EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Black Lung: “Muzak from the Hive Mind Part XIII” (Music from the Hive Mind, Ant-Zen 2015)David Thrussell continues to impress with his long-running Black Lung project, including this excerpt from...

Valanx: “The Pilman Radiant” (Xenolith, Diametric 2012)Valanx’s haunted Xenolith album from 2012 still sounds great, awash in spacious reverb and tense delay.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Anthony Child: Electronic Recordings From Maui Jungle, Vol. 2 (Editions Mego)Anthony Child is best known for his now legendary repertoire as Surgeon, having released pummeling techno since...

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...

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...

Murcof: “Cosmos II” (Cosmos, Leaf 2007)The heart of Murcof’s Cosmos album is in the two parts sharing its name. Eschewing the beats and sampling that had established his signature sound by this...

New Order: “Elegia” (1985)The full, 17+ minute version of “Elegia,” which appeared on New Order’s 1985 Low-Life album in a much edited form, is New Order’s instrumental tribute to their belated...

Qluster: Echtzeit (Bureau B)Hans-Joachim Roedelius continues carrying the Kluster torch, again with another album as the latest incarnation as a trio, Qluster. Roedelius changed the name...

Whitetree: “Mercury Sands” (Cloudland, Ponderosa Music & Art 2009)Robert and Ronald Lippok of To Rococo Rot collaborated with Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi as Cloudland in 2009....

Lakker: Struggle & Emerge (R&S Records)Lakker’s latest full-length veers even further from the dancefloor than their last, the utterly fantastic and...

John Matthias: “Climbing Walls” (Geisterfahrer, Village Green 2014)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Anders Brørby: Nihil (Gizeh) Norwegian artist Anders Brørby’s latest album Nihil continues his move away from conventional sounds, starting with an unfurling haze of diffuse sound....

Leandro Fresco: “La Edad De Oro” (La Reino Invisible, Kompakt 2015)Leandro Fresco’s album last year somehow got left off of my favorites of 2015, despite it being in heavy rotation during the first...

Alessandro Cortini: Risveglio (Hospital Productions)Alessandro Cortini might be best known in the context of his collaborations with Trent Reznor over the last several years, serving time...

Evol: “Flapper That Pt. 1” (Flapper That, Diagonal 2015)Evol’s latest for Diagonal sounds like a computerized didgeridoo, repetitive and minimal with just a spry synth lead to lead the way for the...

Hildur Gudnadottir, BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa: “Temple of the Holy Tooth” (Second Childhood, Quecksilber 2007)This fragile, introspective pool of sound is a really satisfying blend of each...

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