A clearly recommended corpus of warm and delicately touching ambient compositions. SubtractiveLAD is the project of Vancouver-based sound designer Stephen Hummel. A handful of materials have been […]
Tag: Ambient
Sun Sea Sky :: Three new releases and vinyl giveaway! (Melorman / Blochemy)
Three releases from Charleston, IL-based Sun Sea Sky are due for release in June—Melorman‘s limited vinyl release Somewhere, Someday LP (his first since the well-received 2013 […]
Boulderdash :: Just some parsecs away from home (DSM / Audionaut Capsule)
Boulderdash manage to hone their vintage IDM skills, finding new ways to thread emotive melodies, all the while utilizing hardware to create soft sound escapes for […]
Midday Static :: Ektachrome (Self-Released)
References, contrasts and comparisons aside, Midday Static fine tunes his sound with Ektachrome, an album that is lively and condensed in a thick kaleidoscopic downbeat […]
Dalham :: Waves (Public House Recordings)
Via a variant of woozy tape-saturated electronica that’s at once caustic and caressing, it boldly blurs signifiers of new brutalism and beautiful places. News of a […]
Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri :: La Equidistancia (A Strangely Isolated Place)
La Equidistancia somehow manages to attain an ambient purity you rarely find these days, the material tuned to individual temperament regardless of what that may […]
Crisopa :: Transhumante (Self-Released)
Crisopa eschews solemn, melancholic, and instrumental streams of colorful sound. Lively and draped in emotively calm layers. In late January 2017, Crisopa (aka Madrid-based Santiago […]
Enabl.ed :: Tipsy Haux 2.0 (Clean Error)
Overflowing robust beatwork and rugged melodic strands are featured start to end. If Toytronic was the go-to imprint for brittle and punchy IDM of the past, […]
Geotic :: Abysma (Ghostly International)
There’s never a dull moment on Abysma, and casting it as “passive listening” does it a bit of a disservice, in fairness. It’s a magical […]
Esem :: Enveloped – Remaster (Digital Edition)
Enveloped was a thing of beauty back in 2002, but be under no illusions: this new remastered edition is a revelation. The deFocus imprint launched […]
Pattern Behavior :: Omens (The Crime League)
Omens immediately catches the attention. Musically it brings to the fore a series of menacing and enthralling cinematic ambiences with a clear 80s retro feel. Pattern […]
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