EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Closer Musik: “Closer Dancer” (After Love, Kompakt 2002)Closer Musik put out a single album and 2 EPs, but their legacy holds up still through contemporary classics like this one.(Source:...

Positive Centre: Nonharmonic Beautifault (Leyla Records)Mike Jefford’s Positive Centre project is ironically named if you consider the quite dark sounds that emanate from within....

Storm & Stress: “An Address That Was to Skip Ahead of the Gallop of Its Own Sperm and Eggs” (Under Thunder and Flourescent Lights, Touch & Go 2000)This American trio’s second and last album...

Phonem: “Bioluminscense” (Cottage Industries, Neo Ouija 2000)The leading track on Neo Ouija’s excellent first installment of its Cottage Industries series might be one of my favorite IDM tracks...

Jan Jelinek & Computer Soup: “Ballads” (Improvisations and Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001, Soup-disk / Sub Rosa)When digging online I discovered this 15-year-old collaboration between German producer...

Legowelt: “Dirty Tango” (Tracks from the Tube, Stilleben 2002)One of my very favorite Legowelt tracks from one of my favorite 12″ records of his. He had a short run of really fantastic italo-disco...

Lone: “Alpha Wheel” (Live for Last.fm)Check out Matt Cutler’s excellent performance of “Alpha Wheel,” from his latest album Levitate, recorded live for last.fm.(Source:...

The Chemical Brothers: “Wide Open (Joe Goddard Remix)” (Wide Open (The Remixes), 2016)The Chemical Brothers’ closing track on their last album, last year’s Born in the Echoes, has gotten a handful...

Throwing Shade: House of Silk (Ninja Tune)I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with “hashtag IRL,” the cut that kicks off House of Silk. It’s just over two minutes long and hangs...

Antonelli Electr.: “Same Player, Again and Again” (Click, Italic 2000)Stefan Schwander’s Antonelli project was a real favorite of mine when I locked into minimal techno in the late 90s into the...

Gold Panda: “Triangle Cloud” (Companion, Varicount 2010)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Freiland: “Rot” (Schaffelfieber, Kompakt 2000)Wolfgang Voigt has had a myriad of aliases over the last few decades, but some of the most noteworthy tracks from him, for me, are his incredibly...

Microfilm’s Houndstooth Harmonics now available@microfilm​‘s fifth full-length studio album, Houndstooth Harmonics, is now available! We are very proud of this one, stretching outside of...

Nine Inch Nails: “Find My Way (Oneohtrix Point Never Remix)” (Hesitation Marks Deluxe Version, 2013)I almost missed this really cool retooling of NIN’s “Find My Way” — one of the more traditional...

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