Ambient

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Philippe Petit :: You Only Live Ice: Music From The Arctic Ice Shelf (Glacial Movements)

Reviews 05/31/2016 by Alan Lockett

You Only Live Ice compellingly presents a landscape initially at rest, then draped, as if in timelapse, in dense tonal swathes, and wracked with electrostatic […]

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David Morley :: The Origin of Storms (De:Tuned)

Reviews 05/30/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

Ambient music with a rich and textured techno depth. Inspired by Conrad Schnitzler, Morley draws on a soft and serene selection of sounds, swirling them […]

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Parallel Worlds & Self Oscillate :: World Adapter (DiN)

Reviews 05/29/2016 by Pietro Da Sacco

Bridging the infinitesimal gaps between ambient and electronica, each audible snapshot is a pristine melodic bubble of time and space. Composed and produced by Ingo Zobel (Self […]

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Tape Loop Orchestra :: Go Straight To The Light Of All That You Love (Facture)

Reviews 05/28/2016 by Alan Lockett

Artfully as ever, with visuals—blotchy black and grainy grey photos, a figure walking down the middle of a city street, run-down buildings and other urban lowlights—mirroring […]

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Quixosis :: De Fiúcher (Self-Released)

Reviews 05/22/2016 by Pietro Da Sacco

Flowing through brush-stroked ambient realms, industrial landscapes of dub and debris, shattered glass and an abstract drone, here we have Quixosis delivering primal contours from a far […]

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Honzo :: Melancholia (Arboretum)

Reviews 05/22/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

This is dark, lonely music; terrifying in one respect and cruelly honest. And within this rawness, this discord, there are wonderful moments. One of the […]

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Kane Ikin :: Modern Pressure (Type)

Reviews 05/22/2016 by Alan Lockett

Ikin harnesses various trajectories, folding early ’80s industrial and no wave into techno’s pulse, dub’s low end, and eerie Carpenter-esque menace. Drones loom and static sparks […]

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Atiq :: Sonorous EP (Onset Audio)

Reviews 05/21/2016 by Pietro Da Sacco

Sonorous is in and of itself a deep and imposing sound-sculpture—working quite well in continuous repetition and expressing bass-laden environments with the ease and skill […]

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Ben Rath :: Forgiveness (Sound In Silence)

Reviews 05/21/2016 by Philippe Blache

Forgiveness explores melancholic and grey textural drone ambiences with a dialogue between processed sounds (notably taken from the piano and the electric guitar), looped electronic […]

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Boulderdash :: Pro Time Killers (DataDoor)

Reviews 05/20/2016 by Pietro Da Sacco

Progenitor’s of the early 00’s melodic ambient-electronic arena, Boulderdash hone in on their sense of rhythm and tone as Pro Time Killers provides a great snapshot of their […]

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