EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Memotone: “You Saw The Future” (Chime Hours, Black Acre 2016)Squirmy digital signal noise writhes atop this elegant arrangement for piano, strings, and electronics, found on Memotone’s 2016...

Vittoria Fleet: “Return” (Entangled EP, 2DIY4 2017)The second cut from Vittoria Fleet’s EP released last year shows them exploring a more spacious sensibility, not so packed full of sound like their...

Zuli: Numbers (UIQ)Lee Gamble’s UIQ imprint brings a second EP from Egyptian producer Zuli (aka Ahmed Al Gazoly), and it’s a good one. Much like Gamble’s own works tend...

James Blake: “If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead” (2018)James Blake’s latest is a cool hybrid of his more cut-up, weirder tunes like 2010′s CMYK and his more song-based albums that followed. His...

The Horrors: “I Can See Through You (Blanck Mass Remix)” (Higher, XL 2012)This sublime, sprawling tranced-out remix of of UK band The Horrors, as turned out by Fuck Buttons’ Benjamin John Power (aka...

Odd Nosdam: “Profane Bong Sue” (Sisters, Leaving 2016)This vid’s psychedelic trails are an appropriate accompaniment to Odd Nosdam’s signature downtempo haze.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Squarepusher: “4001″ (Ufabulum, Warp 2012)The lead track from Squarepusher’s 2012 full-length for Warp feels like a convergence of everything at which he excels: incredibly detailed syncopation,...

Vtgnike: “Zarubezh” (Dubna, 2014)Stumbled onto this one through Spotify recommendations and dig its weird mix of reverb, R&B, footwork and more fused together.(Source:...

Ear Influxion’s Best Music of 2017

The end of the year is always a daunting time for me as a writer and music aficianado. Having released not one but three solo projects this year, I spent a lot of the front half of the year mired in...

Meat Beat Manifesto: “Re-Animator, Pt. 4″ (Storm the Studio, Wax Trax 1989)Signs of where Jack Dangers would take MBM in subsequent years in its dubby low end and delay, but not before a couple more...

Gregg Kowalsky: L'Orange, L'Orange (Mexican Summer)The artwork for Gregg Kowaksy’s first solo album in several years is a good tone setter for the sounds within. He both designed the...

Mathew Jonson: “Thieves In Digital Land” (Agents of Time, Wagon Repair 2010)This one from Mathew Jonson’s 2010 full-length is all about the fat and juicy bassline.(Source:...

BNJMN: “Herz” (Skur, Jericho One 2015)This punchy lo-fi track from BNJMN appears on the first release for Creme Organization’s sublabel Jericho One.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Perc: Bitter Music (Perc Trax)Ali Wells has been cultivating his own ruthless techno sound for some time now, whether through Perc, his primary project, or his label, Perc Trax, wherein a...

Erik Truffaz & Murcof: “Chaos” (Being Human Being, Mundo Recordings 2014)Truffaz’s trumpet decays and reverberates within and around Murcof’s grimy structure, a really winning combination on...

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