The brittleness and careful attention to every microscopic note, melody, click, and lullaby rhythm tends to ebb and flow, allowing Build to quite literally build upon a variety of abstract bits and pieces that are somehow glued together.
Tag: Ambient
LAITR :: Sapphire Send (Acroplane)
The Madrid-based producer from Manchester delivers old-school blistered beats with downtempo elements and tosses them about. The resulting deconstructed and bass-infused tracks tend to shift and shatter.
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.
Steve Hadfield :: Industrial Chillout Complex (Werra Foxma)
A swirling smorgasbord of blissful blips and bleeps, tiny mechanical gears rotate and crunch their way through, often leaving the listener to submerge themselves in these mysterious aural fluctuations.
Tom Hall :: Failed Attempts at Silence (Superpang)
All compositions are steady and laid back, showcasing intermingling patterns of varied lifeform, all of which allow for a great sense of escapism directly through the headphones.
Reclusive experimental electronic music duo Loess announce Totems — exclusive steam of “blaen”
Totems displays Loess’ adeptness at fusing ambient, dub, garage, and “intelligent dance music” to create a unique take on electronic music.
4T Thieves :: Fame is an Addiction EP (Mahorka)
Taking us to a simpler time, a place where comfort and familiarity reside—the nostalgia of distant memories, sounds, and feelings keep our minds tuned as 4T Thieves continues to extract swirling synthesizer strains.
V/A :: Communication Themes Vol. 10 (Renraku)
Renraku continue to evolve as their revolving Communication Themes compilation series expands and contracts with creative and exploratory electronics.
Cult48 :: Underground Signals From An Unknown Place (Self Released)
To not only emulate with such accuracy the pads and warm-feelings of Scotland’s well-loved duo, to be able to accentuate and highlight in a truly modern fashion without detracting from the feelings, is a feat in itself.
















