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Urban Biology
Electronic · 2002 · 15 tracks

Urban Biology

Machinedrum

Surgical glitch-work meets fractured hip-hop. A cold, crystalline portrait of early 2000s urban isolation through the lens of Merck-era IDM.

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It's like someone took a boom-bap record and shattered it into a thousand glowing digital shards.

A restless, late-night exploration of digital isolation and urban machinery.

Urban Biology · vs · Machinedrum
Medium Energy-1.1σ

It runs notably cooler and more held-back than this artist's baseline.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks
01
Cream Soda, Part 1
2:18
02
Cream Soda, Part 2
4:30
03
Icya
5:04
04
Countchocula
6:03
05
Urban Biology
2:20
06
Def in It
3:34
07
Berim
5:00
08
Dog Day
2:24
09
Nathea
5:46
10
Uptown
6:11
11
Floss
8:51
12
Jack
1:05
13
Realization
6:23
14
Jigga Why?
5:36
15
Kids World
6:37
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the rhythmic stuttering in 'Icya' suddenly aligns into a hypnotic, crystalline melody.
The aggressive vocal chop in 'Uptown' that transforms a rap verse into a percussive, mechanical instrument.
The massive eight-minute sprawl of 'Floss' where the beat slowly disintegrates into an ambient wash.
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Now You Know
Now You Know
Machinedrum
2001

Shares idm, glitch, downtempo (subgenres); sample_based, digital_clarity, layered_dense (production style)

Bidnezz
Bidnezz
Machinedrum
2004

Shares idm, glitch, downtempo (subgenres); sample_based, digital_clarity, layered_dense (production style)

Want to 1 2?
Want to 1 2?
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2009

Shares idm, glitch, downtempo (subgenres); sample_based, digital_clarity, layered_dense (production style)

HT
Half the Battle 2
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2003

Shares idm, glitch, downtempo (subgenres); mysterious, restless, contemplative (moods)

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Prefuse 73 Reads the Books E.P.
Prefuse 73
2005

Shares idm, glitch, downtempo (subgenres); mysterious, restless, contemplative (moods)

Mergerz & Acquisitionz
Mergerz & Acquisitionz
Machinedrum
2006

Shares idm, glitch, downtempo (subgenres); sample_based, digital_clarity, layered_dense (production style)

EO
Every Off Key Beat
Prefuse 73
2019

Shares idm, glitch, downtempo (subgenres); mysterious, restless, contemplative (moods)

Taut
Taut
Daedelus
2018

Shares idm, glitch, downtempo (subgenres); sample_based, digital_clarity, layered_dense (production style)

Thru
Thru
Thavius Beck
2006

Shares idm, glitch, downtempo (subgenres); urban_night, rainy_day, stargazing (atmosphere)

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