Nothing like a bit of cutty IDM! Taken from a forthcoming compilation called Hidden Tracks and Rarities 2001-2005, this tune from the Albany, New York-based electronica act Marumari, which started as the solo project of Josh Presseisen but then expanded to include his partner Sasha Presseisen, is a beautiful piece that arose out of a special era of computer music. “birch beer forest” is a pulsing, melodic track that actually would’ve made sense in various micro-eras of underground music; at around the two-minute mark, it begins to incorporate some classic IDM stutter programming moves that situate it more clearly in the time and place in which it was made. It’s easy to get romantic here—about a different era of technology, about a couple of heads in Albany hurling ideas into the world, about music in general.