EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Dadub: You Are Eternity (Stroboscopic Artefacts) I find it intriguing when record labels focus very specifically on a particular sound, and in the case of SA it is minimal techno that...

Dadub: You Are Eternity (Stroboscopic Artefacts) I find it intriguing when record labels focus very specifically on a particular sound, and in the case of SA it is minimal techno that...

Ital Tek: Control (Planet µ) Alan Myson continues his exploration of contrasting fast and slow with this concise collection of eight tracks for Mike Paradinas’s Planet µ label....

Ital Tek: Control (Planet µ) Alan Myson continues his exploration of contrasting fast and slow with this concise collection of eight tracks for Mike Paradinas’s Planet µ label....

Gabriel Saloman: Soldier’s Requiem (Miasmah) I think I met Gabriel Saloman at a house party years ago. He was wearing a jean jacket with a really elaborate doily on the back, which I...

M. Geddes Gengras: Collected Works Vol. 1 – The Moog Years (Umor Rex) M. Geddes Gengras has a sizable repertoire preceding him, even though this collection of Moog synth excursions is my...

Marcel Dettmann: Dettmann II (Ostgut-Ton) Marcel Dettmann’s second album continues his trajectory of deep, slick minimal techno. It starts off with a murmur in “Arise,” a...

The Field: Cupid’s Head (Kompakt) From the opening bars of “They Won’t See Me,” Cupid’s Head is undeniably Axel Willner’s handiwork. His looping...

Toshimaru Nakamura + Ken Ikeda + Tomoyoshi Date: Green Heights (Baskaru) This unlikely trio combines three very different experimental aesthetics into one strangely complementary whole....

Gui Boratto: The K2 Chapter (K2/Kompakt Digital) Gui Boratto had been pumping out music a little while before he connected with Kompakt and the kick-off of their K2 imprint, but it was on...

Marcel Fengler: Fokus (Ostgut-Ton) French producer Fengler shows off his chops yet again with his first full-length album for esteemed techno institution Ostgut-Ton. His singles in the...

Senking: Capsize Recovery (Raster-Noton) As Senking, Jens Massel has been plumbing the depths of dark electronic music for 15 years now. Capsize Recovery continues along those lines,...

Ryuichi Sakamoto + Taylor Deupree: Disappearance (12k) Ryuichi Sakamoto has a reputation that precedes him. His time in Yellow Magic Orchestra alone makes him one of the most iconic...

Steven Tang: Disconnect to Connect (Smallville) Steven Tang’s debut album for Smallville combines an obvious love of Chicago jack with Detroit techno. It has all of the smoothness...

Erika: Hexagon Cloud (Interdimensional Transmissions) Erika Sherman has lurked in the shadows for years as one half of Detroit electro outfit Ectomorph (having replaced Gerald Donald,...

Blondes: Swisher (RVNG Intl) Blondes’ Swisher has been available online for over a month, but the physical album comes out this week. As far as techno full-length releases go,...

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