Ambient
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Audiopile Review: Behold the much-anticipated return of spiritual jazz maestro and Warp Records recording artist Nala Sinephro. More anticipated than you may realize. You know how it is: a record blows up and everyone’s excited. Then they move on to the next thing. But if a record is seriously good,...
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Audiopile Review: Sublime Records, the boundary pushing Japanese electronic imprint, celebrates 30 years by reissuing a pair of their classics, released at the start of their three decade run. First up is Ken Ishii’s Reference To Difference, which makes its vinyl debut here. Reference lands in the middle of a...
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Audiopile Review: Also joining the 30th Anniversary celebration of Sublime records is perhaps the label’s best known release, Susumu Yokota’s Acid Mt. Fuji, which was actually issued the same day as Ken Ishii’s Reference To Difference! Acid Mt. Fuji would mark a sizeable jump in style for Yokota, whose 1993...
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Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player Masayoshi Fujita returns with Migratory, his masterful new solo album, where his sonic explorations into the unknown continue. In 2020, after 13 years of living in Berlin, Fujita returned to his native Japan with his wife and their three children, fulfilling his life-long dream of...
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Audiopile Review: One of our favourite labels of all time is Silent Season, the dub techno, ambient and spacey electronica imprint run from the nearby Comox Valley for the past 17 years. While we’ve eagerly awaited for a new vinyl release from them (heck, would love to see some reissues...
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"Detailed enough to transcend the New Age tag, it’s a genuine contender for album of the year [...]" - The Guardian "[...] a journey as strange, wondrous, revealing and beautiful as any Attenborough documentary. Ambient music for the head and the heart." - Songlines Magazine "You'll seldom feel as close...
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Audiopile Review: White hot producer Florian T M Zeisig revisits his 2018 cassette release for Cassauna, You Look So Serious, with this expanded 2xLP set, issued here in a scant edition of 230. Zeisig has been on an incredible streak as of late, most notably contributing to Kelela’s explosive Raven...
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Reconfiguring the laments from their debut album, Old Saw distill a wilted and hollow reflection from their original recordings. Lines freshly traced, erased, and reassembled from cassette and reel-to-reel machines, presented here like new writing on an old postcard...
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In the realm of computer-generated music, all compositions are essentially binary, consisting of zeros and ones, representing data and information. Within this binary structure, every musical event exists amidst a backdrop of unchosen possibilities, creating a sense of absence and mourning for what could have been. The bittersweet emotional quality...
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Sachi Kobayashi began making house music in 2017 but in recent years has shifted her focus towards ambient and experimental sounds. Kobayashi has sung in choirs since childhood, drawing from those experiences in her current focus in making harmonic ambient music. The liturgical aspects of her history in choirs is...
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Audiopile Review: Right from the opening track of slow strings and crackling ambience on “Everything Forgotten Flows”, long-time listeners of Priori will surely recognize the Montreal-based producer and head of NAFF is moving into new territory. While his 2020 debut, On A Nimbus, as well as the follow-up, Your Own...
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Audiopile Review: H TO O is the Tokyo based environmental ambient project of H. Takahashi and Kohei Oyamada, creating lush pastoral ambiance that seamlessly blends organic sounds with rich synthesized swirls. Keen eyed readers of our newsletter may recognize H. Takahashi from his standout 2023 release Flow or more recently...
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Following on from 2012’s acclaimed “Fame” Post-Punk & 2015's "Perfect Motion" Psychedelic-Baggy 1988-93 compilations, Jon Savage decided to focus upon Electronic music from the Post-Punk era 1978-82 & has compiled an album that takes in Disco, proto-techno & experimental sounds.. This compilation is selected and curated by renowned cultural commentator,...
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Audiopile Review: Our Record of the Week is the self-titled 1996 debut from Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas project. Finally reissued by Voigt’s Kompakt label as a deluxe 3LP set, this is an essential part of any serious electronic music fan’s record collection. The Gas discography is a cornerstone of both dub...
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Following the 1997 release of Zauerberg, Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS project returned with Königsforst, a full length that has stood the test of time as a template for introducing fundamentals of 90’s techno into the principles of contemporary electronic music. Originally released in 1998 on the iconic Frankfurt imprint Mille Plateaux,...
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POP – the album that has become widely recognized as the defining moment in which Wolfgang Voigt brought us into a clearing of his deep, psychedelic forest. A landmark release in the GAS odyssey that drew international attention, POP was originally released in 2000 on the iconic Frankfurt imprint MILLE...
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ZAUBERBERG – Wolfgang Voigt’s most fundamental (and foreboding) release under his alias GAS and perhaps of all in his untold discography – finally stands alone once again and is released in the way its original splendour. Though this narcotic symphony is not the first release under the GAS moniker, ZAUBERBERG...
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Double LP version. The GAS album Der Lange Marsch once again invites listeners to follow the deep sounding bass drum, to give in to its irresistible pull into a psychedelic world of 1000 promises. At the latest with the release of the albums Zauberberg and Königsforst, in the mid-1990s,...
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2021 repress; Double LP version. Includes download code. Rausch was created as a single composition. The intention is to listen to the album as a whole from beginning to end. Following a global tour, GAS will continue to perform live throughout 2018 to support Rausch....
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Scottish dream-pop pioneers Cocteau Twins meets American minimalism heavyweight Harold Budd on this cherished '86 collaboration The Moon And The Melodies. Budd's emotive, lingering ivory stabs are the perfect match for the thickly-layered ethereal atmosphere produced by Guthrie's shimmering guitar with the intensity heightened by Liz Fraser's uniquely brilliant vocal...
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Balmat has always been careful not to call itself an ambient label. But with the 11th release, the label turns its ears -- proudly, blissfully -- to a strain of ambient at its most timeless. The appropriately titled Dreams & Whispers comes from Warsaw's Bartosz Kruczyński, who has recorded under...
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Audiopile Review: Regular readers of our weekly email who dig down deep into the nooks and crannies of the electronic section will likely have come across albums from 36 (pronounced three-six) over the years. With releases on imprints like Past Inside The Present and A Strangely Isolated Place, not to...
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Ambient craftsman Tomokazu Fujimoto aka Multi-Surface describes the 11 pieces of his 2nd album for NNF as “nap-like” – fleeting vignettes of FM synths and fragmented melody, looping and smeared across lost hours of the afternoon. Recorded over a year of sessions at his home studio in the Japanese countryside,...
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Audiopile Review: New full length of Immersive luxury-jazz by the unsinkable Greg Foat, who, just over halfway through the year, is somehow on his fourth full length. Foat’s ensemble here is larger than we’re used to hearing from the uber-collaborator, as he’s tended towards duos and trios for...
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The reissue of "JATAKA," a pioneering album by synthesizer virtuoso Osamu Shoji (also known as Osamu Tokairin), is finally here! "JATAKA" stands as an ambient to experimental synthesizer masterpiece from the late 70s, showcasing Osamu Shoji's prowess as a composer, arranger, and synthesizer player. The album features a total of...
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Audiopile Review: Recently, discussing a reissue of Belong’s 2011 ambient-pop classic ‘Common Era’, we also teased a new LP. We called it an album-of-the-year-contender. Well, now we have ‘Realistic IX’ in stock and, while time will tell regarding the AOTY thing, it’s certainly our record of the week. New Orleans-based...
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Audiopile Review: Keplar is doing a phenomenal job of getting glitch classics from the late CD era into print on vinyl. Recently, we’ve had albums from Tujiko Noriko, Frank Bretschneider, Vladislav Delay, and so, and so on. If all this label had done was get Ekkehard Ehlers’ ‘Plays’ back into...
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Audiopile Review: Double shot this week of two EPs of Terre Thaemlitz’s legendary work culled from her 1994 CD-only album Tranquilizer, both 12”s fitted with freshly unearthed mixes that were initially issued on the expanded 2xCD 30th anniversary reissue from earlier this year. Thaemlitz might be better known as a...
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Audiopile Review: Double shot this week of two EPs of Terre Thaemlitz’s legendary work culled from her 1994 CD-only album Tranquilizer, both 12”s fitted with freshly unearthed mixes that were initially issued on the expanded 2xCD 30th anniversary reissue from earlier this year. Thaemlitz might be...
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Audiopile Review: Strong collaboration of ritual-ambient from the newly forged duo Unstern, made up of deep-drone/dark-ambient producer Arzat Skia and Leo Svirksy, the latter of whom we last caught on his 2019 album of ecstatic solo piano pieces, River Without Banks, issued on Unseen Worlds. Co-mixed by none other than...
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Audiopile Review: Dutch producer and composer Michel Banabila is one of those previously obscure European ambient/fourth world artists who have recently found favour with crate diggers and reissue fiends everywhere. Think Gigi Masin and Ariel Kalma. The wonderful thing about all three of these artists is that they’re all still...
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An overview of Laraaji’s earliest works, Glimpses of Infinity gathers selections from his 1978 debut Celestial Vibration and six additional studio sessions from the era. Full of discovery and wonderment, Glimpses of Infinity is a miraculous chronicle of new age’s most fabled artist. A condensed version of the 2023's sold...
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Audiopile Review: Stunning debut album from Parisian duo Rue des Garderies, a recently forged alliance made up of Désiré Bonaventure & Zach, both new names to us but are known quantities within the experimental scene in Paris. In fact, their name is taken after Rue des Gardes, a notable but...
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"천국 / ☆ your quest starts here ☆" is a collection of two releases by Jaiden Macintosh, originally published in February and November, respectively, of 2022. You will hear music, you will hear familiar sounds, you will hear your childhood, you will hear your future....
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2023 restock; gatefold vinyl reissue of Einstürzende Neubauten's Silence Is Sexy, originally released in 2000. This vinyl double album contains the track "Pelikanol," first available as a bonus track with the 2000 release of the album and now for the first time available on vinyl. Silence Is Sexy finally receives...
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Audiopile Review: Japanese trio Unknown Me follow-up their 2021 album Bishintai for the Not Not Fun imprint with Bitokagaku, another slip into ethereal bliss, besting their albums preceding it. While the trio’s lineup includes P-RUFF and Yakenohara, both busy with various other projects, the notable third member, H. Takahashi, has...
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Pianeti Sintetici presents AI-37, entitled ‘Space Opera’. Conceived by Italian artist Davide Perrone, the Pianeti Sintetici (“Synthetic Planets”) project hypothesises the creation of future synthetic worlds as told through sound. Although split across two parts, the album is a singular organism that narrates a journey of boundless cosmic exploration. A...
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A year on since the collaborative Mystic AM project in 2022, Rod Modell returns solo to Astral Industries with AI-35. The album - entitled ‘Ghost Lights’ - comes as a gatefold 2x vinyl LP, showcasing the latest epoch of Modell’s signature soundscapes. Spread across four parts, ‘Ghost Lights’ draws out...
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Audiopile Review: Celer is one of thee masters of 21st-century ambient music. And, also, one of the most absurdly prolific artists ever. It’s extremely nice that some admirable labels are curating selections from the massive Celer discography of CDRs, cassettes, and downloads into proper vinyl editions. ‘Landmarks’, a 2018 collaboration...
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Out of Season and Hosianna Mantra are proud to announce the launch of the first-ever reissue campaign of the works of cult fantasy synth figure Jim Kirkwood, whose original compositions predated by several years the legendary dark ambient progenitors of what would later be rebranded as “dungeon synth”. Kirkwood's...
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Out of Season and Hosianna Mantra are proud to announce the launch of the first-ever reissue campaign of the works of cult fantasy synth figure Jim Kirkwood, whose original compositions predated by several years the legendary dark ambient progenitors of what would later be rebranded as “dungeon synth”. Kirkwood's musical...
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Out of Season and Hosianna Mantra are proud to announce the launch of the first-ever reissue campaign of the works of cult fantasy synth figure Jim Kirkwood, whose original compositions predated by several years the legendary dark ambient progenitors of what would later be rebranded as “dungeon synth”. Kirkwood's...
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First compilation diving deep into the Portuguese experimental scene from 80s and early 90s on a double LP special edition with liner notes. Atlantic Mavericks: a Decade of Experimental Music in Portugal 1982-1993," a groundbreaking double LP compilation that offers a unique glimpse into the vibrant landscape of Portuguese experimental...
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Audiopile Review: Coming in hot off his very recent double pack of kinetic dance floor shakers, ISS010, and three years on from Pool, his manic post-IDM masterpiece, Skee Mask takes the time to stretch out and luxuriate with his newest full length, Resort. Befitting of its title, Resort is also...
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Audiopile Review: For those who haven’t been keeping up on who Abul Mogard really is, he’s apparently now accepted to be an alias of Italian artist Guido Zen. Fine. Whatever. One slightly disconcerting aspect of this is that Abul Mogard releases quite a lot of albums. Given that Abul is...
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Audiopile Review: Epic meet-up from two heavyweights of contemporary ambient and drone music—Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri. Made up of two side-long tracks, Impossibly Distant is as monumental as you’d expect from two artists who both already trade in creating grand scale atmosphere. Consuming side A is “Place Of...
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Audiopile Review: 2020 album from the UK-based experimental artist Luke Cowan, which has somehow survived staying print the past first years despite being pressed in a micro edition of 100, the final copies recently scooped up by one of our more discerning distributors. Somewhere between the experimental folk axis of...
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Field Records takes a look into the vast catalogue of Celer, the prolific ambient project from Tokyo-based American artist Will Long. Perfectly Beneath Us was originally released in 2012 as a CD-R on Still*Sleep, and now it’s being presented as a vinyl release, remastered by Stephan Mathieu. Celer began in...
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