On a souvent l’habitude de lever les yeux vers le ciel quand il s’agit de musique électronique, comme si chaque oscillateur n’avait qu’une ambition : rejoindre les étoiles. Terrenus de David Lee Myers, lui, inverse la focale. Ici, les fréquences ne s’évadent pas vers l’infini sidéral : elles s’enracinent. Elles rampent, glissent, se faufilent dans des interstices minéraux, …
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Behind Emiter is Marcin Dymiter. I reviewed some of his work, going back quite a few years, and yet his catalogue isn’t very extensive. On his latest release, he explores the sounds of the city, buzzing and whirring. To that end, he walked around town (I assume Berlin, for no reason; I believe this is …
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Sometimes I think Myers becomes a man machine; a man with machines and a man acting like a machine, one release after another. Sometimes the differences aren’t significant, and sometimes they are. ‘Terrenus’ is described by the label as ‘earth music’, in contrast to a lot of electronic music being ‘space music’. I couldn’t say …
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Only yesterday, I expended considerable contemplation – and verbiage – on the matter of press releases, and the level of detail they contain nowadays compared to the old A4 1-sheet – which sometimes contained just a few lines under the heading and the logo. It’s wasn’t really a complaint, as much as an observation, although …
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W świecie zdominowanym przez natychmiastowość, w którym dźwięki konkurują o naszą uwagę jak kolorowe reklamy, Haarvöl proponuje coś radykalnie innego: zatrzymanie, zawieszenie, wyciszenie. Horizons of Suspended Zones to specyficzny manifest akustycznej niezgody na logikę współczesnego czasu. „Czas musi zostać nieposłuszny” – piszą twórcy. I robią wszystko, byśmy jako słuchacze poczuli, jak to jest trwać poza rytmem świata. …
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At the end of the 1990s, Hakim Bey wrote a book about the then-emerging possibility of the virtual. With the lucidity for which he is known, he recognized at the time that the virtual was nothing more than a new avenue for the expansion of capitalism. He introduced the concept of temporary autonomous zones as a kind …
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Mit “Horizons of Suspended Zones” veröffentlichen Haarvöl am 1. Juli ein neues Werk bei Crónica als CD und Download. Die beiden Musiker Fernando José Pereira und João Faria bewegen sich darauf bewusst abseits technischer Reizüberflutung. Statt Effektfülle oder Lautstärke setzen sie auf Reduktion, auf Wiederholung, auf Dauer und auf das, was zwischen den Klängen passiert. …
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IliaBelorukov’s “NRDDRMTWO2022–2024” is not your average percussion album – it’s a sonic séance with a machine. Across thirteen tracks, this Russian-Serbian experimentalist transforms his NordDrum2 into a kaleidoscope of tempos, textures, and reverberant spaces, all on a strict one-step pattern that mutates over time. Think of it as minimalism caught in motion: a single rhythmic …
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