Constantly threatening and burgeoning, there are hints of extra-sensory projections. Nothing mellow here. It gives a large space to tiny incremental directions and micro-tonal gestures. […]
Tag: Drone
Dead Melodies :: The Masterplan (Cryo Chamber)
Sentient soundscapes are mainly built around evanescent drones, filtered bass frequencies, naturally waving undulations, occasional discreet electronic pulses, and processed micro sounds to give the […]
Rafael Anton Irisarri :: Peripeteia (Dais) — “Refuge/Refuse” video premiere
Peripeteia (a sudden reversal of change in circumstances) embraces the far banks of dark ambient terrain—culling fragments made from dust, debris, field recordings, and stretched […]
Daniel McCagh :: Altered States (n5MD)
There are unseen depths here. A record to take in slowly, one listening at a time—but beautiful and rewarding. Wide spaces and unseen depths Even […]
Healing Sounds from Past Inside the Present
Out now on Past Inside the Present, home of all that’s good in Ambient Drone and otherwise: Healing Sounds II: A compilation for those in […]
AJNA :: Oracular (Cyclic Law)
The album progressively goes into a black maelstrom of desolate, creeped-out, and ghostly-like atmospheres as well as rich and emotional apexes. Power noise industrialism with […]
Eldorado Omega :: Beatkits (Self Released)
With Beatkits we see the Atlanta-based producer opening his modular machines with expressive, downbeat rhythms slithering all around us with an edgy quirkiness. An analogous […]
FARWARMTH :: Momentary Glow (Planet Mu)
FARWARMTH eschews anything traditional or melodic, and what emerges from his experimental compositions are sometimes would-be rhythms—sometimes huge swaths of frequencies which clash and collaborate […]
Elsewhereness revisited #16 new age of isolationism
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blah, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, complete with new […]
Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini :: Illusion of Time (Mute)
While the melodic content is sparse, the work put in to making these synths sound so large, beautifully melancholic, sometimes on the verge of breaking […]
NERATERRÆ :: Scenes From the Sublime (Cyclic Law)
The music delivered here is one solid exploration in subterranean micro-genres which navigate through deeply ominous blackened drones to ambient isolationism and eerie ambient soundscapes […]

















