…rolling waves of lavender synths, often gliding over the muted-but-present dull hum of harsh sawtooth synth tones, get wrapped in melodies that dissolve into pixels right before your ears.” - Pop Matters Best Ambient 2024
“an expanse of intensity, pace, and atmosphere with subtle edits and transitions making familiar tracks seem like entirely new passages of time and sound.”
“waves of ‘90s backroom electronica, rarefied electro, John Carpenter/Vangelis synth soundtracks, minimal tech house, UK bass via Burial—all of them flow together, with Mercatante finding their shared factors and joining the dots” - Bandcamp best Electronic Music Jan ‘24
“Loop-driven as Albrecht’s album Violet Visionary is, we cannot get some of these percussion loops out of our heads even days after listening” - Pop Matters (Best Ambient 2023)
“…an impressive, inspiring testimony to contemporary electronic music. In a few years, you will find it in the "must have heard!" canon of the eternal classics of the genre - and even beyond. Mark my words." 3.40sqm Blog
“supremely high-quality stuff, from lush and musical depths steeped in personal reflection to widescreen ambient house excursions via cosmic delights.” - Juno Records
“Mycological Patterns plays out like a mixtape on purpose; a sketchbook of styles documenting the shifting abstract microcosms the album is titled after.”
“This imaginary piece of cinema may only exist in Clements’ head, but we can tell from its implied score that it’s sepia-toned, an awards-circuit darling, and featuring some of 2022’s best music to brood to. An elevated, gorgeous work.” - Pop Matters
“Melodic figures make themselves known, accented by metal chimes, bells, and the deep resonance of a bass drum. This is slow, graceful music.” - Igloo Mag
“…the reinterpretations strip the melodies and textures to their original essence, bringing an entirely analog element to Olga’s intrinsically detailed originals.”
“…a varied affair that uses the 303 sparingly in favour of a handsome assortment of plush synth voices bent to all manner of sonic duties” - Juno Records
“The bell sound on ‘Concept of Credence’, is just the bees’ knees. It comes out of nowhere, through a crack in the dense clouds of choir-synth-string-harmonics” - Pitchfork
"The rhythms are complex and riotous, but they feel like some elemental process taking place thousands of meters up (perhaps in the titular iridescent clouds), surrounded by layer upon layer of mist and radiance." - Bandcamp, Best Electronic Music, 2021
“…otherworldly experiences and journeys into deep space, both micro and macro, against a backdrop of hypnotic melodies and haunting electronic soundscapes.” - Headphone Commute
“The most interesting part of decay is its beauty; the craquelure on a painted door; crumbling walls of ruins from past days; cliffs battered by the eternal pounding of waves”
“I hope this music will soothe your nerves and bring you some kind of enlightenment that we are drowning in it all together, here and now, as one organism.”
“Diaphanous, widescreen synthscapes and arcing arp dramas making a natural transition from trance, proggy electronic dance music into contemporary ambient composition.” - Boomkat
“Designed to be listened to as a continuous mix, 36 draws out the rich layers and distant samples into long-form versions of the original dystopian Fade To Grey story.”
“…a glistening tour of the beautiful sounds to emerge from a Moog Mother 32, custom built filters and various Eurorack modular sequencers, modules and effects.”
“Guentner has expanded his usual sonic palette of gauzy, Gas-like ambient loops to include mammoth strings amidst his evocative and panoramic style.” - Igloo Mag
“Using only instruments and sounds from the early House-era, Brock builds an effortlessly sequenced collage of deep, mystifying, and emotional pieces”.
"...marking 10 years of melancholy ambient/classical whimsy with ‘Full Circle’, a 17-track compilation of tracks by artists key to the label’s history an aesthetic" - Boomkat
“…it becomes clear that he designed the album to be heard as an evolving soundscape that would document the cosmological event as it unfolded” - Textura
“What started as a series of releases based on inspirational places, progressed into a collective of talented artists and inspirational location-based music.”
“The Places Series aimed to unearth the personal moments, the detailed sounds and the inspirational story behind the music, transporting the listener to that very moment of conception.”
“…instrumental electronica with a decidedly old school sentiment”
- Igloo Mag