An unpredictable four track EP that pulls from classical tape music styles as much as it does from modern or...
Winston Mann
Burial’s productions chronicle an inescapable sense of disintegration. These inconstant, drifting, longing voices, carried away on winds import the cycle...
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...
Somewhere between a glossy mid-2000s pop album and a hefty, DIY ravestarter project, this collaboration manages to cultivate a rare...
Muffled kicks bely the high-BPM energy across Derelict Structures’ new “S3X//4NGEL” release. The fast songs on S3X//4NGEL” register as something...
A producer at the height of his specific powers, Developer cultivates the near-complete hypnosis of long journeys or a fevered rest, the whole-body rumble of inflight turbulence and fasten seatbelt signs blinking on, felt from inside a heavily medicated dream. It’s almost impossible to talk about techno in LA without...
The second solo EP from Melbourne DJ Fibre Optixxx, “Iris” captures the organic texture and generative, playful chaos of biorhythms...
A smoother and more emotionally resonant album than you might expect from the Berlin-based headliner FJAAK, this album focuses on...
Graham Dunning’s “Silo” released on Fort Evil Fruit is a wonderful anatomy of the percussive: taking the essential thematic elements of different techno styles and stripping away absolutely everything that doesn’t need to be there. This “Silo” EP truly is a wonderful anatomy of the percussive. Muted drums and frayed...
This “Secret Service” EP by Guchon is an energizing ode to the classics, refiguring time-tested vocal samples into cheekily-modern House...
Hiro Kone aka Nicky Mao has the instinct for texture and shape of a metallurgist or a milliner, coaxing a...
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...