EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Conforce: Dystopian Elements EP (Delsin) This 4-tracker from Dutch producer Boris Bunnik is a healthy cross-section of his approach to dubby, atmospheric techno. “Luminous”...

Marcel Fengler: Thwack & Thwack Remixes (Mote-Evolver) Fengler is sort of a dark horse in the European minimal techno circuit. He runs with the Ostgut-Ton crew but his releases always...

Factory Floor: “( R E A L L O V E ) (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix)” ((R E A L L O V E), Optimo 2011) The original Factory Floor track is fun, but Optimo really turns it out on the remix. He...

Megafortress: Megafortress (Software) An EP consisting almost entirely of human voice and vocoder effects sounds like a dubious proposition — like Imogen Heap’s “O.C.”...

Caustic Window: “On the Romance Tip” (Compilation, Rephlex 1992) Yet another classic dance track from Richard D. James.

Kyoka: Ish (Raster-Noton) Nice, heavy-handed set of noisy techno-esque electronic tracks here from Japanese artist Kyoka, produced by Frank Bretschneider… the channel effects are...

Sky Histoire: “Sunlight” (Sunlight, ōnyūdō / Haywain Recordings 2011)(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Donor/Truss: Endo (Perc Trax) Perc’s label is pretty no-nonsense when it comes to dark, minimal techno. Even the artwork is stripped down, just handwritten artist/title/catalog...

Shasta commercial, 1983 Music by a young Al Jourgensen. Yes, the same guy from Ministry.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

The Caretaker: Extra Patience (After Sebald) (Bandcamp) Another gloomy, hazy set of dreamy ephemera from Leland Kirby (aka V/VM)…. much like his other recent releases under the...

Julia Holter: “So Lillies” (Tragedy, 2011) I’ve been enjoying Ms. Holter’s new album Ekstasis, but I’m still more drawn to the strange field recordings and incidental...

Portrait by Geof Teague Taken in San Francisco, early March 2012.

Donnacha Costello: “Dry Retch” (Together is the New Alone, Mille Plateaux 2001) Gorgeous ambient sounds from Irish sound chameleon Donnacha Costello… this album is now over ten...

Yagya: “Rigning Níu” (Rigning, 2009) Blissful deep, dubby techno. Yagya always seems to slip through the cracks for me, but rediscovering it is always then just as exciting every time.

Swans: “Helpless Child” (Soundtracks for the Blind, Young God 1996) This was the first time I really fell in love with Swans, even though it was the beginning of their end.  Despite...

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