Re-contextualising 'glitches and bass' into organic, almost orchestral work.
Crushed basstones battling it out with white noise edits - pure next level rhythmic functions.
Carsten Nicolai and Thomas Knack weaving pristine sound formulas in and out of melodic templates.
Perhaps the most high-profile of all of Nicolai's collaborations with this heart-stopping arrangement.
Returning to the deep bass and cut piano sounds that are now so synonymous with the Alva Noto name.
Cyclical percussive strokes and squashed effects from this Raster supergroup featuring Nicolai.
From the seminal Mille Plateaux album 'Transform', originally released in 2001.

Widescreen, washed-out digital ambiences on an ambitiously symphonic scale.
Pure, almost Gamelan-style note shifts from the Aleph-1 project.
Insanely propulsive glitch session, like some next-level bass music variation.
Lifted off Sub Rosa's excellent third anthology of Electronic Music.
Angular tone reduction with sharp, speherical sound design and signature attention to detail.
Purist shuffling dancefloor destroyer from Alva Noto, remixing Byetone.
Intense and extended washed-out orchestral bliss.
14 tracks: Chamber drift
14 tracks: techno techno techno
14 Tracks: Underworld Missive
14 tracks: Holo Core
14 tracks: Trouble At Mill
14 Tracks: Cyan Psych Syzygy
14 Tracks:Road Works
14 tracks from other 'floors
14 tracks elevation/expansion
14 tracks: Digital Smoke

On 11 Aug 21:52 bs said:
“Best one yet”
Best 14tracks yet, no one makes music as beautiful as Nicolai..
On 12 Aug 02:02 Frank Paul said:
http://14tracks.com
“Good Intro”
Good collection guys. Could've quibbled about whether there should've been a track representing the Vrioon collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto (utterly sublime), but that's probably neither here nor there. Suffice to say, in contemporary German music there are at least three 'big' names any informed music collector simply has GOT to know. One of them is Moritz Von Oswald. Another is Robert Henke. And the third (not in order) is Mr. Nicolai. (OK, OK maybe we need to include Namlook as well, but personally I find his stuff a little more hit and miss). (OK, OK we need to include Moufang and Jelinek too - OK, five big names in German music). Anyways, I heard someone refer to Carsten Nicolai once as the Debussy of the digital age, and I think that's a fair moniker. Cheers.
On 12 Aug 18:01 Helen Spire said:
“Cymatics”
Yes!!! good word, and totally the right word. This is just heavenly music. Im a painter and i can hear geometric patterns swirling through this music. It's so inspirational, thankyou, and again, thaknkyou. <3
On 12 Aug 20:51 Richard Bennett said:
http://14tracks.com
“Good Idea”
One of my suggestions was for a Raster Noton "sampler" so I'm definitely on board with this one.
On 14 Aug 15:59 jason anderson said:
http://14tracks.com
“5 ST*****RS”
Thanks Boomkat...for spreading the good art.