EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Matthew Mercer’s Salvo to be released March 4My new solo album Salvo will be available on March 4 through most online music services including Bandcamp, Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, Emusic,...

Coming soon: SalvoMy next solo album Salvo will be out soon. It’s comprised of 14 new tracks and is a return to beatmaking for me after working in primarily ambient and score modes...

Yuki Aida + Tomotsugu Nakamura: Echóchroma (Audiobulb)There’s something turn-of-the-century about the experimental sonic collaborations between sound artists Nakamura and Aida. By...

Donato Wharton: “Silvester” (Trabenten, City Centre Offices 2004)Every once in a while I just throw my library on shuffle to see what forgotten treasures come up. Such is the case with this glitchy,...

Application: “Steve Reich’s Ice Cream Van (Mark Fell Remix)” (Applied Remixes, Dust Science 2014)Application is the duo of Martin and Richard Dust, perhaps best known for being two-thirds of The...

Lopazz: “Migracion (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)” (Lopazz Rmx, Get Physical 2004)Essential minimal techno strangeness courtesy of Sr. Villalobos. True to form, he abstracted Lopazz’s original into...

IMPS: “Unkle Limps (Isolée Remix)” (Remixed, Mule Electronic 2008)IMPS is a collaboration between the duos of Minilogue and Decoy, with each letter of the acronym representing its personnel: I: Ian...

Andreas Tilliander: “Untitled (D1)” (Ljud, Mille Plateaux 2001)Andreas Tilliander has not only produced some fine music under his birth name, but also has a variety of aliases, including Komp,...

Gramm: “Type Zwei” (Personal_Rock, Source 1999)Gramm is a project of producer Jan Jelinek (Farben, Exposures, Groupshow) who released Personal_Rock in 1999 on Move D’s Source label. It landed during...

The Fear Ratio: “Ferm” (Refuge of a Twisted Soul, Skam 2015)Mark Broom and James Ruskin’s ongoing collaborations as the Fear Ratio are well worth some attentive listening. I plan to write more about...

NHK: Program (Line)The latest from Kouhei Matsunaga and Toshio Munehiro as NHK expands and mutates the aesthetic Matsunaga explored on a series somewhat ironically named Dance Classics for...

NHK yx Koyxen feat. XiX: Hallucinogenic Doom Steppy Verbs (Diagonal)Kouhei Matsunaga returns under yet another variation on his schizophrenic mutant techno project, having taken a bit of a...

Pan-Pot: “Apocalyptic Horseman” (Panorama, 2007 Mobilee)Pan-Pot have never quite seemed to get their due when it comes to minimal techno and dance music. Their productions are slick, consistent,...

Steve Roden & Frank Bretschneider: Suite Nuit (Line)Suite Nuit is an interesting document of the meeting of these two musical minds, dating back to 2004. Steve Roden is a...

Oval: “Motif” (Szenariodisk, 1999 Thrill Jockey) Markus Popp’s Szenariodisk felt like pop music after the subtle ambient manipulations of his dok collaboration with Christophe...

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