proto notes

Cicadan Shiloh Blue 2026 - independent a series of rapid-pulse pieces both electronic and created with the body. Cicadan cultivates and nourishes the hallucinatory, often veering into the kind of noise i find best for meditation. The album leaves no room for anything outside the immediate, and both the listening and the reflecting on the sounds your ear is creating during the provided silences take up your active mental space. Grounding is a term that is often used to denote a delicate process;…

How Was Your Life? Memotone 2023 - Impatience By far my favorite project from memotone. “How Was Your Life?” presents a gentle haze for the listener to recline against. acoustic and electronic sounds are masterfully interwoven and the pace feels relaxed throughout despite occasional bursts of energy. The whole pieces builds to some beautiful jazzy crescendos like on the second half of “Open World” that feel like finding an oasis in the desert. “Carved by the Moon” stands out as a very…

Notes Ingredients amount name Directions

New Jazz Jungle: Remembering Pat Thomas 1997 - Newjazz.com Every now and then I hear a genre fusion that seems so obvious i feel like i expect to see a whole community of artists exploring. Pat Thomas strikes one of those with New Jazz Jungle, an energizing psychedelic combination of the highly rhythmic and flexible breakbeat chops of jungle with atonal and atemporal free improvisation. Rarely until the jungle-pop revival that we’ve been seeing recently have I heard much breakbeat alongside…

Strange Logic Cryptwarbler 2025 - independent noise artists often have affinity for the long-form. Frequently releases will be single live sessions or improvisations either presented as a whole or cut up and arranged into disparate pieces. Strange Logic stands as one of my favorite examples of a noisey experimental electronic release where most of the tracks are under ten minutes, and they all occupy varying soundscapes. Cryptwarbler’s unique circuit-bent Casio rig allows for rich timbres that…