Posts Tagged ‘ ambient ’
Emphasis proprietor and Obsolete Music Technology alter-ego Steven Tang has always taken a hardware-driven approach to dreamy techno, with melancholy chords and dry punchy drums that align him with the Model 500 and Rhythim Is Rhythim side of the Motor City’s lineage. Overall, this well-formed EP is no exception. That said, the incorporation of the [ READ MORE ]
While admittedly a pricey collection, this is a real gem of a package. It was originally put out as a free / donation-based digital only album, but happily (perhaps due to strong listener response) Legowelt has self-released the beautiful, rough, personal recordings in vinyl package. Danny Wolfers describes the original project thusly: “Ok people here [ READ MORE ]
Burial has released a new EP, much has already been written about it, I don’t think I have much to add that hasn’t already been said. It’s pretty cool. Here are what some other folks think. Pretty Much Amazing, The Quietus, Fact Magazine It’s at Gramaphone too. Visit or call Gramaphone Records today to hear this release! 2843 [ READ MORE ]
Robert Henke’s Monolake project continues to expand, develop, and explore the dark, clinically precise sounds and structures that he has been known for throughout his long career as musician. While he’s been highly regarded for his work outside of the realm of a studio artist, notably for his roles as an educator and his impressive [ READ MORE ]
Prolific Chicago-based producer & multiple-label owner Hakim Murphy releases his latest full length on his own Machining Dreams imprint. “There is just yourself, thoughts, and phrases” he blurrily imparts in the album’s opening monologue, before launching into his characteristically stark yet warm dry beat craft. He has slowed things down for this collection, and tempo [ READ MORE ]
Anton Zap is a producer and DJ who should need no introduction, but his understated approach has allowed him to glide under-the-radar for many. His tracks share this knack for understatement and lack of fanfare, his DJ sets likewise center around musicality and slow-burning emotion. His 2 year old imprint, Ethereal Sound, is an exercise [ READ MORE ]
Hazy, worn, barren elements of techno are put together here on Rrose’s 4th release for Sandwell District. Monochromatic, polyrhythmic, obscured and heavily delay-laden techno that will appeal to fans of Sandwell’s minimalist aesthetic, drawing faint lines to Raster-Noton’s broken beat aesthetic and Sahko or Sleeparchive’s sonar sine-tone textures. And as with the aforementioned points of [ READ MORE ]
David Sumner’s Function project, the moniker for almost all of his solo releases , is well established through over a dozen 12″s over the past two decades. Through his association with Sandwell District since the mid 2000s, he’s gone through a kind of renaissance; this 12″ is exemplary of the introspective thrust of his more [ READ MORE ]
A good friend turned me on to the Belgian under-the-radar Other Heights imprint, which has been curating some high quality for just over a year now. Here they present newcomer and apparent Burial disciple Ghostek, who supplies one solo track and a remix, along with a pair of collaborative works with the very talented Roof [ READ MORE ]
Staying true to their strict regimen of cultish detail and obscurity, Ruskin and O’Connor (also known as OVR, O/V/R and seperately recording as James Ruskin and Regis…) deliver a white 12″ for this latest purist techno offering. It is identifiable only via the catalog number etched between the runout grooves and the inverted black-and-white photocopy [ READ MORE ]
Plaid are still off in their own exquisite world. They seem to have invented a personal language, and continue to develop its vocabulary through this latest, long-awaited full-length. In the half-decade since their last WARP releases they have provided feature film soundtracks for Heaven’s Door and Tekkonkinkreet and this may have helped to further develop [ READ MORE ]
Leaning Over Backwards is Tobias.’ debut album. Kind of. Since his recordings as part of Hypnobeat in the mid-80s, he’s worked with Atom Heart as Sieg Uber Die Sonne, released a solo album as Zoon in the mid-90s, done extensive work as Pink Elln both in collaboration with Atom TM and solo albums and singles [ READ MORE ]
Brendon Moeller, recording here under his more frequently techno-oriented Echologist alter-ego, releases the first album on his own Steadfast imprint. Subterranean is groundbreaking. It is immersive, experimental, textural journey. Through it, the artist has seemingly distilled his techno work to solely the atmospheric elements. This process is most transparent on tracks like “Slowburn (Filter Dub)” [ READ MORE ]
Instant House, the NYC / Dance Tracks-related collaboration between Joe Claussell, Stan Hatzakis and Tony Confusione, was apparently active between 1988 and 1993, as indicated on their 2003 retrospective compilation Jungle Source Records. Now rarities, Joe Claussell revisits some of the material on his own Sacred Rhythm Music label. Included is what sounds like an [ READ MORE ]
The strange acronym here stands for the collaboration between Manuel Gonzales and Wild Oats owner Kyle Hall. Of the tracks here, 3 of them sound to me like they could have been rough-sketch versions of Kyle Hall’s Must See EP for Third Ear. They’re handy with the rough-and-ready swung percussion, quick cut edits, and boomy [ READ MORE ]
Another new find by Mathematics A&R Jamal Moss, and there doesn’t seem to be much information floating around about her, him, them yet. But while the artist(s) behind the music are mysterious here, the music has incontrovertible roots in Chicago house and early Detroit techno. The EP has a certain Mediterranean flair to its classicism, [ READ MORE ]