Tag: techno

Categories
Music

Voices From The Lake – Voices From The Lake II

Voices From The Lake’s eponymous album came out way back in 2o12, and I’ve probably returned to it on a nearly weekly basis every since. Donato Dozzy and Neal’s collaborative project started as a one-off live performance in the Japanese Alps before birthing an album that, according to the press notes, “become a touchstone in ambient techno, reshaping the global landscape of hypnotic and atmospheric electronic music.” I heartily agree. I cannot express how much I’ve loved this album over the last decade and more. The follow up, Voices From The Lake II, arrived today, and is already in my top 10 of the year.

https://voicesfromthelake.bandcamp.com/album/ii

Categories
Music

Disiniblud – Serpentine ft. Cassandra Croft (The Field Remix)

I love The Field, to the point that I attempted to create a remix by entirely ripping off his sound. I would link to it, but it seems to be entirely expunged from the internet; probably for the best. His output over the last decade has been extremely limited, so I was delighted to this this sun-bleached, beautifully atmospheric remix of Sachika Nayar & Nina Keith’s Disiniblud project pop up, reminding me of why I fell for his mesmerising loops all those years ago.

https://rachika.bandcamp.com/album/disiniblud-remixes

Categories
Music

Teatre – Wish

Screenshot

Viktoras Urbaitis aka Teatre crafts electronic music of cinematic quality, evoking images of desolate night streets and the dark, flowing waters of Eastern European rivers. His new Overtime EP is the debut release for Berlin’s Dangė Records – which specialises in championing electronic music from Lithuania and the Baltics – and is a testament to the hours spent in the fluorescent-lit purgatory of office spaces, navigating corporate networks and the sterile interactions of online support, all while under the literary spell of Jurga Ivanauskaite’s diaries.

https://dange-records.bandcamp.com/album/overtime-2

Categories
Music

efdemin – Poly

Big love to Kandi Phil for alerting me to this one, without whose sage advice I may well not have bothered paying attention. I often dismiss efdemin as merely providing the original ingredients for the greatest remix of all time, but of course there’s more to him than that. This entire album is great, but the first two tracks – especially Poly – are really quite special.

https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/poly-2

Categories
Uncategorized

Martel – The Ghost

Hailing originally from Montenegro, but having long departed for stints living in London, Rome, Philadelphia and his current home Nicosia in Cyprus, Martel is a former architect who has turned to building dystopian and subversive soundscapes. After creating characteristically atmospheric tracks for film and theatre, he’s launched his own Evil Ideas label and has just released ‘The Ghost’, a super-detailed techno cut that layers Dozzy-esque polyrhythms with hand-played percussion and synthetic textures. The full Zaire EP will be landing on vinyl later this year.

Categories
Music

Surgeon – Divine Shadow

Divine Shadow is one of the standout tracks from Surgeon’s Shell Wave, an album released on Tresor that sees the veteran producer leaning into a murky, atmospheric sound palette. Built on a thick, juddering rhythm and streaked with misty, fragmented melodies, the track maintains tension without ever tipping into total chaos.

https://dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com/album/shell-wave

Categories
Music

OK EG & Priori – Serpentine 1

OK EG and Priori team up for a four-tracker that keeps things fast and focused without ever going full throttle, recorded from sessions at Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio. Stand out Serpentine 1 plays like a set of finely tuned sketches and there’s a definite Dozzy-like touch to the rhythms: slightly disorientating, never dull.

https://naffrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/serpentine

Categories
Music

Sandwell District – The Silent Servant

The second LP from revered techno collective Sandwell District, End Beginnings, serves as a poignant tribute to the late Juan Mendez, known as Silent Servant, who died halfway through the album’s production. The closing track The Silent Servant is as a heartfelt requiem, weaving distant mechanical murmurs with orchestral synths, while white noise sweeps through like wind rustling barren branches.

https://boomkat.com/products/end-beginnings

Categories
Music

Lotame – keep the joy inside

Taken from the debut EP from Lotame. Three understated cuts drift through breaks, acid and slow techno — worn, emotional, quietly unresolved. Somewhere between DJ Healer and Tren: soft-edged, half-lit, and heavy with feeling.

https://lotame.bandcamp.com/album/keep-the-joy-inside

Categories
Music

Martinou – The Last Hour

Swedish producer Martinou is the latest addition to my very short list of electronic artists making properly emotional stuff; melancholy, reflective, heartbreaking. Basically the kind of stuff I want to be able to make myself. This is taken from his excellent new EP The Glow That Lingers for Fauxpax Musik, and if you like what you hear I’d recommend going back to his 2021 album Rift for more of the same.

https://fauxpasmusik.bandcamp.com/album/the-glow-that-lingers