Eccodust – Eccodust
Eccodust
Eccodust
Album
Electronic
Lurien Zittertkopf
March 30, 2025
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March 30, 2025
Tracks in this feature
Tracks in this release
Nature crawls around cities, hidden and secretive, similar to a hunted animal. Moss tucked away on the backside of a building alongside alley cats, grass and vines, finding a home among deteriorating structures and in turn providing a home to insects. While it’s easier to notice animals, the fauna’s slow encroachment patiently sneaks up on you, growing a new ecosystem that people often ignore. Even so, it’s expanding, shifting the dirt underneath building foundations and creating bumps and cracks in the pavement, subtly reminding everyone of its perpetual motion and growth even as it gets pulverised and is forced to grow again and again.
These ideas propel the first album from Eccodust, a collaborative project between experimental electronic artists akaJazy and Floor - 0. Originally produced in 2022, Eccodust utilises the thrum of ambient techno to create impressionistic electronica, trading in dreampunk’s usual cityscapes and digital buzz for wider, naturalistic atmospheres dotted with minimalist grooves and gentle melodies. It falls more on the GAS-esque side of ambient techno than the genre’s denser offerings, quieting the beat so much that it nearly disappears in the majority of the tracklist.
Mechanism plays with field recordings, the two of them collected in Gloucestershire’s Forest of Dean, shimmering synth pads and the occasional flutter of a new drum groove gently pushing and pulling the tempo. The interplay between mechanical electronic beats and dreamy, naturalistic textures is a common dynamic for electronic musicians to explore, but Eccodust enhances things with how they present and shift what textures and rhythms they choose to emphasise. Rave in the Woods goes all-in with its house kick drums and churning synth bass for one of the album’s most intense offerings, while Crystal Cavern opts for gentle pads and extra space for those field recordings to really come out of the mix.
As pretty as these songs can be, there’s always a sense of unease that makes these moments especially rewarding, beautiful on their own but even more so when they lead into or out of a heavier section.
Eccodust trusts in its subtleties, prioritising the atmosphere and tonal consistency of its nine tracks before adding unique elements to each. These songs patiently build into one another, using their ambient textures to keep that energy flowing while switching over to rumbling techno or minimalist electronica, akaJazy’s natural ear for layering fluttering synths and Floor - 0’s delicate mastering imbuing their songs with a quiet magic. The more time these songs have to reveal their subtleties to you, the more beautiful they become.
Eccodust succeeds through a dedication to artistic conceits. The songs are the world, there is no grand gesture to anything outside. It is a natural growth of an environment through sound. A mystic ambient bloom that’s just as beautiful whether you’re giving it your full attention or not. Inevitably, you’ll wander into something that stops you in your tracks. But Eccodust has no need to force it.
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