Digitalcasm Daily Play #36

Magnetic Pandabears by Phylum Sinter

About these guys

Detroit based producer Christopher Todd shows of his skills writing  electronic, experimental, and IDM music through  Phylum Sinter.  According to his flavors.me page he is a self proclaimed "Detroit-based beatmaker, mastering engineer, sound designer, and digital artist."

Facebook  -  Last.fm  -  Soundcloud  -  Art

Why I Like This

I'll be honest.  I picked this song because it's called Magnetic Pandabears.  This track could have been a three minute recording of several babys screaming, at chipmunk pitch, and I can guarantee you it would have still been posted.  Luckily, Phylum Sinter has a good handle on this slightly dated sounding IDM remaster from 2004.  It's weird-in-that-good-way, and filled with meandering belltones and fun spongy electronic sounding drums.  There's a nice left turn in the middle of the track followed by more splendid wandering until it finally wraps up just after the five minute point.  Give it a listen.

More soon.

Music for the Metropolis - Opolis

Digitalcasm Daily Play #9

Each Scattergun Glance by Swich Licour

About this guy

Swich Licour is an electronic music creator based out of the UK.  I found Ben's track through the IDMF Netlabel on Soundcloud as part of the This is Good Tea compilation.  I'll have more info on him soon!

Soundcloud  -  Bandcamp  -  IMDF Netlabel website

Why I like this

I like crisp sounds.  Right from the get go there is a really nice kalimba/mbira riff that starts things out.  Other sounds and more electronic rhythms add before a wobbly reminds-me-of-aphex-twin-for-some-reason bass line adds in underneath.  While Each Scattergun Glance does it's things you'll  notice how the ambient sounds and elements that are added in are all very crisp and feel right at home and really integrated in to the soundscape.  Nothing sounds overly compressed, low quality or limp.  I'm not usually a huge fan of this kind of ambient music, but this is a really really fine piece of ear candy, where all the elements feel alive and, to me,  manage to come off slightly eerie in the same way hearing children's laughter in horror movies does.  It's worth a listen.

See you tomorrow!

Digitalcasm Daily Play #8

Romanesck by Aniline 

About this group

Aniline is a collaboration, based in France, between Alex Rich and Flo Rian.  According to their bio, this project is inspired and influenced a lot by colors.  Their sounds are definitely leaning towards IDM, ambient, and experimental.  

Website  -  Facebook  -  Myspace  -  Soundcloud

Why I like this

Romanesck starts out with this nice meandering lead synth line that has a catchy feel even though I can't be sure if I'm ever hearing it repeat.  Nice glitchy vocal and drum programming add in around a pretty straight forward four-on-the-floor beat.  As things start to develop, Romanesck never stops sounding polished and full of nice little motifs and electronic bells and whistles. It continually arrives at all these really cool musical moments that feel like I'm being treated to a series of well executed theme and variations.  Even as the track wraps up it transitions to a nice glitchy, dancy, big beat sounding loop that fades out. So good.

See you tomorrow!

Digitalcasm Daily Play #6

Song of the Livid Drawn Outside The Lines of Reason by enoruoS (Sourone)


update 11/28/12:  Song of the Livid was the working title of this track, and has been renamed by the creator.

About this guy

enoruoS is where Sourone a.k.a. Michal Kalinowski dumps his "melodic, ambient, and breaky" sounds on soundcloud.  Even with the brilliantly obvious name in reverse not unlike Spacetime Continuum's album Emit Ecaps, and later Remit Recaps, it still took me a while to track down Michal's (or is it Michael's?) original profile, and eventually his facebook page.

He hails from Poland and is a producer of IDM, psychedelia, glitch electronica, experimental, ambient, micro break beats. . . . .and well you get the idea.  This is the type of music where anyone who ends up listening to a lot of his work will probably start throwing the word pioneer around when describing him and his music to others.  He does a little bit of everything, and he does it really, really well from what I've heard so far.

Facebook  -  Soundcloud  -  doulcnuoS