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SubtractiveLAD :: Sustain / Release (Self-Released)

Reviews 05/05/2017 by Philippe Blache

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 […]

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Elsewhereness revisited #4 appetite for distraction

Features 03/05/2017 by Alan Lockett

Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed, and ’camp-ed up, complete with companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]

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V/A :: Meditations 3 (Shimmering Moods)

Reviews 03/04/2017 by Philippe Blache

Meditations 3 is a fine collection of modern, discreetly pulsating and cerebral ambient sketches. Shimmering Moods is back with a new collection of intimate, soothing and […]

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Murkok :: So Little Music (Shimmering Moods)

Reviews 02/10/2017 by Philippe Blache

A beautifully evocative album in the downtempo and dream ambient genre. Loyal to its stylistic trademark, Shimmering Moods Records are back with three new releases to […]

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Maurizio Abate & Matteo Uggeri :: Beyond Time (Time Released Sound)

Reviews 01/07/2017 by Philippe Blache

A recommended effort which successes to launch a bridge between folk-ish experimentation, electro-acoustic paradigms and minimal ambient soundscapes. Well known for his chamber post-rock orchestra […]

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Elsewhereness revisited #2 Man Bites Hypnagogue

Features 08/28/2016 by Alan Lockett

Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging, tube-lubed, cloud-ed, and bcamped-up, complete with companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited #2 Two reissues […]

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David Fyans’ Somnambulist’s Field Guide

Newswires 08/12/2016 by Alan Lockett

Breaking from Broken20, news of an impending audiovisual release from David Fyans, man behind the label’s design aesthetic. ‘Sound has always been an integral part of ritual. […]

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Haruo Okada + Fabio Perletta :: Genkai (LINE)

Reviews 06/19/2016 by Philippe Blache

A cross between micro-tonal electronics, processed acoustic textures and sound ecology. Fabio Perletta is an Italian sound artist (now living in Berlin) whose I discovered the […]

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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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