Posts Tagged ‘noise’
It’s already dark and already cold. On my way home I bundle up, wrap my ears in headphones, and cover my head with a hood. Wind is trying to penetrate my sonic shell, but I got a stronger wind inside. Jannick Schou creates torrents of sound capable of silencing the gust. A strong tempest is growing [...]
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Tags: dark ambient, drone, noise
Take a deep breath, press play, and lower the needle. Here’s what happens next. Multiple layers split the frequency spectrum, your own being, and the perceived reality as everything in sight is enveloped in sound. The lowest register appears in the foreground, with deep rumbling bass defining the rhythm and structure. The highs swim below [...]
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Tags: ambient, dark ambient, noise
Belong – Common Era (Kranky)
It’s hard to believe that almost five years have passed since I first heard Belong‘s fantastic debut, October Language (Carpark, 2006). I still remember the day when the New Orleans duo, Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones, unleashed upon me a torrent of noise-heavy shoegaze drowning everything in its path with a distorted cacophony of pure [...]
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Tags: noise, shoegaze, synthpop
Sound Bytes : Samadhisound
With this installment of Sound Bytes we are accomplishing two things at once: introducing your ears to the music of Samadhisound, a label setup by David Sylvian and Steve Jansen; and welcoming on board a new contributor to Headphone Commute – Peter van Cooten, the man behind the wonderful AmbientBlog, featuring mixes, podcasts, and reviews [...]
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Tags: abstract, avant-garde, experimental, experimental jazz, noise
Editor’s Note: Headphone Commute would like to welcome a new contributor to our site, Caspar Menkman. Hailing out of The Netherlands, Caspar is a fan of sounds ranging from Flying Lotus to Intrusion to Hildur Guðnadóttir, and everything in between! He even wrote his thesis on the perceived aesthetic aura in new media, focusing on [...]
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Tags: glitch, idm, noise
I first listened to Ben Frost when he released his sophomore full length album, Theory Of Machines on Bedroom Community back in 2007. I described his music as ambient hardcore – psychologically raw, punishing, and overdriven guitars, with reverberated pads and rhythms that mutate into white noise and back, sending chills that originate deep from [...]
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Tags: ambient, experimental, modern classical, noise
Toronto based Aidan Baker and Montreal based Tim Hecker pair up to deliver an abstract and experimental ambient piece on a Canadian Alien8 Recordings. Hecker is not a stranger to a noise-prominent label, having previously released Mirages (Alien8, 2004), and a re-issue of Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux, 2003). In addition, his ambient recordings have already [...]
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Tags: abstract, ambient, drone, experimental, noise
Exploring the rhythm beyond its regular structure is the main objective in this abstract and experimental album by Kamran Sadeghi, titled Through Thickness. Like little insects beating their wings against an aquarium where rabid fish circle the dying microphone, the sharp frequencies in the swirling noise of clicks is just one image floating to the [...]
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Tags: experimental, minimal, noise
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