Following on from the fiercely immersive genre fusion of Adagio One, rising artist and composer David Ratmoko manages yet again to enthral, engage, and impress modern listeners, with the darkness and hypnotic depth of Adagio Two.
Electronic
A phenomenal collection of electronic dance tracks and genre-fusing originals, recapturing the essence and freedom of purposeful production, whilst leading with a unique and intoxicating level of both realism and strict numbers-based creative craftwork.
Swedish producer Mattias Pettersson – Known to the scene as Magmar Internationaell C – the creative unconfined by style but impassioned by all things electronic escapism – released an impressive set of three brand new mixes this past month, and proceeds to raise the bar in every case.
“The biggest ambition is to keep learning more and more from my own learning capabilities, but also meeting more musicians from the music scene and learning and growing further whilst watching what techniques they use.”
Monsters blends story and style in a way that’s frankly unrivalled right now. We’re in the artistic territory of early 2000s triphop and dark dance – the melodic appeal, the depth and weight of distortion and design, the conceptual detail and subtle riffs. Genre feels like a secondary aspect of what is ultimately an artistic encapsulation of mood and scene.
Audio cinema, by all accounts – no dialogue, imaginative fragments of design and melody working in unison with the naturally connecting power of rhythm and movement. Transharmonicon is a brilliantly interesting, original EP, from someone promising a fine balance between musical precision and sheer artistic curiosity.
Admittedly nostalgic for its superb blending of trip hop-style production and that indie vocal twist of character, Time Again follows a single concept and a single lyrical question for the most part, across an expanding tapestry of immersive electronic design.
Creative producer Jonathan Tanksley smoothly intertwines the abstract and the actual, with the melodic and atmospheric undertones of mysterious electronic dance track Darkness Looms.
Celebrating his finest collection to date, renowned producer DJ SOLO brings the clarity, creativity and confidence to modern music, with the infectiously energizing PROJECT BUSTDOWN 5.
Fully-loaded electronic production blends ethereal synths and trap rhythms, as artist and songwriter x ohh delves into the conceptual depths of the mind, for COMMS.
Bad Bubble forever balances a sense of cinematic vastness with that of quiet contemplation. It’s an ambient realm, meditative to a degree, but it’s also an arena-ready indie anthem that aches to be witnessed in a huge and mildly-reverberating setting.
Electronic sound-play to light up your dreams – Greautcine crafts an immersive and creative playlist to intrigue a wandering mind, with Verano otra vex.