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Josh Stevenson has been playing experimental music since the 1990s in projects like Staked Plain, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Glow worm, Bold Axis Arms, -Outhern Acific+, Magneticring, July Fourth Toilet, and Von Bingen. He also does audio mastering under the name Otic Sound. This converation was recorded on April 17th, 2025. The Anza Club is on the corner of Ontario and 8th Avenue, the home of the Australia New Zealand Association. The building was previously the Mount Pleasant Hall. In the 1990s it was home to Vancouver's weirdo and experimental music scene, but had shows both before and after that. Though the Club still exists, it only very occasionally has shows. Other venues visited: VIVO, formerly Video In, began life as The Satellite Video Exchange Society, founded in 1973. It excited in three other spaces before moving to 1965 Main Street in 1993. It moved to Kaslo street in 2014. The Glass Slipper, a legendary Vancouver jazz club at 185 E 11th Avenue, burned down. Other venues mentioned: the Malcolm Lowry Room, the Sugar Refinery, Chroma Books, Solder and Son, Ms T's Cabaret, the Press Club, Manifesto (Edmonton). Band discussed: Refrigerator, Wicker Spigot, Noggin, Blowhole, Good Horsey, Smog, Truman's Water, the Ruins, Pipe Dream, Blaise Pascal, Sun City Girls, US Maple, Wolf Eyes, Climax Golden Twins, Zumpano, Vic Chestnut, Couch, Duotron, Loscil, Matthew Shipp/Susie Ibarra/William Parker, Eyelickers, New Pornographers, Frog Eyes, Leviathans, GHQ. This episode features the following music: Von Bingen: Eyeglasses in Kentucky from Von Bingen (2009) Magneticring: The City Lives from City (2011) Magenticring: Side B - Vancouver March 27th 2010 from All the Fluid is Floating (2012).
"Silver Bells" by Grails from Miracle Music; "Sailing Past Midnight" by Peter Baumann from Nightfall; "Between" by Kara-Lis Coverdale from From Where You Came; "Flashes from Everywhere" by Stereolab from Instant Holograms on Metal; "Nauka O Planetah" by Shine Grooves from Sequences for Fluttering; "Final Generations" by Raisa K from Affectionately; "Mustafa (feat. Iko Niche)" by The Vernon Spring from Under A Familiar Sun; "Cruising with Mr. Scratch" by Cody Carpenter, John Carpenter, and Daniel Davies from Lost Themes 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition; "Lucent" by emptyset from Dissever; "Flutter" by Loscil from Lake Fire; "October" by Eiko Ishibashi from October; "A Symmetry of Faith" by Mamuthones from From Word to Flesh.
Tonight's edition features new music from Harbors, Nils Frahm, Loscil, William Tyler, Roberto Musci, Kara-Lis Coverdale, and a preview of an outstanding upcoming release from a…
Tonight's edition features new music from Marconi Union, Erki Parnoja, Lauri Kallio, Gustavo Cortinas, Matmos, Loscil, Mark Pritchard + Thom Yorke, and much more!
Tonight's edition features new music from Daniel Herskedal, Taylor Deupree + The Humble Bee, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Jogging House, Hollie Keniff, Loscil, Shai Maestro, and…
Episode 745: April 26, 2025 playlist: Dead Pioneers, "Love Language" (PO$T AMERICAN) 2025 Hassle Maria Somerville, "Stonefly" (Luster) 2025 4AD Mess Esque, "Crow's Ash Tree" (Jay Marie, Comfort Me) 2025 Drag City Thalia Zedek Band, "Naming Names" (The Boat Outside Your Window) 2025 Thrill Jockey Velvet, "Spring" (Spring) 2025 [self-released] Grails, "Strange Paradise" (Miracle Music) 2025 Temporary Residence Disiniblud (Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith), "Blue Rags, Raging Wind (ft. Amigone)" (Disiniblud) 2025 Smugglers Way New Candys, "Night Surfer" (The Uncanny Extravaganza) 2025 Fuzz Club Eli Winter, "For a Fallen Rocket" (A Trick of the Light) 2025 Three Lobed Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari, "Black Stones of Sirius" (Journey to Nabta Playa) 2025 Spiritmuse Dummy, "Sudden Flutes (Insides Remix)" (Bubbelibrium DLC) 2025 [self-released] Joseph Allred, "Ditch Lily Suite" (Old Time Fantasias) 2025 Scissor Tail loscil, "Spark" (Lake Fire) 2025 kranky HTRK, "Puddles on My Pillow" (Swimming Pool / Puddles on My Pillow) 2025 Ghostly Email podcast at brainwashed dot com to say who you are; what you like; what you want to hear; share pictures for the podcast of where you're from, your computer or MP3 player with or without the Brainwashed Podcast Playing; and win free music! We have no tracking information, no idea who's listening to these things so the more feedback that comes in, the more frequent podcasts will come. You will not be put on any spam list and your information will remain completely private and not farmed out to a third party. Thanks for your attention and thanks for listening.
Tonight's edition features new music from Tim Hecker, Harsha Jerome, Gunn-Truscinski Duo, Robot Koch, and previews of new records from Vega Trailas, Loscil and more! Plus,…
This mix flows effortlessly through ambient, dub techno, IDM, and deep techno, creating an immersive journey that moves from atmospheric and introspective to hypnotic and rhythmic. It starts with Pablo Bolivar, setting a warm and deep tone, before Loscil adds lush ambient textures. Rod Modell & Taka Noda introduce deep, dubby rhythms, leading smoothly into 4T Thieves, whose intricate electronica adds a nostalgic, melodic touch. The Orb keeps things dreamy and expansive before The Black Dog shifts the energy with layered, cerebral techno. From here, the mix moves into more abstract and atmospheric territory—Markus Guentner brings wide, evolving ambient washes, Alva Noto strips things back to precise, minimal sound design, and Tristan Arp introduces more organic, experimental rhythms. Heathered Pearls and VC-118A add deep, rolling electro grooves, paving the way for Slam and Shed, who take things into gentle ambient techno. Krill.Minima's Gamelan stands out with its shimmering, intricate percussion, offering a hypnotic, otherworldly moment before Legiac brings things full circle with textured, layered IDM. Finally, the mix closes with 4T Thieves – Ravens Cottage, a deep, reflective ending that ties everything together with a hazy, atmospheric glow. This set is a seamless blend of ambient, electro, and techno, perfect for deep listening, late-night sessions, or just letting the sound take you somewhere else.
Episode 736: March 5, 2025 playlist: Swans, "I Am a Tower" (Birthing) 2025 Young God Maria Somerville, "Garden" (Luster) 2025 4AD Laila Sakini, "Like a Gun" (Like a Gun) 2020 / 2024 Futura Resistenza loscil, "Arrhythmia" (Lake Fire) 2025 Kranky Thalia Zedek Band, "Tsunami" (The Boat Outside Your Window) 2025 Thrill Jockey Annie A, "For Anni Albers" (The Wind That Had Not Touched Land) 2025 A Colourful Storm Jairus Sharif, "Mawu" (Basis Of Unity) 2025 Telephone Explosion Flin van Hemmen, "Inner Face" (Luxury of Mind) 2024 [self-released] Eli Winter, "Cracking the Jaw" (A Trick of the Light) 2025 Three Lobed Andrew Chalk, "XXXI" (Mosaics) 2025 Distant Impression Email podcast at brainwashed dot com to say who you are; what you like; what you want to hear; share pictures for the podcast of where you're from, your computer or MP3 player with or without the Brainwashed Podcast Playing; and win free music! We have no tracking information, no idea who's listening to these things so the more feedback that comes in, the more frequent podcasts will come. You will not be put on any spam list and your information will remain completely private and not farmed out to a third party. Thanks for your attention and thanks for listening.
Mix with tracks from Nils Frahm, No Translation, Perila, Huerco S, Mokira, Kinsun, Halftribe, Loscil, Tim Hecker, Royksopp, Luca Longobardi, FSOL, Ben Lukas, Boysen, Juventa, Purelink, The Black Dog, Pablo Bolivar, VRIL, Marconi Union, Radian Future (not in that order) - enjoy!
What a year we have had! A wonderful moment to stand there for a moment, to remember, to save and then soon …. to start the new year with a bang with oliebollen and really good music! In this Oliebollenshow 2024 you will hear the best and the loudest that I can offer you, hahaha! In this podcast you will hear music from none other than Eskostatic, Clocolan, David Helpling, Ancient Astronaut, Kiphi, Loscil, Lab'sCloud, C-Jay, Sinius, Lars Leonhard, Dreamstate Logic, Evolve, Xerxes, Phoenix, Hollan Holmes, Enrico Coniglio, Anna B. May, State Azure, Thomas Lemmer, Tauon. In addition to music, we hear audio comments from various people; musicians, labels, listeners. It was really cool to receive this. If your comment was too late for the production of the show, unfortunately. But know that I did hear it! Thanks everyone! The fireworks in this broadcast are quite intense, watch your ears and eyes, be careful and keep a close eye on children and pets. A warned person counts for two, goes a Dutch saying. Having said that, I wish you a lot of listening pleasure, enjoy all the beauty, let it all happen: an ‘Ambient' evening to remember and to listen to often, so party! For your support and donations, visit the links below. My thanks are enormous. Thanks to your support, this work is possible. I hope that this will continue in 2025 and that I can make a lot of beautiful new shows. Keep listening and follow Ambient Zone! Cheers everyone! ~TC START… 0:00:00 - Welcome to Spacemusic 16.120:06:32 - Coastline - ESKOSTATIC0:09:09 - Obsolete Advancements - CLOCOLAN0:12:20 - In The Rainbow - CLOCOLAN0:20:50 - Fortnight - DAVID HELPLING0:25:07 - Stellar Clouds - ANCIENT ASTRONAUT0:26:19 - Holographic Dimension (orig) - KIPHI0:30:17 - Fern and Robin - LOSCIL ( Oliebollen Recipe )0:32:43 - Build of Silence - LAB'S CLOUD0:37:44 - Backslider Pt.4 - C-JAY0:43:26 - Dust in the Wind - SINIUS0:44:16 - Early Origins - SINIUS0:46:27 - White Dwarf - LARS LEONHARD0:47:12 - Lost but not Forgotten - DREAMSTATE LOGIC0:50:13 - Something Beautiful - EVOLVE0:55:39 - Stay - XERXES & PHOENIX1:00:09 - The Eternal Cosmos - HOLLAN HOLMES ( voice over )1:01:23 - As They Arise - ENRICO CONIGLIO ( voice comments )1:03:29 - Awareness - ANNA B. MAY1:05:12 - Let It Go - XERXES & PHOENIX1:09:00 - Odysseus Sector - STATE AZURE1:14:05 - Close Your Eyes - THOMAS LEMMER ( voice comment )1:15:25 - Drift (Acoustic ) - THOMAS LEMMER1:18:08 - Backslider Pt.11 - C-JAY1:27:29 - Retreat - TAUON …END https://ambient.zone/donatehttps://ko-fi.com/ambientzone Comment, like, subscribe! ———> NEW SHOW NOTES VERSION———> PLEASE SEND ANY FEEDBACK IF YOU WANT———> admin@ambient.zone———> visit our site www.ambient.zone———> SUPPORT THIS STATION https://ambient.zone/donate
Tonight's edition features music from Loscil, The Chitinous Ensemble, Jon Hopkins, alva noto, Blamstrain, Forgetting You Is Like Breathing Water, Elias, yanaco and much more!
Stream Elori Saxl - Earth Focus - Grows Along the River SlowKRM & KMRU - Disconnect - DifferMartin Nonstatic - Vyana - Apana, Pt. 4LTO - Daear - Cad GoddeuAlessandro Cortini - NATI INFINITI - IVRafael Anton Irisarri - FAÇADISMS - Control Your Soul's DesireSlowburner - Life Happens In The Interim - RealityWil Bolton - Like Floating Leaves - Dead FountainsMichael Price - … - May Day at DuskLoscil, Lawrence English - Chroma - IndigoHuerco S. - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) - A Sea Of LoveOneohtrix Point Never - Scores - UncutIan Hawgood - Sketches For a Friend - Sketches For a Friend (Full Mix)(Last Show Sep 29)Fotografia de Bartłomiej Zaranek"Guardar Link Como" - "Save Link As"Right Mouse Button Click For Save
Imagine a place you've been, where you've seen beautiful things, heard brilliant music, recorded as a podcast and now available again in sublime audio quality like never heard before. Back to the year 2006. A unique time - when podcasting was brand new and for our listeners a hi-tech event. Can't sleep at night? No problem! Listen to Spacemusic 16.09 ‘Insomnia' and transport yourself back in time, with the knowledge of today and with a timeless view …. a sound phenomenon to spin forever! Ft. Motionfield, I Awake, Recue, Loser, Loscil, Introspective, dreamSTATE, Mantacoup, Xenoton, Selffish, Jan Morgenstern. The Show is available as regular show and 100% nonstop edition for our premium supporters. Not a supporter yet? Check Patreon and the Ambient Zone site: there is a fantastic summer promotion online for new Premium Members! Be welcome, enjoy life, enjoy Spacemusic! START… 0:00:00 - Welcome to Spacemusic 16.090:04:03 - The Deep Blue - MOTIONFIELD0:07:12 - Underdoze - I AWAKE0:12:01 - Neveritized - I AWAKE0:16:52 - Lumino - RECUE0:21:13 - Str8nge Boi - LOSER0:26:03 - Between Stations - RECUE0:28:47 - Micro Hydro - LOSCIL0:32:20 - Gewesen - INTROSPECTIVE0:38:08 - 10 Minutes Passage - dreamSTATE0:47:09 - Motion Picture - MANTACOUP0:50:15 - Licht Raum Modulator - XENOTON0:53:40 - Long Loco Out Thrill - SELFFISH0:58:44 - Days of the Departed - JAN MORGENSTERN …END Comment, like, subscribe! ———> NEW SHOW NOTES VERSION———> PLEASE SEND ANY FEEDBACK IF YOU WANT———> admin@ambient.zone———> visit our site www.ambient.zone———> SUPPORT THIS STATION https://ambient.zone/donate
It's been over 50 years since electronic music emerged from academic laboratories and embarked on the road to mainstream popularity. One of the most influential early artists was Greek musician EVANGELOS PAPATHANASSIOU—mercifully shortened to VANGELIS—who began as the keyboard player of the biggest rock band ever in Greece (APHRODITE'S CHILD), then quit and moved to London, where he began scoring films and documentaries. While the Germans focused on technology, Vangelis adapted the Romantic Classical genre to electronic keyboards, created lush, melodic, emotionally expressive music, and became an A-list film composer. It's a style that still reverberates today. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, inspired by a classic Vangelis album celebrating the world's oceans, a deep blue journey called OCEANIC REALMS 2. Music is by VANGELIS, THE AMNIS INITIATIVE, APOCLIPTIC & ROMERIUM, LOSCIL, JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, RUDY ADRIAN, and LIQUID MIND. [ view playlist ] [ view Flickr image gallery ] [ play 30 second MP3 promo ]
Ambient mix including Andrew Thomas, Alva Noto, Theef, Loscil, Skee Mask, Warrinton-Runcorn New Town Development plan, HNNY, u-ziq, Henrik Lindstrand, The Orb, Aphex Twin, nthng, Dirk Leyers, gonima (not in that order)
Tonight's edition features new tunes from Loscil, Brian Eno, John Hayes + Robot Koch, Chihei Hatakeyama, Taylor Deupree, and three tunes with jet engines in them.
Día Internacional del Jazz, Día de la Niñez. Hoy en #SensorialRadio tendremos lo siguiente: I. Visita en cabina de Carolina Tene para presentarnos @detonadora_prod una nueva iniciativa independiente que dará mucho de qué hablar en los tiempos futuros. II. Entrevista con Miss Ivy Satana que estará presentándose el próximo 8 de mayo en The Basement con Ryder the Eagle y Lemat.III. Música de Broadcast, Loscil,YOBS, Black Market Karma IV. @monstruosidades_del_profesor presenta:Nosotros iniciamos el incendioContinuando con libros de periodismo gonzo, el turno es ahora de Juan Mendoza y su libro "Nosotros Iniciamos el Fuego", una serie de crónicas de conciertos que en Monstruosidades tratamos de recrear con las canciones que seleccionamos. Producción y conducción: Javier Audirac. Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión. Visita: www.jaliscoradio.com
Scott Morgan is best known as the electronic music project loscil. He previously played in Meet Daisy, Thee Crusaders, Destroyer, The Multiplex and others. The Blinding Light! was an underground cinema which ran from 1998-2003 at 36 Powell Street. Founded by Alex MacKenzie as a follow-up to his Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images (1995-1997), the space housed a cafe, a gallery and a 110-seat cinema. It showed new and classic underground and avant garde films, hosted nights to bring your own 8mm films and hosted experimental bands with a visual element. Other venues visited include the Cruel Elephant (23 W. Cordova St), The Town Pump (66 Water St), Amnesia (356 Water St), Blim (23 w Pender), @ Gallery (425 Carrall St). Other venues mentioned: The Edison Electric, Helen Pitt Gallery, Archimedes Club, Station Street Art Centre, Or Gallery. Other bands mentioned: Steel Pole Bath Tub, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Negativeland, the Jades, Jesus Lizard, Pearl Jam (Town Pump show 1991), The Rose Chronicles, The Odds, Dick & Jane, Mudhoney, Helmet, Superconductor, Marc Ribot, Shiny Greedy, Slowhand, Strategy, Growing, Sinoia Caves. The conversation was recorded on January 26th, 2024. Music clips played with artists' permission. Loscil: Triton from submers Ticker Tape Parade: Audience with the Pope Destroyer: M.E.R.C.I. from Thief
Next on our mixtape series is Bersarin Quartett, the solo project of German electronic musician Thomas Bücker, with a delicate selection ranging from film scores, to gaming, and ambient tracks. Working within the realms of modern classical and ambient music, Bücker has garnered acclaim for his contributions as Bersarin Quartett (which he has been running for over 15 years), notably through his publications with Denovali Records. Bersarin Quartett's sonic landscapes are distinguished by a fusion of atmospheric textures, electronic nuances, and classical instrumentation, crafting a singular and emotive auditory journey. Bücker's oeuvre has earned widespread praise for its unique stylistic approach, captivating both ambient and experimental music audiences alike. A heavy sense of melancholy runs through the Bersarin Quartett sonic core, which Bücker confirms is indeed a big part of the project. The Quartett's most recent release, Systeme, also released on Denovali, marks its fifth release. It is described as probably the artist's most intimate and focused sonic narrative. In this album, melancholy mixed with a sense of distorted alienation or strangeness is described as something that, while it still sounds popularly symphonic here and there, many soundscapes have an observing, almost unmasking effect. Microtonal shifts, polyrhythmic structures, tempo fluctuations, and sound aesthetics torn out of context create a fragile, unpredictable foundation. The mix he has prepared for us, he mentions, combines many film scores, gaming, and ambient tracks that really impressed and inspired him: First, I sorted the individual tracks by key so they could be mixed together appropriately. Here and there, this even creates completely new soundscapes beyond the original. To present my current album a little more closely, I have interwoven four new Bersarin Quartett tracks! Tracklist: 00:00 Ambience (Taken from "Elden Ring") 00:21 Michael Giacchino · Mayoral Ducting (Taken from "The Batman") 01:08 Spoken Words (Taken from "Women Talking") 02:09 Volker Bertelmann · No End (Taken from "All Quiet On The Western Front") 04:54 Imprints · Blood Moon 08:38 Bersarin Quartett · Firmamente 11:58 Rob Simonson · Rigging (Taken from "The Whale") 13:30 Lusine · Faceless 15:50 Bersarin Quartett · Gespenster 18:27 Loscil & Lawrence English · Grey 22:04 Rob Simonsen · Life Boat (Taken from "The Whale") 23:47 Bersarin Quartett · Für und Wider 26:17 Alix Perez & Headland · Mirage, Pt. II 29:03 Leif · Pteridium (Alternate Version) 30:53 Alva Noto · Sehnsucht 36:37 Hildur Guðnadóttir · Speak Up + Leaving (Taken from "Women Talking") 38:30 Tim Hecker · The Arrest (Taken from "Infinity Pool") 39:59 Aleph · Gradient 43:12 Bersarin Quartett · Illusionen 46:15 Hania Rani · In Between 48:02 Jeremy Soule · Kyne's Peace (Taken from "Skyrim") 50:40 KMRU · Guise 54:00 SSIEGE · Veyl 56:24 Louis Cole · Let It Happen 59:23 Michael Giacchina · Mayoral Ducting (Taken from "The Batman")
Quel plaisir de vous retrouver, après le dernier épisode consacré à PodRennes 2023, dont vous venez entendre la bande annonce pour l'édition 2024, que j'aurai plaisir à cloturer le Dimanche soir à partir de 18h, pour un set des plus énergique, je ne peux que vous conseiller d'y assister.Ca se passera le Dimanche 31 Mars 2024, au Centre Social Carrefour à Rennes, plus d'infos sur https://www.badgeek.fr/podrennes/. Ca sera l'occasion de prolonger la fête des 10 ans d'existence des Abyssales, au travers de plusieurs podcasts entre ce numéro 42, celui du mois de Février qui sera une rétrospective des sons passés depuis ces 10 dernières années, et bien sûr l'édition de Mars qui sera celle de PodRennes.Mais chut, ce ne sont encore que des projets. Fêtons cette année qui débute avec une sélection de morceaux issus de mes playlists que je nourris au quotidien de mes écoutes et de mes découvertes.C'est un exercice qui prends du temps et qui crève aussi le cœur, puisque je suis obligé de n'en sélectionner que quelques-uns, afin que le mix ne dure pas 5 heures, sacré expérience.Bien sûr, certaines tracks ne vous seront pas inconnus, elles ne sont pas toutes de 2023, mais témoignent de ce que la musique me laisse comme émotion, une trace indélébile gorgé d'émotions, positives, comme négatives. C'est ainsi que j'ai voulu commencer par une track de l'artiste Sync24, pseudonyme de l'artiste suédois Daniel Vadestrid, connu pour être également la moitié des Carbon Based Lifeforms.La track s'intitule "A Deep Sea Meditation Experience", tout un programme quand on se nomme LesAbyssales.10 ans de musiques électroniques, 10 ans de musiques tout court, 10 ans pour rêver, faire la fête, s'émerveiller, se retrouver, mais aussi pleurer, vaciller, être chagriné. La vie offre une telle palette que seul la musique, électronique si possible, arrive à retranscrire. Ce mix, le 1er de l'année 2024, ainsi que toutes les autres épisodes de ce podcast, sont à retrouver sur toutes les plateformes d'écoutes habituels, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Overcast, Pocket Cast et bien plus encore. Ce numéro 42 lancera, je l'espère, une nouvelle ère pour LesAbyssales, une nouvelle décennie d'expérience inédite autour des musiques électroniques. Il est permis de rêver. TRACKLIST Sync24 - A Deep Sea Meditation Experience (Leftfield Records-2018) Loscil & Lawrence English - Cyan (Kranky-2023) Tony Anderson - Nocturne In Paris (Tony Anderson Music-2018) CBL - Rymden3000 (Leftfield Records-2023) Arovane & Hior Kronik - Past Creates The Future (bvdub's Houses Hold The Past To Peace) (bvdub self-released-2016) Asura - When We Were Tomorrow (N.L.E Records-2023) ASC - Mirrored Sequence (Horo-2023) Deepchord - Fluorescence (Soma Quality Recordings-2022) Prequel - Love Is (Rhythm Section international-2021) Karyendasoul & Msaki - Jacaranda (Mayonie Productions-2023) China Charmeleon - Save South Africa (Stay True Sounds-2021) Chaim - Love Rehab (BPitch Control-2010) Juan Atkins - I Love You (Tresor-2013) Skober - Satisbeat (Terminal M - 2016) Age Of Love - The Age Of Love (Charlotte de Witte & Enrico Sangiuliano Remix) (Diki Records-2021) Perc - Look What Your Love Has Done To Me (Ameli Lens Remix) (Perc Trax-2019) Orion & Vinicius Honorio - No Love Lost (Temudo Remix) (Gynoid Audio-2020) Lady Tazz - Dis Moi Ce Que Tu Veux (James Ruskin Remix) (Mind Medizin Records-2023) 999999999 - Rave 4 Love (NineTimesNine-2018) Paula Temple - Raging Earth (Noise Manifesto-2019) AIROD - Meet Me In The Club (Lenske Records-2023) Rudosa Blicz - Split Your Love (Exhale-2023) Mathys Lenne - Love For 10.000 years (Hayes-2022) Frankyeffe - Touch Me (Spannung-2023) ARDL - Control Me (Dusk Records-2023) Taro Division & Tim Williams - Abyss (Khazad Records-2021) Somniac One - Mechanics (Meta4-2015) Monika Kruse - Love Frequency 528 Hz (Terminal M-2020) CREDITS LESABYSSALES, Les Abyssales, LesAbyssales sont la propriété de Redscape Factory.Les Abyssales, un format original Redscape Factory,.Plus d'infos ➡️ redscapefactory.comLiens ➡️ https://links.redscapefactory.com/@redscapefactory Si vous souhaitez ne pas apparaître dans ce podcast, ou en prendre un extrait, merci de me contacter à hello[at]redscapefactory[dot]com © 2024 - Redscape Factory
New ambient mix from Tom Roberts, Fennesz, Scyye, FSOL, Alva Noto, Loscil, Andrea, Glenn Astro, Dean De Benedictis, Segue, Pleq, Vector Lovers, Bath40, Si Begg (not in that order)
It's been over 50 years since electronic music emerged from academic laboratories and embarked on the road to mainstream popularity. One of the most influential early artists was Greek musician EVANGELOS PAPATHANASSIOU—mercifully shortened to VANGELIS—who began as the keyboard player of the biggest rock band ever in Greece (APHRODITE'S CHILD), then quit and moved to London, where he began scoring films and documentaries. While the Germans focused on technology, Vangelis adapted the Romantic Classical genre to electronic keyboards, created lush, melodic, emotionally expressive music, and became an A-list film composer. It's a style that still reverberates today. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, inspired by a classic Vangelis album celebrating the world's oceans, a deep blue journey called OCEANIC REALMS 2. Music is by VANGELIS, THE AMNIS INITIATIVE, APOCLIPTIC & ROMERIUM, LOSCIL, JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, RUDY ADRIAN, and LIQUID MIND. [ view playlist ] [ view Flickr image gallery ] [ play 30 second MP3 promo ]
"The Yips" by James Ellis Ford from The Hum; "River Turns Woodley (for Frogman)" by M. Sage from Paradise Crik; "Ozeanien" by Voyage Futur by Wellen; The title track from Silver Haze by SQURL; "Amethyst" by Oval from Romantiq; "Each Night" by Poolside featuring Mazy; "Cascade III" by Parish from Cascades of Refinement; "Plaster Mask (J. Zunz Remix)" by Julie's Haircut from the Plaster Mask EP; "Loon" by Matt Espy from Hawksworth; "Long Singing" by Fridge from Happiness; "Magenta" by Loscil and Lawrence English from Colours Of Air
Stream 2 8 1 4 - Rain Temple - Eyes Of The TempleJóhann Jóhannsson - Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Children of the New DawnTim Hecker - Infinity Pool (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Here to StayBen Frost - Sleeping Beauty (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Sleeping BeautyWarmth - Collider - RefractorPorya Hatami & Darren McClure - In-between Spaces - Summer RainMax Richter - Memoryhouse - Europe, After The RainLoscil, Lawrence English - Colours of Air - YellowErland Cooper & Shards - Egilsay - GlimroEluvium - (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality) - Vibration Consensus Reality (for Spectral Multiband Resonator)"Guardar Link Como" - "Save Link As"Right Mouse Button Click For Save (Last Show Feb 12)Olhar à distânciado barco narcóticoo filme do naufrágiobalançaos filhos em transe.A fusão de tudoé confusão. Poema | Poem by - Ana Freitas Reis Fotografia | Photo by - Alípio Padilha
Vi kickar igång året med ny uppe av spåkulekaraktär. Varannan ambient varvas med snabba låtar och världspremiär. Är drone passé? Är "under motorhuven" framtiden? Phonk? Välkommen ombord! Programledare är Anna-Karin Berglund och Viktor Zeidner. Låtar som spelades: Loscil & Lawrence English - Colours Of Air Nia Archives - Baianá Hania Rani - Spring Slims smala Skiva Ilyas & Hatsü - Scenes from a Memory, pt. 1 A. Stantz - I Still Decay Salvatori Ganacci - We shall overcome Här finner du Spotifyplaylisten med tillgängliga låtar som sänds i programmet, listan fylls på med nya låtar efter varje program: goo.gl/CUnvtY Lamour Podcast presenteras i ett folkbildande samarbete med Vuxenskolan. Ansvarig utgivare är Viktor Zeidner.
Chalk it up to the German genius for music and technology, but technical innovations from the late 1960s and early 1970s like the "sequencer" (an early manual method of creating repeating rhythm patterns) have not only remained relevant — they've become an essential part of the language of electronic music. At the same time, the fierce, extended winters of Northern Europe created a context that favored clear, bright tones and vast, subzero atmospheres. It led to what came to be called "kosmische musik" or cosmic music. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, another wintry journey on electronic waves, on a program called WINTERTRONIC 3. Music is by S1GNS OF L1FE, MICHAEL WHALEN, RICHARD BONE, HOLLAN HOLMES, LOSCIL, KEVIN KELLER, and LIQUID MIND. [ view playlist ] [ view Flickr image gallery ] [ play 30 second MP3 promo ]
Dance Around The Globe is a radio show hosted by producer, dj and live act Cairo FX (@cairofxmusic). Cairo FX presents a mix of fresh electronic music from around the globe. This week is groovy and euphoric, besides tracks from amazing producers like @Loscil, @bobsinclar, @Joyorbison, @overmono , @Tessela and more, I am happy to introduce one of my unreleased tracks 'Mazzika' in the end of the set. Enjoy the ride! Follow CairoFX on Instagram: CairoFX: https://bit.ly/3iBDE6T Dance Around The Globe: https://bit.ly/3MnxS6V Dance Around The Globe #58 Friday 12:00 pm 28 October 2022 Track List: 1. Downstream - Loscil 2. Love Generation - Bob Sinclar feat. Gary Pine 3. Pinky Ring - Joy Orbison 4. So U Kno - Overmono 5. Jungle House - Rene Wise 6. Eurhythmic - etaok Mass 7. Jambo -Indira Paganotto 8. Oh Baby - Audiophonic 9. Truncate Remix - Devotion 10. Africa Salam - Yotam Avini 11. Clap Clap - Anunanku 12. Hackny Parrot - Tessela 13. Drunken Kong - Ichi 14. Mazzika - Cairo FX
Oslated is a label collective from South Korea, often found presenting lovely deep meditative techno from the likes of Doltz, Saphileaum, Launaea, Javier Marimon, and many more personal faves. They also host a mix series, which has previously featured some great contributions by many faces readers of ASIP will recognize, so it was a pleasure to be asked to contribute a mix. I don't have too much to say on this one, but it moves through some very specific chapters with a common theme throughout (see if you can spot it)… as do many of my mixes! And of course, it's sprinkled with a few unreleased ASIP label bits. Listen below or on the Oslated Soundcloud. Download. Oslated · Oslated Special Mix 026 - ASIP Tracklist:01. Stone - Evil Day [2022 / 3 X L]02. Unreleased [Forthcoming on ASIP]03. HIA & Biosphere - Snapshot Survey [1996 / Beyond]04. Ameeva - Die Wellen Side B [2022 / 9128.live]05. Deepchord - Immersion II [2018 / Astral Industries]06. Isorinne - Blurred Perceptions of Substance [2016 / Field Records]07. o.utlier - Less Popular Than Cats Side B [2022 / Verdant Recordings] + Steve Roach - What Remains [2022 / Timeroom Editions]08. Unreleased [Forthcoming on ASIP]09. James Murray - Living Ghosts [2017 / Home Normal]10. Unreleased [Forthcoming on ASIP]11. wndfrm - A [2018 / Sounds et al]12. Araceae - Before The Sun [2022 / Faint]13. Simone Bauer - Nereide [2019 / Sure Thing]14. Aes Dana - Period 10 Evocatory [2021 / Ultimae Records]15. Aucuba Replica - Of Grasping [2020 / संस्कार Rites]16. Donato Dozzy - Moonlight [2011 / Mule Electronic]17. Toki Fuko - What Will Enlightenment Give Me [2021 / Lowless]18. Priori - Afterburn [2019 / NAFF]19. Mikkel Rev - Revelation In A Chill Out Room [2022 / Translusid] + A Conversation with Rickie Lee Jones [1989 / Geffen Records]20. DJ Healer - Hopes and Fears [2018 / All Possible Worlds] + Being - Being, Then [2021 / Firecracker Recordings]21. Unreleased [Forthcoming on ASIP]22. Shingles - Another Day In Paradise23. William Basinski - Fin [2020 / Temporary Residence Limited]24. Dedekind Cut - Tahoe [2018 / Kranky]
Not many producers can create new aliases after 10+ years and still manage to drop something completely unexpected and refreshing. Peter Rogers' Wardown project did just that in 2020, debuted on the respected Blu Mar Ten label, the self-titled album found admirers from a cross-section of music styles; spanning Jungle, Drum'n Bass and a strong atmospheric element. Wardown / Wardown was consequently one of my most played and admired albums of the year (finding a sweet spot in the Reflection on 2020 and Atmoteka mixes). I found it near impossible to stop the album once it started, as it flowed easily between stories, styles, and sentimental reflection. Peter is now set to drop his second album under the Wardown alias, simply titled Wardown II, but those who absorbed the nostalgia from his first, will undoubtedly be confident that despite its modest title, the conceptual approach is as strong as ever, and the music will once again be left to do the storytelling. Continuing with this brilliant reflective approach from the first album, Wardown II can be considered another vivid capture of one of Peter's undoubtedly many memories he has begun to create with this alias. And just like his productions, his isolatedmix is a natural extension of this approach. As is the case with many producers in this genre, DJ'ing is integral to the culture, so it's of no surprise for us to be treated to a little bit of a masterclass with this latest installment…~ASIP: Many people may know you as one half of the d&b duo Technimatic (and even making an appearance as Technicolour on our Energostatic comp which we were proud to host a few months back). Can you tell us a bit about how you got into producing music and your background?Pete: I started making electronic music in about 2002. I'd been into jungle and drum & bass as a teenager growing up in Luton, and played in a jazz funk band for many years too. But 2002 - after I'd finished studying graphic design at university and moved to London - was the first time I had the opportunity to buy a computer of my own and actually start trying to create stuff with it.You debuted the Wardown project on the Blu Mar Ten label in 2020. What inspired this new alias after years under others?I started Wardown because I had quite specific things I really needed to express and put into music that I didn't have to the opportunity to elsewhere. Technimatic is my main musical focus of attention and I love it, but sometimes there are things unique to you that you need to be able to say, that might not fit within the canon of music you're making as a duo. Things much more personal. I've known Chris Blu Mar Ten for many years and have huge respect for the vision and A&R of his label, so it felt like the perfect fit. Thankfully he was really enthusiastic about putting it out. Wardown by WardownVignettes of people talking about your hometown of Luton open your first Wardown album, (which was a surprise for me to hear, as I grew up in a nearby town). How would you describe your formative years there? How did it impact your music?Luton has a very chequered past. It's regularly featured in the kinds of ‘shittest towns in the UK' lists that appear online. It's been home to the English Defence League, Islamic terror cells, and is generally thought of as a fairly ugly, non-descript town on the outskirts of London that has an awful airport. But as a kid, I had a really good upbringing there. And crucially, being near London and the M25 motorway, back in the 90s it had a very strong connection with rave, hardcore, and jungle music. Legendary hardcore DJ Swan-E was from Luton, Blame was from just down the road in Dunstable, there were pirate radio stations broadcasting the music 24/7 in the area, and most importantly for me, there was an amazing record shop called Soul Sense where as a teenager I spent a lot of my time, learning and being inspired by 90s underground music.I assume you made several trips to London back in the day like most music lovers living in the Shires, for the big nights and DJs in the capital. Who, or what was your mecca back in the day? And which record stores were you gracing?Absolutely. Once I was allowed to go into Luton town centre on my own without my parents, it wasn't long before me and my friends were getting on the train and heading into London to buy records. This was the mid-90s and obviously long before smartphones and the internet, so on several occasions we went with the intention of going to Blackmarket Records in Soho, but ended up coming back empty-handed as we simply couldn't find it! But eventually, we worked it out and it was always a huge buzz. Section 5 on Kings Road in Chelsea was another favourite.In 2000 I moved to London and that's when my real clubbing experiences began. Swerve at The Velvet Rooms on a Wednesday, Movement at Bar Rumba on a Thursday, but the real Mecca for me and my friends was The End. It's still my favourite club that's existed and so much of my dance music education happened there. We went to most d&b nights but the key event for us was LTJ Bukem's Progression Sessions, which ran monthly there throughout most of the noughties. I think I went to every single event from about 2002 - 2007.The Wardown debut was one of my favorites from 2020. A wide spectrum of sounds, running from lush ambient pieces to extremely energetic tracks. The narrative aspect pulled me in, giving off a nostalgic mixtape type of vibe. It felt like it was a pivotal album for you to get out into the world given how personal the elements contained within were - almost a ‘letting go' kind of feel?Absolutely. During the start of 2019 I returned to Luton quite a bit. My granddad, who was the last remaining family member living there, was ill. So I went to visit him at his home, and then the hospital until he eventually died. He was 98 so it was no huge shock, but when I was back there, these ideas started forming in my mind. Luton was my home town but the last remaining Rogers had now left and there was nothing left linking me to it. But despite losing those roots and living away from the town for over 20 years, it still had this strange power over me and I felt a really deep connection. Obviously, some of that was down to simple nostalgia for my childhood. But there was something else tied up in it. Something a bit more complex. And making that first album was an attempt to try and express those feelings. That first track on that album (Culverhouse) has to be one of the most euphoric moments to kick off an album in recent memory of mine. I was definitely keeping it locked for the remainder after that beginning! What was the intention with the sequencing of the album?I honestly can't remember much about the sequencing of the first album. It wasn't like I made 30 or 40 tracks and then whittled them down and picked my favourites. It's a 10 track album and I think I made 11 tracks, and decided to ditch one of them. I wanted it to be a mix of jungle and ambient soundscapes as I think despite the two genres being in some ways at the opposite ends of the spectrum, they also work beautifully together. When I was initially buying records in the 90s, I used to be obsessed with the intros and breakdowns of certain jungle records. There was a run of releases on DeeJay Recordings from DJ Crystl and Future Sound Of Hardcore that had these sprawling instrumental openings that I used to play over and over again. And obviously LTJ Bukem and a lot of those early releases on Good Looking Records are on the same page. That aesthetic felt like a really good way to try and manifest the ideas I was having.According to your first album notes, Wardown is an attempt to capture what the Germans call 'sehnsucht', an "inconsolable longing in the heart for we know not what". Where did this attachment come from?That quote is from the author CS Lewis, attempting to describe the sense of longing he felt for much of his life. And I've been kind of obsessed with that feeling for quite a long time too. ‘Sehnsucht' is a German term that gets somewhere close and there are others in various languages. But it's a very hard thing to accurately pin down and describe. I sometimes feel as though to get a sense of it I have to look out of the corner of my eye, as when I try and focus directly on it, it disappears. It's often a very fleeting feeling brought on by certain scenes in the world, weather, photographs, old films. A kind of bittersweet, melancholy feeling about the past and things that have been lost. But quite often it's a longing for things I've never personally experienced or may never have even happened. “at its simplest, Wardown II is a vision of the future from the past.” Wardown II by WardownThe new album is a subtle shift in concept from the original and perhaps a continuation chronologically. The nostalgia is still there, but I'm getting a look at the future instead of back like the first album. Maybe the artwork is subliminally pointing me in that direction too. Is this Luton today or in the near future?!With the first Wardown album I was trying to evoke those feelings of loss and yearning I felt for my home town and earlier life. And that got me thinking about nostalgia in a wider sense and why it's so alluring, particularly as you get a bit older – but also why it's so pervasive everywhere you look these days. TV, film, music, advertising, even politics draws on the past, utilises it, and sometimes even weaponises it. It's an incredibly powerful thing, and for me it can create a strange kind of ‘uncanny valley' feeling, as though today's popular culture has become unmoored from history and its once-definitive eras and epochs. So much of what we consume today is full of anachronism, a kind of rehash of what's come before. I found myself wondering: what happened to the future I imagined when I was a kid?I think nostalgia is incredibly alluring right now because the future no longer looks bright. We live now with the looming threat of climate change and a catastrophic loss of biodiversity across the world, not to mention war, economic instability and the rise of populism and nationalism. It all feels just too much sometimes, and nostalgia is always there, showing us how better things were in the past – even if the safe, optimistic world it portrays didn't actually exist in the first place. In that way, nostalgia is dangerous because it stops us looking forward and taking responsibility for the future, with all its challenges – something we all need to do.Of course, all this is strongly culturally inflected, and when I say ‘we', I'm coming from a white, Western and affluent perspective; the relationship between nostalgia and progress is likely to be very different for someone born in the global south. But as someone who came of age in Britain in the 90s, the future means a different thing today than it did when I was a child. Back then it felt like there was still a kind of general, unwavering optimism about the coming years, a faith in progress and a belief that society was on the path to an increasingly better place. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of communism in the USSR and other Eastern European countries, New Labour, the impending Millennium, which felt like the epitome of all things futuristic – all these things pointed to the fact the future was something to look forward to.So at its simplest, Wardown II is a vision of the future from the past. I decided to give it quite a strong 1950s / 60s flavour, as to me it seems like that is when the idea of ‘the future' was at it's most potent. After the devastation of two world wars came the rise of modernism and its belief that, rather than just being an aesthetic, it could literally improve people's lives through the creation of a new kind of architecture and design. There were the American and Russian plans to send people into space. Film and TV that painted the future as a shiny kind of utopia, with flying cars, and machines that allowed humans to forget the horrific memories of war and enjoy a life of comfort and leisure.Samples are obviously a big part of your work (and your isolatedmix). It sounds like your first album was more personal, collected soundbites and samples. And this new album seems a little more abstract in its samples and direction. Can you describe your process for the sample-heavy tracks such as Instant Money? Do you build a track around a sample, go looking for something specific, or have a bank of samples ready to go?I've always been a fan of collage. Art that brings lots of different, often disparate sources together to create something fresh. As a kid I used to cut up catalogues and booklets that came through the front door and make these mad, stuck together images with them. And at university, I was fascinated by the work of artists like Robert Rauschenberg. So when it came to making music, growing up through an era of sample-heavy jungle and hip-hop (‘Entroducing' by DJ Shadow is one of the most important albums in my life), I adopted a similar technique.However, with Wardown the approach is slightly different to when I'm working on other things. I initially try and establish quite a strong conceptual starting point before I've made any music. I do lots of reading, watch things, and generally think about the world I'm trying to create before anything is made. Obviously things change and develop through the process of actually creating the music, but by starting out like that, I try and attune myself to what I'm looking for, samples wise. It's like I put little antennas up and then go about my usual life of reading, watching films and documentaries, and listening to music. But because my antennas are up and scanning for quite specific things I'm able to isolate sounds that can potentially work a lot better; sounds that would probably pass me by if I had just been taking it all in in a more general sense. And once I've had a strong idea for something I'll then dive a little deeper, in terms of second-hand records, tapes, online archives and the like. Wardown II by WardownI'm also a little gutted that Instant Money didn't make it onto the mix in full here (i hear a quick sample only!) It's one of my faves and extremely addictive (reminds me a bit of Roni Size's Dirty Beats in how the vocal burrows deep inside your brain for hours after listening if I dare compare). What was your intention/concept for the mix overall?The idea for the mix was essentially an extension of what I've done with the two albums. A collection of jungle and electronic music combined with longer ambient passages. There are a few personal favourites in there, as well as some lesser-known stuff I thought worked well. I've also taken apart elements of some of the music from Wardown II and used that throughout. More collage!The drum'n bass / jungle mixtape is of course an iconic piece of music culture and by the sounds of it, you've perfected your skills at putting one together. Do you consider yourself a DJ? Do you enjoy this aspect of your music?Well I've just come off the back of playing a summer of festival shows as Technimatic, so in that regard, definitely. I do think these days however, there is quite a big difference between being a DJ who plays live shows, and someone who puts mixes together online. Years ago you would just press record and essentially recreate what you do in a live setting. But because of the changes in technology and what you're now able to do with sequencers, recorded mixes feel like they've become a separate thing in their own regard. They definitely are to me, anyway. I love putting together online mixes that pull apart tracks, alter tempos, have multiple elements working at the same time to create something really unique. Maybe a really talented DJ could do it live, but I definitely can't!What have been some of your fave mixes over the years that we could go check out? A favorite of all time?I can't really discuss jungle and Wardown without mentioning LTJ Bukem's ‘Essential Mix' for Radio 1 in 1995. It really was such a defining mix, one that created a kind of blueprint for a whole new musical sub-genre. All the classics are there, and it still sounds fresh and exciting to me. In terms of more recent times, Visible Cloaks' ‘Music Interiors' from 2013 is another really important mix for me. It's a collection of 80s ambient and experimental music from Japan, and it totally blew my mind when I first heard it. The fact there was this huge, rich, inspiring area of music I had no idea existed before listening was really extraordinary. And it just flows so well. I'm eternally thankful for VC for creating it; I've played it more times than I can remember.~ astrangelyisolatedplace · isolatedmix 119 - WardownListen on Soundcloud, Mixcloud, or the ASIP Podcast.DownloadTracklist:01. Soft Robot - ‘Point Nemo'02. Kerguelen - ‘Proxemics'03. Sycamore Investments - ‘Cherry Bomb'04. Wardown - ‘Stimulus Progression Pattern'05. LTJ Bukem - ‘Rainfall'06. Offthesky -‘Insofar, In So Far'07. Freedive - ‘Watering A Flower On The Moon'08. Photek - ‘Complex'09. Ki One - ‘Life At The End Of The World'10. Micronation - 'Photographs of Clouds'11. Wardown - ‘The Ideal City'12. Advanced Sound & Vision - ‘The Engineered Yes'13. Wardown - ‘Lifespan'14. Fisher Associates - ‘Scorched Earth'15. Wardown - ‘Graphite and Glitter'16. The Architex - ‘Altitude'17. Creative Innovations Inc. - ‘Stone Tape Theory'18. r beny - ‘Eistla'19. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - ‘Song Of Forgiveness Pt. 1'~Wardown | Bandcamp | Discogs | Twitter | Instagram
I have been making stargazing and space themed mixes for a long time. But I realized that I haven't posted a straightforward stargazing mix for almost two years. So this mix fixes that. All the tracks are fairly new, with half of them being from this year. Some tracks are from low light mixes regulars like Loscil, Loneward and Hipnotic Earth alongside new discoveries like RIKAAR, Tone Color and Audio Obscura. Here are links to all the albums used in this mix in the order in which they appear: https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/malin-1 https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/our-unyielding-sky https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/starfish-giant-foams https://www.amazon.com/Xerrox-Vol-4-Alva-Noto/dp/B087SDHPRK/ref=tmm_acd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://hrresonance.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-realms https://dewtonerecordings.com/album/dwelling-in-light https://motionfield.bandcamp.com/album/evolve https://tapesandtopographies.bandcamp.com/album/modalities https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/moments-of-immersion https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/triplicate-tapes-vol-2-space-invaders https://banabila.bandcamp.com/album/to-yemen-with-love-2 https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/lifelike Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 RIKAAR - Future Hope to Past Lightyears (Malin 1 2022) 12:15 Loneward - Star Portal (Our Unyielding Sky 2022) 11:58 Hipnotic Earth - Full of Stars (Starfish and Giant Foams 2021) 16:45 Alva Noto - Xerrox Neige (Xerrox Vol. 4 2020) 20:40 Alpha Wave Movement - Timeless Starfields(Infinite Realms 2021) 27:50 Tone Color - The Beauty of Not Knowing (Dwelling in Light 2022) 30:50 Motionfield - Evolve (Evolve 2022) 36:00 Tapes and Topographies - The Worn Surface of Heart (Modalities 2022) 41:40 Pruski - Moment V (Moments of Immersion 2022) 46:00 Audio Obscura - The Quiet Night (Triplicate Tapes Vol. 2 Space Invaders 2021) 49:50 Machinefabriek - Waqūr (To Yemen With Love 2020) 53:14 Loscil - Swipe Enforce (Lifelike 2019) 58:11 end
"Ambient as interesting as it is interesting"The term Power Ambient is yes, another attempt at putting a badge or genre to a wide-encompassing range of music stylistically, but it's one that I have often gravitated towards amongst many others when describing a particular style of music we are dealing with here.When it comes to a spectrum of Ambient music styles, I'm more often than not on the ‘lean in' side of things, than the ‘lean back'. It's easy to throw up Brian Eno's definition of Ambient music “…as ignorable as it is interesting” to help elaborate on what I mean, as essentially within a Power Ambient context, we are removing the desire to ignore it.To put it another way, Power Ambient is best suited to those who want to immerse themselves in the music; the wall of sound; big movements; rumbling bass; wide frequencies, and layers of dense drones. These are elements that envelope a space in richness; be it soft and all-encompassing like a heavy blanket, or more on the noise spectrum, making your body rattle and the hairs on your neck stand-up on end. But the common output is that you're better off taking note of what's happening, than sticking it on in the background and making a cup of tea.It's not a new descriptive term. A 2014 Fact magazine article captured a few artists that seemed to be prevailing in this style, alongside a mix that Chris SSG loosely described as including Power Ambient (now Chris references his style as Big Room Ambient) and more. recently a Bandcamp list (although not sure all that stuff aligns with my own vision for it). There is no doubt in my mind, however, that a powerful style of Ambient music has exploded in recent years (as has the creativity of Ambient music in general, really). Perhaps this style has been more embraced due to a couple of things. In dark times comes inherent anger and expression, and it's pretty grim out there right now. For any music culture, this can often send people into darker production spaces. Secondly, I can feel an emerging undercurrent of rebellion for what ‘Ambient' can stand for nowadays. With a world of meditative apps and ‘Piano Chill' playlists continuing to give Ambient music a certain reputation, (at least we have moved on from Spa music, right?), I have a feeling this stereotyping is pushing producers, and even listeners to explore new styles of Ambient music, and opening doors into more expressive forms of music that stand out against an all too frequent beige playlist. Don't get me wrong, this doesn't mean that Power Ambient is just noise and complexity for the sake of it (it can be) but like all music, there's an art to getting the balance right. For me, Power Ambient can range from relatively quiet, intense soundscapes with a mysterious underpinning, to just short of full-on Merzbow wall-shaking. Call it a version of Noise, Drone, Experimental, whatever, but wrapped in a different guise, it's still bearable as Ambient music but stops short of becoming too much. I wanted to highlight just a few of my favorite artists whose broad strokes defined ‘Ambient' music, has always made me sit up and listen. As with all Portals features, I try to focus on a mix to bring the idea to life and a jump-off/entry point for the artists included. This was harder to mix than a regular DJ set, because of the inherent energy of Power Ambient music. Used consistently in a mix, at some point you're going to get burnt out and it will start to fade into the background just like listening to white noise. In my experience, Ambient tracks with force or energy are best used interspersed in sets to make people lean in and grab their attention, or as part of other styles to continue a certain level of energy (I've heard this type of music as an interlude in more heavy beat-driven sets for example). It can also work great as a live show where the listener knows what they are getting into already, of course (earplugs at the ready). As a 1hr+ mix, I, therefore, had to be considerate of the energy and flow and tried to create a few distinct chapters with peaks and troughs and an easy onramp at the beginning. I encourage you to use the links below to jump off into each artist's universe on Bandcamp. Despite it being a relatively well-known list of musicians when it comes to the Ambient enthusiasts, I've tried to give a good snapshot of artists that might push into this style within some of their works, especially if any of this music is new to you. RIP to two influential producers included in this mix, Cesar (Mount Shrine) and one of the greatest noise/experimental artists of our time, Mika Vainio. Listen on Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Youtube (below) or the ASIP Podcast. astrangelyisolatedplace · Portals Episode 11: Power AmbientDownload MP3Tracklist:01. James Murray - Second Sight (Home Normal)02. Ameeva - Die Wellen (9128.live)03. Faru - Mirror of Consciousness (Self released)04. Sciama - Subsumed (Auxiliary)05. Joachim Spieth - Akasha (Affin)06. Abul Mogard - Against a White Cloud (Self released)07. Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Baja dos Singlos (A Strangely Isolated Place)08. Mount Shrine - Foggy Deck (Cryo Chamber)09. Araceae - Gleaming Embers (Faint Music)10. Markus Guentner - Cavus (A Strangely Isolated Place)11. r beny - vestigial (Self released)12. Caterina Barbieri - TCCTF (Important Records)13. Christina Giannone - Realms II (Past Inside The Present)14. Christina Vantzou - Glissando for Bodies and Machines in Space (Kranky)15. Pechblende - Shackles of Time (Auxiliary) 16. Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music II (Kranky)17. Bana Hafar - Intersecting Voids (Self released)18. FRKTL - Scene I: Terra Nullius (Self released)19. KMRU & Aho Ssan - Resurgence (Edit) (Subtext Recordings)20. Mika Vainio - Kytkenta (Connection) (Touch)21. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Arduous Clarity (Dais)22. Mika Vainio - Unessa (Sleep) (Touch)Also….
A big thanks to Ed Isar for inviting me to contribute a mix to his Rinse FM show. Ed is behind the Musique Pour La Danse label (recently reissuing Coil and rEAGENZ albums amongst others), as well as the brilliant Tursiops label. Below is the text sent along to accompany the show and introduce the rough idea behind it.I'm a father to two young boys, so finding time to dedicate to a vinyl mix is tough, but I found myself inspired to get behind the decks late one evening and see what would happen. My only intention was that I wanted to include a couple of upcoming releases (test presses) from the label somehow but they are almost the outliers in the set style-wise., so I had to work around them a little. It ended up quite dark, very deep, and pitch-bent, with a few good crackles for good measure and moments I am sure people will be familiar with.Listen to the mix below or on Soundcloud, with Ed taking the reigns for the first half and some lovely vibes to set up my darker piece! Rinse France · Ed Isar invite A Strangely Isolated Place - 10 Juin 2022Download (ASIP mix only) Tracklist:01. Enkai Ohakosh - Unknown02. Avont - Non-Brio Interlude [Residence Records] (2021)03. Off And Gone - Uncle Mike's Beard [Isla] (1994)04. Unreleased (A Strangely Isolated Place)05. 3.11 - Reduktion [PRS] (2021)06. J.S Veiter - Untitled [Expanding Vision] (2022)07. Flying Fish Ambience - Monuments in Easter Island [Hospital Productions] (2021)08. Joachim Spieth - Hyde [Affin] (2021)09. Muziekkamer – Op Zee [Stroom] (2021)10. Anatolian Weapons – An Afterthought [Dispari] (2021)11. Tomas Jirku - Entropy8 [Silent Season] (2020)12. The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (Mu D. Vari-Speed Version) [Arista] (1991)13. Being - Space Again [Firecracker Recordings] (2021)14. James Bernard - UW07 (A Strangely Isolated Place) (2021)15. Unreleased (A Strangely Isolated Place)
A little extra treat to celebrate the recent release of Gadi Sassoon's Chaos & Order EP. After being featured in a few mixes and Gadi's own sets, we're pleased to present a study of Hania Rani's astounding track, Buka which Gadi recently created after obsessing over the piece, recomposing it from scratch in his own unique style. Along with a free download of the track available on Soundcloud (and a link to the .wav), Gadi has also made the Max for Live plugin he created to produce the track, available as a free download (also here on dropbox). Gadi Sassoon · Solido Platonico (Hania Rani "Buka" Arpeggio Study)“A few months back I was studying different arpeggiation styles with my friend Italian producer MACE, and we listened obsessively to Hania Rani's incredible piece Buka; from there I decided to dive deep into this particularly amazing phrase she has in that piece, and to explore all the ways I could transform it by playing it with synths and resequencing it by using a gridless arpeggiator I made in Max for Live.” - Gadi SassoonPlease support Hania's music and the album Home, (it's an essential album!) Home by Hania Rani
Our latest isolatedmix comes from Mark Nelson, who as Pan•American, or as part of Labradford or even Anjou, has garnered relative cult status amongst the ambient and experimental lifers and tape community. Forming a big part of the Kranky label history from its very first release, Mark recently returned with a new album after a three-year hiatus, and the mature, refined instrumentalism on The Patience Fader is a subtle reminder of the quality Mark has retained over the years - quite an achievement, given his first Pan•American record on Kranky goes back to 1997. I took the chance to send over some questions to Mark to shed some light on the new record and the music that exists in his life right now, alongside his tasteful and electic isolatedmix. The Patience Fader by Pan•AmericanHi Mark, where are you right now and what have you been listening to lately? I'm at home in Evanston IL-just north of Chicago. Drinking coffee after work and listening to the water running through the filter of our pet turtle's tank and the music of Mette Henriette. If you're not familiar with her she's a Norwegian composer and saxophone player who put out a record on ECM a couple of years ago it's so beautiful-one of those records I only let me listen to occasionally because I don't want to become too familiar with it. worried the magic might lessen-but magic never really does. Last few days I've been listening to lots of the music that made it onto the mix-Mike Cooper, African Head Charge, Ulla, my friend Robert Donne's incredible track Touch my Camera Through the Fence, Takagi Masakatsu. The most recent music that I've really liked are the 3 cd comp by Fubutsushi on Cached Media and my friend Francis Harris' beautiful new record Thresholds that I was lucky enough to contribute to. Running a label myself, and given you had the honor of being the very first release on Kranky, with Labradford, I'm interested in the details of how that very first album and relationship came about? It's hard to believe but back then you could put out a 7" single-maybe 300 copies-and be pretty confident all the key distributors, zines, record store buyers and radio stations would find out about it and boost it up if they liked it. Joel and Bruce worked at Cargo-an independent distributor based in Chicago. Our single came across Joel's desk and he felt good enough about it to set in motion the plan he'd been forming to start a label. I remember my friend Andrew who put the single out told me a guy from Cargo was going to call me and I stayed close to the (landline) phone for the next couple days. Joel called, we talked and the rest has unfolded very naturally. A blend of luck and trying to manifest something in the world around the music. “Romantic minimalism” is used in the text for your new album The Patience Fader, and it's an apt term for the delicate, perhaps even more ‘focused' approach on this one. Do you think there is a clear connection between the effects of the past year and the type of music it inspires? Was that the case here? Yes-absolutely in my case. Both from within and without. Not consciously of course, but Patience Fader was made during the summer and fall of 2020, so Covid, Trumpism, BLM/George Floyd protests were all in full flight. At the same time, my father was dying in a hospice in Virginia that we couldn't visit because of Covid. In some respects, emotions were very simple for me in this time. Right and wrong, life and death joy and sorrow seemed very plainly mapped out. The album features some smaller ‘vignette' type tracks, which I personally love. What was your intention behind these as part of the greater album flow? Is there a hidden narrative? Not a narrative really, no. I would say there's a theme of Roots throughout the record and trying to find different ways to approach what roots and being grounded can mean. So guitar and harmonica as the instruments used speak literally to the basic grounding of American music. The field recording of a summer afternoon and slamming screen door on Baitshop is evocative to me of childhood. There's even a song called Grounded. We were all literally grounded by Covid and I was searching for a sense of Grounding amidst the unraveling. It seems like you come from the ‘instrumental first' school of ambient music (as I sometimes like to put it), integrating your instruments as source material, especially on your latest. What does the process for creating a PA album usually look like? It tends to come out of the daily practice of playing. I like practicing and trying to be "better" as a guitar player. Sometimes it can even feel like if I get an idea I need to dig into, it interrupts just simple, repetitive practice that in some ways I enjoy more. I think I've gotten pretty good at recognizing when an idea needs to be followed through and I do feel like I have an obligation to not let it go. Although in the end, most don't make it. Eventually, I tend to establish something that feels like the first song for an album and the last song, and that's when I know that something new is really emerging. The Lapsteel / Pedal steel was perhaps brought to ‘ambient fame' by the KLF's Chill Out, especially to those who run in more general ‘ambient' music terms. And I definitely get a similar vibe to that album with The Patience Fader. …“the ghost of rust belts and dust bowls looming in a horizon of deepening dusk.” as the press text puts it. As a foreigner in the US, I've always wondered about this romanticism and never really experienced it outside of trips to the desert here in the west. How does this come to life for you personally? Is it something you seek out? I'm a big fan of Chill Out-but I think Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois got there first on Apollo! Also, the Paris Texas soundtrack and Ry Cooder's slide playing cemented some of those connections that I guess now verge on cliche. Funny enough I'm a bit of an outsider here as well-my Father was a US diplomat and I didn't live in the US until I was a teenager. I've always looked for a way in I guess, and music-rock n roll, country, blues, jazz seemed like a kind of skeleton key. A key to a series of doors that open and close constantly and I seem to remain disoriented. I certainly returned to these roots (literal and figurative) in music for an explanation or comfort as Trump set fire to whatever remained of the Better Angels of what (for some reason) is referred to as the American Experiment. Mixed results. You speak of the notion of “lighthouse music,” radiance cast from a stable vantage point, sending “a signal to help others through rocks and dangerous currents.” My perception and ‘unromanticizing' of this after listening to the album, is that you have tried to create very clear, and comforting music, something that will cut through easier and not need too much thought for it to work. I love this overall sentiment - could you expand upon it in your own words? It's an effort to be uncluttered and go straight for the heart. The beauty in country music is the same effort or effect. It's ok if it's a formula to an extent that's comforting! The songs on my record share a very similar structure and palette to one another-I really wanted to create a world that would be very quickly recognized-meaning the boundaries would be clear right away-and the work could be done within those boundaries. There's certainly much to recommend pushing beyond known boundaries and limits-for me though it's where known elements within a world blur, overlap, merge, surrender and change like water that's what I'm interested in! New possibilities come from new combinations, and new layering of familiar material. Hybrid forms, mutations. I think what we're looking for is here-it's just up to us to make it visible.~ astrangelyisolatedplace · isolatedmix 118 - Pan•AmericanListen on Soundcloud, Mixcloud, or the ASIP Podcast.DownloadTracklist:01. Willie Nelson- Sad Songs and Waltzes02. Ulla - New Poem03. Michael Grigoni - Little Cliffs04. Sosena Gebre Eyesus - Seqelew Eyalu05. Maurizio - MO7A (edit)06. Mike Cooper - After Rain07. African Head Charge - Bazarre08. Takagi Masakatsu - Uter 109. Mary Lattimore - We Just Found Out She Died10. Loren Connors - Blues #511. Robert Donne - Touch My Camera Through the Fence12. Lokai - Histoire DSPan•American: Website | Bandcamp | Soundcloud | Discogs
To help continue the much-needed support for the people of Ukraine, we have produced a compilation from one of our favorite Ukrainian-based netlabels, Energostatic Records. Released as part of our Portals deep dive series, the feature includes a remaster of specifically curated tracks, in both individual and mix form. These tracks are available on the ASIP Bandcamp page as Name Your Price, with all proceeds going to Save The Children and their specific activities supporting Ukraine at this time. A big thank you to label owner Marian for allowing this project to happen as he deals with life in Kyiv right now, the artists for their participation, and Rafael Anton Irisarri for kindly providing his mastering services. Also, an advanced thank you to all those who listen and support at this very important time. ~‘Netlabels' are essentially extinct in today's music landscape by definition. Of course, there are still labels that just focus on digital releases, but Netlabels came about during a time when there were little to no platforms monetizing digital releases. Digital distributors were reserved for big or established labels as the streaming era ramped up. And Bandcamp didn't exist. Netlabels were the next logical step after the file-sharing era (Soulseek et al), where instead of P2P servers and software, artists and label began to push their own agendas online, making files available freely on the internet, often under a Creative Commons license and many through a myriad of MP3 blogs that powered this exciting period. It was also, somewhere at this point in time, coincidentally, that the very first iteration of ASIP was also born, diving deep into MP3 blogs and following various Netlabels religiously. Finding a Netlabel's basic website or archive.org page was the Bandcamp profile of its day. Energostatic was pretty late to the ‘Netlabel game'. Their first release didn't arrive until 2010 when many Netlabels were either fizzing out already or converting to more modern release methods. But Energostatic's ethos and approach to providing music against a strict aesthetic, for free, made them a torchbearer for the dying art of sharing music online through small yet beloved corners of the internet. As ASIP began in 2008, Energostatic was one of the many Netlabels I followed, and as curators of dub techno in various forms, they operated within another small yet burgeoning scene it seems, given dub-techno as a genre also seems to have dwindled in popularity in recent years. The writing was perhaps, on the cards for Energostatic, as Marian ceased operations of the label in 2017. But with 49 releases, there was (and still is) a big chunk of music to dig into, which for anybody new to the label, could become a little overwhelming to discover, especially since that number includes several compilations with 20+ tracks each, and many of the artists don't seem to be very active anymore. To help support the people of Ukraine during this time in a small way, I reached out to label founder Marian to see if he would like to raise money through a compilation that spotlighted some of my favorite music from the label's era. Marian had previously released as part of our early Places Series, as Marc Atmost, where he created a track based on some of his early memories in Ukraine (an unsettling and poignant listen under today's circumstances). Today, Marian is on the ground in Kyiv, doing what he can to survive and support his community.The majority of the Energostatic catalog is still available for free on Bandcamp, should you wish to explore it yourself. Ranging from Space Ambient to drone; dub-techno and DnB; it became a bittersweet task to sift through the hundreds of tracks and pull together this compilation for a good cause. With the owner and label based in Ukraine (if Netlabels were to even have a ‘base' of course), the majority of the artists on the label were friends of Marian, so a good majority were Ukraine and Russia-based and a part of local music scenes in each country. The compilation begins with one of the most gentle tracks you will find across the entire Energostatic catalog. Russian artist KaLGaN made a few appearances over the years, but was better known for his work as 110ml - responsible for the very first artist release on the label (Scratch me / Scratch you) and also included further on in the compilation with his 110ml track, Lights In Window. Stellardrone (Lithuania), is one of the more well-known artists to be supported by Energostatic, and even made an appearance on the ASIP Full Circle compilation/LP a few years back, highlighting his importance in the evolution of my own musical journey. Edgaras' music has always remained free on the internet and encaptures some of the finest Space ambient music in recent years. The piece included in the compilation, ‘Light Years' is perhaps one of his darker, more sincere pieces amongst a stand-out catalog which has unfortunately not seen much activity in recent years Textural Being (USA) (see isolatedmix29 also) is another artist who I have admired for a long time, and related to the above compilation was in my shortlist for inclusion on Full Circle. The track I had in mind at the time, however, didn't quite fit the rest of the compilation. Serendipitously, Sept is my all-time favorite track by Sage Taylor / Textural Being, (amongst yet another expansive artist output) so it feels great to present this to a wider audience today. Marc Atmost (Ukraine), as mentioned above, is the founder of Energostatic, and appears consistently across the label over the years through various guises and musical styles ranging from straight-up dub techno to DnB. This track, Deity is one of my favorites from his consistent output, capturing the very essence of spacious, melodic dub techno. Olexa, (Ukraine) was a less prolific artist over the years with just one EP and several compilation appearances on Energostatic, but captured the deep dub techno sound aesthetic of the label to perfection. Gapfield (USA), is a project from US-based Devin Underwood and Jacob Newman. Devin creates some amazing music across a variety of styles and aliases (such as Drexon Field - another fun project I love) and has made several appearances on the Energostatic label, most notably with a solid, straight-up dub-techno album as Specta Ciera (see isolatedmix19). Between Devin and Jacob, they can be found on some amazing ambient labels over the years, such as Carpe Sonum, Neotantra, dataObscura and Bludhoney Records. Their Gapfield project, is definitely one that may have flown under the radar amongst their solid output. Technicolour's (UK) ‘Permafrost', has always been a stand-out track for me on Energostatic and his only appearance on the label. I included it in many of my DJ mixes years ago, and it broke the mold in the label's beginnings with its Autonomic sound and rampant amen breaks, whilst remaining true to the deep and introspective atmosphere the label ended up pushing. But it wasn't until seeking permission to include this track did I come to realize that Technicolour, aka Peter Rogers, was in fact, Wardown, who released one of my favorite Drum'n bass albums of 2020 on Blu Mar Ten's label. Permafrost could be the apex of compilation, but the journey needed a minute to breathe after that kind of energy, which is where Ayqix's (Argentina) Raymi (Coldest Version) came into play. The Buenos Aires musician provides an airy respite towards the end of the compilation before the energetic finale, very much reminiscent of the early minimal techno days of Traum Schallplatten. Closing out the compilation, Enformig, was a Ukrainian Techno producer based in Kharkov who unfortunately died in 2019. His appearances on the label were always met with such high praise and support on social media from Marc, especially for his hardware-driven live sets. This track is perhaps, one of his finest moments from the Energostatic catalog and provides a momentous, energetic and liberating closing chapter to the compilation. Energostatic's label motto was "Reach, resist, research”. Label owner Marian didn't have the time or capacity to answer any of my questions related to its meaning on top of his urgent life on the ground in Kyiv, but I couldn't help relate this motto to a higher meaning and reminder as I thought about his and many other people's lives in Ukraine. Thank you for reading, listening and reflecting. Support the compilation on Bandcamp with all proceeds going to Save The Children and their Ukraine efforts. Portals: Energostatic (For Ukraine) by A Strangely Isolated Place~Podcast link.
Tonight's edition features some fantastic new music from Masayoshi Fujita, Loscil, The Black Dog, zake + City of Dawn, Andrew Tasselmyer, Slowly Rolling Camera and lots…
An atmospheric ambient mix with Loscil, Sullen Sky, Anaamaly, Pruski... Selected & mixed by Le Code
Hallucinations on a burning plain, with Fatima Al Qadiri, Jon Hopkins, Loscil, Elori Saxi, Eluvium and Rachika Nayar.
An atmospheric ambient mix with 36, Remi Solati, Warmth, Loscil... Selected & mixed by Le Code
An ambient mix with Suso Saiz, Le Code, Loscil, Terekke... Selected and mixed by Le Code.
Long running ambient music artist from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Jason Morgan albums generally have a theme like sky, or thermodynamics or submarines and he does an amazing job of making music the breathes and exist or maybe it's a machine. Either way, close your eyes and breath. Also he played drums in Destroyer.
Featuring Marconi Union, Pye Corner Audio, Sigur Rós, Loscil, Boards of Canada + moreCurated and mixed by Digitonal.Tracklist:Warmth - Monsoon [The Ambient Zone] Chris Coco - Wednesday's Child [ The Ambient Zone] Shards - Thoughts [ Erased Tapes Records] Loscil - Equivalent 1[Kranky]Miles Tilmann - Through the Tubes [Loudr]Starkey - Water [The Ambient Zone] Boards of Canada - Sick Times [Warp Records]Joey G - Hood Canal [The Ambient Zone] stanleystanley - Palace of Steam [The Ambient Zone] Pye Corner Audio - Imprisoned Splendour [Ghost Box]Marconi Union - AMID [Just Music]] BUNKR - East of Eden [VLSI Records]Kirsty Hawkshaw - Sanctuary (Digitonal mix) [HOT-Q]Sigur Rós - Sleep 6 [KRUNK]
We explore the work of acclaimed ambient artist Adam Wiltzie and his side project The Dead Texan. Wiltzie and his collaborator Christina Vantzou approach ambient music differently than Scott Morgan of Loscil, who we talked about last week, leaning more on real instruments sampled into the mix to create more organic sounding tones and textures in their music. If you like this music, check out Wiltzie's main project Stars of the Lid. For more info, check out our show notes: https://www.nofillerpodcast.com/episode/music-review-loscil-first-narrows#sidetrack
We hit pause on indie rock and mellow out with the ambient electronic music of Loscil. Scott Morgan's approach to Loscil started as an exploration on how to represent abstract concepts such as physics and thermodynamics in musical form. On this episode, we cover his third studio album First Narrows and talk about the special relationship we both have with ambient music and how Loscil's approach sets him apart from others in the genre. For more info, check out our show notes: https://www.nofillerpodcast.com/episode/music-review-loscil-first-narrows
The end of a year is a popular moment to release a (label) compilation. Sometimes to look back, sometimes to look ahead.... and sometimes just because it's compilation time. Here's an (incomplete!) overview of some recent compilations presenting hours (and more hours) of listening pleasure. VARIOUS ARTISTS - ILLUMINATIONS II Dronarivm kicks off with this New Year Charity Compilation. No less than 30 track and almost three hours of music, priced ridiculously low to begin with... but of course you will want to pay more because of the amount of music, ánd because the profits go to 4Paws for Ability, an organisation that 'enriches the lives of children with disabilities by training and placing quality, task-trained service dogs.' (You can also donate directly of course, but why would you when you're offered a batch of quality music in the process?) The thirty artists presented here show why Dronarivm has become one of the most important labels in the ambient/experimental electronic genre. It's an impressive array of which I will only mention a few names: Aaron Martin, Bruno Sanfilippo, Loscil, Jacaszek, Machinefabriek, Endless Melancholy, Legiac, Offthesky, Olan Mill, Sven Laux, Anne Chris Bakker, Antonymes, Giulio Aldinucci, Pleq, Hakobune, Pausal Chihei Hatakeyama. And that are just 17/30. Even more impressive is the fact that all these tracks are exclusive - they have not appeared on earlier releases before. So this is what we call a 'no-brainer'! If you missed the first (2017) edition of Illuminations with another 28 tracks, you can still download it. It is a Name-Your Price release, but I strongly suggest to double your donation for Illuminations II. Simply because. Illuminations II (The New Year 2018 charity compilation) by Various Artists VARIOUS ARTISTS - FROM HERE TO TRANQUILITY, VOL. 8: THE DARKENED PATH On a somewhat darker note, we find #8 in the From Here To Tranquility series on Silent Records, curated and founded by Kim Cascone. Not specifically an end-of-year release, by the way, but edition 8 in the From Here To Tranquility series. This edition 'addresses the pervasive darkness we find in the world today', and does so with 80 minutes of contemplative soundscapes with a retro-touch by Scott Gibbons, Kris Force, Chris Meloche, Dead Voices on Air, Michal Seta, Pragma, David Metcalfe, Legion Of Green Men, Aume, Meterpool, Mike Rooke and David Lee Myers. Not the most familiar names perhaps, and the music can be quite different in nature (a quiet atmospheric field recording track by Chris Meloche can easily be followed by a rather aggressive noise track from Dead Voices on Air), but you can simply count on Kim Cascone's experience in selecting quality sounds. From Here to Tranquility - Volume 8 (the darkened path) by Various Artists VARIOUS ARTISTS - STEEL - DRAGON'S EYE TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY Not exactly a year-in-retrospect compilation, but an album to celebrate the twelve years of existence since Yann Novak relaunched his father's record label Dragon's Eye Recordings. The 'steel' in the title is 'named after the traditional eleventh anniversary gift (due to miscalculation and a love for the cover art by Jake Muir)'. A 'variety of styles, processes, practices, techniques, and most importantly points of view' is presented in this Name-Your-Price download featuring unreleased tracks by artists that recently released work on the label. Such as: Steve Pacheco, Tobias Hellkvist, Robert Crouch, Yann Novak, Jake Muir, Fabio Perletta, Geneva Skeen, Mark Kate and wndfrm. 78 Minutes of sheer minimalist joy. Steel: Dragon's Eye Twelfth Anniversary by Various Artists VARIOUS ARTISTS - RUSTED TONE SAMPLER I Rusted Tone Recordings does not look back to 2017 because it did not exist in 2017. It is a new independent label, curated by James Armstrong, 'specialising in ambient, drone and experimental music'. Judged by this introduction sampler the label will definitely be worth keeping an eye on: it introduces artists that will be releasing albums on Rusted Tone in the coming year. Think: Darren Harper, James Osland, Wil Bolton, Green Kingdom, Spheruleus - along less familiar names like Gallery Six & Oblivia, Net, Kepier Widow, Saltings and Kevin Buchland. Suffices to say this introduction succeeds in raising interest for the label! This, too, is a Name-Your-Price download if you want. But please keep in mind that proceeds 'will go towards supporting physical releases and sustaining Rusted Tone Recordings.' Rusted Tone Recordings: Sampler Vol. 1 by Various Artists VARIOUS ARTISTS - GRENZWELLEN I A somewhat different beast (and with that I mean considerably less ambient) is this massive compilation supporting the German radio show Grenzwellen, hosted by Ecki Stieg and broadcasted on Radio Hannover. Grenzwellen started in 1987 so it exists for more than thirty years now! It can be heard every wednesday for three hours starting at 9 pm CET via the Radio Hannover livestream. But even if you can't listen to their show this compilation is a great introduction to the music that can be heard on this show. Almost 4 hours of all kinds of experimental/electronic music in a mix of well- and lesser-known artist. I won't mention them all, but here are just a few of the names that I recognise: Giulio Aldinucci, Gabi Delgado, Ulrich Schnauss, CEEYS, Marsen Jules Trio (with a 15 minute string version of Étoiles de la Nuit), Bersarin Quartett, Bartosz Dziadosz, Hecq, Arovane,Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Sven Laux, Sankt Otten, Markus Guentner, Richard Chartier, Hotel Neon. 31 Tracks, and most of them previously unreleased. Grenzwellen host and compilation curator Ecki Stieg advises to play the compilation in its entirety: "please listen in the order given. Don't use the random button!." Grenzwellen Eins by Grenzwellen VARIOUS ARTISTS - MUSIC FOR ELEVATORS And, while on the subject of massive compilation projects this one cannot stay unmentioned. Only recently I became aware of a series of (free download) releases by the Mahorka netlabel called "Music for Elevators." A nice reference to many ambient "Music for ..." releases, as well as to 'Elevator Music' - which is usually referring to anonymous 'Muzak'. The first edition of this series was released way back in 2002, followed by Vol. 2 in 2005, Vol. 3 in 2007, Vol. 4 in 2012. The three-part set Vol. 5, which is said to conclude the series, was released in 2017 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). You can still find the complete set online: the first four editions can be found on Archive.org (free downloads), the three-part Vol. 5 on Bandcamp (Name-Your-Price). So that is quite an impressive batch of unknown music to discover. Unknown - because in the tradition of netlabels, Mahorka presents the work of artists that are largely unknown - with the occasional exception depending on how 'deep' you are into the scene. "You are on board for a pushing all kinds of boundaries trip through what ambient music can be and what can be ambient music." 'Ambient' is not a very strict definition here, probably 'experimental electronic' would have been a more appropriate label. There are quite a few tracks that would probably scare the hell out of any ordinary citizen who got stuck in an elevator. But in a collection like this, everyone will find a lot of sounds to his/her liking! Music For Elevators Vol.5 (Part 1) by Various Artists
Celebrate the long weekend travels with some Future Music from Voices From The Lake, Loscil, Akkord, Dave DK, Kettenkarussell, Sven Weisemann, Fila Brazillia, Apparat, Röyksopp, and many more. Thanks for the continued support! Playlist Download 05/16/2015
I love the music of Loscil. I have been listening to Loscil for ten years and I look forward to new releases more than ever. Loscil made it into my mix of favorite ambient artists and my mix of favorite ambient albums of all time. I consider Loscil music to be perfect ambient/electronic music. Scott Morgan is the man behind Loscil & he has just released a new album - "Sea Island". I knew I was going to like it even before I heard it and I was right. This new recording is everything you'd expect from a Loscil album with some new twists. In addition to the familiar electronics, the tracks here also utilize vibraphone, voice, violin and piano. You can stream the album here... SEA ISLAND STREAM. You can buy it here... SEA ISLAND at KRANKY RECORDS. The first track on the mix is from "Sea Island". I only included 3 Loscil tunes because posting on Mixcloud only allows 3 tracks from the same artist per mix. So to get around that, sort of, I included a bunch of Loscil remixes in addition to songs that just sounded like they fit. I hope you like the mix & if you do, support Scott by buying a shitload of his music. T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 Loscil - Catalina 1943 06:20 Rezo Glonti - Sun of Tibati 11:00 Heathered Pearls - Beach Shelter(loscil grind remix) 14:15 Loscil - Zephyr & Zephyr with strings 18:50 Anjou - Readings 23:40 Fieldhead - I'm fond of maps 26:30 Benoit Pioulard - Florid(Loscil remix) 31:35 Marconi Union - Weightless #2 38:00 Deep Chord - Red Lantern part 3 40:55 Dakota Suite - Things We Lost(Loscil remix) 46:50 Ethernet - Into The Woods(Loscil remix) 52:05 Loscil - Endless Falls 59:08 end
I know this is not the best time of year for sitting out side and stargazing. At least not here in Wisconsin. But I haven't done a stargazing mix in a long time so i thought I'd throw this out there. The piece that got me started on this mix isn't an actual song. It's NASA's Voyager spacecraft recording the sound of interstellar space. Voyager's plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013. You can find the recording here... Voyager. I couldn't resist using that sound as a launch pad for this mix. The rest is pretty straight forward ambient/space music. For some strange reason I felt compelled to make this mix nearly 2 hours long. If you want to lay outside for two hours & gaze at the night sky in the middle of December, better bring some scotch & an electric blanket. ;) Enjoy. T R A C K L I S T : 00:00 NASA Voyager recording of interstellar space 00:40 Loscil - Second Narrows Specta Ciera Version 03:30 Ishq - Globular Cluster 07:30 Harmony & Decay - Hypnotic Sequence 12:40 Eluder - The Event Horizon 14:50 Marsen Jules - A Room Full of History 19:15 Marconi Union - Always Numb 23:40 Porzellan - Floating Reception 24:30 Sonmi451 - Omicron Ceti 29:30 Loscil - ss1.2 unit circle 32:50 Wouter Veldhuis - Blue Forest I 36:00 Variant - Thru the Cosmos(ison + spica) 43:33 Brian Eno - Surf Birds 46:10 Mark Rownd - Place of Grace 52:20 Kissy Suzuki - rubbish & Beauties part 1 56:30 Altus - Floating Free 1:00:40 Diatonis - Whiring Above Our Heads 1:04:15 A Produce - Inner Sanctum 1:12:00 Aglaia - Dust Across the Border 1:15:30 Christopher Short - Unknown Constellation #2 1:22:30 Fripp & Eno - Meissa 1:29:10 Ithaca Trio - Catching Monkeys 1:34:00 Steve Roach - Deep Sky Time 1:41:10 Sylken - Sleepless 1:50:10 Deepchord - Driftwood 1:51:10 Vidna Obmana - Night Blooming 1:57:49 end
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