Diverse forms of electronica

This week's 4 new albums:

  • Art Sonic: Roadside Sketches - Ambient
    acoustic guitar folktronica with elements of ambient atmospheric Americana

  • Curl: Shapeshifters - Electro Rock
    Groovy, French downtempo electro-rock songs

  • Love Amplifier: Mahadeva - Electronica
    Lose yourself in the electronic

  • Mokhov: Jupiter Melodies - Electronica
    Sounds like Four Tet + Boards of Canada

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Description:Sounds like Four Tet + Boards of Canada
Genre:Electronica
Artist:Mokhov
Album:Jupiter Melodies

This album features 6 uplifting and catchy electronic dance tunes. Made using only sounds from a Jupiter-6 analog synth, they sound like a cross between Daft Punk and Aphex Twin. With its energizing and joyful electronic vibes, Mokhov's new album, Jupiter Melodies, is made for everyone who loves dance/disco/house music.



Description:Lose yourself in the electronic
Genre:Electronica
Artist:Love Amplifier
Album:Mahadeva

Mahadeva was originally titled "Ideality" and released under the artist name "HIGH ON".

It was produced in LMMS over the course of a week to fulfill a new year's resolution to make more drum and bass tracks.

These tracks only use samples included in LMMS, resulting in extremely small files.

Project files for this album and others are available from the LMMS sharing platform.



Description:Groovy, French downtempo electro-rock songs
Genre:Electro Rock
Artist:Curl
Album:Shapeshifters

Chiming guitars weave around your thoughts as a river of throbbing bass takes you to the emotional dark spaces of Curl's October 2017 Album release "Shapeshifters".

Intrigued by the contrast of Hayley Alker's powerful but curiously passive vocal delivery, you feel her opening up but always keeping something back, baring her soul while never quite losing control through harmonious layers of melody.

The mood of this transcontinental four-piece's latest outing (French guitars and British vocals and drums from Jon's ex-Cranes and Vex) is more darkly organic than their previous Electronica meets New Wave releases. The bittersweet and unsettling edge to Alker's singing sits perfectly atop the rich warmth of the songs as they rise and fall in majestic intensity. The Gravity of the Guitars from Frank (ex-Corpus Delicti) and Wil propel you in to a sonic sculpture - noise, ambience, a brave new world.

You will feel the hurt on this album but that is only half the story. There is a gentle euphoria too, but somehow all emotions are referenced in the past.

There are no clear conclusions here, no resolution to the emotional shape shifting, no real end to the journey. But you will want these waves to flow through you, envelop you, carry you drifting weightlessly away.

CURL will be performing the new album in France and UK spring 2018



Description:acoustic guitar folktronica with elements of ambient atmospheric Americana
Genre:Ambient
Artist:Art Sonic
Album:Roadside Sketches

A 3-week long road trip to the American Southwest (Toronto, Canada to Colorado, Utah and New Mexico USA). Good thing I managed to take my old beat-up acoustic guitar - even though there was little spaced for it in our tightly packed truck. Big prairie skies, Rocky Mountain panoramas, desert vistas, ghost towns and ancient Anasazi ruins, all inspired me to pick up the guitar and attempt to translate sights into notes. Little 'roadside sketches'...

My trusty little field recorder allowed me to actually capture some of the nature sounds which later, back home in my studio, got incorporated into some of the tracks. Hopefully these short musical pieces will evoke the feelings and re-create the sights I had in front of me.