An analytical thinker who conveys thoughts concretely with an array of fascinating rhythms and beguiling melody, likely attributable to the early influence of The Aphex […]
Tag: Minimal
V/A :: Ultrasoft! Anthems 33 (Plastic Sound Supply)
Building on a tradition of genre-defying output and continual reinvention, the collective rests gently underneath the umbrella of ambient music at this moment in time. […]
Fabio Perletta :: Field: Atom (s) Entropy (Farmacia901)
The investigation of slowly evolving sound textures, passing from process-ambient drone music to a real-abstract sound painting, mainly attentive to spectrality and detailed microsonic sound […]
AOKI Takamasa :: RV8 (Raster-Noton)
It is simplicity as virtuosity, minimalism whittled with the knife-edge exactitude of a Giacometti figurine. Eight flint-edged “rhythm variations” by Osaka-based AOKI Takamasa, bitumen slick […]
Delete :: Neva EP (Mindtrick)
Mysterious Russian producer Delete operates in one of the many branches of the step scene with a particular brand of past garage. It’s strange how musical genres ebb […]
6 & 8 :: City Plaintive (Xylem)
The challenging and singular sound textures offered by the duet intuitively explore the dark corners of our imagination, the mnemonic traces of the past, buried […]
Pleq & Hakobune :: 0.0 (Murmur)
Its four parts are music for a fifth season, when the mind is in an autumnal fugue state in the middle of a bright, rainless […]
Fabio Orsi :: Glowing Echoes (Analogpath)
Cradling an electric guitar run through filters and effects, its two parts, approximately twenty-four and seventeen minutes long, respectively, are simple, smooth and enchanting. Glowing […]
Virlyn :: Man Asleep (Etalabel)
An unearthly beautiful album which embraces the territories of deep ambient music and poetical minimalist dreamscapes. Frédéric Vanderlynden is a Belgian sound designer and composer […]
Federico Leocata :: Zarathustra (Abstract Forms)
Amidst the northern winds and cutting hail of Zarathustra is an emotive warmth, a comforting core shielding the showers of modernity. Federico Leocata makes his […]
V/A :: Aquarius (Dronarivm)
Liquidity has always been an apt metaphor for ambient music as well as for what this collection represents—the fluidity, if not downright irrelevance of boundaries, […]

















