Tag: electronic

  • Observation n.32

    Observation n.32

    Various Artists / JG Stockton

    Xylophonics Remixed

    ○ May 2025 | Label: Dragon Trax

    ■ Genres: Electronic, Drone, Ambient
    ■ Rating: 7.5/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Xylophonics V (Asha Patera Remix)“

    ► This is a powerful and relentless march, punctuated by a syncopated bass that dictates its tempo. Although the drone is totally immersive, the horizontal space of the sound spectrum is intelligently preserved by percussive elements and digital cascades, panned all around our head. It’s time to travel again.

  • Observation n.31

    Observation n.31

    David Best (feat. The Electrowhisperer)

    LF 28 / Skyrocketing

    ○ April 2025 | Label: Mortality Tables

    ■ Genres: Electronic, Experimental
    ■ Rating: 8.2/10
    ■ Favorite track: “LF 28 / Skyrocketing“

    ► Okay, now we’re mesmerized. The circular advance of the synth phrase has completely captivated us. The starting Baba O’Riley subtle urgency slowly melts into the entrance of the pads. The result is highly uplifiting. Take your time and enjoy.

  • Observation n.30

    Observation n.30

    Alan Graves

    A Possible Wind

    ○ April 2025 | Label: Bathysphere Records

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic
    ■ Rating: 8.3/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Atmospheric Drag“

    ► This music moves like a wave. When you sail, circumstances can change rapidly, and the short synth phrases that pop up cyclically are there to remind that. This uncertainty is emotionally precious: the result reveals a dreamy expectation, and it’s up to you to define its color.

  • Observation n.22

    Observation n.22

    SKOTÓGEN

    Of Shadow Landscapes

    ○ February 2025 | Label: SeeHear Recordings

    ■ Genres: Drone, Ambient, Electronic
    ■ Rating: 6.4/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Reynisdrangar“

    ► It’s cold out there. The wind blows hard. No time to figure out how to protect yourself. No way to find a direction in this desert of ice. Only regret for being there, trapped in boundless spaces, alone in the unspeakable white.

  • Observation n.21

    Observation n.21

    Substak

    Silent Observers EP

    ○ March 2025 | Label: See Blue Audio

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic, Drone, Atmospheric
    ■ Rating: 7.0/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Voyage Beyond“

    ► This synth, in all its purity, envelops us and leads us on the journey. The evocation of interstellar space appears natural. The opening major7 arpeggio has the color of discovery; the rest of the harmony reflects the fear of revelations, along with their necessity.

  • Observation n.18

    Observation n.18

    Asha Patera

    Mana

    ○ December 2024 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Drone, Ambient, Electronic, Post-Rock
    ■ Rating: 7.3/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Kella“

    ►There is something liberating and threatening at the same time. The bass is like a snake crawling at your feet, but the cascades of high-frequency drones make you look up, searching for shooting stars to ask for hope. You’d better act.

  • Observation n.16

    Observation n.16

    ellipses

    painting the sky

    ○ February 2025 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic, Drone
    ■ Rating: 6.2/10
    ■ Favorite track: “a bridge above, a river below”

    ► There is a warm drone, and we all know what is going to happen. It will probably last forever. But not here: there is a sudden harmonic modulation, two steps above keeping the major key, and after that another minor, ascending climb to the summit. It’s time to close your eyes and breathe.

  • Observation n.15

    observation n.15

    Fox Ridge Park

    The Waning Moon Fan Club

    ○ February 2025 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic
    ■ Rating: 7.0/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Let Them Eat Flowers“

    ► The synth phrase is really charming. Even though it’s in a loop, it’s not easy to find the beginning and the end of it, and that’s its secret. Maybe it is not the right way to say it, but it’s like Boards of Canada have gone on vacation.

  • Observation n.12

    observation n.12

    Suki Quasimodo

    Datura 01

    ○ January 2025 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Electronic, Ambient, Dub
    ■ Rating: 8.5/10
    ■ Favorite track: “I Feel Like“

    ► Well, just to be clear: this track is quite a masterpiece. There’s something charmingly hypnotic about the words, the syncopated beat, the echoes. We got totally captivated by the texture, every spark of this beauty has become precious and necessary in our head. And when the synth gets in: oh boy. We won’t forget this music.

  • Observation n.11

    observation n.11

    Bee Resort

    The Bee Resort

    ○ January 2025 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic
    ■ Rating: 7.8/10
    ■ Favorite track: “A Mind Consumed By Meaningless Data“

    ► There is a kind of inevitable circular path that digs a deeper and deeper furrow. Minor add2 chords paint a disperate picture. The synth bass moves 4 steps downward over and over again, buried within Freud’s repetition compulsion. This path is interrupted in an extremely significant pause around the middle of the track, only to resume inexorably.

  • Observation n.10

    observation n.10

    Risbo Tazeg

    Nocturnal Reverie

    ○ January 2025 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Experimental, Ambient, Electronic
    ■ Rating: 6.8/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Sewer Sea“

    ► In the midst of dark drones echoes, synhts phrases burst in. That’s intriguing because it emerges as an act of rebellion against the swamp that surrounds us. We can stand, somehow.

  • Observation n.8

    observation n.8

    Nate Lewis

    Line Swinger

    ○ January 2025 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Experimental, Electronic
    ■ Rating: 7.0/10
    ■ Favorite track: “The Hand“

    ► Listening gravitates around a distant kick drum. As much the synths create an underlying tension, this pulsing core offers a safe haven. The harmonic use of bichords is cleverly elusive. The Doric mode reflects, in its resolutions, the search for relief from background noise.

  • Observation n.7

    Observation n.7

    Leit Motif (aka Fragile X)

    Vestige

    ○ January 2025 | Label: See Blue Audio

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic, Atmospheric
    ■ Rating: 8.0/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Welcome Home“

    ► This can make you either hunter or prey. It’s up to you. You can follow the main beat and march, mirroring the strength of your stride, or run in circles trying to escape your fears. The space is wide, you cannot be alone.

  • Observation n.6

    observation n.6

    Endogens

    Acadia

    ○ January 2024 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Drone, Electronic
    ■ Rating: 6.8/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Overture“

    ► We all love warm drones but, in our opinion, they need to be shaken up in some way. Here it happens. The use of inversions and sixth chords is clever. This creates slight imbalances and interesting ambiguities that lead unexpectedly to synth storms.

  • Observation n.5

    observation n.5

    Auditor

    Anachoreisis

    ○ January 2025 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic, Dark Ambient, Experimental
    ■ Rating: 6.8/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Flooding“

    ► You may recognize Satie’s Gymnopédie No. 1. In this reinterpretation of the masterpiece, lulling nostalgia seems to founder in a maelstrom of torment. What could have been when hope was still alive is gone. It is a brilliant aural rendition of a surrender.

  • Observation n.4

    observation n.4

    Harry Mason

    Collected Works 1.

    ○ October 2024 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic, Drone, Installation
    ■ Rating: 8.0/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Mae“

    ► There is something really significant about the use of space. Panning acquires the dignity of a real creative tool. The choice of samples is skillful and, at times, moving; their deconstruction is simply masterful.

  • Observation n.1

    Observation n.1

    PLEASE CLOSE YOUR EYES

    Music For Floating

    ○ January 2025 | Label: Mortality Tables

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic
    ■ Rating: 7.3/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Deeper Blue”

    ► The reassuring harmonic solutions are sometimes disrupted by unstable passages, which give the track a variety of contrasting yet perfectly balanced colors.