We (promoters) can sometimes throw the term “legend” around loosely, especially given the fairly short time Techno has been around....
Experimental
UK based label ANA debuts the haunting and mysterious experimental sounds of Oyl with new “Urm” LP. Little can be...
This lush and overpoweringly elegiac multi-instrumental reimagining of a Barbieri track by eight different artists reminds us that electronic music can be reinvigorated by classical instrumentation, and vice versa. The concept is straightforward: eight artists remake Barbieri’s unforgettable opening track “Fantas” from her 2019 release Ecstatic Computation. The outcomes are...
The Mozart of electronic music weaves joy, melancholy, and introspection into a mosaic of beautiful contradictions. Who am I, and...
Coyu’s perennial powerhouse label Suara drops an experimental release by Left Side Concept, an artist that could very well be...
How often does experimental music succeed at challenging the listener while failing to satisfy? Far too often, if you ask me. That’s why my first encounter with Biome rendered me practically incapable of writing about any other release for my weekly review. Italian experimental label OOH-sounds delivers a post-dub, experimental...
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...
Hiro Kone aka Nicky Mao has the instinct for texture and shape of a metallurgist or a milliner, coaxing a specificity of acoustic geometry out of unforeseen materials, crafting tracks that are as sculptural as they are effervescent, brittle and psychic. In electronic music in general and modular synthesis in...
South Korean based label, Oslated’s latest various artists’ compilation is an innovative blend of techno, dub, experimental and ambient. Prior...
For anyone who has had the displeasure of attempting to program a drum patch by scratch, they will clearly appreciate...
We have compiled a list of underground selections released in November just ahead of Bandcamp Friday where all the profits go to the labels and artists. Marcal – “Thought Control” (Enemy Records) [November 26, 2021] Various Artists – “Various Habitats” (Amphibian Records) [November 29, 2021] Versalife – “Shape Shifter 2”...
