Departing from the Enovian principle of Ambient as functional room tint or affordance structure for relaxation, LUXE exhibits the genre’s stylistic richness, not to mention latitude, in its questing navigation through diverse sounds and states.
Author: Alan Lockett
MULTI-VIEW :: Past Inside The Present (in the past…)
Documenting the drift at the margins, a look back at Past Inside The Present’s showcase of the state of the art of ambient dronescaping, focusing on selected works from earlier in the year that may have gone under your radar.
Tapes and Topographies :: A Season of Loss (Simulacra)
A Season of Loss may dally with dejection in its forlorn languish with loss, but the ghost is not given up, the balm of its vaporous tones comforting amid the mire.
Aria Rostami & Daniel Blomquist :: Still (Glacial Movements)
The stillness feels more like a cocoon than hibernation, and though no global pandemic or present politics premonition, the world today completely recontextualizes the music, making release delay serendipitous.
Biosphere :: Angel’s Flight (AD 93)
Featuring 12 tracks based on Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 spanning the classical-electronics divide with a blend of electronica, hauntological sonics and modern composition, is no exception.
Elsewhereness revisited #19 soundsfromlockdown
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blather, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, with accompanying mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]
Monolake :: Archaeopteryx (Imbalance Computer Music)
Robert Henke returns after what seems a long lie-down with a bumper bundle of tech steppers and IDM flexers in his ninth Monolake album, Archaeopteryx. […]
Elsewhereness revisited #18 music for distancing
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blah, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, along with new companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]
Alva Noto :: Xerrox Vol. 4 (Noton)
While Alva Noto’s predilection for pristine sound design remains undimmed, Xerrox Vol. 4 sees a further move from his prior output’s buttoned-up asceticism towards more […]
Elsewhereness revisited #17 cabinfeverdreams
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blah, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, complete with new companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited #17. […]
Healing Sounds from Past Inside the Present
Out now on Past Inside the Present, home of all that’s good in Ambient Drone and otherwise: Healing Sounds II: A compilation for those in […]
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