There are no great shifts to the glacial isolationist ambient paradigm here, but a consummate execution of a programmatic template. A little more than this, in fact, since Spence manages, with the quiet storm of his loop, to imbue Snowbound* with a metaphysical sense of something beyond within the chronostasis of his scenes. Snowbound* compiles [...]
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Bvdub :: I Remember (Translations of Mørketid) (Glacial Movements)
The sound apparently sweeping the new ambient nation is so anodyne; and that, unlike the likes of Lull or Aquadorsa, or indeed Netherworld, it chimes so thinly within the GM programme of glacial and isolationist ambient; that the glacial I Remember deals in is so commodified, the isolation at such a remove, from a safe [...]
Alan Lockett’s Tops of 2011 :: So Far (So Good)
Igloo Magazine Contributing Editor, Alan Lockett’s verdict on 2011’s half-year of music is sofar, sogood, with his picks appearing on two Top lists here. To accompany this, extracts from his thirty picks were chosen and sorted into two piles, broadly designated ambient/drone and techno/dub/idm, and spun into a brace of mixes. :::….:.:::….:::::::..:::::…..::..::::…::::.:.::::..:::…:::….:::.::::.:.::.:::.:::.:::…:::..::…:: 20eleven sogood :: [...]
ALAN LOCKETT :: 20eleven sofar | sogood (igloomag mix)
Alan, known to some as albient for his mix-tricks (and occasional audio-doodle) compiles 15 of driftiest dream-dealers in ambient/drone for 20eleven so far, while for 20eleven sogood he channels another 15 of the movie’n’grooviest techno/dub/idm players. Igloo Magazine Contributing Editor, Alan Lockett’s verdict on 2011’s half-year of music is sofar, sogood, with his picks appearing [...]
Netherworld :: Over the Summit (Glacial Movements)
Notwithstanding the odd section of auto-pilot sound design, and with the sure hand of his mystic mate, Gigi Gasparetti at the mastering helm, Netherworld does more than enough to ensure the ambitions of his arctic expedition Over the Summit are achieved. [Listen | Purchase] For nigh on 5 years Glacial Movements has been furthering the [...]
Top releases of twenty-ten
With this article, 151 releases and 25 honorable mentions are highlighted as being titles that garnered the extra spins in 2010. These musicians (and associated labels) offered an abundance of quality productions coming from all corners of the globe with an emphasis on releasing music that doesn’t always follow a defined path. [January 2011] Twenty-ten [...]
Bvdub :: The Art of Dying Alone (Glacial Movements)
Predominantly beatless tracks consisting of recursive delicate motifs, lilting chord progressions build to soft climax in surges of layered and looped fragments: strings, vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, and ethereal femme vox cohere and cluster in a cumulative swirl; prevailing outlook light and fluffy, with dark-edged clouds forming (don’t fret, they’ll soon clear)… [Listen | Purchase] [...]