Client_03 – Testbed_Assembly

This is definitely the best electro album I’ve heard in a long while. Amazing sound. Definitely stands on the shoulders of giants that came before, but sounds current and of very high quality. And I love that with today’s standards it can be considered long, so there’s an hour’s worth of material to listen to.

Felix K – Berlin

I find it surprising to see “drum and bass” as the main call sign for this music on its Bandcamp page (based on self-tagging and quoted reviews). I would have never used that genre here. If I’m looking for one word in that area then rather dubstep, or I’d rather say broken beat rhythmic noise with a techno aesthetic. Although, maybe the latter is just one way to elaborate what dubstep is.

Biosphere – The Way of Time

This is an amazingly good ambient record. I haven’t been so enthusiastic about a piece of ambient release for a long time. Maybe it’s because in the age of “everyone’s a musician” and “AI generated shit”, it’s so easy to flood the web with cheap drones and low tempo loops and slap ambient on it. Then something like the Etna Sessions, the HYbr:ID series, or this album comes along, and there’s no explanations needed, I instantly feel the difference a real artist and craftsman of ambient music makes.