EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Doudou Malicious: “ne/3″ (Le Travail D’équipe, Safari Electronics 2006)Its glitchy cadence and cut-ups might date it squarely to the mid-00s, but I still really dig these laptop jams.(Source:...

Doudou Malicious: “ne/3″ (Le Travail D’équipe, Safari Electronics 2006)Its glitchy cadence and cut-ups might date it squarely to the mid-00s, but I still really dig these laptop jams.(Source:...

Lusine ICL: “Shin” (Condensed, Hymen 2003)“Shin” originally appeared on the Tigerbeat6 Inc. compilation from Kid 606′s Tigerbeat6 label (a strong showing from the label in its own right). Its...

Alva Noto & Opiate: “Opto File 1″ (Opto Files, Raster-Noton 2001)This short-lived collaboration between Carsten Nicolai (a.k.a. Noto / Alva Noto) and Thomas Knak (Opiate) showcases what I’d...

snd: “00020 a” (stdio, Mille Plateaux 2000)snd’s run of three albums for Mille Plateaux made a big splash for their headlong dive into glitchy minimalism. It was hard to not get too caught up in the...

Baby Ford: “Exopolis” (Basking In The Brakelights, Force Inc. 2003)Baby Ford’s minimal techno output of the late 90s and early 00s has little to do with his original splash as a late 80s acid house...

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...

Soulphiction: “Her (JMS Dub)” (Superlongevity 4, Perlon 2006)Another categorically weird one from the Perlon camp. This may be my favorite release of their Superlongevity series, with fantastic cuts...

Phonem: “Bioluminscense” (Cottage Industries, Neo Ouija 2000)The leading track on Neo Ouija’s excellent first installment of its Cottage Industries series might be one of my favorite IDM tracks...

Jan Jelinek & Computer Soup: “Ballads” (Improvisations and Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001, Soup-disk / Sub Rosa)When digging online I discovered this 15-year-old collaboration between German producer...

Sofus Forsberg: FM Volta (Mindwaves Music)Sofus Forsberg’s FM Volta may be only 6 cuts long, but it packs some heft. While an act like Akkord has taken some of the angular, technical...

Autechre: “SURRIPERE” (Draft 7.30, Warp 2003)While their preceding Confield album changed the conversation about the music Autechre was making at the time, veering more headlong into less...

CoH: “Terra Beyond (Terra)” (Mask Of Birth, Mego 2002)Ivan Pavlov’s first full-length as COH still sounds fresh. I’ve been meaning to write some words about his latest, MUSIC VOL, which is quite...

Robag Wruhme: “Wortkabular (Luciano Remix)” (Musik Krause 2006)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Meat Beat Manifesto: “God O.D. (Eight Frozen Modules’ Eight Ways to O.D. on God Mix)” (Storm the Studio R.M.X.S., Tino Corp 2003)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Mark Fell: “Multistability 3″ (Multistability, Raster-Noton 2010)Mark Fell’s own signature style of madness perhaps shines the most on this album on Raster-Noton from a few years ago, a slightly...

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