With its low centre of gravity and alienating, single-word titles, English duo Emptyset are a bit of a nasty propostion within the community of lower-case […]
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Akira Kosemura :: 虹の彼方 – Seven Colors Variations (Schole)
虹の彼方 (or “Niji no Kanata”—beyond the rainbow) is the kind of sweet pop song only the Japanese can pull off with a straight face in […]
Kettel :: Ibb & Obb (Sending Orbs)
Bach-like varying a single theme twenty-six times, he brings texture and depth to the bubbles and angles of Ibb and Obb‘s world, and their soundtrack […]
RealPlayer 7 :: Opportunity (Crystal Magic)
Opportunity is ambient for MBAs, inspirational, non-confrontational and glossy vaporwave moods for the visualization of entrepreneurial transcendence. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself […]
Ket3m :: Syn3rgy (Self-Released)
Syn3rgy is four bursts of computer virus pop. Ket3m is a brand-new duo made up of Shay Nassi (aka Mise_en_ scene) and Tom Kemeny (apparently […]
Omenya :: Kali Mantras (Soleilmoon)
The holy chanting woven into the warm ambient of Kali Mantras is omnivorously reverent and could just as well emanate from Africa, Canterbury or Jerusalem. An especially […]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum :: Atimundra (Biosonar Labyrint)
An altogether lysergic combination of samples, field recordings, live performance, drones, moans, phlogistons and vintage synths longing for dark, arcane, but eternal bliss. Both package […]
Lights Dim w/ Gallery Six :: Between Spaces (Kaico)
Lazily swaying ambient for swaying lazily in your hammock, a cold drink resting on your tummy, eyes shut contentedly behind sunglasses. Lights Dim is Marek […]
V/A :: Air Texture Volume III (Air Texture)
Curators Scott Monteith (Deadbeat) and Gregor Asch (DJ Olive) reconnect the once-great Berlin-New York underground pipeline. The third double volume in the Air Texture series […]
Diskrepant :: A Captive of Oxygen (Attenuation Circuit)
A Captive of Oxygen is close-up magic, field recordings of a rubber-booted hunter slogging through muck and tall, wet grass before entering a rusting, oily […]
















