Having kept our opinion quiet over the past two years, we’ve compiled what we believe to be the best albums of 2018.
GenreAmbient
Results1138
Hodge
Hodge steps up to our podcast series with an all-ambient mix recorded live at Elevator club in Shanghai. It’s a headlong experience that awaits, lulling you into a world of beatless serenity and vaporous captivation.
Nachtdigital gear up for 2019
Nachtdigital have announced the dates for the 2019 edition of the long-running German electronic music festival named Nachtdigital “Mint”. Now entering their 22nd evolution, the festival will
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Bibio: Phantom Brickworks IV & V
A year on and Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio picks up from where he left off, unearthing two unheard cuts from the Phantom Brickworks sessions, offered up in the form of a deluxe limited edition photo-book and extended player.
Premiere: Ligovskoï – Fairbanks
In an ever more rapidly changing world, at a time in which every artistic production has become a consumer good like any other, ambient music aims
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Music Video: Landon Speers – Wild Rose – “II”
Such magic is undoubtedly at work in today’s visual premiere. The footage set to ‘II’, a cut from Landon Speers’ exploratory ambient record ‘Wild Rose’, is not as much a music video as it is a kind of visual poem, its wordless meaning made audible in the achingly soft tones of Speers’ poignant composition.
Murcof crafts an eclectic and emotive mix for Newtype Rhythms
Newtype Rhythms returns after a reset – a lengthy hiatus that rewired the circuits and set things back up within the lines of communication this time
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Premiere: Orlando FitzGerald – A Failed Species
Up to this point in Earth’s seemingly never-ending history, five mass extinctions have hit the planet we call home, including the one that saw dinosaurs become
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Bibio lines up Phantom Brickworks IV & V and 52 page photo-book of his photographic work
It has been a year since Bibio released his deeply pensive and emotive album “Phantom Brickworks” via Warp Records. As some of you will know Bibio
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Premiere: Eszaid – Alicante
After a debut tape album released in 2016 through his own imprint Collapsing Market, French producer Louis Vial, aka Eszaid, returns with his first long player, ‘Eurosouvenir‘,
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Vril: Anima Mundi
This is straight up space music: aliens, black holes, astronauts, star ships. Contained are absolutely massive beats and bottomless synth pads. ‘Anima Mundi’ is acidic, burning away the rust to reveal the shiny underbelly of a rocket ship headed to a distant solar system. This is true stargazing music, made for asking the biggest questions of our existence.
Premiere: Midnight Tenderness – Croxton Yard
If Australia’s been an inexhaustible breeding ground for quality electronic music over the last decade, it’s also proven to keep up the pace quite brilliantly as
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Premiere: Preset – Atmos4
Few labels out there seem capable of giving you a spitting picture of their day-to-day creative environment with the sense of direct drive-like immediacy Molten Moods does
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Premiere: Cromie – Told
Since its launch back in 2014, Los Angeles’ Material Image has kept building bridges between the local underground and the worldwide circuit, relying on artists as diverse and
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Premiere: B. Hayes – Ovation
Inaugurated last year with a choice slab from Joel Shanahan under his Golden Donna moniker, shortly followed by Brazilian artist Zopelar, Madison-based label Yugen Records finally
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Vril lines up second album ‘Anima Mundi’ for Delsin
Following the release of his sublime ‘Haus‘ EP on Giegling earlier this July, today German producer Vril announces his fourth album ‘Anima Mundi‘ on Dutch techno
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