EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Aphex Twin: “Next Heap With” (…I Care Because You Do, Warp 1995)The closing cut on Aphex Twin’s 1995 album has the same leftfield wooziness of a few other cuts on the album, but it has a stateliness...

Porter Ricks: “Polytoxic 1″ (Symbiotics, Force Inc. 1999)This Porter Ricks track is one of four that appear on Symbiotics, a split album with Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin’s downtempo...

Meat Beat Manifesto: “God O.D. (Eight Frozen Modules’ Eight Ways to O.D. on God Mix)” (Storm the Studio R.M.X.S., Tino Corp 2003)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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

Machinedrum: “Countchocula” (Urban Biology, Merck 2002)Machinedrum’s earlier albums are imbued with more of a turntablist spin on hip hop and downtempo, often filled with scratching or skittering...

The Herbaliser: “The Sensual Woman” (Very Mercenary, Ninja Tune 1999)Dusty classic from Ninja Tune’s 90s downtempo stride, featured a few years later in the soundtrack to Guy Ritchie’s Snatch; that...

Nevermen: “Mr. Mistake (Boards of Canada Remix)”Nevermen is a new project comprised of the various talents of Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle. Fantômas, etc.), Tunde Adebimpe (TV on the...

Symbion Project: Semiotic (Symbion Project)Kasson Crooker is based out of Seattle, WA, after putting in many years on the east coast, including a stint as one of the founding members of...

Vilod: Safe In Harbour (Perlon)Do you ever put on a record for the first time, and within a minute or two it’s startled you for its uniqueness or ingenuity? Safe in Harbour is such...

Nathan Fake: “Vanish North” (Bleep:10, Bleep 2014)Nathan Fake’s closing track on Bleep’s 10th anniversary compilation is yet another excellent entry in his varied repertoire. I love its full...

Swindle: “Shanghai” (Peace, Love & Music, Butterz 2015)I prefer Swindle when he’s making instrumental tracks personally, so his latest full-length isn’t necessarily my cup o’ tea, but there are...

Acre: Better Strangers (Tectonic)“I tried to include more emotion in this album than my previous releases and wanted to represent a broader side of my productions. The title Better...

Luke Vibert: Bizarster (Planet µ)Luke Vibert, for all his aliases and monikers, has one fairly consistent element throughout most of his backcatalogue: a sense of humor. This is not to...

Logos: “Ex 101″ (Cold Mission, Keysound Recordings 2013)When I picked up Logos’ debut album at the time of release, I enjoyed it well enough but found myself having a hard time writing something...

Bibio: “Artists’ Valley” (Mind Bokeh, Warp 2011)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Actress: “Birdcage” (Ghettoville, 2014)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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