Posts Tagged ‘ambient’
Along with our Experimedia Label Special currently running on Headphone Commute, we have a very special mix for you from the label! Featuring new and upcoming releases from many of our favorite and a few new labels, this 80-minute journey across ambient and experimental music is a perfect mid-week surprise! Something that’s definitely needed on this [...]
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Tags: ambient, experimental
It’s true… I wait until the sun goes down to listen to the second release from Black Swan. I listen to the music the way others watch the movies. Lounging comfortably in my chair, positioned perfectly between my studio monitors, their cones facing towards me, slightly tilted, completing an imaginary triangle. A glass of wine in [...]
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Tags: ambient, drone, experimental, dark ambient
Cole Pierce – LAKE ODESSA
A long time contributor, a sonic curator, and musical journey vanguard, Cole Pierce, returns to Headphone Commute’s podcast series with his latest auditory map – LAKE ODESSA. This latest installment is more than a mix – it is an extension to Pierce’s sound installation for the Born Digital Exhibition at CAM Raleigh, which is opening today (January, [...]
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Tags: ambient, experimental
Optic Echo – Best Vinyl of 2011
For this vinyl only mix, Mike Jedlicka of Optic Echo selects over 90 minutes of his favorite releases on wax for this Best Vinyl of 2011 journey. Full of incredible ambient soundscapes and modern classical marvels, Jedlicka crafts an itinerary worthy of repeat revisits and appropriate for another end of year celebration. Besides being a programming [...]
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Tags: ambient, best of 2011, modern classical
Before I go into the details of this review, I’d like to take a moment and talk about the label. Glacial Movements is an Italian label, specializing in “glacial and isolationist ambient”, founded and curated by Alessandro Tedeschi, also known as Netherworld. The label was launched in July of 2006, with a customary introductory compilation. The [...]
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Tags: ambient, minimal
It is difficult to know whether to be more impressed by the sheer size of Brock Van Wey’s portfolio as an artist or the level of quality that he manages to sustain. Regardless, Van Wey, or bvdub, surely stands out as one of ambient music’s most influential figures. His recent collaboration with Ian Hagwood, The Truth Hurts, for Nomadic [...]
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Japanese instrumentalist Taishi Kamiya’s Spectra of Air is the artist’s first studio album. Released by the ever impressive Home Normal, the album is a departure from Kamiya’s previous focus on improvisation. Instead we find a carefully constructed soundscape, rich in steadily built texture and detail. The result is both immersive and intriguing. The artwork on [...]
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Tags: ambient, minimal
It still hasn’t snowed on the east coast of the US. The temperature does dip below 30, but then there are days when it’s over 50 degrees, and the sun is blaring into my studio, its warmth so strong I still haven’t turned on the heat. The trees have shed their withered leaves, but the [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical
Richard Chartier – A Wintery Mix
Today we are honored to share with you a special mix from Richard Chartier. With numerous releases on his very own LINE, as well as 12k, Raster-Noton, Room40, Spekk, Die Stadt and many other experimental labels, Chartier is a highly regarded sound artist, manipulator and sculptor of ambient, minimal, and reductionist electronic music. I could continue [...]
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Tags: ambient, experimental, minimal
PvC – Stillness
My good friend and accomplice in exploration of beautiful music, Peter van Cooten, returns to Headphone Commute to showcase some of his favorite selections from 2011. And what a great way to start off the year! Here is an introduction from Peter: This mix obviously found its name from the lovely intro (and outtro) track [...]
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Tags: ambient, minimal, modern classical
Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O’Halloran must get on very well. They have combined here to release their first collaborative work, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, and done so in spectacular fashion. Guest appearances by the Icelandic cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir and violinist Peter Broderick only excite our neurons further. Delicate and restrained in its approach, [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical
Taking the particular route of icy, semi-aquatic landscapes and a borderline-religious respect for nature’s power and fragility in the wider context of one’s ambient music can be a risky thing to do. Fairly often it can come off seeming a bit cheesy somehow, like the artist has thought for a few seconds that their work [...]
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Tags: ambient, dark ambient
We’ve got another special treat for you today! Selecting his favorite tracks for his own headphone commute, Martin Juhls takes us on a journey through chilled out ambiance of pure arctic bliss… Just look at the track names from his selections: Frozen Signpost, Polar, Abandoned Wind, Radiant Ice… This is a perfect soundtrack for the [...]
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Tags: ambient, ambient dub
Waking up this morning, a day of Thanksgiving (and more importantly a day off), I gravitate towards my studio and power on the system. Across the river, the sun is rising, and its bright yellow fingers sweep the cold Autumn skin. On this early day in November I gather my thoughts of all music, in [...]
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Tags: ambient, minimal
Maps and Diagrams – Lights Will Call On You // The Town Beneath The Sea (Nomadic Kids Republic)
Tim Martin has been very prolific this year. Wasn’t it only a this past spring, when he released a limited edition c30 cassette as Maps And Diagrams, titled Red Moon Rising on Chemical Tapes? And wasn’t there another ambient album in June released by Handstitched Recordings, titled The Voices Of Time? And wait, didn’t we [...]
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Tags: ambient, experimental
Learning that Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason decided to work together on a project has already sent torrents of anticipation through the experimental and modern classical music communities. Finally experiencing the album is a whole other journey. Part of me is not surprised that Frost and Bjarnason partnered for this collaboration. I have previously heard [...]
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Tags: ambient, cinematic, modern classical
Originally released in 2008 as a digital download on Rope Swing Cities (a Denver-based netlabel responsible for albums by Celer, Jamie Drouin, and Ian Hawgood), Subtle Trees matures into a physical album for the third catalog entry in the Nomadic Kids Republic family. This gorgeous seven-track album explores the subdued modern-classical side of Jason Corder, [...]
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Tags: ambient
I suppose a part of me suspected that after Brock Van Wey released Tribes At The Temple Of Silence on Home Normal, it would not take long for him to engage in some kind of a collaboration with the label’s curator, installation artist and prolific musician, Ian Hawgood. I just didn’t expect it to happen [...]
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Tags: ambient, ambient dub, minimal
Simon Scott – Bunny (Miasmah)
Having just witnessed a live performance by Simon Scott at Seattle’s Decibel Festival, I was preparing myself for forty minutes of blissful drone and pacified ambient. Imagine my surprise when Bunny opened up with an almost jazzy groove! I shall, however, curb my revelations – this is, after all a release on Miasmah, a label [...]
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Tags: ambient, jazzy
Recent advances in technology elevated everyone to a status of a bedroom producer. Our social networking has released a torrent of music bombarding the airwaves with every possible strain. Among the endless mosaic of fragmented sound bytes I notice these gems. I hope you’ll agree… Daniel Mackenzie – Teeth Sleep Under Winking Black Eyelid (self) [...]
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Tags: ambient, piano, post-rock
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