EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

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...

Jah Wobble & Marconi Union: “Wealth” (Anomic, 30 Hertz 2013)Jah Wobble’s signature dub bass comes through with sterling clarity on this 2013 collaboration with serene ambient excursionists...

The Bug vs. Earth: Concrete Desert (Ninja Tune)Kevin Martin, also known as The Bug in addition to being a generally prolific and diverse musician in a variety of projects (Techno-Animal,...

Scorn: “Stairway” (Gyral, Earache 1995)Gyral is probably my favorite of Mick Harris’s transmissions as Scorn, hailing from the mid-90s after he fully divorced the project from its grindcore...

Octogen: “Square Bells Part 1″ (Square Bells EP, Djak-Up-Bitch 2007)Clean, melodic IDM and electro crossover courtesy of Octogen, an alias of electro producer Marco Bernardi. It’s right at home on...

Strategy: “VidM” (What If?, Boomarm Nation 2012)Fidgety, nervous energy kicks off Strategy’s 2012 album, full of dubby delay, layered rhythms, and electric zips and zaps.(Source:...

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...

The Orb: “Back Side of the Moon” (The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, Big Life 1991)I have a confession to make. I’ve never heard this album in its entirety before. In fact, in the mid-90s,...

Multicast Dynamics: Outer Envelopes (Denovali)Multicast Dynamics is the latest guise of electronic producer Samuel van Dijk, who’s worked previously as Mohlao and VC-118A. Multicast...

KMFDM: “Ganja Rock” (UAIOE, Wax Trax! 1989)In my younger industrial music listening days, I was a big Wax Trax! enthusiast, even as I more or less missed the boat on it all; TVT had just bought them...

Uncanny Alliance “I Got My Education (Masters at Work Dub)” (A&M, 1992)I remember hearing this one out at clubs for years without knowing who the artist was. The original is more of a...

MKFN: This Divide (Touchin’ Bass)This latest installment from the international trio of Babar Raza (US), Ovais Hassan (UK), and Fahad Ahmad (Canada) is my first exposure to their...

Der Zyklus: “Biometric Systems” (Biometry, 2004)Heinrich Müller (a.k.a. Gerald Donald) of Dopplereffekt and Drexciya notoriety only released one album as Der Zyklus, which sounds considerably...

I-LP-O in Dub: Communist Dub (Editions Mego)Ilpo Väisänen has been a fixture in experimental minimal electronic music for decades now, best known as one-half of Finnish duo Pan Sonic. His...

The Bug: Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune) Kevin Martin is a man of many talents, having explored a variety of sounds within and peripheral to industrial, free jazz, experimental metal, and...

Andy Stott: Faith in Strangers (Modern Love) Andy Stott has really forged his own unique path over the past several years, beginning unassumingly enough with his first two collections of...

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