Andi ChorleyNov 17

An Ever-growing Meridional Entertainment Transgression At The Edge Of The Multiverse by Icarus, released on Not Applicable in 2024

Once described by a music magazine as possible “idiots savant who have arrived at a rollicking approximation of post-Darmstadt electronica by accident”, Ollie Bown and Sam Britton (aka Icarus) have always approached electronic music studio work with an insatiably naive experimentalism: never leading with a vision for how a record should sound, but treating the studio more like a teenagers’ amateur chemistry lab that might equally produce explosives, hallucinogens or goo...

https://not-applicable.bandcamp.com/album/an-ever-growing-meridional-entertainment-transgression-at-the-edge-of-the-multiverse

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Exposé OnlineJul 26, 2025
New #review today: "Or you could just listen to #AncientPsychicTripleHyperOctopus and find yourself in a sound-world of weird electronics, percussion, and trumpet that floats along without rhyme or reason, but manifests as a fascinating journey. The perpetrators of this experiment are #AlexBonney (trumpet, bass recorder, Strohviol), #WillGlaser (drums, percussion), and #IsambardKhroustaliov (aka #SamBritton, electronics)." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic #ModelCollapse http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/ancient-psychic-triple-hyper-octopus-put-emojis-on-my-grave-2.html
Exposé OnlineNov 18, 2024
New #review today: "#Icarus is the British duo of #SamBritton and #OllieBown, and one can say their stock in trade is experimental electronic sounds, not ambient or Berlin School or any of the usual stuff, instead what they produce is noisy, chattery, creative, chaotic and above all interesting, largely made of samples and loops of percussion, electronic sounds, noises, and free-wheeling chaos..." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/icarus-an-ever-growing-meridional-entertainment-transgression-at-the-edge-of-the-multiverse-3.html