Results for “organic versus electronic texture”

Songs

Angelica

Lamb

Angelica is an instrumental piece by the Manchester duo Lamb, whose work typically fuses trip-hop atmospherics with…

intimacy and naming tension between calm and rhythmic drive organic versus electronic texture

Pockets

Four Tet

"Pockets" is an instrumental Four Tet track from a 2006 single, working in the electronic-organic hybrid style Hebden developed…

texture and accumulation organic vs. electronic sound repetition as structure

Hands

Four Tet

"Hands" is an instrumental piece built from folktronica textures — plucked strings, hand percussion, and looping samples — that…

craft and manual labor repetition as meditation organic vs. electronic texture

Lush

Four Tet

"Lush" is an instrumental piece from Four Tet's New Energy that builds a gradual, textured groove out of shimmering, harp-like…

organic growth texture over narrative meditative repetition

All In Forms

Bonobo

An instrumental centerpiece from Bonobo's Black Sands, built on shifting textures rather than melody or lyric. It moves through…

accumulation and layering organic vs. electronic texture mood over narrative

Kiara

Bonobo

"Kiara" is an instrumental centerpiece from Bonobo's Black Sands, built on a slow-blooming string arrangement, hand percussion,…

atmosphere and mood over narrative organic vs. electronic texture cinematic scale

Unspoken

Four Tet

"Unspoken" is an instrumental piece from Four Tet's Rounds, built from the folktronica textures that define that album:…

wordlessness and implication organic vs electronic texture memory and nostalgia

Black Sands

Bonobo

Black Sands is the title track of Bonobo's 2010 album, an instrumental built from slow-accumulating strings, breakbeats, and…

landscape and place tension between organic and electronic textures gradual transformation

Everybody's Weird Except Me

Stereolab

A short, almost mantra-like piece that treats a dream or ideal as something that must travel from intellect to feeling before it…

mind versus feeling ideal versus lived experience language's limits

Everything Is Alright

Four Tet

An instrumental piece from Four Tet's early folktronica period, built from looped acoustic textures, hand percussion, and warm…

reassurance domestic calm organic texture vs electronic process

Two Thousand and Seventeen

Four Tet

Two Thousand and Seventeen is an instrumental centerpiece from Four Tet's New Energy, built around a looping, bell-like melodic…

cyclical time meditative repetition organic vs electronic texture

As Serious As Your Life

Four Tet

An instrumental centerpiece from Four Tet's Rounds, built from looping folk-tinged samples, skittering drum breaks, and a slowly…

cyclical time organic vs. mechanical texture accumulation

Kong

Bonobo

Kong is an instrumental centerpiece from Bonobo's Black Sands, built on a slow-building groove that layers strings, a heavy…

scale and weight tension and release organic vs. mechanical texture

Bees

Caribou

"Bees" is an instrumental piece from Dan Snaith's early Caribou period, built from layered percussion, warped samples, and…

natural imagery repetition and accumulation psychedelia

Xtal

Aphex Twin

Xtal opens Selected Ambient Works 85-92 with a wash of pitch-shifted vocal texture over a loose, understated breakbeat, setting…

nostalgia and memory artificial vs organic texture liminality

My Angel Rocks Back and Forth

Four Tet

An instrumental piece built from a warm, looping folktronica pulse, this track uses its title as its only verbal cue, suggesting…

domesticity and intimacy repetition as comfort organic rhythm

Sexy Boy

Air

A woozy, vocoder-warped taunt built almost entirely out of one phrase, "Sexy Boy" pokes at masculine vanity and celebrity…

vanity and self-image celebrity and consumerism irony versus seduction

100%

Sonic Youth

A tribute song built from fragments of grief, aggression, and dark humor, written in memory of a scene figure lost to violence.…

violent death and its aftermath rock scene mythology and idolization gender and predation within a music subculture

Cirrus

Bonobo

Cirrus is an instrumental centerpiece from The North Borders built around a looping plucked-string riff, filtered arpeggios, and…

altitude and distance organic/electronic hybridity cyclical motion

Outdoor Miner

Wire

A deceptively sweet pop song from a band known for angular art-punk, built around the tiny natural phenomenon of a leaf-mining…

nature observation hiddenness and exposure innocence versus threat

Only This Moment

Röyksopp

A minimalist electro-pop meditation on love as a present-tense gamble, oscillating between dread that a relationship is doomed…

uncertainty in love presentism versus fear of the future doubt and surrender

All That You Have Is Your Soul

Emmylou Harris

A mother's warning becomes a hard-won personal confession, as the narrator traces her own failures to heed advice about…

inherited wisdom moral compromise self-possession versus loss of self

I Will Follow You Into the Dark

Death Cab for Cutie

A quiet, acoustic vow of companionship extended past death, stripped of religious comfort. The narrator promises to follow a…

mortality secular love versus religious afterlife doubt and disillusionment with organized religion

The Box, Pt. 2

Orbital

This is the second part of a long, largely instrumental Orbital piece built around slow accumulation rather than song form. As…

continuation/fragmentation containment vs release cyclical time

The Devil Is in the Details

The Chemical Brothers

An instrumental cue from The Chemical Brothers' score for the film Hanna, built around texture, pulse, and slow accumulation…

surveillance and threat precision versus chaos hidden danger

You Wish

Nightmares on Wax

"You Wish" is an instrumental piece from Nightmares on Wax's In a Space Outta Sound, a producer known for downtempo, soul- and…

longing fantasy versus reality nostalgia

Cat's Squirrel

Cream

Cat's Squirrel is an instrumental blues jam dressed with the barest scrap of vocalizing, a single repeated affirmation that…

blues tradition and adaptation instrumental virtuosity over lyricism minimalism as texture

Three Drums

Four Tet

Three Drums is an instrumental Four Tet track built from layered percussion and a vocal-like sample that circles rather than…

repetition and cycle texture over narrative meditative build

Recurring

Bonobo

"Recurring" is an instrumental mood piece from Bonobo's Days to Come, built on looping samples, muted percussion, and layered…

repetition memory cyclical time

Idontknow

Jamie xx

Idontknow is an instrumental dance track built around rhythm, texture, and repetition rather than words, so its meaning has to…

ambiguity momentum club catharsis

Roygbiv

Boards of Canada

Roygbiv is an instrumental piece from Boards of Canada's debut album, built around warm analog synth tones and a hazy, nostalgic…

nostalgia childhood memory nature imagery

Sumthin' Sumthin': Mellosmoothe (Cut)

Maxwell

This is a stripped-down, mostly instrumental-feeling neo-soul seduction piece built from fragments rather than full verses. It…

desire and seduction emotional guardedness persistence versus reciprocity

Chromakey Dreamcoat

Boards of Canada

An instrumental piece from Boards of Canada's third album that trades on the gap between its title's cheerful theatrical…

nostalgia childhood media artifice versus memory

Everything In Its Right Place

Radiohead

An almost mantra-like opening track that trades verse-chorus songwriting for repetition and disorientation, using a handful of…

disorientation control versus chaos communication breakdown

Kelly Watch the Stars

Air

A single instruction repeated for the length of a pop song, this track treats lyric as texture rather than statement, letting…

repetition as meaning the cosmic versus the domestic retro-futurism

Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 2

King Crimson

This is the instrumental closer to King Crimson's 1973 album, a jagged, riff-driven companion piece to the suite's opening part.…

mechanized violence precision versus chaos asymmetry

Windowlicker

Aphex Twin

Windowlicker is less a lyric than a vocal texture: a track built around fragmented, pitch-shifted, and heavily processed vocal…

vocal manipulation as instrument absurdism and misdirection sound versus meaning

Foolish Heart

Alison Krauss

A young narrator rehearses her own exit from a doomed relationship, arguing herself into leaving before she can be hurt again.…

self-protection versus vulnerability romantic disillusionment pride as armor

Stars

The Clean

A hazy, hypnotic meditation on stasis and repetition, built from almost nothing lyrically but a handful of phrases circling…

repetition and drift solitude time as texture rather than narrative

Reunion

Bobbie Gentry

Gentry stages a Southern family reunion as pure overlapping sound collage—children whining, women gossiping, small talk about…

Southern domestic life gossip and social surveillance denial and avoidance