Mapping a serene ambient utopia where nature reigns supreme, Mateis E. Aqir‘s debut 12″ on Seattle’s Jungle Gym Records makes for the kind of sonic odyssey you’ll have
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Results1003Jon Hassell announces new album ‘Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)’
Composer, trumpet player and musical conceptualist Jon Hassell has announced the release of his first album in nine years, “Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)”. The release
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Skee Mask makes his return to Ilian Tape this Spring with ‘Compro’ LP
A staple of the Zenker bros-run Munich gang, Skee Mask makes his return to Ilian Tape this spring with ‘Compro‘, his second full-length after his acclaimed 2016-released debut
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Origin Peoples line up new Madteo cassette ‘Unrescuable Dense Musik of the Blah Blahs’
Hot on the heels of his ‘Confessions of a Permanent Alien Opium Beater‘ tape, released last year via Origin Peoples, dancefloor occultist and leftfield hoodoo priest Madteo
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First Listen: Hear a first extract from Michael Vallera’s forthcoming record, ‘All Perfect Days’
Wrapping your ears around Michael Vallera‘s forlorn melodies and smouldering guitar riffs often feels like being drawn into all-devouring emotional quicksands. By turns conjuring up flickering
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Traumprinz continues to confound with two new triple LPs as DJ Healer & Prime Minister Of Doom
Whether these are new Traumprinz projects, the beginnings of a new label and A&R journey, or even an elaborate April Fools prank is unknown. If it is the latter, then a full standing applause is due! Read on to enter All Possible Worlds
Gigi Masin: KITE
KITE is simply an album that doesn’t need to do anything beyond exist in its own little vacuum; it isn’t a profound new age revelation, but it’s great because it doesn’t try to be.
Premiere: Terminal Sound System – Verses
Debuted in 1999, the long-haul musical journey of multi-talented Australian artist Skye Klein has seen him traverse eras and styles with a consistence that’s well worth
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Wolfgang Voigt readies sixth GAS album ‘Rausch’
Wolfgang Voigt’s renowned ambient project GAS is to return this year with the release of a new album entitled ‘Rausch‘. Due for release May 18 via
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S.O.N.S: Shin-Okubo One Night Stand
Cinematic yet danceable, undecidedly appealed by Everestian heights all the while traveling the infra-world with eagle vision, this new outing further asserts S.O.N.S as a sure-handed producer with an unparalleled knack for crafting this subtle melange of micro-organic technoid scapes and extra wide-angle compositions.
Nachtdigital unveil 2018 lineup: Beatrice Dillon, Blawan, Demdike Stare, Rroxymore, Huerco S.
Nachtdigital Flex features an exciting selection of established talents alongside newer and lesser-known artists including Blawan, Demdike Stare, Objekt, Beatrice Dillon, Optimo, Rroxymore, Ben UFO and Huerco. S amongst many others.
Francis Harris: Minor Forms
Francis Harris returns to his imprint Scissor & Thread to present his first solo material in three years. His new EP, the eagerly awaited ‘Minor Forms’, features two original tracks from Harris’ own hand, complemented by two remixes from IDO co-founder Valentino Mora, who delivers his first reworks ever since shifting monikers.
Rafael Anton Irisarri: Sirimiri
Shrouded in melancholic vapours and forlorn harmonics, Irisarri’s new album for Umor Rex presents four majestic extended cuts as so many viewpoints on an untouched phantasmal valley. Drawing its name from the Basque word for ‘drizzle’ – which makes absolute sense given the fine-grained, caressingly fresh nature of its sound design, ‘Sirimiri’ offers sensations in their purest essence, primitively symbolic yet actively contemplative.
Premiere: Rain Text – 2.1
United under the guise of Rain Text are well-known Italian producers Giuseppe Ielasi, founder of Fringes Recordings and Schoolmap, and Giovanni Marco Civitenga, who you may better
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Sonniku: Diamond Dust
With ambient often falling into one of two camps – aural representations of Jupiter or the unsettling tones of a cheese grater orchestra – Sonniku has hit upon an inspired niche. If your childhood was spent contemplating hit points and there is a little circular indent on your thumbprint that has never faded away, there may just be something here for you.
Sasha ‘Refracted’ live at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Long time staff writer Simon Whight shares his experience of Sasha’s live performance of ‘Refracted’ at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.