Who knew one track could open so many doors while maintaining perfect cohesion. Cocooned among the system glitch and robot heart rate monitor sounds, this absolute machine-gun of a song perfectly sonificated the sound of the precinct fires and riots, should the year’s protests were happening in a not-so-distant cyberpunk future, when weapons induce temporal anomalies and laser cutting also applies to the flesh in street fights.Ī rainbow of sounds from the Italian producer in this futuristic realm of entangled 2-step and jazz. Renraku’s ALEPH put out this nutty blend of jungle, breakbeat and dubstep back in June at the height of the US protests. – Written by Baxtak ALEPH – BREAKING AND ENTERING While Death of a Generation & Jitter flex on all grounds of sound design atmospheric compositions, it was the groove on Angular Mass that truly solidified this EP as a truly multi-dimensional and dense display of avant-garde musicianship at the nexus of groove, sound design and a distressing post-singularity sense of doom. This debute EP from London-based artist Swarmm came through our feed and immediately knocked nails into brain with the anxiety-inducing cadence on ‘Exhale which has one of the freshest takes we’ve heard on exponential groove motifs in recent times. Just put on the visuals and dive into this ethereal, dark and epiphanic world. RefraQ’s music takes inspiration from natural landscapes, softer melodic and almost infantile memories and a post-rock approach to atmosphere-building. RefraQ’s signature technical sound design intertwined with a whimsical fantasy world that he created in sight and sound. RefraQ’s Northlands EP is a mammoth project that was in the works for some solid years, partially due to the fact that the project was accompanied with an impressive self-produced visual journey (2 music videos and some visuals for the other 2 tracks). Overall, this one could take the cake for us this year in terms of timbral innovation, however, we’ll leave that for you to judge. The juxtaposition in this project is absurdly intriguing it sounds like what Lumpy from Happy Tree Friends’ sleep paralysis probably feels like, or how waterboarding would materialise in a space station Guantanamo Bay if the general in charge was a Teletubby.
Evaporating drum n bass sections are met with circuit-breaking epileptic hits, while the melodies are every bit warm as a down jacket. ‘Floral Strobe’ is every bit as beautiful and sadistic as the title suggests. Mirroring the 8-bit artwork aesthetic that the artist has employed, False Noise’s work on the 10-track Floral Strobe album was a true deconstruction of the techy genres, taking it in aesthetic back to Sega Arcade days while pushing it forward in sound design.
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Upscale did not fuck around this year with the series of False Noise releases it offered. Writings by Baxtak, Chad Murray, Molly Sisson, Fati Fatene & Sean Hįollow Our Glitch In The Matrix Playlist At:Īlternatively, you can find the playlist on YouTube. Here’s some of the most weird and wonderful sounds we came across in the past year. Top Glitch & Leftfield Electronic Music Discoveries of 2020Ī playlist dedicated to those artists that are pushing the boundaries of experimental electronic music, from neuro and leftfield bass to the depths of breakcore and IDM.
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