Conceived of while on a six hour train ride through the Japanese mountains, the UK artist now based out of Japan has created a brilliant, glitched smear of techno fed through hundreds of processors to create a propulsive, not-untrainlike composition that covers vast arrays of ground. “CD Green” by Scott Wade is set on a …
Existing somewhere between choppy dance-punk and danceable math rock, Kugo-Yeya from Rustov-on-don, Russia give us little to go on but plenty to keep our heads spinning with this genre-splattering bit of instrumental psychedelic rock that subtly brings in plenty of danceable bass lines, vocal stabs and high intensity percussion. Absolutely flooring stuff that treads in …
It’s name from the strangling tree, “Matapolo” by the Argentinian artist DEEPFAKE is a twisting, combustible take on IDM complexities and electronic dance energy. Layering “avant-garde” elements like glitches, complex sequencing and ambient textures with danceable and energetic beats, DEEPFAKE creates a heady kind of IDM that you could put on during a DJ set …
On his latest album, Above the Neon Glow, Wil Bolton states that these tracks were “inspired by moments of shade and tranquility in the blistering heat of a New York summer”. Currently living through a summer with some of the hottest temperatures on record, those tiny moments of reprieve are absolutely crucial. Creating music on …
Italian pianist and composer Mattia Cupelli trains a introspective ear on their expertly crafted and delicate approach to layering piano lines and synths on a lovingly created, minimalist and blood-calming composition “Time” from their excellent album Ruins.
Sculpted waves of drone push these melodic phrases through something thicker than air. Elegiac tones emanate from the center, creating a shrouded atmosphere that is precipice of noise and softened static. Being on the precipise or the edge of sound seems to interpolate the theme of Liminal Instability – teetering upon the precipice of mental, …
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It’s going to be an interesting experience listening back to music produced during the lockdown. There is so much nostalgia for crowds, dancing and socialization that beyond a few examples I haven’t heard much truly depressing music coming out of this time. Much of it, like “Lavender Sage” by Cloud Opacity, mingles this nostalgia with …
Weaving broad strokes of bassoon and strings through this glitched and warped electronic composition. “Aporia” by Kalamazoo, MI artist Samn Johnson is a deft and deeply textural track that creates strange, ghosts of sounds deep below the first casual listen. An unrelenting 4-4 beat is matched with sounds tuned in just-intonation so that all pitches …
Holding in balance the macro and microcosmic world with the organic and processed sounds on “Relics in the Ice”, British composer Rachael Philip has composed a truly compelling listen here, that dips and peaks in some novel ways. About the album, Philp states, “Conceptually, the album is a tribute to the carousel of life and …
Ben McCarthy (fka Pale Eyes) and the Ireland based Lightght have produced a beautifully generative piece of intersecting synth lines, textural drones and field recordings with “Beneath the Ice, the River Still Flows”. After meeting on Twitter the two traded ideas from Canada and Ireland until the finessed but still raw sounding track emerged. Swathes …
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