Futuresequence.com launches their 1-year celebration of reviews, interviews and specialty mixes with a forty-two track behemoth of a compilation. [Release page] Futuresequence.com launches their 1-year celebration of reviews, interviews and specialty mixes with a forty-two track behemoth of a compilation. Not only intended as an anniversary release, Futuresequence also commemorates the electronic and experimental scene, [...]
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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 [...]
Kyle Bobby Dunn :: Ways Of Meaning (Desire Path)
As with all ambient music, this can serve as engaging music for active listening, but most will prefer it to be background music. One should not listen to Ways Of Meaning looking for any meaning at all save staid beauty. It is best absorbed passively. [Purchase page] A quick Google search for “elegiac thesaurus” should [...]
V/A :: SMM: Context (Ghostly International)
Ghostly has taken great pains to convince its fan base that this ensemble of music, and ostensibly the invitations from Ghostly themselves, are worth paying attention to. [Listen | Purchase] Ambient music has come a long way from its unobtrusive beginnings – “beginnings” defined as the point at which Brian Eno coined of the phrase [...]
Alan Lockett’s Top picks from twenty-ten
A summary of Alan Lockett’s top fifteen selections of twenty-ten including helpful links to audio and visual media. 36 :: Hollow (3six) One of three 36 releases this year, any of which could have been included here. You know the score: ambient wall of sound built of treated guitar, synths, field recordings and sampling set [...]
Kyle Bobby Dunn :: Pour Les Octaves (Peasant Magik)
The whole tape (yes, a C30 cassette!) has the same effect as watching a perfume commercial on mute: a beautiful, alluring, and determined attempt, limited only by the medium of expression, to convey something intangible. Soon after the review was published, Kyle Bobby Dunn called me out on my comparison of his last work, Rural [...]
Kyle Bobby Dunn :: Rural Route No.2 (Self-released)
(September 2010) In a genre where stylistic differences are more or less subjective, mistaking one artist’s work for another is a given, and would probably be more common if ID3 tags didn’t exist. Aside from those seminal artists that actually managed to forge a signature sound (again, a dubious designation) in ambient, most others should [...]