Archive for August, 2010
It’s been a while since we covered one of our all time favorite labels, n5MD. The last time we praised Mike Cadoo‘s label was in Headphone Commute’s Best of 2009 lists, where Plastik Joy, Port-Royal and Last Days grabbed the slots among our selections of the year. In 2010, Cadoo has been busy, releasing a [...]
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Tags: glitch, idm, post-rock, shoegaze
It’s an empty Sunday, and I’m counting down the hours before another week fills its walls. I was trying to warm up its coldness with a few quiet sounds of my own. So I sat at my baby grand and played this improvised piece. Totally random, but hope you enjoy…
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Tags: piano
Today we’re presenting to you one of our favorite ambient journeys from Low Light Mixes. Although this mix was made in the dead of winter, we still feel that its calm nature can soothe away your daily worries, stress and aches. It definitely hits the spot on this side of the mixing board. Here’s Dave [...]
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Thomas Pijols, aka Nebulo, is back with a brand new album on the beloved Hymen out on September 10th! And you get to hear the album teaser here, on Headphone Commute! Fifteen dark and glitchy tracks, a staple sound for this German label, will excite your neurons and awake the spirit of archaic subconscious. Here’s [...]
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Tags: dark ambient, dark idm
Before I dive into this melodic and emotional IDM album, I want to talk about the label. Symbolic Interaction is an independent label run by Kentaro Togawa out of his hometown, outside of Tokyo, Japan. Togawa started the label in 2007, and in the last three years released about twenty five albums (Out In A [...]
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Tags: cinematic, electronica
You’re based in Greece, and Symbolic Interaction is in Japan. How did you end up getting signed on the label? With internet of course. Internet helped me a lot in my music. I made my first step in releasing music through various netlabels. There I met Headphone Science (Dustin Graig) with whom we collaborated in [...]
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I’m not even going to hide the fact that I’m a huge fan of Ben Lukas Boysen, aka Hecq. In the past years, Ben has contributed a Mix to Headphone Commute, and we’ve seen multiple interviews on these pages. Hecq has recently released an EP on Ad Noiseam titled Sura, as a preview for his [...]
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Tags: dubstep, idm
This is an oldie from the archives. Driving through the country I came upon a field hockey game, and couldn’t resist to capture the cracking sounds of fiberglass sticks, plastic ball and adrenalin driven voices.
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Paying homage to Brian Eno‘s ambient masterpiece, Music for Airports (Polydor, 1978), which Eno created for the whole purpose of being played in actual airports, to convey calmness and reassurance to the passengers about to set off on an airborne journey, The Black Dog set out to create their own version, designed for real airports. [...]
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Tags: dark ambient, experimental, techno
Audiobulb Records
Interview with David Newman Hey David, how are you? What did you do this past weekend? Hi Headphone Commute – I’m good thanks. Its summer here – I took a bike down a trail through the Derbyshire countryside. Beautiful and exhilarating. Let’s get right to it. What is the mission of Audiobulb Records? Audiobulb represents [...]
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While other Architect albums have been somewhat minimalist affairs, Consume Adapt Create is crammed full of sounds… individual and myriad in number, placement and aesthetic. You might have wondered what happens when Daniel Myer is placed in a creative vacuum and allowed free reign to run as far as his imagination will take him. This [...]
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Tags: electro, experimental, idm, industrial
Five albums into the Architect project, what has changed since its original inception well over a decade ago? Actually not a lot. I am older, which is the obvious:) But its still me creating the Music. Trying to push my musical Direction with no Limits. Consume Adapt Create is a record which functions on many [...]
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Sound Bytes : Audiobulb Special
It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon. It’s that hour when the weekend is almost over, but the work week has not yet begun. How do I stretch the remaining hours in peace and tranquility, cherishing the hours that are left for me to enjoy? Sheffield (UK) based Audiobulb Records, run and operated by David Newman, aka [...]
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