Charm Days :: A Firefly Out Of Season (Sun Sea Sky)

Charm Days :: A Firefly Out Of Season (Sun Sea Sky)

A Firefly Out Of Season exudes summertime road trip appeal—windows all the way down, let the sunshine in during these strange times. Downbeat acrobatics and nuanced melodic bursts Downtempo grooves and expertly crafted glitch funk/jazz [...]
Ümlaut :: INSIGHT (Audiobulb)

Ümlaut :: INSIGHT (Audiobulb)

The ten microsound textures are alternately formed around a simple looping chord, or, as often, what sounds like a distant field recording of a melody or loop, found sounds, rough industrial rhythms diffused into background [...]
Estrato Aurora :: Atan (NNY)

Estrato Aurora :: Atan (NNY)

Estrato Aurora has made a record that draws on a number of influences without adhering to one. There are futuristic touches, sci-fi subtleties, and industrial echoes on Atan. This able artist doesn’t just tie these [...]
Room Of Wires x Weldroid ::  Mix (Section 27)

Room Of Wires x Weldroid :: Mix (Section 27)

Threads of glitch, brokenbeat, downtempo, and IDM fragments—The Deep Blue Knight elevates itself through melodic and tranquil fields. The depth of vision with this union is utterly absorbing, bringing with it a nostalgic flare for [...]
V/A :: Compiler – Level 2 (Xephem)

V/A :: Compiler – Level 2 (Xephem)

A firm reminder that IDM and braindance are alive and well, these tracks could be played at a rave or in your living room with equal gratification. A must listen for fans of Mike Paradinas, [...]

Features

Room Of Wires x Weldroid :: Mix (Section 27)

Threads of glitch, brokenbeat, downtempo, and IDM fragments—The Deep Blue Knight elevates itself through melodic and tranquil fields. The depth of vision with this union is utterly absorbing, bringing with it a nostalgic flare for emotive electronics. Here’s their latest collaborative mix for Section 27. Isolated rhythms, blurred memories, and contemplative shifts through time Following […]

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Newswire

Black Devil Disco Club :: “Synth Is Not Love (Creep Show Remix)” — video premiere

One of the forthcoming long player’s many highlights, lead track “Synth Is Not Love” has been re-imagined by the multi-talented and long time fan John Grant, under the moniker Creep Show (together with Ben Edwards, Stephen Mallinder and Phil Winter). Slinky synth dub “I make music of the next time” ~ Black Devil [Press Release] To […]

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Profiles

Gated Recordings :: Opening doors

Looking at the discography of Gated Recordings you’d think it’d been on the go for years. Set up a little over twelve months ago by DJ Node and Jadey Smith, the fledgling label has already released two tapes, a double LP album, a Christmas compilation and seven 12”s with artists from far and wide being […]

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Reviews

Charm Days :: A Firefly Out Of Season (Sun Sea Sky)

A Firefly Out Of Season exudes summertime road trip appeal—windows all the way down, let the sunshine in during these strange times. Downbeat acrobatics and nuanced melodic bursts Downtempo grooves and expertly crafted glitch funk/jazz motifs from Charm Days (aka film and television composer Doug Kaufman) are found on the latest album A Firefly Out […]

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Recent Articles

4T Thieves :: Cities of the Future (Rednetic) — “Shimmering Sand” video premiere

Quite a highly anticipated album among the scene. 4T Thieves follows through on his growing discography from his previous releases on Kahvi, Mahorka, and Rednetic. You should not miss this. There is no excuse. This is dream music and an unquestionable masterpiece Cities of the Future begins with the ambient sounds of pedestrians, of which […]

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Charm Days :: A Firefly Out Of Season (Sun Sea Sky)

A Firefly Out Of Season exudes summertime road trip appeal—windows all the way down, let the sunshine in during these strange times. Downbeat acrobatics and nuanced melodic bursts Downtempo grooves and expertly crafted glitch funk/jazz motifs from Charm Days (aka film and television composer Doug Kaufman) are found on the latest album A Firefly Out […]

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Ümlaut :: INSIGHT (Audiobulb)

The ten microsound textures are alternately formed around a simple looping chord, or, as often, what sounds like a distant field recording of a melody or loop, found sounds, rough industrial rhythms diffused into background scapes, and more. One very long journey through the artist’s imagined worlds More than a purely ambient album, this is […]

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Estrato Aurora :: Atan (NNY)

Estrato Aurora has made a record that draws on a number of influences without adhering to one. There are futuristic touches, sci-fi subtleties, and industrial echoes on Atan. This able artist doesn’t just tie these sounds together, he bonds them with an ease that will leave listeners happily rooted in welcome awe. Futuristic touches, sci-fi […]

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Room Of Wires x Weldroid :: Mix (Section 27)

Threads of glitch, brokenbeat, downtempo, and IDM fragments—The Deep Blue Knight elevates itself through melodic and tranquil fields. The depth of vision with this union is utterly absorbing, bringing with it a nostalgic flare for emotive electronics. Here’s their latest collaborative mix for Section 27. Isolated rhythms, blurred memories, and contemplative shifts through time Following […]

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V/A :: Compiler – Level 2 (Xephem)

A firm reminder that IDM and braindance are alive and well, these tracks could be played at a rave or in your living room with equal gratification. A must listen for fans of Mike Paradinas, Tom Jenkinson, and of course Richard D. James. IDM and braindance are alive and well Tracing in the footsteps of […]

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Mantle Of Gets :: Sba Per, Puffing like an Adder, and Vanity Board (Uchelfa)

Sba Per, Puffing like an Adder, and Vanity Board are perhaps best absorbed in one fell swoop, teeming with organic and lo-fi crunchy electronic strains, Mantle Of Gets tethers three extended players for an intricate kneading of the senses. Teeming with organic and lo-fi crunchy electronic strains If the Bleep Mix #188 wasn’t enough to […]

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Tim Koch :: Scordatura (Self Released)

You can relax and let this work simply rumble past you or focus in closely on seemingly infinite details teased out with patient audio engineering. Ambience with teeth A complicated, deceptively unfocused-seeming work, Scordatura (described as a tuning of a stringed instrument to effect a very different sound output than that which was intended for […]

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Ian Boddy :: Modulations (DiN)

The analog feel of Modulations and its contemplative trajectory marks a definitive highlight for Boddy’s DiN imprint and a next step in exploratory electronics blurring the lines between abstract, drone, and atmospheric genre bents. Blurring the lines between abstract, drone, and atmospheric genre bents Ian Boddy has crossed wires and explored the far recesses of […]

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Stephen Mallinder :: Pow-Wow Reissue (Ice Machine)

Illustrious founding member of Cabaret Voltaire and long-time cohort to Richard H. Kirk, Mallinder definitely makes up the funkier, more raw, guitar driven side of CV. Primitive industrial percussion backs found sounds and random homemade instruments Legendary artist Stephen Mallinder resurrects his solo 1982 work Pow-Wow (originally commissioned by Fetish Records) from the vaults and […]

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V/A :: Portals (Behind The Sky Music)

Carefully curated by Evan Bartholomew (aka Bluetech), the album remains cohesive from beginning to end, and is a spot-on tribute to early synthesizer music—firmly rooted in the Berlin-school and new-age / ambient styles. Cohesive from beginning to end—a spot-on tribute to early synthesizer music Featuring a highly acclaimed lineup of artists, California based Behind The […]

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