Tons of tones—some dissolved in beats, some beatless treatments—in a continuous mix of current ambient and electronic goodies. Igloomag’s Alan Lockett, via audio-meddling alter ego, albient (mixcloud | soundcloud), pours more than a score of ambi-valent shapes and etheric waves into an occluded reverb-trail echo-veil mood-stream. Ambivalentine. Listen…
New transmissions come from old familiars Boards of Canada, Pan•American, Eluvium, and Lee Norris, here with Mick Chillage as Autumn of Communion. They’re joined by recent igloomag reviewees, Maps & Diagrams, Pye Corner Audio, Northcape, Red Stars Over Tokyo, and Noisyfilter. Tape Loop Orchestra meets krill.minima and genre-bending duo Dalhous go up against Andrew Chalk in mini mix-mediated mash-ups. Noir-loving The Haxan Cloak and esoteric electronicists, Kane Ikin, Shape Worship, The North, JU4N, and Coin collude with ambient-droners, Ruhe, Benjamin Dauer, Heathered Pearls, and Funeral Fireworks, topped off with quirky loners, Benoît Pioulard, Lee Noble, and L.Pierre.
