Drifting deeper into ambient sound fields, UK-based Will Brazier-Smith, recording as Xurba, traces hauntological contours across Zelun Somniates, a sequence of ten pieces shaped from slow-moving undercurrents
Tag: Synthesizer
Gollden :: Destiny (Imaginary North)
In a time when so much music competes for attention, Destiny offers something rare. It creates space. It encourages trust in the unknown and reminds us that not all paths need to be clearly defined. Gollden has crafted a dreamlike and restorative work that lingers gently, like the feeling of drifting just above the clouds.
Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen :: Unfolding Skies (Spotted Peccary Music)
The overall feeling of Unfolding Skies definitely more energizing than meditative. The larger collaborative project is an homage to pre-1975 Berlin-school/Krautrock music, all electronic, usually in a journey format, and ranging from free-form beatless episodes and power rock electric guitar vocabularies with stunning drum-like percussion sounds.
harikuyamaku :: AMBIENTAL -Music For Oriental Hotel Okinawa Resort & Spa- (ato.archives)
Blending classic synth melodies with gentle environmental sounds from Okinawa’s mountain forests, harikuyamaku’s AMBIENTAL -Music For Oriental Hotel Okinawa Resort & Spa- creates an upbeat yet unhurried atmosphere designed to quietly energize the background of a hotel lounge.
The Horn :: Troglodyte Tracks (Self Released)
Steve Horn returns with Troglodyte Tracks, a taut, hard-hitting set of electro-funk cuts that dig into the roots of machine music while driving it forward with grit and purpose.
Bastian Void :: Polyshades (Moon Villain)
Years on from his tape-wrangling beginnings, with two Japan tours and a cult following behind him, Joseph Bastardo’s mid-2025 release Polyshades should have marked a defining moment for both the artist and the outer edges of electronic music—even if its quiet arrival now makes this praise overdue.
d’Voxx :: HERZOG: A Retrospective (DiN)
A fearless electronic meditation on obsession and excess, HERZOG: A Retrospective finds d’Voxx transforming cinematic intensity into immersive modular soundscapes.
Vivid Stars Forgotten :: Seven Light Rays (EQ)
Seven Light Rays drifts through eight weightless realms, where Vivid Stars Forgotten crafts a hushed, cosmic escape of slow-burn ambience, submerged bass, and dissolving light.
subtractiveLAD :: METHOD (Self Released)
On METHOD, Stephen Hummel sharpens his sleek, synth-driven pulse into a fractured yet precise electronic journey—reviving dust-coated machines to sculpt ambient drift, restless breakbeats, and acid-tinged IDM into a vivid new chapter of his evolving sound.
Deeper Than Space :: Animal Ghosts (Silent)
Blending ritual electronics with field-recorded mysticism, Animal Ghosts reframes the rave as a portal linking Neolithic spirituality, industrial culture, and a future-memory of ecstatic release.
µ-Ziq :: 1979 (Balmat)
Mike Paradinas’ 1979 is a transportive ambient-IDM memoir, mapping Madrid’s outskirts and his own musical past into a quietly radiant double LP for Lapsus’ Balmat imprint.














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