EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Scorn: “Black Box” (Gyral, Earache 1995)Deep cut from Scorn’s fifth album Gyral, which found Mick Harris exploring the deepest dub terrain of the project’s repertoire, quite estranged from the...

Lassigue Bendthaus: “Molecular Modeling” (Render, 1994 KK Records)Uwe Schmidt’s electro-industrial project Lassigue Bendthaus had a good run of albums in the early 90s, and like most of his releases...

Bruce Gilbert: “National Grid (Part 1)” (Antiphony: Various Interpret Recordings by Disinformation, Ash International 1997)Ash International’s more severe output was some of my first exposure to the...

Steve Roden & Brandon Labelle: “Water Messiah” (The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm, Meme 1999)I had almost forgotten about this old favorite… beautiful resonant gonging from this...

Triola: “Ral 7035″ (Triola Im Fünftonraum, Kompakt 2004)Just one of the many solid languid grooves from Jörg Burger’s only album as Triola, a.k.a. the Modernist (as well as many other aliases). It’s...

Walls: “Ecstatic Truth” (Coracle, Kompakt 2011)Right now, in the throes of one of the rainiest seasons in Portland in some time, Walls’ 2011 album Coracle is shining down some much needed...

Henryk Górecki: Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 6 (1990)Górecki’s first piano sonata is one that he wrote over a quite long period of time. In fact, it sat in waiting for about thirty years before he...

Visionist: “Safe” (Safe, PAN 2015)The title track sits in the very center of Safe, the excellent debut album from Visionist. It appeared in our Best of 2015 roundup, and a track like this is just...

Marcel Dettmann: “Radio” (MDR 01, MDR)Marcel Dettmann reserves some of his rawest and most banging material for his own MDR imprint, such as this cut from the label’s premiere release.(Source:...

Valanx: “The Pilman Radiant” (Xenolith, Diametric 2012)Valanx’s haunted Xenolith album from 2012 still sounds great, awash in spacious reverb and tense delay.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Baby Ford: “Exopolis” (Basking In The Brakelights, Force Inc. 2003)Baby Ford’s minimal techno output of the late 90s and early 00s has little to do with his original splash as a late 80s acid house...

Lithops: “Arcart” (Scrypt, Sonig 2003)Jan St. Werner’s Lithops project has always been a playground for his instincts as a solo artist, separate from his collaborations with Andi Toma as Mouse on...

Secant Prime: Fourier Bessel Series (Uncoiled Loops/Bandcamp)“Fourier Bessel Series” is the first tease from Secant Prime’s album Wavelets (release date unknown). The track begins as a...

Coldcut: Only Heaven (Ninja Tune)I was genuinely surprised to hear this new one from Ninja Tune founders Coldcut. They were my introduction to the label in the 90s, and their Let Us Play...

Nathan Fake: “Fortune Bru” (Glaive, Cambria Instruments 2015)What a bonus surprise to discover that not only is Nathan Fake’s new album Providence available on Ninja Tune, but he also released this...

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