Malcolm Lowry (1909—57) was an English author whose prodigious talent lay in direct inverse proportion to his heroic abuse of alcohol. His Under the Volcano […]
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Strom Noir :: Standing Out Against the Sea (DataObscura)
Strom Noir’s ambient is amongst the most subtle on record, distant and place-less but richly varied and embrasive. Emil Mat’ko has been releasing music at […]
Hans Nieswandt :: Hildegard Knef – Remixed 12 Versions (Bureau B)
Knef has a dark, occasionally faltering voice, but that doesn’t prevent it from bopping along to pop as innocent as a daytime TV margarine commercial […]
RSS Boys :: Double review (Mik Musik)
RSS Boys might just be the most colorful step forward taken by really intelligent dance music in a long time. RSS Boys might just be […]
dreamSTATE vs Heiki :: The North Shore (Paper+Sound)
There is great beauty in the fact that though evoking such a variety of winter conditions, there is never a sharp edge or crusty ridge. […]
Nils Quak :: Long Forgotten Days Under a Dust Covered Sky (Nomadic Kids Republic)
Nils Quak reflects on the tissue that separates one moment from the next, one opportunity from the next. Field recording and ambient music as two […]
V/A :: Aquarius (Dronarivm)
Liquidity has always been an apt metaphor for ambient music as well as for what this collection represents—the fluidity, if not downright irrelevance of boundaries, […]
\\\V/// :: 267L-18 (Vomit Bucket Productions)
The anonymous artist behind the cipher \\\V/// builds up a threnody of muscular tension, as if too much sound is trying to squeeze itself through […]