EAR INFLUXION

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SINCE 2010

Twisted Science: “Magma Hum” (Blown, Lo Recordings 1999)As Twisted Science, Jon Tye always operated in the furthest outskirts of drum & bass — remember when “breakcore” wasn’t a thing yet...

Thurston Moore + Add (N) to X: “010″ (Root, Lo Recordings 1998)This sort of mixed bag of interpretations of source material feels distinctly late 90s in sensibility, but it holds up over time....

Controlled Bleeding: “Dry Lungs (Extended Version)” (Songs From The Vault, Dark Vinyl 1994)This noisy extended track is a repress from Controlled Bleeding’s Headcrack LP in 1986.(Source:...

Container: Adhesive EP (Liberation Technologies)Ren Schofield’s specific blend of rhythm and noise shines brightly on this recent EP, each of its four cuts giving the others a run for...

N + Dirk Serries: Kehr (Denovali)N is the iterative alias of one Hellmut Neidhardt, with each appearance he’s made under the name appended with a sequential integer. I discovered his music...

Thomas Brinkmann: What You Hear (Is What You Hear) (Editions Mego)Techno auteur Thomas Brinkmann has always been a bit of a chameleon. For as often as he delivers the techno goods in the...

Chra: Empty Airport (Editions Mego)Stephen King published a story called “The Langoliers” in the early 90s (made into a pretty terrible TV mini-series not long after) about a flight whose...

Blanck Mass: Dumb Flesh (Sacred Bones)The latest solo outing from Fuck Buttons’ Benjamin John Power comes some time after his debut album under the name. While his first album was fine...

prostheticknowledge:BlueprintProject by joanie lemercier is a large scale audio visual installation utilizing projection with architecture theme:The work examines the notion of blueprint...

Pan Sonic: Oksastus (Kvitnu 2014)Ilpo Väisänen and Mika Vainio’s last hurrah as Pan Sonic is actually a live recording from back in 2009, and I’d missed it when Ukrainian label Kvitnu released it...

Marcus Schmickler & Julian Rohrhuber: Politiken der Frequenz (Editions Mego/Tochnit Aleph) While Marcus Schmickler may have most notably made a name for himself around the turn of the...

zumzeig: David Tudor and John Cage in Japan, 1962

Insiden: Above Us (In Paradisum) On a first impression, French outfit Insiden traverses similar terrain to the murky underworld of Haxan Cloak. The sound is pitch black and ominous, like...

NON: “Man Cannot Flatter Fate” (Back to Mono, Mute 2012) Boyd Rice’s Back to Mono was a really nice return to form for his NON project, ditching his philosophizing and sloganeering...

Scott Taggart, Lary Seven & Felix Kubin: 1:17 (Live at ISSUE Project Room NYC, Gagarin) Conceptual art is often only as good or as strong as its concept. In the case of this live...

BJ Nilsen, Stilluppsteypa & Anla Courtis: Golden Circle Afternoon (Editions Mego) This two track sprawl is a sort of unconventional sonic travelogue of European tour undertaken by...

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