Taking a beautifully skewed approach to 90’s IDM, the Amsterdam based electronic artist Yarck offers a subtle and flowing composition with plenty of bottom end on the dubbed-out bass-heavy beats along with intersecting synth lines and a delightfully fucked with percussive pattern. Through these elements you can hear Yarck’s earlier conservatory influenced electronic composition studies …
Lotte Pen is a Netherlands based musician whose forward thinking classical music fully embraces pop and dance music to create a thrilling masala of deeply studied instrumentation and electronic composition. Weaving in deft woodwinds with Reich-ian intensity through a surging house beat and vocal samples, “Entree” is a fearless embrace of music beyond genre. Revanche …
westernmind is the solo ambient project from Jason Kollar, who’s aching and subtle music carries worlds of emotions within shifts of tonality. For his latest single, “Through Smoke, Still Home” Kollar builds on a warped piano line that stretches and evolves throughout the composition. Guitar and drums are folded in as a nod to Kollar’s …
Daughter of Dawn is the solo project of Twin Cities artist Emma Goldman Grey – a Trans artist whose musical output sits in the middle of a venn diagram of various influences and traditions. Fans of Jesu and Massive Attack will find a kindred spirit in the aching, nocturnal delivery of trip-hop beats with an …
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Building from a living, breathing ambient pad, the Slovakian artist Vanish Kadmio folds in a compelling trip-hop beat that provides subtle movement and momentum. An artist venturing into marrying ambient and electronic music together, “Skies” is an excellent counterpart to Kadmio’s expanding work. Vanish Kadmio · Skies
The German duo known as Méraud effortlessly weave together textural, improvised ambient work on vintage synthesizers with lovely, room-filling trumpet. Processed through old tape techniques to draw out the warmth and warbly beauty of “Mountain Top” the duo create a sound that skips to that part of your hippocampus that has been storing fuzzy, pleasant …
On “Nothing Fancy” the UK based pianist Freya Lily utilizes hypnotic minimalism to achieve a a feeling of stasis among the intersecting piano lines. Using nothing but piano and analogue emulations of tape saturation to create a peaceful and ultimately hopeful piano composition. Building on what’s known as the “mere exposure effect” the way these …
Angel is a Berlin-based French DJ whose work on “Coincidence” reveals a deep ability to channel sun-torched vistas – a kind of surface of the sun style drone – via her intense ambient output. Surging waves of drone, melodic fragments, tonal shifts and an overarching movement towards some brighter place highlight this excellent ambient work. …
Growing from a loose-limbed Kraut groove, Bay Area artist Chris Portka builds a towering cacophony on “Pad”. A swirling, thick drone cuts through the intersecting melodic and controlled demolition percussion. Settling into an auxiliary role as the song slowly gains its structure, the omnipresent drone is never far away, now bending and twisting into new …
Bracing and moving, “HELIANTH” by NTBTR is a track that comes with strong visual components to it. A bare bones percussive layer transposes a four-on-the-floor house-adjacent beat into the rudimentary feeling of movement is layered with blanket upon blanket of distortion, erosion and heavy explosive fervor. A doomed spacecraft propelled through light years of inky …