Archive for September, 2008
IJO – (Untitled) LP (self)
Queuing up the self released (Untitled) LP by IJO on my iPod, I find that my collection is already sprinkled with tracks from this Lithuanian artist [currently residing in London]. A few of Audrius Vaitiekunas‘ tracks appear under my favorite Sutemos compilations: Draumar Um Kalt Sumar (Sutemos, 2006) and Intelligent Toys 4 (Sutemos, 2007). And [...]
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Tags: breakcore, drum'n'bass, experimental, glitch
With his twelfth album, Tom Jenkinson takes even a further departure from his staple Squarepuher sound of broken beats atop slapped bass and twisted triggers of the Amen Break. Warp‘s own store, Warpmart, categorizes the album as “Drum and Bass / Breakcore / Electronica”, but I assure you, nothing could be further from the truth! [...]
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Tags: electronic, idm, jazzy
I accidentally came across your album in a minimal techno section of my local record shop. Would you prefer it be filed under another category? No, I don’t really care about putting my music in any category. I think my music has more listening value than the average minimal techno stuff. At least I would [...]
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Anders Ilar – Sworn (Level)
Anders Ilar comes back with an intelligent minimal techno album, full of ambient and glitch elements that compliment the ongoing groove in every single way. And I guess it wouldn’t be fair to file Sworn under minimal techno. After all, the only stylistic hint at that category is its four-four beat, and not on every [...]
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Tags: ambient techno, idm, minimal techno
Squarepusher recently announced a new upcoming album, titled Just A Souvenir (out on Warp on October 27th, of 2008 – and already available via digital download on bleep). But on my first preview of the album, Tom Jenkinson seems to drift even further away from his original innovative broken beats and drill’n’bass, so dominated by [...]
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Tags: breaks, drill'n'bass, jazzy, trip-hop
Elite Barbarian – It’s only when you get to the end that it all makes sense (Front & Follow)
With a title over ten words, you’d think that Benjamin Page composed a post-rock or perhaps an ambient album, where track and album naming is something of an art form. Nothing could be further from the truth. Page’s solo release under Elite Barbarian moniker, titled It’s only when you get to the end that it [...]
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Tags: dark idm, rhythmic noise
Silences Sumire sounds as if Arovane remixed the live improvisation of Miles Davis, laying on his glitchy swishing drum patterns over electro-acoustic treatments of jazzy instrumentation. Hailing from Chicago, the group consisting of Thomas Faulds (Mercury Effect) and Charles Gorczynski (Colorlist, Leaves) compose a blend of light, electronic, and digitally crunchy percussion over woodwinds (alto [...]
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Tags: future jazz, glitch, idm, jazzy
Tell us about the transformation from Dream Dialogue to Window Seat in your approach towards production and composition. When I first sat down and recorded Dream Dialogue, I felt like I was a baby trying to learn to walk. I knew what ambient music was, and how some ambient artists sounded, but I had no [...]
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Somehow Todd Chappell managed to squeeze out another ambient release this year. Maybe “squeeze out” is not such a great term. He simply opened the windows and let the inspiration fly in. After all, this Memphis artist seems to write a couple of tracks a week. In Window Seat, Chappell creates lighter melodies with an [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical
What can you tell us about Priest Lake as a physical location and more importantly, the year 1988 in relation thereof. Priest Lake is a beautiful lake in Idaho where I spent almost every summer at as a child. These past few years after moving back home from Los Angeles I’ve gone back to Priest [...]
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Hidden Shoal delivers once again! There are instant gems in my collection from this Australian label, including albums by Sankt Otten, Wes Willenbring and now the latest from Slow Dancing Society. To listen to Priest Lake Circa ’88, I retreat into my solitary bedroom, fall over the covers, and press play on the player. It’s [...]
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Tags: ambient, shoegaze
Syncopix – Icarus (Syncopix)
I just love dark and dirty drum’n’bass. But… I also love its jazzy, organic, and carefree flip-side. That is the sound of Syncopix. You walk out the door, on a crisp summer morning; the sun casts off the sharp shadows of the trees; and with the headphones on you trot to the beat. The light [...]
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Tags: drum'n'bass
I’m in the mood to catch up on some EPs highlighting the upcoming releases. Here comes a single from a Portuguese musician, Bruno Miguel, going by the name :papercutz with a vocal help by the lovely Melissa (Mell) Veras, and multi-instrumentalist Francisco Bernardo. The clicky IDM elements of Ultravioleta and the breathy female voice, triggers [...]
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Tags: electronic
Entering the domain of ambient techno producers, is a newcomer by the name of The Sight Below. Ghostly didn’t think twice (and better for it), and snatched TSB for his first three-track EP, titled No Place For Us. The fact that I’m even taking the time to mention a digital single should tell you how [...]
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Tags: ambient techno, minimal techno, shoegaze
It’s not enough for Bryan Konietzko to be large. To be enormous. Ginormous suits him better. Extremely digital and artificial in all its glory, the sound of sharp saw waves and crisp percussion cuts right through the trippy hip-hop beats. Listening to At Night, Under Artificial Light, I feel like I am crawling through a [...]
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Tags: dark idm, idm, rhythmic noise
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