Tag: techno

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Clark – Steep Stims

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.

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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.

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The Black Dog – Other, Like Me

These guys are churning out new albums like a factory, and what’s socking is that none of these records feel like coming from a conveyor belt. This one’s on the darker side, introvert slow to mid tempo techno, some fine IDM noises, some industrial touch, some nice synths. It’s very well crafted electronic music.