techno

  • Affectionate by Venetian Snares Believe it or not, last week was Aaron Funk’s birthday! Happy belated, Aaron. If you didn’t know, Mr. Funk has spent years as the creative mind behind one of electronic music’s most challenging projects, Venetian Snares. To celebrate coming into the world, Venetian

  • 1549

    Ambient techno rhythms coming through on this Lars Leonhard track, “1549,” which was recently upped to SoundCloud by the good people at Kompakt. It’s nine minutes of vast, open, and hypnotic textures. Look for Lars’ latest album, 1549, on Bine Music.

  • ambient

    The Haxan Cloak and Andy Stott remix two tracks from fellow experimentalist Holy Other. Grab these remixes at Bleep.

  • A new EP from experimental techno producer Andy Stott. This release is titled We Stay Together, and it features six new followups to the Passed Me By release he dropped earlier this year. Stream the entire thing above. Get ready. Some of the beats on this thing are pretty eerie

  • 2011

    Because posting about one album on Type Records today isn’t enough, here’s a stream of the new Pete Swanson album. You may remember him from the now defunct noise and drone duo Yellow Swans. On this new album of Pete’s–which I believe is the second he’

  • dance

    On Parobalas, electronic music producer John Tejada hands out one minimal techno groove after another, complementing all of them with loads of atmosphere and subtle synthesizers. The songs here are constantly in a state of flux, but the changes made are very slight and will go unnoticed if not listened

  • ambient

    New video for the title track from Kangding Ray’s “OR.” The Germany-based electronica artist’s latest album of the same title is out now, but not in America. It’s currently on raster-noton, but there’s always digital if the import prices are killing you. Anyway, the tracks on

  • Surgeon is electronica producer Anthony Child, and the track above comes from what seems to be his first LP under this pseudonym in over ten years. Since his ’98 album Balance, the guy’s output has been mostly in EPs. But the recently released Breaking the Frame dishes out one

  • ambient

    German electronica producer Kangding Ray dropped his third LP back in May, OR. But of course, it hasn’t caught a ton of buzz in the U.S., because the only label its been released on is a German one. Still, the ambient beatscapes painted on OR are a great

  • dark

    Tommy Four Seven is a German electronica producer hailing from Berlin, and the dude knows a dark sound when he hears one. The tracks on his debut full-length, Primate, are backed with repetitive dance beats, but what’s happening over the beats is an entirely different story. On both “G”