AirdriftSignals Recommends: 4 Electronic Albums You Should Listen To

 4 Vastly Different Electronic Albums You Should Listen To

 

Greetings my fellow listeners! If you haven't noticed by now, it's been a few months since my last article, which was for Nine Inch Noize's self-titled collab album. I have a tendency to post on this website in short creative bursts with a tightly sequenced lineup of current album reviews and classic album deep dives when the inspiration comes. I strike when the iron's hot and I give everything I can when I publish music articles. In the long gaps that follow though, I am regularly taken away on creative detours or for my own professional development. At the present time, I'm working on my biggest update ever for AirdriftSignals, which I will unveil in October...

As time passes by, there are albums that have been out for quite some time that I've wanted to recommend, or recent albums released within the past few years that I have missed for one reason or another. I like listening to them and I wanted to find a meaningful way to present them and share them and the reasons why I believe they stand out amongst the ocean of music that's available nowadays.

AirdriftSignals Recommends is something that I've been meaning to start for a while now. It is my way of grouping random music releases together and sharing my thoughts and ideas and why they are worth your time and energy.  

After finishing up the final leg of their Peel It Back Tour, industrial rock superstars, Nine Inch Nails, and their prolific opening act, electronic DJ Boys Noize, surprise fans with their remix collab album, Nine Inch Noize

Nine Inch Noize Review

If there ever was a time to be a Nine Inch Nails fan, now would be the time! Given how many years it’s been since a complete fully realized NIN LP, 2013’s Hesitation Marks, fans have plenty to be excited about. Yes, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have been at it with their Trilogy EP releases Not The Actual Events (2016), Add Violence (2017), and its final LP Bad Witch (2018), their ambient nightmare-scapes Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts (both 2020, same release), the seemingly endless film scores they’ve composed, and most recently their NIN-branded Tron: Ares soundtrack. 

The reason I say it’s their first fully realized NIN project since 2013 is because all these previous releases, while all amazing in their own ways, have been projects that have felt adjacent to what a proper NIN release should look and sound like in the late 2010s or 2020s. These projects are worth their weight in gold, but they all feel like creative detours and not a true NIN experience from beginning, middle, and end. The closest we can get to this full realization though, is a collab album with Boys Noize, which as it turns out is a reimagining, or remix album, of past big Nine Inch Nails songs. If you’ve been a fan, you already know that a remix album is actually legit for NIN, and this one frames the brooding industrial rock gods through an electronic, hybrid-EDM lens, and puts classic Nine Inch Nails songs to the test.    

Masterpiece Crate 7: Daft Punk - Discovery 25th Anniversary

Daft Punk - Discovery 25th Anniversary Analysis and Review

Kicking off the next deep dive article in my Masterpiece Crate series is an electronic album that is beloved to me. It had to be my very first electronic CD, which I asked my dad to get me. It's artwork (look at it!) and sound were incredible and mesmerizing to me and they dared to be the epitome of what our world would be transitioning into for the 21st century, but all the way back in 2001, which is shocking that it seems so long ago! Its synth-laden computer gloss shined outward and into mine and generations of young millennials' minds in a way that no other music had done before. It was a gift to grace our ears then and is still treasured to this day, a bonafide masterpiece of electronic robot rock, Discovery by Daft Punk.

For more on my Masterpiece Crate series doing album deep dives you can go here.

Interview: DJ Nihilist

DJ Nihilist Interview

Our artist spotlight interview series this time takes a deep dive with talented, Connecticut dubstep artist, DJ Nihilist!

AirdriftSignals: Hi DJ Nihilist? How are you doing today?

DJ Nihilist: I’m alright, just chilling... it’s been a long weekend haha.

AirSig: It’s a new year but more notably a new decade. How do you envision this turn of time for yourself creatively, or do you have any resolutions or goals in mind?

Nihilist: Musically the only real goal I have this year is to write my second EP, but I’m sure there will be other singles and what not that pop up. Personally my goal this year is to be more focused on my health, both physical and mental. I find that if I’m in a good space it’s easier to write more music too so it’s a win-win situation.

DJ Nihilist - Outer World Bounce and Dubstep Singles Galore

DJ Nihilist Singles Reviews

From our interview with DJ Nihilist, it's no question that he is going to have great things lying in wait for him. The first and most notable of those is his most recent release, Outer World Bounce! 

Outer World Bounce