“Six songs that didn't make the cut”
Circuits surge and darkness descends: Deep N Beeper's RAW 202X Re-RUB literally does what it says on the tin, while Cathode Ray Tube's Imperfect Vessel effortlessly mixes electro, ambient, dub techno, and noise into four monstrous tracks. Children of Osiris' Abramelin 11 unfolds as a sequence of sonic invocations where the archaic and futuristic converge—still it mutates, speaks, and comes alive again. Max Kutner's The Illustrated Interior delivers industrial textures and hypnotic grooves shaped by intuition and chance, and Progressive Anarchists' Iron Golem fuses dub and dubstep through a dirty distorted bass guitar. Alex Routledge's Live Studio Session rounds things out with real-time ambient electronica and IDM built spontaneously on a Yamaha MODX8+.
“A lively, spooky evocation of a 'Seance Room' featuring downtempo beats, stressed keyboard pads and even a string section!”
“Instrumental synthesizer piece in a classical/neoclassical way, organized in three gapless movements.”
“A perfect introduction to Machine Records, Wales' longest running electronic music label.”
“Exploration of deriving organicity from recurrence, blurring the line between rhythm and texture, accompanied by a plain reflection on the overlooked sentiments. Patterns created from varying usage...”