs—a label where extraterrestrials, electronic music legends, immaculate vinyl and one very elusive artist called pdqb somehow all make perfect sense.
stanleycypress :: Ephemeral EP (Self Released)
Los Angeles-based ambient explorer stanleycypress finds comfort in smaller spaces with Ephemeral, a two-track slice of life where atmospheric modulations weave through melodic drone tones and cascading Detroit-inflected textures.
Chris Meyer’s Alias Zone featuring Robert Rich :: Passage (Self Released)
In Passage, some of the most elemental transitions are embraced and explored using sound to portray some complex and undefined spiritual concepts. The concept behind Passage is that of passing from one phase of your life to another. This may include new residences, changing relationships, traveling to an entirely different solar system, or passing on from this life to whatever may be next.
Fallen :: Stars are Crashing, Homes are Burning… (Touched Music)
Bracaloni’s latest traverse moves through warm, spacious soundscapes built for getting lost within, where atmosphere lingers long after each piece fades.
SUAHN :: Distort Everything Forever (Self Released)
Distort Everything Forever opens in ambience, spends most of its middle throwing rhythmic and low frequency chaos at you, then returns toward atmosphere at the end.
Ervin Omsk :: Der Saal tobt (Orange Milk)
Multiple active listens never feel like a chore, and are instantly rewarded by the lavishness of the sounds and the cleverness of the compositions, bringing together awe, humor, and bewilderment. And what else can we ask of experimental music?
Recent Posts
The 89th Passenger :: Hidden Soul EP (Analogical Force)
Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok :: The Sky Was Out of Tune (Morr Music)
Fields We Found :: Landscape 07 (quiet details)
Pulsar + Demetrio Cecchitelli :: Fade In Brighter Age (Mahorka)
Irezumi :: Downfall (Brique Rouge)
Interstellar Seance :: Synaptic Cliffs
stanleycypress :: Ephemeral EP (Self Released)
Chris Meyer’s Alias Zone featuring Robert Rich :: Passage (Self Released)
