One of the latest releases from Phantom Electric Ghost delivers a fun and experimental electronic soundscape that has a little bit of vastness in its undertone but has a lot of scattered style beats and awesome textures that come in the form of synthesizers and keys all rolled together and it manages to sort of bend genres and creates an atmosphere that is all its own.
"Creme Buckwheat CAKES" is quite a wild track for the senses and the tones used for those synths is the real key element to how this release came together. This is completely outside the box and is a perfect example of a freeing sense of electronic music.
It is a release that is created with much fewer boundaries than you may be used to but I feel like that's kind of the point. This is not something that conforms to the norm.
This is something that is its own thing. It carries with it its own vibe and it's very easy to get pulled into this crazy atmosphere.
Within these two tracks you have elements of breakbeat, EDM, techno, electronica, and more but again, it's all put together in this experimental format and with it comes these waves of intensity from time to time.
There are elements about these songs that feel almost cinematic in their own way and I love this aspect because when you listen to these songs you let your mind take a bit of a journey with them.
I also feel like this is another point to the music. This is meant as an escape. This is meant to hear something different. So that you can get pulled away from whatever you are doing and wherever you are and get sucked into the music itself.
To me, there's a kind of gracefulness to tracks like these because at times it does feel scattered but others it feels precisely put together with hints of improvisation.
So, it's almost like jazz in a way. You have that feeling of improvisation, but the composition is a whole piece, and it works in a very particular forward moving flow.
It sounds to me like these were made with actual analog beat machines because of the way it was put together and because of the tonality of the tracks and how they evolve.
The thing about music like this is that it is meant as a form of expansion on what you have heard before. There are no walls built around it so there's no ceiling for it to bounce off of. It just goes and goes and as it spreads outward and it's expensive approach, composition, and tonality, you get pulled into it more and more.
As much as it feels like a piece of jazz music that you walked into a venue and started hearing over by that stage it also feels slightly haunting at times and even invasive at others.
Again, those levels of intensity rise and fall and while you listen to the songs your mind goes to these different places on its own. You start picturing things and thinking about things and I feel like music that is put together the way this was, is completely meant for you to be traveling through your mind's eye.
So that you can take a little journey on your own but the music is what pushes that. The music is the launchpad and it's there as you take your journey, it gives you certain kinds of emotion and intensities but it's up to you in terms of what happens in your head while you listen.
This was completely fun for me because I love listening to things that are a bit avant-garde. Music that's made to make you think is brilliant to me and music that knows little to no boundaries in terms of what it's doing is even more intriguing and more alluring for me as well.
Any kind of music that is the opposite of cookie cutter if you will, is beautiful and I think that this came through with that graceful undertone and with a very particular vibe that you will either get turned onto right away or not.
Either way, you'll know within the first few seconds. For me, I got turned on by it right from the first few seconds indeed and I loved where they went.
This was incredibly different. Don't get me wrong, I've heard plenty of electronic experimental music but the way that this is done again, it has the sense of freedom to it. You end up getting attached to that aspect of it and letting that element help take you for this ride.
Really well done all around, great synths and keys, great beats and rhythms, and there's all kinds of trickery and glitchy elements that help build on the atmosphere that these songs both create.
Take a deep dive into this two-track maxi-single release and do it with headphones on because it's one of the best ways to really drink this in.
Remember where you heard it first.
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