Played and recorded live using analogue modular synthesis by Japanese improvisational artist Takahiro Mukai, “”#456” is a bubbling, noise-addled piece of straightforward techno where we can hear the circuits connect and hardware come alive. Harnessing the harsh sounds of a dial up modem and a laser-guided techno percussive pattern, Takahiro Mukai the Osaka based electronic …
NMD “No Mind” is collaborative experimental / IDM project between California based McLean Macionis and Mana Contractor. The duo create deeply felt IDM music that exploit Macionis’s wealth of electronic hardware and studio experience with Contractor’s “unique approach to melody, harmony, and rhythmic modulation drawn from the disparate canons of jazz and Hindustani classical music”. …
We are big fans of Kumi Takahara’s upcoming album “See Through” out 02.24.21 on Flau Records. This second single, “Roll” features Takahara creating a ghostly minimalist composition for piano, strings and voice. Recorded in the bathroom – the quietest place in her Tokyo apartment – “Roll” is ideal music for living small and creating beautiful …
In their experiment with layering sounds atop one another and changing the aperture to include layers upon layers of rhythmic and ambient sounds, Cloud Opacity presents a compelling composition full of intersecting percussive lines, shuffling hi hats and surging drones and synth lines. Highly recommended if you are fans of Pantha Du Prince or Christian …
Infinexhuma presents two contrasting dark ambient compositions from the album Frontier – a project that captures an inner narrative centered around destruction and regeneration. “Position in Flames” Building on waves of analog distortion, distant windchimes sounding as some kind of ill omen for a plague wind coming in off the ridge, booming percussion resounding from …
During the neo-classical pianist Olec Mün’s move from Argentina to Spain, In an uncertain present Mün records reconnecting with his past. “Ima” his latest single connects with his Jewish past and his mother who transmitted that invisible legacy to Mün – connecting chains of generational learning and coping. “Ima” is Mün’s attempt to honor and …
In this heavily emotional and expertly paced piece of string-led post-rock, Alaskan Tapes – most known for his ambient passageways creates a beguilingly gorgeous slice of grey-skied instrumental music. A shuffling backbeat, swooping strings and guitars tuned to a quiet roar provides some serious Album Leaf / This Will Destroy You / Wind-Up Bird levels …
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“Chiron” by onu blu is described as a meditation on transience. Embedded within “Chiron” are multiple instances of melodies and augmented sounds arising and dying in the cooling night air. Guitars plucked delicately with a long-tail of reverb and delay sparking and fading, wordless vocals offering transitory melodic phrasing and swelling drones riding sine waves …
“Outcast Star” by the Iranian based Vatar is a beautiful ambient composition that pairs searching synths with acoustic and traditional instrumentation and sense of longing. With what sounds like an expertly played Oud through reverb and delay, Vatar gently shepherds these tones into beautifully spacious territory.
Taken from Cedrick Knox’s “Spack in the Box Allstars” upcoming album, “I Don’t Have a Mannequin Fetish” is inspired by, “Inspired by 70s Miles Davis, catwalk electronica, fake memories of late 90s chillout rooms, and ‘Spack in the Box’ a TikTok star and YouTube drummer with cerebral palsy whom the upcoming EP is named after.” …
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