EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Mark Fell: “Multistability 3″ (Multistability, Raster-Noton 2010)Mark Fell’s own signature style of madness perhaps shines the most on this album on Raster-Noton from a few years ago, a slightly...

Jire: Zang (No Pain in Pop)Fans of electronic music that pushes to the furthest outskirts of the dancefloor ought to invest some time in Zang. The title cut begins with a chorus of...

Ellen Allien & Apparat: “Metric” (Orchestra of Bubbles, BPitch Control 2006)It’s hard to believe this collaborative effort between BPitch boss Ellen Allien and Apparat is 10 years old now! I...

HKE: Omnia (Olde English Spelling Bee)The most immediate and noteworthy appeal of HKE’s latest full-length album is its obvious love of sound for sound’s sake. And while...

Surgeon: “Wave” (Communications, 1996)Surgeon’s early, taut Communications tracks got a more than welcome remaster and reissue on his SRX imprint a couple years ago. His latest album is a sure...

Marco Bailey vs. Redhead: “Futuristic Elements” (Elektra, Electrix 2001)Compared to Bailey’s usual bangers of the time, this one is a slick, clean electro workout complete with vocoder vocal,...

Kero: “Elektroplatz” (Busted Berlin, BPitch Control 2002)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Nobukazu Takemura: “Bright Time to Come” (Child & Magic, 1997)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Belong: “I Never Lose. Never Really” (October Language, Carpark 2006)Belong’s earlier music glides by like a diffuse cloud of sound. I liken it to the down-the-corridor washed out sound of early...

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....

Multicast Dynamics: Outer Envelopes (Denovali)Multicast Dynamics is the latest guise of electronic producer Samuel van Dijk, who’s worked previously as Mohlao and VC-118A. Multicast...

Arovane & Phonem: “Valid Fard” (Aer (Valid), Vertical Form 2001)Arovane & Phonem’s out of print collaboration on the fine Vertical Form label fell a bit on my own deaf ears at the time. For...

Sophia Loizou: Singulacra (Kathexis) Bristol-based producer Sophia Loizou’s second album is dense and foggy. What begins as a thoroughly ambient and gloomy affair seems to swiftly...

Digital Primate: “Take Off and Landing” (The Pro-Jex Trax! Vol. 1, Pro-Jex 2006)I first heard this track many years ago in a DJ set (which I’d recorded to a cassette!) and it took me this long to...

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