EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

AGF: Source Voice (Line Segments) Antye Greie-Fuchs's Source Voice evolved out of a mutual respect between Line and the artist (now known as Antye Greie-Ripatti, after marrying Sasu...

Villalobos: “I Try To Live (Can I Live)” (Alcachofa, Playhouse 2003) Alcachofa is probably Ricardo Villalobos’s most accessible album I’ve heard, starting off with...

Autechre: “Laughing Quarter” (Envane, Warp 1997) Autechre’s discography is a whole series of treasures, but their late 90s material is probably my favorite. Both the Chiastic Slide...

FIS: Homologous (Void Comms) Olly Peryman’s latest as FIS feels like an odd skimming off the topmost surface of drum & bass and dubstep; sort of like the lingering effect of...

Stephan Mathieu: Un Cœur Simple (Baskaru) Ambient sound sculptor Stephan Mathieu delivers once more with this collection of hazy tracks on experimental French label Baskaru. The sounds...

Chris Abrahams: Memory Night (Room40) Chris Abrahams works more conventionally as the pianist for the Necks, but his solo music is far more interesting to me. The first time I heard him...

Frank Bretschneider: Super.Trigger (Raster-Noton) The video teaser for the title track from Herr Bretschneider’s latest doesn’t disappoint.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Holly Herndon: Movement (RVNG Intl.) Movement is an intriguing short album. Holly Herndon deftly straddles worlds here, ranging from DSP experiments that would be at home on Raster-Noton...

William Basinski & Richard Chartier: Aurora Liminalis (Line) Aurora Liminalis is one long collaboration between two rather different but somehow kindred musical spirits. William...

Vladislav Delay: Kuopio (Raster-Noton) Sasu Ripatti continues to surprise and delight after all this time. I’m happy to see him revive his Vladislav Delay alias with such gusto....

Celer: Evaporate and Wonder (Experimedia) The prolific ambient duo of William Thomas Long and his late partner Danielle Marie Baquet recorded Evaporate and Wonder in 2009, another fine...

Angel: 26000 (Editions Mego) This unlikely collaboration between Pan Sonic member Ilpo Väisänen and Dirk Dresselhaus (a.k.a. SchneiderTM) bucks expectations based on either artist’s...

Robag Wruhme: Thora Vukk (Pampa) Gabor Schablitzki’s nom de techno Robag Wruhme returns with a new full-length of meticulous leftfield techno. It’s his first full-length since...

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