IDM-Remix Project | The original song by Modul for this complex remix-project was released on Electrosound.ru. The melodic song “Complete” is a deep, sweet and slow-motion song with a catchy bleeping title-melody. It’s IDM-Music in its best classic way. So it’s no surprise, that nine musicians were lucky to lay their hands on the release to remix it. The result is a versatile album which explores the original from different corners….

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A magic Joyride | Although this sounds like Intelligence Dance Music at the first sight, it is not. “Embarrassing Triangle” from Iqtu is a magic trip. The album is one of those releases that I got so much addicted to, that it is almost hard to resist to listen to: days, nights, at work, everywhere. The 55 minute trip unfolds after some beats after some minutes you don’t count which track is playing anymore, but wander completely in that special room the music opens.
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Cool Ambientish IDM | “Astronomia de Balcon” on Pueblo Nuevo is a small 5-tracker-ep with cool digital ambient music with some breakbeat-trickery. The sound is crystal clear and delivers us known ingredients like clickering percussive sounds and a precise music-programming. But when in “Flecha” suddenly a guitar reaches the surface your not only surprised but enchanted about what you hear.

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Postmodern Renaissance Music | Autark is a new Austrian Netlabel, “Four Pieces” is their second release. While I was preparing to write something about their first release (a two-track EP of decent piano experimentalism featuring Hans Platzgumer), Innsbruck based analog fanatic Krowley hit the scene. “Four Pieces” is postmodern Renaissance music for the IDM afterglow. Listen & Read more »

Dark and Urban Sketches of IDM | Pleq a.k.a. Bartosz Dziadosz is a young producer from Katowice in Poland. “His motives in sound resemble an abandoned ironworks garage during the industrial revolution, where melancholy is paired with harmonies of magnetizing structure”, as we get to know via his Myspace-account. But how does an abandoned ironworks garage sound? Listen & Read more »