EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Holden: The Inheritors (Border Community) James Holden’s second full-length album on his own BC imprint is likely to throw his fans for a loop. It couldn’t be more different...

Darkstar: “Deadness” (North, Hyperdub 2010) This album never gets old to me.

Drew Baker: “National Anthem” (Stress Position, New Focus Recordings 2012) “Pianists spend lifetimes alone in small rooms with antique instruments. This intimate scenario is...

Oneohtrix Point Never: R Plus Seven (Warp) Daniel Lopatin migrates his Oneohtrix Point Never alias to Warp for this ninth (!) full-length album of electronic curiosities, and it’s a...

Duran Duran Duran: “Face Blast” (Planet µ, 2007) Don’t YOU wanna be a ho tonight?(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Quinoline Yellow: Palisade Mount EP (Touchin’ Bass) The last time I heard anything from Quinoline Yellow was probably in 2004 or so (at the latest). so I was surprised to see this EP...

Emmanuel Allard: Nouvelles Upanishads du Yoga (Baskaru) Paris-based visual and sound artist Emmanuel Allard created the pieces on this album using only a Buchla 200e hybridg analog-digital...

Einstürzende Neubauten: “Merle (Die Elektrik)” (Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T., Some Bizarre 1983) I bought this album about 10 years after its release, when I was a teenager. I had just...

The Field: Cupid’s Head (Kompakt) From the opening bars of “They Won’t See Me,” Cupid’s Head is undeniably Axel Willner’s handiwork. His looping...

Skinny Puppy: “Antagonism” (Backwards) (Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse, Nettwerk 1986) I was poking around to find some vintage Skinny Puppy and found multiple clips of backwards clips...

Velvit: Nudge / The Act (Electric Minds) Velvit is the leaner, meaner alias of Darren White. He’s perhaps better known as dBridge, having released dozens of singles under that...

Dead Voices on Air: “Dream Machine” (New Words Machine, 1995) Mark Spybey, formerly of :zoviet*france:, released his first two albums as Dead Voices on Air back to back in the mid 90s....

Bernard Parmegiani: De Natura Sonorum (Recollection GRM) This 1975 opus by French composer Parmegiani is startlingly ahead of its time, even today, nearly 40 years later. Receiving a new...

Lassigue Bendthaus: Matter (23rd Anniversary Edition) (AAA) Uwe Schmidt is a man who wears many musical hats, many of them colorful and occasionally outlandish or goofy. His aliases are...

A-Head: “Deep Down (Fiable et Durable)” (Zoth Ommog 1991) An obscure one from the early 90s that I’ve always enjoyed, a one-off side project of André Schmechta a.k.a. Sevren Ni-Arb...

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