Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe: Mind Kontrol
Lowe’s modular synthesizer pieces are textured yet precise. There’s something soothing and familiar about this entire album. Continue Reading
Category: Reviews: IDM
Gerald Cleaver: Signs
Billed as jazz drummer Cleaver’s return to his Detroit roots, this LP of mesmerizing synth pieces is far from typical techno. It’s been some time since I’ve found an album of experimental synthesizer work so beautifully inspired. Continue Reading
Have a Few Get Some: Tiger Jigsaw
Patrick Swayze is the inspiration.
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Daphne Oram: The Oram Tapes: Volume One
A collection of excerpts, experiments, and “building blocks,” by the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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Mike Dunkley: Corpus Clock
An impressive debut, chock full of atmospheric textures
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Vladislav Delay Quartet
Sasu Ripatti, Mika Vainio, Lucio Capece, and Derek Shirley create powerful noises.
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Bruce Gilbert: The Shivering Man
I could wax poetic on the historical significance of mid-eighties British electronic and industrial music, but truth be told, this album can be enjoyed outside that context.
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Tape: Revelationes
At the crossroads of ambient electronica, drone, contemporary classical, and electronic folk.
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Chris Abrahams: Play Scar
Have you ever tried to listen, attentively, to the same record in two different seasons, moods, environments? I recently went back to dig an album that had already hooked me four months ago while, here in Europe, the days were long and the sun high in the sky. Now, with the leaves falling from trees and the Christmas lights blinking in the streets, this timeless album still grows on me.
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DMX Krew: Wave Funk
DMX Krew’s Edward Upton has been around a long time, but his best-known releases are retro vocal synth-pop.
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