AiMT presents... Best Electronic Albums of 2015 (Selections)

Afrikan Sciences 
'Circuitous' LP
PAN 54

Peerless rhythmist and sonic explorer Afrikan Sciences makes his PAN debut with 'Circuitous,' the third full-length, freeform offering from the New York-based artist.

At the nexus of Afrofuturism, science fiction, transcendental free jazz, and future hip hop, this new work from Eric Porter Douglas casts itself and its creator in a liminal zone most recognizably charted by astral traveler Sun Ra. ‘Circuitous’ follows from nearly a decade of releases for Deepblak —the Oakland-rooted imprint of frequent collaborator Aybee— and shares common blood with both the elevated consciousness of late '80s club culture and contemporary West Coast beat scene

Built around Douglas’ signature polyrhythms and complex melodies, the unorthodox agility demonstrated throughout the album’s fourteen tracks reflect his long history of live, improvised sets combining multiple turntables, upright bass, and a command center of digital tablets and controllers. Each track maps the artist’s own movements, tracing paths of flight, highway trajectories through tunnels and over bridges, and rides through rough and gated neighborhoods. If familiar on the surface, deeper or repeated listenings to ‘Circuitous’ reveal the dynamic multiplicity embodied within.

'Circuitous' is a free and unbound body of work—one that defies easy classification yet translates fluidly across multiple environments—compiled over double LP in order to fully realize the scope of Afrikan Science's sonic palette.

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Afrikan Sciences 'Circuitous' (PAN 54)

Out on True Panther 2015
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Kaitlyn's solo debut Euclid (primarily written on a Buchla Music Easel synthesizer) was inspired by her love of mbira music, early electronic music pioneers like Laurie Spiegel, Oskar Sala, and Terry Riley, and euclidean geometry. Each of the first six songs on Euclid were initially structured using euclidean geometry, an idea which Smith explored while attending a class at the San Francisco Conservatory. As Smith explains, "We each chose a 3D shape and assigned our own guidelines to the different components that make up the shape. For example each point of the shape represents a different time signature, each line between the points represents a pitch, each shape within the closed lines represents a scale, etc. And then you play the shape." Despite their heady geometric origins, the songs have a playfulness and warmth that makes them inviting and memorable. In addition to the buoyant grooves of Smith's synthesizers, some of the songs feature wordless vocals, which energize the otherworldly songs, while grounding them with Smith's earthly presence.

She slows things down for the second half of the record, which features a collection of twelve short pieces, Labyrinths I-XII. Originally composed as new soundtracks to old silent films she found online, Smith says the tranquil Labyrinth pieces are "intended to feel like one is walking through a holographic labyrinth and encountering different experiences such as hang gliding, viewing microbes under a microscope, ice fishing in Alaska, and watching glaciers collapse." Despite their brevity, most of these songs feel like mini odysseys, effortlessly casting a cinematic hue on the the listener's world.

Throughout Euclid Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith consistently delivers sonic puzzles draped in a warm Pacific mist. At times these songs feel so alive — like the musical analog to roots growing deeper and stronger, leaves on branches bending towards the light, or the sun peeking over the horizon, briefly igniting the air with a primordial swirl of warm and cool colors.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Sundry

09 - The Phantom - Coda

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Dark Energy

Expand

from the Nídia Minaj 'Danger' 12'' (P008, February 2015)

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NÍDIA MINAJ - Mambos Fudiz

Taken from Scientific Dreamz of U / Junior Loves "The Dreamcode", out on cassette and digitally 10 March 2015.

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Scientific Dreamz of U - Sacred Fractal Geometry

Outside, beyond the screens, sticky and beautiful, undecided, dry grass is ready to burn. Our dreams are self-medicating; their dreams are boring. Who can afford them anyway? Times up. We’re too tired for sleep, we’re ready to push back, together. Spring is here. Not tomorrow, Today.

Dream A Garden // 23.3.15

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Out 27th April 12" Vinyl (Full Colour Sleeve) & Digital
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Design by David Kelly

Gobstopper Records are proud to announce their first vinyl release – the debut EP from Iglew.

"I guess my music sounds the way it does because it's a product of my environment. I didn't grow up in a city and there's no underground electronic music scene here. When I started listening to electronic music, it was on headphones. It's only in the last couple of years that I’ve heard soundsystem music in it's intended environment. I'm hyper aware of how effective bass can be because I only really heard it properly recently."

Across its four tracks the EP explores a number of melodic, rhythmic and textural ideas. The synth flashes and silence in 'Sleep Lighter' sit in contrast with the sombre tones of 'Urban Myth', while the clattering percussion of 'Regalia' plays against the enveloping bass tones of closing track 'Cymatism'.

Currently residing in Leeds after a period in Brighton, he has been experimenting with sound systems, creating music which is simultaneously stark and subtle. Iglew discovered electronic music not through raves but through podcasts. Because of this, his compositional approach is based on harmony, melody and texture as opposed to dancefloor hype. 'Urban Myth' is a result of the belated immersion of an outsider into sound system culture.

Tracklisting:
01 Sleep Lighter
02 Urban Myth
03 Regalia
04 Cymatism

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‘CARGAA 1’ out 6 April – http://s.warp.net/cargaa-1

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Grandes Invejosos

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We'd never try and second guess R&S's mind-bogglingly diverse A&Ring - but there's been a thread of crisp, clever bass music since the late 2000s that means the appearance of  grime historian , Scouser-in-London and  Boxed mainstay  Paul Lynch aka Slackk makes absolute sense.

Backwards Light EP, his  new six-tracker  for them, touches, as ever, on bleak grime and Orientalist motifs, but it also brings his film soundtrack styling to the for as on this downright stirring bit of sinister drama. When will we see Lynch score an actual movie, though?

Slackk "Sleeper Carriage" - Boiler Room Debuts

Track from NE21 Acronym - June 2xLP

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Acronym - Back To Understanding

Track taken from Elysia Crampton's full length debut "American Drift" 

Petrichrist

CFCF - Radiance and Submission due out on Driftless Recordings July 2015

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CFCF - La Soufrière

Paths We Take (The Maze)

Hunee - "Hunch Music"(RHM 016, 2LP and digital release)- out now!

Tracklist:
1 Woods 
2 Cross Road 
3 Silent Sensations 
4 Rare Hapiness 
5 Burning Flower 
6 Error Of The Average 
7 Failed Movement 
8 Hiding The Moon
9 Bruises 
10 Amo 
11 The World

* Additional Synth on track 1, 2, 3 and 6 by: Jordan Czamanski

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Woods

Visionist — Safe
Format: LP / CD / DIGITAL
Cat.No: PAN 67
Release Date: 9th October 2015
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Visionist — Victim (PAN 67)

Mark McGuire - "Earth: 2015" from 'Beyond Belief' out November 13, 2015 on Dead Oceans

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Mark McGuire - "Earth: 2015" from 'Beyond Belief' out November 13, 2015 on Dead Oceans

Beyond Belief

Mark Mcguire - "Earth: 2015"

‘Ezra’ is taken from ‘Garden Of Delete’ out 13 November 2015 on @warp-records – http://s.warp.net/g-o-d

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Ezra

Transparency Part III - ii

ANTS Podcast episodes and related stuff from the AiMT universe

NOTE: I purged a bunch of content here when SoundCloud was freaking out and issues account strikes, but now since they're (apparently) not doing that anymore, I'm once again uploading new podcast episodes and slowly reintroducing some old ones. For all episodes, catch me here: http://mixcloud.com/antspodcast.

AiMT presents... Best Electronic Albums of 2015 (Selections)

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