How often does experimental music succeed at challenging the listener while failing to satisfy? Far too often, if you ask...
Ambient
Heady Essen event crew, label and studio The Third Room drops the second slice of its “Stone Techno” series, available...
Beautifully crafted and buoyant with sonic wonder, this synthesizer-heavy release from HRZL captures an enthusiasm for the often overlooked fundamentals of sound design, capturing a glimpse of forms exotic and previously unseen like some research mission into a deep trench. The first impression is of sonaric bleeps probing the irregular...
Berlin techno mainstays Fadi Mohem and Rødhåd team up for a luscious four-track EP on Rødhåd’s collaborative label WSNWG. Using...
Hiro Kone aka Nicky Mao has the instinct for texture and shape of a metallurgist or a milliner, coaxing a...
South Korean based label, Oslated’s latest various artists’ compilation is an innovative blend of techno, dub, experimental and ambient. Prior to its release, Oslated’s latest various artists compilation, titled “Chimhyangmoo 침향무,” offered only a single preview of one of its sixteen tracks on the release’s Bandcamp page. Just a quick...
Emerging German artist Elias. joins the roster of Berlin & Dresden-based imprint “made of CONCRETE” with the Dust Collector EP....
A blend of field-recorded nature and carefully smoothed synthesis, Jon Hopkins puts forth a collection of compositions hailing from an...
Taking inspiration from the natural rhythms of sleep and patterns of brain activity, the slow eerie disintegration captured in Zenxen’s release is like an auditory study of the subconscious, the delirium we face in the deepest hour of the night. The Bandcamp description opens by saying that “The rhythms of...
Avant-garde and sinister style from Shaney and Zadig on the latest S.Lab release. It hits all the right chords, making...
Young Georgian talent Giorgi Janjgava aka Obstructor drops his second outing on mainstay imprint Illegal Alien. Based in Tbilisi, he’s...
An unpredictable four track EP that pulls from classical tape music styles as much as it does from modern or postmodern industrial, this mediation by Bridget Ferrill reconnects us with ancient rites of deep listening. It begins with the seemingly random walk of a synthesizer operating close to the noise...