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Radiomentale / Eric Pajot - I-Land

CD - f4 Music
On first listening it is not easy to recognize the genealogy of this duo, whose origins are grounded in the rave and techno scenes of the nineties, in dj culture, and in a fascination with synthetic sounds and sci-fi movie settings. Jean-Yves Leloup and Eric Pajot, aka Radiomentale ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:49 AM - Apr 23/2013
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ambient . experimental

Fennesz - AUN / The Beginning And End Of All Things

CD - Ash / Touch
It is always difficult to begin discussing new releases by Christian Fennesz. Maybe this is due to the size of his personality, or perhaps it is the complex aesthetics of his compositions, which often center on very elegant and harmonious ambient-drones. His more recent works almost completely ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:38 AM - Feb 2/2013
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ambient . experimental . field recordings

Luis Tabuenca, Wade Matthews - Punto Cero Aragón

CD - Aural Terrains
In the form of a reflection on emotional, psychological and physiological involvements with the words "home" and "territory", the sounds that underlie this project include words, narrated stories, cracklings, shouts, croaks of frogs, whirlpools and winces of the most variegated kinds. Field recordings, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:49 AM - Aug 23/2012
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ambient . drone . experimental

Vitor Joaquim - Filament

CD - Knivitu
Here the sequences impress themselves in an iterated, hybrid union of melodious envelopes and synthetic drones; ambient interlacing characterized by very dilated and hypnotic knits. A sense of suspension fills the entire project. "Our everyday life seems to be always more polluted by messages of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:10 AM - Jun 19/2012
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abstract . ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings

AAVV - Replace

CD - Degem
Degem Concretist music, abstract and environmental, juxtaposed together with hardly classifiable research and field recordings: this is the substance - in short - of fourteen different authors selected and edited by Degem, a label that every year releases a German ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:12 PM - Jun 5/2012
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ambient . electro . electronica

AAVV - Mindfield

CD - Psychonavigation
Psychonavigation is an Irish label based in Dublin, stylistically focused between ambient, electronica and electro. Head honcho Keith Down is also - in this case - the curator of “Mindfield”, an interesting collection dedicated to a certain "mentalism", that crosses several musical genres and heralds calibrated, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:29 AM - May 1/2012
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ambient . electronica . experimental . noise

Martin Neukom - Studien 5-7

CD - Domizil
S basic elements of each auditory event: the oscillations. The feedback and non-linear filters, frequency distortion, granular synthesis work, crackle and various kinds of noise, combine to generate a continuous flow that is both engaging and fascinating: it could work as an ideal soundtrack for ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:21 AM - Jan 12/2012
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ambient . drone . experimental . field recording

AAVV - Table For Six: All Quiet? #3

CD - EE Tapes
EE Tapes have released an interesting collection of ambient electronica, made with contributions from six different authors, who have each composed one extended track between 10 and 13 minutes long. We will try to mention everybody: first up is the Italian Neuestrasse ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:21 PM - Nov 2/2011
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acoustic/digital . ambient . audio art . drone . soundscapes

Emanuele Errante - Time Elapsing Handheld

CD - Karaoke Kalk
Digital-acoustic mixes, delicate lullabies and ambient scores. Overlapping textures sometimes develop from a single note, among meandering drones and clear harmonic articulations. All of Emanuele Errante’s electro-acoustic wisdom comes together in the seven tracks (including two bonus ones in the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:42 PM - Jun 28/2011
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ambient . audio art . drone . noise

Philippe Petit - Scores Henry: The Iron Man

CD - Aagoo
Inserted in our player, this CD immediately plays anxious sounds - dreamy and visionary - reminiscent of the original soundtrack of the movie mentioned in the cover artwork - "Eraserhead" - the first feature film by David Lynch, a cult director who is also often ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:30 AM - Jun 16/2011
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ambient . audio art . experimental . soundscapes

Gail Priest - Presentiments From The Spider Garden

CD - Endgame
Gail Priest - Presentiments From The Spider Garden Articulating field recordings in a fairly evocative way, with dilated drones and vocal interventions, using both digital techniques and acoustic instruments, the Australian sound-artist Gail Priest unravels in "Presentiments From The Spider Garden " a whole compendium of aural starts and dreamlike ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:11 AM - Mar 8/2011
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acoustic . ambient . audio art . drone . experimental

Olan Mill - Pine

CD - Serein
This is the debut album by the Alex and Svitlana Samoylenko Smalley duo, aka Olan Mill - two rather cultured and refined audioartists who propose elegiac instrumental sequences with elegant and solemn jumps that are modulated throughout the scores. The melodious succession of pipe organ and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:04 AM - Mar 3/2011
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ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings

Mathias Delplanque - Passeports

CD - Cronica
Mathias Delplanque was born in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, later moving to Nantes, France - the town where he currently lives and works. Composer, performer and music critic, Delplanque has several releases to his name over the past decade for small but interesting labels (Low Impedance, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Nov 9/2010
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ambient . audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

AAVV - Clicksandcuts Five / Paradigm Shift

CD - Mille Plateaux
In the last decade the "clicks and cuts" aesthetic has permeated many areas of music, invading other contexts and influencing even those dance genres that are not "minimalist" in decisive ways. Artists recording on Mille Plateaux don’t seem particularly affected by this "popularization" however: the label is still focused on "glitches", airy scores and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 25/2010
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ambient . drone . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Francisco Lopez - Amarok

CD - Glacial Movements
Extremely dilated drones, yet not too immaterial, redundant in their progressive slips of many sound layers. Microtones, someone calls them, but there's nothing minimalist in such a soundscape. Just consider the title, "Amarok", the name of a giant wolf in Inuit mythology, a people obviously accustomed to the extremes of an uninhabitable nature, where the sea and the abyss are clearly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 22/2010
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ambient . audio art . experimental . microsound

Ido Govrin - Moraine

CD - Interval
Creeping ambient sequences, with alluring developments are pervaded by drones and split into many layers of auditory tones. This work consists of six compositions, in an electro-acoustic continuum that flows out of deep mechanisms of sound analysis and syntheses that are rich in new and increasingly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:57 AM - Jul 1/2010
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ambient . audio art . drone . experimental

Bj Nilsen - The Invisible City

CD - Touch
This is the third solo album by Bj Nilsen, an artist and experimenter who now, with "The Invisible City", returns to Touch, a renowned label that has maintained a strong presense over the last three decades. This record focusses on one the most engaging and sensitive issues in contemporary art: the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:31 AM - Jun 4/2010
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ambient . audio art . drone . experimental . microsound

Tu M' - Monochromes Vol.1

CD -Line
Released under the moniker Tu M' (Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli), an interesting and all Italian mixed media project is unraveled in a rather airy and meditative way for the prestigious Line label. Since 2000, Line has been curated and directed by Richard Chartier, a sound/installation artist ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:28 PM - Feb 25/2010
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abstract . ambient . experimental . noise . soundscapes

An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music

4CD - Subrosa
Editor Li Ching Sung and Guy Marc Hinant have come together to produce this anthology of Chinese experimental music, which includes 48 different artists whose works are divided across four engaging CDs. Moving beyond the names that are already internationally known (the same Li Ching-sung - aka ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:53 AM - Dec 31/2009
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ambient . audio art . noise

AAVV - Noise Vs Subversive Computing

USB flash drive - Computationally Infeasible Records
Noise Vs Subversive Computing' is a collaborative project that concerns sound suggestions relating to the realm of more experimental ambient-noise, and is both sophisticated and imaginative. There are not only electronic musicians joining this effort but also radical activists, computer hackers and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:34 AM - Dec 14/2009
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ambient . electronica . experimental

The Smiling Buddhas - LO

CD - Base
This work comes in an eco-friendly package, with a hardcover that pulls out the cd as if it was origami (Swedish Jakebox's patent) and has a stencilled "window" as a cover that contains a Tibetan inspired picture. The Smiling Buddhas present their first production on CD; 'Lo', a vibrant, hypnotic, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:00 AM - Aug 3/2009
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ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings

Shinkei / Luigi Turra - YU

CD - Non Visual Objects
Textures dilated, millimetrically suspended in space such that only distracted listening could make appear neutral, together with field recordings and ambient tonal digressions. These are the sound confluences developed by Luigi Turra and Shinkei, both musicians accustomed to minimal audio ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:53 PM - Jul 27/2009
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ambient . electronica . impro

Israel M - Nareah

CD - Aagoo
Mexican Israel Martinez composes rarefied experimental electronic music, and he's careful in unravelling consistent and very sensitive sequences inspired by the minimalist canon. These sequences are quite iterated and melodic, and their development seems to be independent from both analog and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:49 PM - Jun 18/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . electronica . experimental

Ethan Rose - Oaks

CD - Baskaru
To create these minimal sound ellipses Ethan Rose uses an old Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. The sounds are often velvety, ambient and symphonic, and are manipulated using computers and other electronic devices. They are also intertwined with more traditional acoustic instruments such as flute, clarinet, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:24 PM - Mar 27/2009
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abstract . ambient . drone . electronica . soundscapes

Dj Olive - Triage

CD - Room 40
A long time has passed since some non-mainstream scenes started talking about 'illbient', a word coined - in fact - by DJ Olive that better defined and promoted, during the early 90s, the new production trends in ambient music. Very rarefied sound passages, lying somewhere between hip hop ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Feb 1/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . field recordings

Miya Masaoka / Joan Jeanrenaud - For Birds, Planes And Cello

CD - Solitary B
Joan Jeanrenaud, the irreproachable cellist of the Kronos Quartet (who can boast of collaborations with Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, but also with David Byrne and Joan Armatrading) gives instrumental support to this 54-minutes-long continuum of field recordings and ambient textures; a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:44 PM - Jan 10/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . laptop

Fennesz - Black Sea

CD - Touch
Melodic emphasis and discontinuous threads, fragments, hybridizations and crossed patterns: a thick and changing sea of sounds submerges the listener with ambient textures and thousands of streams, confluences and stagnations. Fennesz, walking down a similar path to the one he took with his previous ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:34 AM - Jan 6/2009
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abstract . acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

He Can Jog - Middlemarch

CD - Audiobulb
With the anagrammatized moniker 'He Can Jog', sound artist Erik Schoster pays tribute to John Cage, master and seminal experimenter. Cage remains an essential point of reference, especially for those who still wonder about the complex compositional structures in contemporary music. It's not by chance, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:47 PM - Dec 2/2008
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acoustic/digital . ambient . drone . experimental . soundscape

Maju - Maju-5

CD - Extreme
In Japanese, "Maju" (pronounced 'may-you') has approximately the same meaning as the English word "cocoon". So in this album, the music-induced relaxation is completely different to that often obtained in neo-lounge intimate trends, usually derived from frivolous electronic entertainment and consumed in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:46 PM - Nov 28/2008
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ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings . microsound

Jos Smolders - Gaussian Transient (Megaphone)

CD - Nonvisualobjects
Coherent auditory elements, proliferation of individual sound ideas, field recordings, absences and frequencies, non-linearity, suspension and saturation, drones, ambience and conceptualism. These are just a few of the elements occurring in 'Gaussian Transient', a multifaceted work, that is not really very ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:25 PM - Nov 27/2008
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ambient . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . microsound

Michael Santos - The Happy Error

CD - Baskaru
Extremely delicate harmonic passages, "clicky", dense and slightly "gummy" acoustics, interwoven with expanded patterns, with an almost oneiric quality in the juxtaposition of crackle and melody, finally combining to give a melancholic and fluctuating character. Textures are sensibly organized and diluted ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:31 AM - Nov 15/2008
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ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Various Artists - Favourite Places

CD - Audiobulb
Non-imaginary places, strictly related to the authors' dreams and intimate thoughts. They are "favourite places" because "there are places in the world where we come back later", "places that retain something precious feeding us". Ten sound artists were involved, starting with Taylor Deupree and his "space" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:28 PM - Jun 6/2008
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ambient . deep . electronica . soundscapes

Pridon - Apnea Eina

CD - Low Impedance
Pridon a.k.a. Petros Voudouris structures a quiet and enjoyable electronica, influenced by many different styles including techno, electro, IDM, dub and even an ounce of seventies psychedelia. This tissues are then carefully reassembled mixing different "spices", but nevertheless the accessible moments are not ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:59 PM - Apr 5/2008
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acoustic/digital . ambient . audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Autistici - Volume Objects

CD - 12 K
Rarefied and abstract digital soundscapes, acoustic iterations ('Broken Guitar', 'Discarded Violin') and bleeps come to us from David Newman, aka Autistici, for the 12K label directed by Taylor Deupree. Extremely sensitive constructions full of melody, crackle attitude and very contemporary styles, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Mar 23/2008
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ambient . drone . experimental . soundtracks

Klaus Schulze - Body Love Vol. 2

CD - Revisited Records
Recorded by Klaus Schulze (accompanied by the percussionist Harald Grosskopf) from the end of 1976 and the following September, Body Love Vol. 2 was born originally as a whimsical reprise of a successful previous project, designed to be used as the soundtrack of a porn flick by the director Lasse Braun. The ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:32 AM - Mar 19/2008
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