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This is another one of those leftfield indietronica albums. Although this one is not so indie and not IDM at all, rather emotional slow tempo broken beats with live instrumentation. Since it self-identifies as coming from a drum and bass angle, it reminds me of 4 Hero, although this one is slower, more modern, and still falls a lot closer to the Apparat bandwagon than anything dnb-related.
Liquid drum and bass, sometimes not so liquid but great dnb through-and-through. Perfect listen for the summer.
Update: this has been my favorite drum and bass record for quite a while, very easy to leave it playing back to back.
IDM.
I really need to figure out a name for this kind of music. It’s like Apparat and Weval: electronic music that has a four on the floor base rhythm but sometimes sprinkled with broken beats, feels like IDM but not noisy, feels soothing but not ambient, feels to have a good drag but not uptempo, has some odd and live-sounding instrumentation but not necessarily actually live instruments, feels sophisticated but not classical.
I was thinking, how about “ballroom techno”, because it’s a techno base but more sophisticated and not dance floor-oriented. Then I found that this is already used for something else, of course. So this was the point where, being 2026, I turned to AI to see what it would suggest for a genre specification here. The result: leftfield indietronica and melodic IDM. That’s actually not bad to express what I mean, it’s just pretty long for a single genre.
Well, for this album specifically I’ll make piece with IDM overall, considering the record as a whole, and then let’s see how I feel about these above genre specifications the next time I come across music like this.
Oh, and btw, this album is awesome. I’ve been coming back to it for a few months now. It’s versatile and playful, groovy but not obtrusive when it’s a backdrop, has easy hooks and some depth, too.
Goth electronics and new wave, with some random triphop beats. Interestingly, it’s like many things I’m fond of dropped in a blender.
The Dog Fashion Disco alumni strikes again. I’ve been listening to this EP for a week straight. Alt-metal, heavy metal, catchy tunes and ripping shrieks, true Razor To Wrist sound.
Dub, triphop, soft IDM. Mood exactly like the album cover.
I’m not familiar with the latin electronics world that this record lives in, so I found this album especially refreshing, new, interesting, and exciting. The melting of latin percussions and rhythms with the kind of dubstep and bass music that I’m familiar with creates this bridge that I know how to walk but shows lots of new tricks along the path.
It’s like Dead Can Dance with a spaced out psychedelic tone, ambient tempo, and occasional spoken word. Amazing for work and focus.
Soothing slow-tempo electronic music, sometimes IDM, sometimes with acoustic components. Great to focus and work by.