Heavily electronica-based utilizing analog synths alongside tape machines, piano, strings and walls of ambient atmospherics, often focuses on the analog side of capturing and creating sound in the real world with physical hardware.
Tag: Castles In Space
Field Lines Cartographer :: This Vibrating Earth (Castles in Space)
FLC pushes the sonic envelope into more atomically intense innerscaping; couched as it is in sprawling tracts from brooding pulse (“Still Canyon”) to queasy drones (“Hypogeum”), chthonic atmo (“Thawing Ice Temples”) to percolating celestial (“Rain Clouds Descending”)…
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2022
After covering several hundred releases in 2022, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.
Kayla Painter :: Infinite You (Castles In Space)
A little less on the club orientated side than previous releases, Infinite You explores darker prospects and leftfield entities.
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan :: Districts, Roads, Open Space (Castles In Space)
Overall, D, R, O S makes for a diverting work of wry mischief-making social comment in sonic documentary clothing couched in ’70s/80s library sonics and retro-fit synthesis.
CLAIR :: “Body Blossom” (Hot Gem)
The entire composition rests in the ears and mind like a dewy mist hanging over the mossy floor of a forest tucked into rolling green hills.
Field Lines Cartographer :: Dreamtides (Castles In Space)
Dreamtides is another widescreen work that plays out like a sonic dream journal, with vivid illustrations of unreal landscapes couched in slow-elaborated recursions of languorous synth-tones.
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2021
After covering several hundred releases in 2021, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no […]
Dalham :: Fünf: The Past Is a Foreign Country EP (Castles In Space)
Rhythmically flowing, these two slices of life, while a beatless foray through nostalgic soundscapes, is as blissful to the ears as any of his previous audio works.
clocolan :: This Will End In Love (Castles In Space)
The broken pitter-patter beats and downtempo foray through wandering synths only seek to further encrust clocolan’s ability to shift us into familiar BoC dimensions.
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