Altered Zones

Earlier this week, renowned journalist, author, and coiner of the term "post-rock" Simon Reynolds wrote an insightful piece about chillwave and the "zones generation" for the Village Voice. We dug up the "Eldritchtonica and Wyrd Bliss" mix he made for Pontone back in April, featuring Ducktails, Dolphins Into The Future, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Ariel Pink. Explaining the origins of the mix, Reynolds wrote:

"I focused on a particular sound-stream: “eldritchtronic”, a non-existent genre that cuts across a bunch of zones (hauntology, the trippier end of microhouse, hypnagogic/glo-fi, the Brooklyn school of “ecstatic experimental”, etc). Mostly electronic but rarely intersecting with the dancefloor, this music merges blissy and eerie, the wired and the wyrd. And because the 2000s was when the linear temporality of music definitively dissolved, there’s leakage from the remote past, musique concrete and text-sound by artists I encountered for the first time during the Noughties."

MP3: Simon Reynolds: "Eldritchtonica and Wyrd Bliss"

Get the tracklist and read the rest at Pontone