Trentemøller: “River In Me” (Fixion, In My Room 2016)Trentemøller’s Fixion flew under the Ear Influxion radar when it came out, but it eventually ended up on our Best of 2016 list toward the top....
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worriedaboutsatan: Blank Tape (This Is It Forever)Blank Tape is my first experience with the music of worriedaboutsatan, and honestly the name had me leery of what lurked within. But the...
Ear Influxion’s Best of 2016It’s been an unusual year for music for this particular listener. Despite dozens of genuinely interesting and rewarding albums and listening out there...
Bruno Sanfilippo: Piano Textures 4 (Bandcamp)Bruno Sanfilippo has a broad repertoire of ambient instrumentalism under his belt, and this is his fourth release focused primarily around the...
Autechre: elseq 1-5 (Autechre)I’m late to the party, but when Autechre put out a quintuple album, a proper writeup takes significant time! elseq 1-5 is certainly an undertaking. Over...
Jessy Lanza: Oh No (Hyperdub)Jessy Lanza’s second full-length album delivers on the promise of her debut and also incorporates contemporary flirtations with footwork, electro, and...
Barker & Baumecker: Turns (Ostgut-Ton)Barker & Baumecker have consistently produced reliably good techno, and Turns marks an expansion on their style. Fans may be thrown by the...
Delta Funktionen: Wasteland (Radio Matrix)Niels Luinenburg released four 12" vinyl EPs last year, each numbered off as a unique chapter of Wasteland. Fast forward to a full year after...
C. Diab: No Perfect Wave (Injazero)Caton Diab is a Canadian guitarist whose debut album is a sheer stunner. The instrumental music that comprises No Perfect Wave largely focuses on...
Virginia: Fierce For The Night (Ostgut-Ton)Virginia’s first full-length album for the esteemed Ostgut-Ton imprint (affiliated with Panoramabar in Berlin, perhaps the epicenter of all...
Plaid: The Digging Remedy + On Other Hands (Warp)Plaid’s latest continues their run of solid electronic outings with their ninth studio album to date (not including 2 full-length...
Surgeon: From Farthest Known Objects (Dynamic Tension)Anthony Child has been a justifiably renown figure in techno since his earliest records in the early to mid 90s. His biting, clinical...
Cloudland Canyon: An Arabesque (Medical Records)When Cloudland Canyon were still the duo of Kip Uhlhorn and Simon Wojan, their music seemed to channel the motorik drive and groove of...
Erik Levander: Halv (Full of Nothing)Full of Nothing’s album notes on Bandcamp namecheck Fennesz, Ben Frost, and vintage Cure bootlegs as touchpoints and then end with this...
Various artists: Total 16 (Kompakt)For over 15 years now, Cologne techno label Kompakt has been releasing annual round-ups of its talent, often including both previously released favorites...
Lakker: Struggle & Emerge (R&S Records)Lakker’s latest full-length veers even further from the dancefloor than their last, the utterly fantastic and...
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