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The tag “experimental” gets tossed a lot in music journalism, but what the hell does it actually mean? Is it just music that plays with forms or stretches the genre boundaries a bit? What about stuff like no13 by Dagshenma on Collapsed Structures, a “topological” music album featuring true electronic experiments based in totalism, glitch, and software-bending? That’s pretty experimental, […]
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Back in the day (i.e. like, a year ago), Online Records released every so often a live album by Hantasi or Claudia, the label’s owners. It’s been a bit since we’ve had one of those drop on the label, but StøveHill – 6/4/18, 10.16 AM is a new and exciting one from Hantasi. This chronicles a titular live performance in […]
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Swamp Circle is an experimental music label run by Angel Marcloid (who also does all of the artwork) that primarily focuses on noise, drone, and vapornoise releases. The label took an unannounced hiatus in mid-2017, but is now back in full-force with nine new albums released at once on Saturday. The albums continue the highly eclectic work that accurately bears […]
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Another Acid Medical release is out, this one from God. Final is hopefully not the final album from Acid Medical. It’s a highly experimental full-length that’s among one of the noisiest releases thus far on the label, similar to the musique concrete plus vaporwave experiments that are available via Online Records. Lots of songs are produced quietly with lots of […]
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Active since 2012, Mensa Group International is a group of artists who produce music inspired by the aesthetics and techniques of vaporwave and plunderphonics music. In their long tenure, the group has amassed an impressive roster of collaborations, solo-group works, and compilation appearances. These include a debut release featuring a split with luxury elite called Atlas of Fictional Countries / […]
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Online Records is back with a new album with utterly unpronounceable usage of alt-codes. ⌢⌢▬▬⚋⚋⬛⚋⚋▬▬⌢⌢ by ⬛ is a single track of ambient/dreampunk music. It marks another recent release from Online Records that demonstrates a further change from the tape collage, noise, and musique concrete that typified their pre-hiatus releases. Recommended for fans of long-form ambient music, such as that […]
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Online Records is back with more experimental vaporwave and vapornoise: the current release is Our Children’s Future by Painter. Ominous? Perhaps! The release is a single long-form track of highly abrasive textures that include screwed sitar music, low bass rumbles, cavernous electronica, and distorted classical soundtrack. It evokes a world as glitched and distorted as that depicted in the album […]
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