EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Jan St. Werner: “Feed Opener” (Blaze Colour Burn, Thrill Jockey 2013)While St. Werner has a new album out this year (Miscontinuum Album, also on Thrill Jockey), I’m still partial to the purely...

Low: “Words” (I Could Live In Hope, Vernon Yard 1994)This first song on Low’s first album was a definite highlight of their recent Portland performance at the Doug Fir Lounge. While their last...

Addison Groove / Errorsmith: Allaby / Airbag (50 Weapons)Addison Groove turns up the bounce on his “Allaby,” a tracky one punctuated with vocal stabs and fragments over a straight-up drum...

Koenraad Ecker: Sleepwalkers in a Cold Circus (Line)Koenraad Ecker’s 2nd album is a fascinating headlong dive into experimental sound and amplified acoustics. Its linear sounds and...

Qluster: Tasten (Bureau B)Hans Joachim-Roedelius’s reputation precedes him, a musician with a storied history that began in 1969 as part of the space rock group Kluster. Since then...

Norn: Usotsuki (Moving Furniture)Norn’s mini-album is less than 26 minutes long, an oddly brief but involved musical journey that traverses a good amount of terrain in its playback....

Koova: This Is Not My Future (CPU)Koova’s four-tracker for CPU tucks neatly in the ethos of the indie electro label, with a sound perhaps not quite of this time suggesting early 80s...

Everything But The Girl: “Single” (Walking Wounded, 1996)Everything But The Girl’s reinvention as a slick electronica duo was such an about face, but their Walking Wounded album remains their magnum...

Frank Bretschneider: Sinn + Form (Raster-Noton)Frank Bretschneider flexes his modular synthesis muscle with this special collection of eight tracks recorded on location at EMS in Stockholm...

Christian Dittmann: “Agua de Piedra” (Gato Gris, Rrygular 2007)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Rlyeh1: The Grey Lights (Mindtrick)Horror movie fans will immediately recognize the creepy grind that punctuates the opening track of The Grey Lights, “Ghost (Antinferno).” It’s a...

Lakker: Tundra Remixed (R&S)Lakker’s Tundra was a surprise out of leftfield earlier this year, and it still ranks as my favorite album of 2015 so far. Remix collections are often...

Grimes: “Eight” (Visions, 4AD 2012)With Grimes’ latest looming in coming months (or so we hope), I revisited Visions today and fell in love with it all over again.(Source:...

Harold Budd: “Dark Star” (Abandoned Cities, Cantil 1984)Harold Budd’s legendary status as an original in the field of instrumental and ambient music is irrefutable (even as he’s traditionally...

Tangerine Dream: Phaedra (Virgin 1974)Phaedra was the first album Virgin Records released worldwide. In the massive sprawl of Tangerine Dream’s discography and history, Phaedra remains one of the...

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