mdmx
psychEsonic snapshot a la 2021
Updated: Mar 2, 2022
Hellohihey! Me llamo Maxwell aka MaDMaX aka MDMX and I review music for Swampwoofer's Deep State Audio blog and the ART ERA blog. Over the last year, from my cultural island dubbed the Black Hills of South Dakota, I scoured the internet for sonic reverberations that resonated with my soul, altered my expectations, moved my body, and invigorated my mind. This journey traversed over 420 musical releases (all from 2021) and was quite challenging, not only to my attention span and production knowledge, but also to my notions of culture, time, and genre/style. I wanted to share these discoveries with YOU while utilizing a critical lens and yet remaining constructive to our loving community. To do so, I have compiled a list of my favorite LPs and EPs from all of 2021. I call this psychedelic electronic sonic snapshot my psychEsonic snapshot a la 2021...Enjoy!
top LPs a la 2021 ~
Amon Tobin ~ How Do You Live
Carbon Based Lifeforms ~ Stochastic
Monty ~ Hit The Lights
R.A.P. Ferreira ~ the Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Scriptures
Silkie ~ Panorama
AES DANA ~ (a) period.
Hudson Lee ~ Reflex Angle
Mr. Bill ~ Phantasmagoria
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra ~ Promises
EMOG ~ Solaris
Nils Frahm & F.S. Blumm ~ 2X1=4
Cosmic Touch ~ Nirvana
Genesis Owusu ~ Smiling With No Teeth
Zebbler Encanti Experience ~ Syncorswim
The Glitch Wizard ~ Platonically Planetary
Emancipator & Asher Fulero ~ Dab Records Volume One
Advanced Suite ~ Cruzin
Jackson Hale ~ Solitaire
Jon Hopkins ~ Music For Psychedelic Therapy
Echosphere ~ Omni Fluctuations
Evil Oil Man ~ Cephalopodia
Entangled Mind ~ Eternal Motion
Current Value ~ The All Attracting
Hoopy Frood ~ Affirmations
Entheogenic ~ Meltwater Pulse 1B
Psybur ~ Psybur Space
E-Mantra ~ Last Transmission
Illusive Tuna ~ Stelliferous Era
CharlestheFirst ~ SOLUS
Lo.Renzo & Imran ~ Journey of Joy
Øhmar ~ Nothing and Everything
COAM ~ White Figures
Liquid Bloom & Poranguà ~ Kuya Sessions: Cura
Gladkill ~ Ossuary
Advanced Suite ~ Every Actuality
Gumi ~ Underwater
Global Koma ~ Komorebi
BROCKHAMPTON ~ Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
Liquid Bloom & PERE ~ Afar
yunis ~ Amber
Electrypnose ~ Crooked House
Arcturus ~ Gateway
DROPLITZ ~ Urban Overgrown
Steve Roach ~ Dynamic Stillness
DROPLITZ ~ Earthienz
Stratusphere ~ Beyond The Darkness
Zero Cult ~ Eclectica
JPEGMAFIA ~ LP!
TRAKA ~ Maktub
Tash Sultana ~ Terra Firma
Freddy Todd ~ Moonflavours II
GRiZ ~ Rainbow Brain
Polygon Rainbow ~ Stories of Ambiguity
Ishq ~ Qutb
Truth ~ Acceptance
Kuni & Scionaugh ~ Plasmogamy
ill.Gates ~ The Arrival
Tengri ~ Best Of Chillout
Panda On The Bamboo Tree ~ Expansion Of Peace
top EPs a la 2021 ~
Zonra ~ Hypotheticals II
Tipper ~ Insolito
Arcturus ~ Ineffable
Spoonbill ~ Ultraniche
Max Cooper ~ Maps
ENiGMA Dubz ~ DUPLOC050
Shades ~ The Dance of Death
FORM NULL ~ YOU ARE HERE
voljum ~ Dayscapes
Aedem ~ Aquarelle
woulg ~ Bubblegum
d:enigma ~ virtual self
Emancipator, Rena Jones & Flowerpulse ~ Xylem
Aagentah ~ From Empire
Mindex ~ Body Language
Monty ~ F4DE
Resonant Language ~ Gut Wrench
ÆTERNA ~ INTERNAL · BEYOND
relativity lounge ~ recoil
Flintwick ~ Squandered
Of The Trees ~ The Tale of Elegos
Slaycub ~ Visceral Planet
Shpongle ~ Carnival Of Peculiarities
Clearlight & Owl ~ Red Clouds
Secret Recipe ~ Mind Overload
Psybur ~ Radical Roots
Hypho ~ Sufferin'
Quanta ~ Beyond Projections
Indigo Spirit ~ I Rest My Base
Toadface ~ Tides
Monkey Mind ~ Exotica
Androcell ~ Fib
Substrada ~ Daka
Hedflux ~ Diving Deep
Martins Garden ~ Introspective - Volume One - Quanta
relativity lounge ~ desultory
Sylph ~ Snakeskin
relativity lounge ~ feral
Yaima ~ Earth Trilogy - Two
Formidable Vegetable ~ Garbage Guts
Thought Process ~ Collapse in Real Time
Gaddy ~ Flood Zone
Ecoteric ~ Zenesis
Lab Rat ~ Changes
Land Switcher ~ West Home
m-cubed ~ Dirt Magnet
Tribal Alchemy ~ The Path of the Warrior
International Observer ~ Mink
Supertask ~ Captcha
Advanced Suite ~ So Far So Good
Asabove ~ Eat Prey Dub
Chmura ~ Divergence
Comisar ~ Looking Inward
Zonra ~ Square One
International Observer ~ Bat
Tsuruda ~ Migi
Yoofee ~ Wings
Pixsol ~ Fracture
Felix Ando ~ New Morning
Substrada ~ Whale Dance
Yoofee ~ Seek & Move
Dillard ~ Afterlife
ENiGMA Dubz ~ The Cosmos
Spaceship Earth ~ Being Reborn
Oxossi ~ Empty Kisses
Substrada ~ Eerie Lab
jordnmoody ~ Inhibitions
Vorso ~ Full Tilt
Duffrey ~ Return To Source
cHLL sMTH ~ cHLL sMTH Vol. 2
Neyana ~ Emergence
Tabula Rasa ~ Volor
Tsuruda ~ Prowler/Fragment
Cicada ~ Symbiotic Permutations
Mungk ~ DUPLOC041
NotLö ~ Speakeasy
Ivy Lab ~ NOVV / NASDAQ
Yheti ~ Noetic Sunrise
Zonra ~ Hypotheticals
MYTHM ~ Crooks
CloZee ~ Nouvelle Era
Templo ~ Turbo Digital
Darklord Gob ~ Realm of Forms
Staunch ~ Tappin' Out
The Polish Ambassador ~ The Polish Ambassador To Space
Yoofee ~ Fragments
Zebbler Encanti Experience ~ Back 2 Tha Function
Supertask ~ Melt
Aagentah ~ Breathin' Space
jonteal ~ Cosmic Biome
Toadface ~ Residue
Ternion Sound ~ Illusory Countours
Beatroots ~ Forward
Globular ~ Long Grass for Small Frogs
Emancipator & Cloudchord ~ Citrus Fever Dream
Omnist ~ Eyes Wide
Bleep Bloop ~ Revenge
Futexture ~ Underground
Dillard ~ Unfolding
Shankara ~ System Echoes
top Compilations a la 2021 ~
Outtalectuals ~ Liminal Lore
Zen Baboon ~ Complete II
UnityVerse & Visionary Shamanics ~ Unified Visions
VALE ~ Global Extraction Vol. I
LOUD ~ Sofa Remixes
Universal Tribe ~ Subspecies 2
Erothyme ~ Steep Dreams Remixed
The Polish Ambassador ~ Time's Running In (The Remixes)
Twisted Sibling ~ The Summoning [Remixed]
Hibernation ~ Glitch Jazz, Vol. 1
The Rust & Saeiound ~ Angles of Incidence
Behind The Sky ~ Matters Of The Heart
Odyzey ~ Muzique, Vol. 1
Mindspring ~ Conflux
top Tunes a la 2021 ~
Tipper ~ C'est La VIP
EarthCry & Lavender Fields ~ Oneiro
Zebbler Encanti Experience ft. Dan Mulqueen ~ A Fixed Point In Motion
Spoonbill ~ Bushwrangle
Of The Trees & Sophie Marks ~ Windhorse
Amon Tobin ~ Now Future
Zonra ~ Immolation
Arcturus ~ Foreign Tongues
Mr. Bill ~ Pleasure Seeker
CharlestheFirst ft. kLL sMTH ~ The Undoing
Evil Oil Man ~ Dub Face
Entangled Mind ft. Collective Disparity & Aubrey Shea ~ Life (Entangled Mind Remix)
yunis ft. Julo ~ Platzangst
Echosphere ~ Celestial Twerk
Shpongle ~ Dr. Vinklestein Says
Shades ~ The Corruption
Bwoy De Bhajan~ Mannequin Disorder
The Widdler ~ Triton
th1rt3en~ 666 (Three Six Word Stories)
Freddy Todd ~ Tartarian Nights
CloZee & Jead ~ Please Come Home
GRiZ ~ Other Side of Jupiter
Darklord Gob ~ Red Scale
Hudson Lee ft. Frequent ~ Reflex Angle
Ott ft. LOUD ~ Subinya (Ott Remix)
Gone Gone Beyond ~ Riptide
Silkie ~ Pyrrhic Victory
Advanced Suite ~ Steady Supply Please
Insta Coffee Beats ~ Summer Breeze
Bluetech ft. Steve Moore ~ Gutter Talk (Bluetech Remix)
peace & one love