Arsonist Recorder & Sigma_ALgebra :: Arkada #005 split EP (Arkada)
Six tracks, no wasted motion. ARKADA005 doesn’t revive electro; it plugs it back in, turns the voltage up, and lets the machine speak for itself.
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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.
Otto Taimela :: Cheap Ingredients (Cudighi)
Taimela isn’t trying to recreate the 90s IDM and drum and bass golden era so much as he’s drawing a line from it to the present, letting those influences inform his melodic instincts without being consumed by them. There’s a lightness to how he carries all of that reference—it never feels like homework, never feels like pastiche. It just sounds like a producer who grew up on the right records and internalized them so completely that they became his own vocabulary.
Push For Night :: That Porous Line (Room40)
That Porous Line follows as a deliberate shift—letting in just enough light to see differently without abandoning the dark corners they prefer to inhabit.
Cathopsis :: Solythode (Component)
Solythode maintains an unrelenting presence, often opening with uneasy ambient-noise structures before expanding toward the outer edges of mechanical rhythms and threaded bass lines that seem to operate just outside our galaxy.
Fleck E.S.C. :: Interior Reset (Pyramid Transmissions)
This is electro with its lineage intact and its eyes firmly ahead: studied, physical, detailed and properly funky. The lesson is simple. Know the form. Then push the production until the form starts pushing back.
Philippe Blache :: Embodied Shadow Of Thy Secret Mind (Mahorka)
Philippe Blache has constructed a detailed sonic environment where piano, electronics, repetition, and shifting textures create a sustained feeling of uncertainty, contemplation, and spectral loss.
Boddy | Scanner :: Juxtapositions (DiN)
DiN has built an extensive catalog through precisely these kinds of creative connections, and Juxtapositions stands as a particularly strong example of what can emerge when experienced artists remain genuinely open to one another. There is considerable craft here. Its sophistication lies in the natural way its many elements coexist and transform.
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.
V/A :: Documents of Different Reality (Cold Blow)
The depth and breadth of Documents of Different Reality is truly amazing. Cold Blow have done their homework and their research. This is a compilation of archaeological detail that brings to life the momentous machine music of the 1990s. In Spara’s own words, the collection connects “dots that people might have not connected before.”
Phantom Horse :: Primal Forms (Umor Rex)
Primal Forms is quite a propulsive and beautifully elaborated electronic synthedelica effort that will ravish listeners of adventurous music with dancing, then hallucinogenic qualities. The synergy between the two musicians works like magic and with a clear easiness.
IXRQ :: Form & Fashion EP (SEQ:RUN)
For fans of CPU, Carl Finlow and electro’s wider continuum, IXRQ’s command of the language will be immediately apparent. But this isn’t simply reverence for what has been. These are familiar components arranged with enough curiosity to remind us that electro’s future has never been about inventing the machine. It’s about continuing to find new things for it to say.
Dimensional Holofonic Sound :: Concept Record (Self Released)
Concept Record not only works as a creative tool; it demonstrates what can be created when Professor Ben’s instruction is heeded. The concept is to use this record alongside other records to make new records, while providing a legitimate D.H.S. album of its own right—one that embraces the features that help make physical records so fun and appealing.
Recent Posts
Otto Taimela :: Cheap Ingredients (Cudighi)
Push For Night :: That Porous Line (Room40)
Cathopsis :: Solythode (Component)
Fleck E.S.C. :: Interior Reset (Pyramid Transmissions)
Philippe Blache :: Embodied Shadow Of Thy Secret Mind (Mahorka)
Boddy | Scanner :: Juxtapositions (DiN)
Artificial Island :: Another World (Remastered) (Self Released)
V/A :: Documents of Different Reality (Cold Blow)
