Synthesizers at maximum voltage: SourceCodeX's Distant Murmurings, Nearby Whispers is a sprawling 2-CD odyssey of extreme synthesizer music — relaxing, psychedelic, trippy, and disturbing in equal measure, with progressive rock guitar and even an a cappella vocal track thrown in. Alimba's Resonance channels old-school 90s trance and Tech House grooves, its title drawn from the beloved resonance knob of classic synthesizers. John Reidar Holmes weaves songs of life and death, magic and the empirical, dreaming and waking, while Werner & Laurent Grassi's Scarlett EP rounds things out with sleek electronic cool in original and instrumental form.