psychill / psytrance 

Mindspring

Trip Journal is an album released on March 1st by American record label Mindspring Music, an independent company specialized in several subgenres of psychedelic electronic music. Work of an artist from Albuquerque, New Mexico, named Ryan Hinchman – better known by the alias of Infrequency –, this exceedingly marvelous album has everything an ardent and passionate enthusiast of the genre might expect: smooth symphonies, gentle textures, aggrandizing playful cosmogonies, gracefully pungent harmonies, diluted colorful sonorous tonalities, all amazingly expanded into a profoundly authorial and genuine musical layout, whose ambitious energy revolves around the everlasting sensibilities of an impressively consistent and audacious creative splendor. 

With resonant harmonies that incredibly dilutes the density of its own spectacular sonorous metamorphosis, the music of Trip Journal is a sagacious exposition of versatile and extemporal virtuosity, that dives deep into the most surreal and intermittent elements of the subgenre, though with a musical cohesiveness that solidifies the tempestuous ambivalence of an expansively gracious and lucid structural linearity. Overexposing an abrasive, though easy going conjuncture of elegant melodies that becomes ostensibly diffuse underneath the axis of an imperatively diluted dynamism, the music of Infrequency is characterized by a cathartic intensity that exhales a sober proficiency, whose liquid and discreet experimentalism definitely expresses a volatile rapture, whose drastically diluted grace foresees a creative universe where all artistic boundaries have been deleted. 

With nine tracks – 1) The First Page; 2) Swimming on Mushroom Tea; 3)It's Breathing; 4) Lost; 5) Colored by the Sun; 6) Higher Mind; 7) Dissolve Boundaries; 8) Speaking in Frequencies; 9) Evolving Topology; – Trip Journal is a formidable and exceedingly marvelous album, whose creative audacity and astoundingly genuine level of artistry definitely elevates Infrequency into a superior and distinct pattern of musical splendor. While the artist maintains intact the most ordinary elements of the genre, his innovative degree of excellence and fearless authenticity shapes a new standard for psychedelic electronic music, way more dynamic, sober and vivacious than what we are used to normally hear. 

A gloriously majestic album that definitely presents an artist that has an interesting and decisively virtuous conjuncture of qualities to conceive an experimental sound that has consistent potential to be more organic, transient and vivid in nature, Trip Journal can be considered a very diffuse, delightful and grandiose milestone, that undoubtedly represents a sensational evolutionary step into more mordacious and original creations into the scene. 


Wagner

psychedelic / electronic / chill-out / downtempo / psytrance

With its deep space virtuous cosmogonies and a voluptuous synchronic ambient layer of masterful sonorous engineering, that works at the skylight precious visibility of its fabulous technical mordacity, Ataraxia, with all of its ten formidable and exponentially delusional tracks – Ataraxia, Psylent Coral, Shamanism Eyesight, Trust The Wait, Starseed, Cosmic Hologram, Badass Wolf, She is a Nurse, Psycho Delicate and Meraki – proves to be a dense, eruptive and monumental album, with a sound condensed at the imponderable vicinities of its own universal axis of arduous tenacity. In a belligerent zone of furious beauty and serene complacency, the harmonious sonorous fragrance of Ahanjack displays the elemental and versatile capabilities of all of its marvelous and intricate levels of artistry.  

Departing from conventional, but surreptitiously deep melodic alignments that break the spiral axis of the conspicuous effigies of sound that drives the linear pulse of the beatings, the album consistently displays a dynamic creative fever that definitely understands the bizarre complexity of its own vivacious concept, and effectively plays by the rules; beautiful harmonies dance in the colorful horizon of a day that never fades away, as red twilights shine bright at the tender displacement of ascendant harmonies, that rise from the dreams of its own imperative intonations. 

As the album evolves, the harmonies become more and more fluid, lucid and organic, though the flexible design of its anatomy exhibits a creatively expressive composure that is the groundwork of the artist’s style. Nevertheless, the psychedelic galaxy that vividly revolves around the charming and elegant harmonies creates surreal cadences of everlasting clouds that filtrates the impulsive beatings of the rhythm, although the general layout of the sound is left untouched, and obeys a coherent melodic elasticity that rarely moves outside its peripheral zone of sensibility.

Ataraxia is definitely a formidable album of psychedelic chill. With disruptive harmonies and a sentimental musical layer that promotes a delightful collision between effective melodies and surreal intonations, the record is definitely a sensational musical achievement. Despite the fact that the artist is somewhat relapse in terms of audacity, the consistency and the inebriant agility abundant in the music showcases a genuine charisma that overflows the ordinary elements of its inherent creative abilities, exposing a dimension of hidden splendor, which is something that the audience can experience with a high degree of satisfaction. 


Wagner