"One of the best and most distinctive albums this year sounded like a falling anvil wreathed in flames. Another of the year's highlights might have been a forlorn ghost singing lullabies at your bedside, or your gravesite. Yet another closed the gap between doomsday soothsaying, beautiful love songs, the buzzing of broken refrigerators, and the august majesty of whales. Still another fused math rock, free jazz, and leftfield electronics into a cryptic juggernaut rolling beneath the banner of a breathless existentialist koan:"
"AD 93 is rooted in London's electronic scene of the mid-'10s, when post-dubstep and techno were fusing into spiky club abstractions. But these days, club music is a rarity in the label's catalog, and no single musical style could be said to define its output. Instead, what unifies AD 93's diverse roster is something more like an ethos: a shared spirit of adventurousness, disregard for convention, and raw emotion."
AD 93 is a London label whose releases prioritize adventurousness, disregard for convention, and raw emotion over adherence to any single style. The label emerged from mid‑2010s electronic scenes where post‑dubstep and techno intersected, but its recent catalog spans long‑form improvisation, processed vocal compositions, experimental chamber textures, and boundary‑pushing genre fusions. Releases this year ranged from heavy, metallic-sounding albums and spectral, lullaby-like records to works combining doomsday prophecy, intimate love songs, and found industrial sounds. AD 93 curates a diverse roster that values unpredictability and ambitious experimentation, connecting artists through shared spirit rather than a uniform sonic template.
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