Thank You For This Upload ← Gacha Bakradze
“delves into the world of cinematic soundscapes, replete with
microscopic details and fragments that showcase a luscious IDM style
audio palette, laced with ambient, avant-techno, bass and sound
design”
Don’t Look ← Mary Lattimore
“The power of undertow pulls the melody, which begins in a
minimalist and elegiac mode, deeper and deeper. Heavy strikes on low
harp strings summon up Neptune’s wrath, dashing heroism against the roar
of the sea, permitting those naive enough to enter that dangerous water
to exit, now less naive”
First flight ← Autotelia
“Although some observers may be able to detect parallels with the
blissful drift of Cluster’s II, the overheated ampstacks of prime
Spacemen 3 or the becalmed modernism of Eno in these radiant trance
states, the core sound of Autotelia remains in splendid isolation, an
unearthly tapestry of echoes and vibrations channeled direct from the id
and the ether”
Traens 11 ← Prins Thomas
“it was like an epiphany: the calling for the missing link between
Logic Trance compilations of yesteryear and the honey for the strobe
light bees of today has finally been answered”
Narkopop 5 ← GAS
“From wafts of dense symphonic mist emerges a floating and
whirling feeling of weightlessness, before the listener steps into an
eerily beautiful forest of fantasy, pulled in by the allure of a
narcotic bass drum”
Different Paces ← Ebcidic
“comes from two single take patches in one day, composed with only
a Verbos Electronics modular & BAM OTO machines reverb processor, that
explores the relationship between tonal movement & rhythm across
different spaces”
Cumulus ← Monochrome Echo
“I have a massive playlist of electronic ambient music which we
play most nights to help our son relax and fall asleep so I decided it
was time to make some of my own. I’ve tested it out and it works”
Verbosa ← Overmono
“Overmono respond to the new normal by amping up their latent
melancholy and luxuriating in a rather British strain of pastoral
electronica”
An Exhale ← Leon Vynehall
“the pads glow like golden hour light and the rhythm stays
suspended in mid-air, a welcome bit of weightlessness before the next
beat crashes in”
Impulse ← mu tate
“this is not new age schmaltz or massage parlour ambient; it’s of
a more heavy, robust ilk with vaporous afterimages of club music
lingering in a sort of post-party etherglow”
Serenade ← Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang
“emanates musical authority, a hyperconscious layering of textures
and musicality, at once evocative of some otherworldly space, yet
familiar at a deep human level that resonates with each sonic
flourish”
Colour the Senses ← A Lily
“mostly built live, looping and layering a single performance,
pushing repetition and patterns - exploratory, cellular variations on a
theme, lyrical songs that say something without lyrics”