You may not remember it but in 2006, a little known artist called Overcoat came to our attention and was featured on Gratisvibes. Six years on, I could still remember the ambient grooves of The Sky is Never Dark Anymore EP and it’s hypnotic sound of synthesized pads and slow evolving textures. However, where […]

IDM and weird music fans have something to look forward to in the releases of new Netlabel Weird and Wired. The label run by Massju and Wolfseule focuses on releasing high quality and ingenious music with a bit of weirdness. Fuzzy - A Collection of Reflection is their fifth release and after listening to it […]

Here’s a short 2-track release from the Japanese netlabel, Bumpfoot, by “403″, who has also released on another Japanese netlabel, Muraokoshi. That release had an amazing track, “Password”, an epic d’n’b stormer with a beautiful melody that sticks in your head for a long time.
The Unmute EP doesn’t differ that much sonically from his […]

If you enjoy the humour present in sexually themed albums but sexually themed Belgian New Beat is a bit too harsh for you, then you may find Tsunami Tenderness to be just the correct prescription for you.
Strictly speaking, the music is not blatant in exhibiting its sexuality. We’re not assaulted instantly by moans and grunts […]

An album full of upbeat electronic tracks that span across various genres, Techno, Drum and Bass, Breakbeat and even Ambient. Every track in this LP is pretty nice to listen to on its own and each of them has a unique feel all its own. Probably due to the wide spectrum of genres of this […]

Upon knowing that this is a drum and bass album, I was expecting something with really fast beats, minimal melody line and extremely groovy. This album is not like those, the speed (BPM) is relatively slow as compared to most drum and bass songs, with pretty rich melody line and pads, yet still being rather […]

Ever since my first contact with IDM music, I’ve always been in admiration of all those tracks made by people that had such great breaks. Sometimes, it flows so smoothly that you don’t even notice that the rhythm broke until the beats start back up a bar later. Macc’s album represents the first breakbeat entry […]