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Marcus Fjellström – Skelektikon (2017)
…audio/visual artist Marcus Fjellström makes music with a lovely, accommodating sort of clammyness, punctuating sniffles without the cold, bad dreams with inspiring endings, bitter regret without the...
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Kettenkarussell – Insecurity Guard (2017)
There was a club in Weimar, Germany where a group of friends let their imaginations run wild. It was really just a house in a park with two dancefloors nestled within its warren-like maze of rooms....
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Tzusing –東方不敗 (2017)
Since he emerged in 2014, Tzusing‘s style of techno, tough and tactile, has differed from the grungy lo-fi with which L.I.E.S. is associated. Though the Malaysian-Chinese producer’s music is loud and...
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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – On the Echoing Green (2017)
On the Echoing Green is the proper follow-up to Jefre Cantu-Ledesma‘s A Year with 13 Moons, a phenomenal album which redefined the possibilities of what can be created using tape manipulation, thudding...
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Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft – Passive Aggressive (2017)
It’s no secret that albums are getting longer, but Jonny Nash prefers concision. He has said that his favorite format is the mini-LP: 30 or 40 minutes long, one piece of vinyl, not too many twists and...
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Michele Mercure – Eye Chant (1986, Reissue 2017)
The outstanding maiden release on Pete Swanson’s Freedom to Spend label is a reissue of Michele Mercure’s sublime obscurity Eye Chant (1986), which was originally issued under her then married name,...
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Pat Lok – Hold On Let Go (2017)
Over the past 3 years, Pat Lok has been dropping singles at a steady pace, gaining an enviable following on Soundcloud and Beatport. Signing with French electronic label Kitsuné, the Vancouver native...
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Xordox – Neospection (2017)
If Conrad Schnitzler and Lorenzo Senni soundtracked a new version of Jodorowsky’s thwarted Dune, it may well sound something like JG Thirlwell aka Xordox’s mind-bending Neospection. In coining his...
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Floating Points – Reflections: Mojave Desert (2017)
At one point in Reflections: Mojave Desert, a short film released in conjunction with Floating Points’ soundtrack, director Anna Diaz Ortuño films Sam Shepherd swinging what looks like a satellite dish...
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Karsten Pflum – Sleep Concert (2017)
On april 1st 2016 Karsten Pflum and the library of Herlev invited a limited audience into nine hours of otherwordly ambient soundscapes in a darkened environment. To let this audience dive into their...
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The Radiophonic Workshop – Radiophonica (2017)
Radiophonica was put together exclusively for Electronic Sound magazine in association with the Radiophonic Workshop. It’s both a primer for the uninitiated, and a treasure trove of rare and unreleased...
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VA – Space, Energy & Light; Experimental Electronic and Acoustic Soundscapes...
Soul Jazz Records’ new Space, Energy & Light is a collection of music by early electronic and synthesizer pioneers (from the 1960s through the ’70s), mid-1970s proto-new age gurus and ’80s...
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Lapalux – Ruinism (2017)
UK producer Lapalux (real name Stuart Howard) continues his fruitful relationship with L.A. label Brainfeeder with his third full-length, the gloomy but often beautiful Ruinism. Throughout, Howard...
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Richard H. Kirk – Dasein (2017)
The forward-thinking, unique, and uncompromising work ethic of “contemporary techno’s busiest man,” Richard H. Kirk, has delivered some of electronic music’s most intriguing, outside-the-box...
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Doldrums – Esc (2017)
Listening to a Doldrums album can be an overwhelming experience. Both 2013’s Lesser Evil and 2015’s The Air Conditioned Nightmare felt meticulously designed to induce sensory overload in an audience....
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Quaeschning & Schnauss – Synthwaves (2017)
Synthwaves pays homage to the masters of the past, yet feels fresh and enchanting. Crisp, interlocking patterns are modulated and mutated with mathematical precision into eight pieces of pristine,...
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Moon Diagrams – Lifetime of Love (2017)
Ten years in the making, Lifetime of Love is the debut of Moon Diagrams, a solo project by Deerhunter co-founder and drummer Moses Archuleta. He began tracking it after his post-rock band wrapped up...
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Charles Manier – Luxus Steroid Abamita (2017)
All of Tadd Mullinix’s projects are loaded with personality. As Dabrye, he helped redefine cut-up hip-hop beats. As James T. Cotton, he took acid house’s DNA and spliced it with psychedelia and noise...
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Pantha Du Prince – The Triad: Ambient Versions & Remixes (2017)
Hendrik Weber’s (a.k.a. Pantha Du Prince) feet have barely touched the ground since the release of his first studio album in six years, The Triad, in May of last year. Rather than do what most of us...
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Daniel O’Sullivan – Veld (2017)
Veld, a new solo album from the man otherwise known as one half of Grumbling Fur, is released on Tim Burgess’ O Genesis Recordings label and was written and recorded between 2010 and 2016. …Daniel...
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