For three days I’ve tried to review this album and each attempt has fallen flat, so let me break it down in plain-speak: Frequency Colors by Aderacid is fucking amazing. Twenty two tracks of electronic music that don’t just dabble in Acid Techno, Ambient, Electro, Breakbeat: These elements have been mashed to a pulp, dehydrated and then rehydrated with some strange witches brew, and then spat back out as something just itching to kick you right in your tender nuts. This is an album where you can hear YEARS of experiment-meets-experience packed into every beat, every melody, every weird little sound that pops up and makes you sit up. The guy knows exactly what he’s doing and it shows.
Some tracks will lull you into a sense of false comfort, gentle rhythms and soft pads making you think you have a handle on what is coming next. Then out of nowhere, Aderacid punches you in the back of the head with a giant experimental fist, twisting the track into something unpredictable, bizarre, brilliant. He plays with the listener, mixing calm, floating passages with jagged, intricate rhythms that keep you guessing. Even his nods back to Acid Techno feel as if forged out of some new alloy rather than cut from nostalgic cloth. The Electro and Break elements never feel shoe-horned in. They fit together naturally, like pieces of a puzzle you did not even realize were missing. These styles have been blended so artfully that Aderacid has created a sound absolutely unique to him and him alone.
Photography by Samantha Salvy
The first track, Inside Way, stands as perfect example of his skill. The weird, halting spoken-word poetry is raw, deliberate, and layered on top of thick, complex but totally out of time beats that still somehow stay incredibly groovy. Every track has that same careful attention to detail, the kind of stuff that makes you think he has been obsessing over every click and pop in his sequencer for years. Nothing is wasted, nothing is accidental, and yet it all feels loose enough to breathe.
This is pure experimentalism, ELM, IDM, Braindance… call it what you will. It is style-redefining music without effort and without being alienating, intelligent without being boring, and full of personality without ever trying too hard. You can get lost in it, then have your expectations smashed by sounds you did not expect in the least. South Florida’s EC Underground has packaged this stunning album with visual art by Lionel Rolineau which enhances the experience with panache. Frequency Colors is a label debut that not only proves Aderacid knows his craft, it proves he has the guts to push it in wild, exciting directions. This is an album you will come back to again and again, and each listen will pull something new out of you.
Frequency Colors by Aderacid releases 19th of December 2025 on EC Underground
