The Bed-Stuy based producer is known for creating laser-focused minimalist compositions that grow and evolve into linear exercises in focus and concentration, Prospect Lux continues their Gray Instrument collection – seeking to create new landscapes that have defined, yet evolving, spatial qualities to them. Highly textural sound sculptures of percussion and surging drone. Listen on …
Longform guitar-based ambient from Ryazan, Russia that rides that fine line between noise and drone. It’s a moving piece of music that makes a surprising turn around the 3 minute mark – a missive of relatively sparse and unaffected guitar lines that give way into a massive wall of guitar feedback. Something akin to Boris …
On Musin’s “Self Frequency” the newly signed Italian Minimal House artist to be signed to Jon Hopkins’ “The Ambient Zone”, the track is sprawling and inticrate composition that combines airy drones, bright arpeggios and complex and ever-evolving rhythmic compositions to create some deep headpsace / headphones trip. Deep zones. The Ambient Zone · Musin – …
Signed to Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s Touchplants label, “Prominent Geological Formations” is a collaboration between author-illustrator Rob Moss Wilson and filmmaker-synthesist Cool Maritime. These multi-hyphenated artists met while building tree houses in Santa Cruz, CA – adding yet more hyphens to their rivulets of passion / practice. From there the two began “constructing forts of a …
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A rising force in the Munich dance community, Mindsight channels moody synths, punchy percussion and intimate vocal samples for a dystopian song about accepting uncertainty and the almost nihilistic power of living for the moment. There is a movement on “Trojan Matter” where everything but voice drops out and a break beat comes in that …
There aren’t many better ways to start a morning than to allow the Scottish composer Adenine’s harp, drone and field recordings wash over you like heavy particles of dew. Field recordings taken from the Cairgorm mountains act as crackling noise floor while Adenine’s gently melodic and slowly intensifying harp and droning synths reinterpet and contextualize …
We are most accustomed to the Norway via Arizona based artist’s guitar wanderings splitting the difference between eliding ambient music and forlorn folk lines. On “York” we hear Amparo stretching a bit into the realm of ambient house music with the faintest of a house kick sounding up through the floorboards while layers of drones …
What appears to be a play on the classic miminilst record “Music for Nine Postcards” by Hiroshi Yoshimura, “Postcard (Times Square) off of Music for 15 Emails is a fitting tribute. Featuring one-take field recordings from Times Square (ah…to hear all those people in one place) and a minimilst piano and keys passages that in …
Taking heavy cues from bands like Battles, Zozobra and Hella, the Japanese duo of Paris death Hilton push their maximilist, trigger-fueled mayhem past the red with “Celebcore”. Keeping an insane tempo the duo push past each crescendo and false summit to reveal a new depth in programming, keys and synths tumbling atop each other while …
“Waters (Interlude)” by ambient artist Ismy is an improvised synth piece that embodies many water qualities. Recorded as an improvised stream of conciousness, the faintly rhythmic synth lines flow into one another, creating tiny rivulets and whirlpools where ideas eddy and bob before joining the rest of the ever-coursing corpus of the track. Fans of …