Acer Rubrum New York, New York
Acer Rubrum is a Cincinnati-born NYC-based producer creating layered, plaintive songs that blend the lithe, textured environments of ambient techno with the earnestly cheery melodies of early 2000s electronica. Saccharine compositions are roughed up by digital-junkyard drum programming; fussy, glitchy sampling; and panoramic, tuneful pops of distortion. ... more
Acer Rubrum recommends:
There Is Love In You
by Four Tet
What is even left to say about this? It's intimate and facile, but pulsing and self-assured, and filled with microscopic shifts. A thing of beauty and I won't hear a word otherwise.
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Soundscapes of everyday life and youth, carried along by cascades of zither and synth. What a timepiece.
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Field recordings, acoustic drums, mosquito-y electronics topped with a soft, dubby lacquer.
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