Building up from deep minimal house track, “Without a Trace” is a 12 minute, trance-inducing exercise in linear progression and gradual folding of rhythm on top of itself. The lockstep techno groove never quite relents, but instead folds into new and interesting angles – creating worlds within worlds. Dekatron & Dekatron Music · Without A …
Living in a city with access to a rooftop is a wonderfully world-shrinking experience. The density and landscape of the city comes into sharp relief. “Aerials” by the UK group Tropical Birds is inspired by those city connecting scenes. Utilizing a unique chopped and screwed technique to live synths and drones, “Aerials” glitches, builds and …
Composed using cell phone field recordings and spontaneously recorded sound, “Skies” by the Ukrainian artist and experimental music curator is a slow build from a floating miasma of disembodied voices and distorted sounds. It builds through heavy tonal shifts, drones and light arpeggios that are slowly folded in, a foil to the washes of distortion …
The Mexico-based Broken Kid Club has released an excellent EP today titled Sonder. “Lightbeam” leads as a single as firmly rooted in a heavy and futuristic trap sound that folds in a variety of influences from Orange Milk-style midi vocals and arrangement to Glacci’s lightspeed travels through UK dance music. “Lightbeam” is a stirring combination …
A beautifully constructed ambient / neo-classical composition, “Last Breath” centers around the gentle unspooling of distant drones punctuated by the heavy introduction of strings that swoop down on metallic wings.The Asheville, NC-based artist recorded and produced his latest full length The Four Times, out June 26th, 2020 on Cold Moon Records. The Four Times is inspired by Michaelangelo Frammartio’s …
Hisham Dahud creates stirring compositional movement in his cinematic ambient passages that move with their own internal consistency. Edgeless ambient pads glide through resonating piano chords that act as sign posts towards greater clarity. Rizik · Levitate
In this beautiful new video by Denver, CO musician Luke Mossman of Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Seats has created a graceful and swelling ode to owning that gnawing social anxiety that sticks with us longer than it is invited to. Full of driving piano notes, swelling ambient work and set to Super 8 images …
“An old man in Jiangsu province told me that there is a tree full of wren birds near a temple in Suzhou. People who make a promise over a burnt offering at the temple are bound to their oath. According to legend, if someone broke their promise, a wren at the temple would die. This …
A few weeks ago SpaceX sent a crew of astronauts out of Earth’s orbit to the International Space Station right when the world descended into fires of justified rage. The sentiment towards the astronauts was “smart move”. Fortunately, we don’t have be astronauts or James Bond type super villians to get a bird’s eye view …
A lullaby of sorts before the sky takes on its eternal blackness, “Before You Sleep” is the collaborative effort between two ambient / neo-classical artists bridging a musical chasm between their homes in Australia and Hong Kong, respectively. The result is a tender piano composition lacing a delicate spider web of melody over glowing and …
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