I haven't found many CDs to get very excited about lately in the IDM
category, but found two in the last week. I bought them used, which
explains why they aren't brand new releases. If you've read every word of
the archives and liked what I liked, maybe you'll like these, too.
RAC "Structures" - Nicely inspired, trancy and electro-ish, mostly.
Nothing repeats unchanged long enough to get annoying, but repeats long
enough to induce hypnosis. Solid inventive beats throughout. The sounds
are not presets, primarily. Reminds me of recent B12 but I like it
better.
Bisk "Time" - Very complex, rhythmically and sonically. He's invented a
batch of compelling chordal and interval juxtapositions and fused it to
some skewed and jerky beats. All the sounds are carefully constructed and
intricately layered. Almost crosses the line into overprocessing. Short
at 47+ minutes, but it seems to go on for over an hour. It probably
sounds the same straight through or in shuffle mode, though. Every track
has almost the same fractal dimension. It's like Autechre, and then
again, not really. Alien beauty, but from a different star system than
Autechre's.
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