Soothing glitchy ambient. Mostly with autotune vocals (amazingly I find it comforting here, while I usually hate it), sometimes with bits of chiptune sounds.
7038634357 – Waterfall Horizon
Mammo – General Patterns
Ambient, dub techno, IDM.
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.
Decius – Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience)
Easy listening house, bleep techno, and electroclash. Casual electronic lounging and catwalk music.
Marie Davidson – City Of Clowns
It’s this fringe kind of electronic music, with an electro aesthetic, electroclash perhaps. It’s exciting and interesting and has things to say, feels fresh and different. It has become my third big thing that I’ve stumbled upon in 2025 (after Heartworms and Ela Minus).
Ela Minus – Día
This woman has been keeping me mesmerized for about a month now. I stumbled upon Upwards randomly and can’t not listen to this album all the time.
Her music has a strong kinship with electropop classics that have this eerie vocal nature to them, like The Knife. However, her personal character, creativity, and connection to the hardware aspect of electronic music production gives me strong Björk vibes, too. And yet, she’s definitely her own thing: it’s not like I get reminded of these other performers and I get back to listen to those, but I stick with Ela’s album and keep listening this.
Beyond the fantastic music her lyrics are also so smart and interesting and artistic. There’s message to be told, layers of ideas to unfold. I don’t even know when was the last time I was looking up and reading lyrics for an electronic music record to understand properly all it has to say.
I do believe this is an album to mark and remember. I’d love to have it on vinyl and put it on display as one of the milestones of this year.
Djrum – Meaning’s Edge
This is what IDM is: playful but experimental. Great little album.
Polynation – Igneous
Electronic music ranging from cinematic ambient through mid-tempo moody melodic beats to dance floor grooves for small sidesteps. They are fellow artists from the same roster as Weval, so that.
It’s kinda ridiculous that I don’t have a good genre definition for this kind of music. I always feel it hard to put a label on it, although it’s clearly a thing.
Jamie xx – In Waves
This is a really amazing record, beautiful tracks from start to finish. I haven’t been a Jamie xx fan, but this converts me. It makes me realize he’s one of those guys, like Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Orbital, and so on. It’s electronic overground music of the best kind.
Vakhtang – Parallax 20xx
It’s a long record (2+ hours), varied electronic music, from techno to trance to bass music, from mid to high tempo. It’s like someone emptied the drawer and poured it into an album.