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A rolling thread thread for Ambient/Modern Composition/Drone in 2013

wonton [Edit] [Delete] 175 replies 23:46 January 10th, 2013

And all related genres...user discretion really, if you think it applies, throw it in. I will start with a few things:

Olafur Arnalds is about as popular as this thread will get...new album out soon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bq5Ygi2XHA

New Grouper is a decent Grouper affair...I hope she tries to go where AIA was leading however. Vital is lovely: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0A36Zb1ZmI

And here is a whole album by Radio Morto (Dead Radio?) What I've heard so far is quite unnerving https://soundcloud.com/radiomorto/sets/testamento

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The new Grouper LP was recorded at the same time as DADDUAH

(I think), which could account for its samey-ness.

brainfeedr | 11 Jan '13, 00:00 | X | ^ This | Reply

ethricdouble this'd this
- Yeah, sorry should have stated that
  
  DADDUAH is fantastic, whereas this has a slight B-album feel.
  
  wonton @brainfeedr | 11 Jan '13, 00:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Ahh that sucks - I hope I disagree with you when I listen to it.
    
    I guess a so-so Grouper album isn't something to sniff at anyway!
    
    brainfeedr @wonton | 11 Jan '13, 00:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - It's definitely better than so-so
      
      You're right in that it's tunes that were recorded during the DADDUAH sessions (a few of them have been floating around on the web for a while and the best ones could have easily been included on the main album). Basically, if you like DADDUAH you are going to like this
      
      Dan_S @brainfeedr | 11 Jan '13, 11:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Very much better tha so so
        
        I was wrong to be underwhelmed.
        
        wonton @Dan_S | 5 Feb '13, 16:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
- aye shame it's not 'new' new
  
  but then violet replacement is still keeping me ticking over
  
  ethricdouble @brainfeedr | 11 Jan '13, 13:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
This should probably go here

April 20th / 21st @ Scala

http://denovali.com/swingfest/london/?lineup

imho | 11 Jan '13, 10:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
- This is going to be pretty amazing
  
  ThierryEnnui @imho | 11 Jan '13, 10:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  brainfeedr, imho, ethricdouble, and badmanreturns this'd this
- i think Aus is playing this too
  
  Jordan_229_2 @imho | 14 Jan '13, 11:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  sundayschoolproject this'd this
Another thread where DiS tries to look a bit alternative,

but everyone just namechecks Tim Hecker as he's the only 'drone' artist they know, whilst steadfastly listening to nothing bu The National on their ipods.

Keep on truckin', DiS.

GayGuevara | 11 Jan '13, 10:08 | X | ^ This | Reply

Cementimental, OvertakenByTractors, no-class, subjective, and DaddyorChips this'd this
- please fuck off
  
  _TheBeautifulOnes_ @GayGuevara | 11 Jan '13, 10:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Genuinely though
  
  If you know of something "out there", then please share.
  
  Getting a bit sick of listening to Alligator on repeat...
  
  wonton @GayGuevara | 11 Jan '13, 12:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Or alternatively...
  
  A thread were people who genuinely like music can talk about it and people who are genuinely interested in finding out about something new and different can read about it.
  
  bornin69 @GayGuevara | 16 Jan '13, 18:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - People who 'genuinely like music' do not use DiS (or its forums) as a source of finding said music.
    
    GayGuevara @bornin69 | 17 Jan '13, 09:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    OvertakenByTractors this'd this
    - What crap
      
      bornin69 @GayGuevara | 17 Jan '13, 21:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
      
      wonton and Antelope this'd this
    - Nah
      
      You're just worried about taking any recommendation from a National fan seriously, as you take a dim view of their taste in music. Which I understand on some level but it is close-minded and actually insecure.
      
      wonton @GayGuevara | 5 Feb '13, 16:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - off you fuck mate
      
      take your cynical typing to Pitchfork
      
      thekidswhopoptoday @GayGuevara | 22 Feb '13, 13:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
- shooting sincere fish in an earnest barrel
  
  :)
  
  incandenza_ @GayGuevara | 17 Jan '13, 01:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I only fuck with real harsh noise like Sonic Youth
  
  Luis_Carruthers @GayGuevara | 20 Feb '13, 15:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
- oi
  
  thekidswhopoptoday @GayGuevara | 22 Feb '13, 13:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
Oneohtrix Point Never's superb 'Rifts' has just been reissued

!!!

_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 11 Jan '13, 10:28 | X | ^ This | Reply

dis-charge this'd this
- Got reissued last year in about November iirc
  
  Steved @_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 11 Jan '13, 10:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
This should be pretty rad:

http://www.songkick.com/concerts/14970219-john-chantler-at-victoria-dalston

ThierryEnnui | 11 Jan '13, 10:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
Can we put Pete Swanson under 'drone'?

I guess so. Anyway, he's got a new EP coming out next month, and here's a clip: http://thequietus.com/articles/11086-listen-pete-swanson-punk-authority

sick

_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 11 Jan '13, 10:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
trying to insult musically open minded people by telling them they're not

that'll get em, the dirty critters.

imho | 11 Jan '13, 10:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
F.S Blumm & Nils Frahm

Music for wobbling, music for gravity - never massively got in to their first joint effort but still interested to have a listen

out in febuary

imho | 11 Jan '13, 10:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
Ethernet - Opus 2 [Kranky]

http://open.spotify.com/album/3S8Rq1H66YY9sJFL2981O4

Really like this guys stuff, really good hypnotic/altered state pulsing Ambient.

DriftingSkeleton | 11 Jan '13, 11:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I`d also like to recommend his brilliant album Into The Woods from late last year. Gas fans might like this. http://tamarackmusic.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-woods
  
  DriftingSkeleton @DriftingSkeleton | 17 Jan '13, 09:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
Pantha du Prince & The Bell Labratory - Elements of Light (out next week)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZfaNDmpTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87rx_1xFgvg

imho | 11 Jan '13, 13:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
- This is a brilliant album and you can buy the download on Amazon for £2.95
  
  How can you go wrong?
  
  bornin69 @imho | 27 Jan '13, 16:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  funkycow this'd this
Sounding off

Alex Cobb - Passage To Morning

http://soundcloud.com/studentsofdecay/sets/alex-cobb-passage-to-morning

Gorgeous album of beautifully considered drone work, light as sunlight. the guy has run Students of Decay for a long time and released as Taiga Remains but I think this is his best.

Andrew Chalk - Forty-Nine Views In Rhapsodies - Wave Serene

http://www.soundohm.com/andrew-chalk/forty-nine-views-in-rhapsodies-wave-serene/faraway-press/

I've been swallowing whole Chalk's back catalogue since I was introduced to him through his Violin By Night LP last year, such consistently interesting and dynamic work.

Eliane Radigue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYx2RMb5D3A
Lovely experimental/musique concrete stuff, often using tape loops and 'surrounding' a listener in reverb and an elegant kind of flow. Her Feedack Works album released on Alga Marghen is v. good.

E_H_Gombreak | 11 Jan '13, 13:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- That Alex Cobb album's great
  
  thanks for the tip!
  
  brainfeedr @E_H_Gombreak | 11 Jan '13, 15:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  wonton and _TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
Gareth Davis & Francis Marie Uitti - Gramercy [Miasmah]

Picked up the 2LP of this on a whim and it's absolutely staggering, compositions from clarinet & cello that feel mountainous. Very much RIYL: Barn Owl, Deaf Center, Helm, Raime. The 20 minute piece in the below video is the undisputed highlight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r23r4nfa2cc

E_H_Gombreak | 11 Jan '13, 13:30 | X | ^ This | Reply

wonton this'd this
More Alex Kozobolis

http://alexkozobolis.bandcamp.com/album/from-november

A bit shorter than For Snow (http://alexkozobolis.bandcamp.com/album/for-snow), his last release

wonton | 14 Jan '13, 11:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
Steve Roach - Soul Tones

http://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/soul-tones

Quality serene deepness from the Ambient legend.

DriftingSkeleton | 14 Jan '13, 11:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
Just an additional note to say...

Although this is a "2013" thread, we don't need to stick to releases from this year only, but just ensure we stay relatively modern. For a start, without a whole media juggernaut behind it, the world of Drone/Ambient/Classical moves at a slower pace than your Indie Rock canon, so many fantastic 2012 releases will be as yet undiscovered to our ears.

And yes, I am posting this to cover my own arse...

wonton | 14 Jan '13, 12:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
- with that said i'm going to repost audio links to 3 of my favourites from 2012
  
  https://soundcloud.com/#serein/sets/brambles-charcoal-preview
  
  http://tiagobenzinho.bandcamp.com/
  
  and this amazing 87 track collaboration for charity.
  
  http://headphonecommute.bandcamp.com/
  
  imho @wonton | 14 Jan '13, 12:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - strong posting
    
    the tiago benzinho stuff is lovely
    
    veridisjoe @imho | 14 Jan '13, 13:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - It is perfect headphone, slow build and wind down music
      
      imho @veridisjoe | 14 Jan '13, 14:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Woah
    
    Definitely getting that compilation. Cheers!
    
    badmanreturns @imho | 14 Jan '13, 13:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    imho, wonton, and justanothersheeldz this'd this
    - no worries.
      
      It's brilliant and like a whose who of modern classical/ambient drone
      
      imho @badmanreturns | 14 Jan '13, 14:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
      
      mute-branches this'd this
      - it's so good, spent a good couple of weeks
        
        getting through it while reading.
        
        mute-branches @imho | 9 Feb '13, 17:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        badmanreturns this'd this
    - Thanks for the link
      
      Brother-in-law got injured in Cuba during Sandy so nice to contribute to a charity and get some music for free!
      
      funkycow @badmanreturns | 31 Jan '13, 14:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
- in that case, the kashiwa daisuke album from late 2012 is ace
  
  Jordan_229_2 @wonton | 14 Jan '13, 13:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  imho this'd this
Ben Nash

https://soundcloud.com/ben-nash

_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 16 Jan '13, 10:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
Just picked up Oneohtrix Point Never Rifts reissue

Rather fantastic, couldn't afford the full vinyl version though..

humey86 | 16 Jan '13, 10:39 | X | ^ This | Reply

_TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
one of my tracks is going to be on a ambient/neo-classical comp in japan

so can i jag?

Jordan_229_2 | 16 Jan '13, 10:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Was intending to have a hard line with jagging
  
  Post me a link privately and we'll talk
  
  wonton @Jordan_229_2 | 16 Jan '13, 12:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
Kompakt's latest Pop Ambient compilation streaming on RA

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feed-item.aspx?id=57763

Always a pleasant listen

jarock87 | 16 Jan '13, 10:46 | X | ^ This | Reply

badmanreturns this'd this
Not sure if theice tape put out by

Dan_S | 16 Jan '13, 17:44 | X | ^ This | Reply

ethricdouble this'd this
- Great post
  
  What I meant to say was not sure if this is the best place for it but great tape put out by Nightschool:
  
  http://nightschoolrecords.bigcartel.com/product/lssn010-yong-yong-love-c60-cassette
  
  People comparing it to the Hype Williams LP on Carnivals and while this flatters them a bit, it is pretty nice.
  
  Label have sold out but these guys still seem to have some:
  
  http://softpowervinyl.bigcartel.com/product/yong-yong-love-ltd-c60-cassette-on-night-school
  
  Boomkat have the digital too
  
  Dan_S @Dan_S | 16 Jan '13, 17:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
This is good stuff, nice and atonal

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-hanetration-splinter

questionmark | 16 Jan '13, 20:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
ticket pre-order

for Denovali Swingfest now available online inc early bird tickets! The last artist for day one will be announced in early february....www.denovali.com/swingfest

sundayschoolproject | 17 Jan '13, 10:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- i hope its aus. he's in the country.
  
  Jordan_229_2 @sundayschoolproject | 17 Jan '13, 10:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
New Haxan Cloak!

http://www.factmag.com/2013/01/25/the-haxan-cloak-reveals-details-of-forthcoming-album-on-tri-angle-records-stream-a-new-track/

(I guess this fits in here?)

badmanreturns | 27 Jan '13, 16:38 | X | ^ This | Reply

E_H_Gombreak, wonton, and bruised_blood this'd this
- I want this album so bad
  
  bruised_blood @badmanreturns | 18 Feb '13, 17:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Frozen Vaults

members of Films and Anoice and RiLF. really nice;

https://soundcloud.com/bartoszdziadosz/pleq-and-spheruleus-first

Jordan_229_2 | 27 Jan '13, 17:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
the latest Kevin Drumm is really good

Two and a half hours of creeping wintery drone.

The two he put out last year were more Sheer Hellish Miasma.

This one is more Imperial Distortion/Horizon, out on Hospital as well.

http://boomkat.com/downloads/641367-kevin-drumm-tannenbaum

lemonbrickcombo | 27 Jan '13, 17:10 | X | ^ This | Reply

E_H_Gombreak this'd this
DJ Olive - Balm

http://djolive.bandcamp.com/album/balm

Over 4 hours of Ambient "sleeping pills".

DriftingSkeleton | 28 Jan '13, 21:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
Tuluum Shimmering

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/7--tuluum-shimmering/

E_H_Gombreak | 31 Jan '13, 13:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
The eraserhead soundtrack is well worth a look

Its bordering on disturbing but still rather fantastic

humey86 | 31 Jan '13, 14:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
new saaad album - obrs and cahnnels (drone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jNWDZRZroM

imho | 31 Jan '13, 14:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
- This is fantastic (the album as a whole)
  
  Brooding and ominous but kind of airy too, like it's hard to pin down. My favourite release of 2013 so far
  
  wonton @imho | 5 Feb '13, 16:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  imho this'd this
  - http://saaad.bandcamp.com/album/orbs-channels
    
    wonton @wonton | 5 Feb '13, 16:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - http://saaad.bandcamp.com/album/orbs-channels
    
    wonton @wonton | 5 Feb '13, 16:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
some modern classical to look forward to

field rotation - fatalist - feb 19th
lubomyr melnyk - corollaries - april 15th
piano interrupted - october
black elk - anchor (should be soon)

imho | 31 Jan '13, 14:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Absolutely loved Sparks
  
  Is this new one a rumour or a concrete certainty?
  
  wonton @imho | 31 Jan '13, 14:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - They made them at the same time i think
    
    It was supposed to be out at the end of the year. I read an interview somewhere that said it was being re-edited but should be soon hopefully.
    
    imho @wonton | 31 Jan '13, 16:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
london gig march 22nd

black elk, moon ate the dark, olan mill and tobias helkvist

http://hibernate-recs.co.uk/2013/01/hibernatehome-normal-22nd-march/

imho | 31 Jan '13, 14:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Count me in!
  
  badmanreturns @imho | 9 Feb '13, 17:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
- How did I miss that? Damn
  
  benfyffemusic @imho | 25 Mar '13, 00:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
Ophion - Sacrosant

http://twicerememberedtwiceremoved.bandcamp.com/music

Good dark/gloomy Ambient.

DriftingSkeleton | 31 Jan '13, 15:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement

Great little series of records on Hospital, and so much more interesting than the played out Vatican Shadow project that's been receiving the lion's share of attention. Slow, humid drones wrapped around structures not a million miles away from very sludgy dub, or something like the framework of Raime. Think Blackest Ever Black are reissuing one of the best of them soon.
http://boomkat.com/search?fields%5B%5D=artist&q=Rainforest+Spiritual+Enslavement

Masayoshi Fujita - Stories

A new El Fog album- fuck yeah! The guy is a genius with the xylophone, and creates these beautiful sparse musical environments that sort of... slowly unfold. The youtube video is a neat encapsulation of how beautiful his work is. I've also included one of his previous works (under the El Fog moniker) because it continues to floor me.
http://www.flau.jp/releases/31_jp.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXOpQLpXnHM
http://soundcloud.com/elfog/mountain-dub

E_H_Gombreak | 1 Feb '13, 22:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I gave Reverberate Slowly a few listens a while back
  
  I guess that stuff is quite old now though so I look forward to checking out the progression. Just as an aside, what resources do you use for upcoming releases? Obviously users in this thread but was hoping to have the tools to update this thread regularly if possible.
  
  wonton @E_H_Gombreak | 5 Feb '13, 16:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - An encyclopaedic RSS feed and Twitter, pretty much
    
    Plus I now know quite a few 'heads' in the field who keep me informed I guess. Press releases, niche forums etc. etc.
    Basically just become really fucking obsessive.
    
    E_H_Gombreak @wonton | 7 Feb '13, 11:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
- That Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement record is super good
  
  Has it a while now. I should post in this thread Moore often.
  
  lemonbrickcombo @E_H_Gombreak | 11 Feb '13, 19:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
- that Masayoshi Fujita album's great, really minimal but it makes a lot out of it
  
  I reviewed it.
  http://beardrock.com/reviews/masayoshi-fujita
  
  mute-branches @E_H_Gombreak | 18 Feb '13, 16:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
Another release from 2012...

but, like the headphone commute compilation above, this is 42 tracks from various ambient/drone artists, so it will take some digesting. I'll give a proper evaluation after a couple of days, pick out highlights and then investigate the artists. If I wasn't already as excited as a kid in a sweet shop, this is the FIFTH compilation Future Sequence have done (has anyone come across them before?). Discovered it through imho's recommendation of Saaad above.

http://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/album/sequence5

wonton | 6 Feb '13, 23:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
ñaka ñaka - música para clubs clausurados

This is quite rhythm-based, but so mellow it deserves to be in this thread. Really gorgeous, the third track in particular I've had on repeat a lot.
If you dig Ukkonen (Who I've bigged up a lot here) you'll definitely love this.
http://nakanaka.bandcamp.com/

E_H_Gombreak | 7 Feb '13, 11:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
Steve Moore - Light Echoes [Cuniform]

Got sent this a while back and never got round to listening to it til today- really awesome synthscapes that feel quite John Carpenter, but lighter to the touch. His EP on L.I.E.S should have received more attention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYG6HpFuHEg

E_H_Gombreak | 7 Feb '13, 11:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
- It's the same dude who's half of Zombi, right?
  
  It is great, like almost everything on L.I.E.S.
  
  lemonbrickcombo @E_H_Gombreak | 11 Feb '13, 19:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Yep, that's him.
    
    E_H_Gombreak @lemonbrickcombo | 11 Feb '13, 21:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Oh, I didn't know it was that Steve Moore
    
    Zero-Point Field was awesome, probably the most "conventional" techno in the L.I.E.S. stable but still really good.
    
    Steved @lemonbrickcombo | 12 Feb '13, 10:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
Sorry that this is last year

But I don't think Black Swan's Aeterna got enough attention - great drone record, and he's been busy since:

http://blackswan.bandcamp.com/album/aeterna-2012

funkycow | 7 Feb '13, 11:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
Emanuele de Raymondi - Buyukberber Variations

treated clarinet in a big loft with a natural delay. bloody lovely, one of my faves of last year.
also enjoying beyond the pale and phenomena 256 by Experimental Audio Research, sonic booms mad drone project.

freddiehubbard | 7 Feb '13, 11:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
This is kinda nice,

simple piano/cello with some electronic widdling in the margins. Not world-changing, but very enjoyable, especially the opening piano piece

http://petergregson.bandcamp.com/album/flow

ThierryEnnui | 8 Feb '13, 15:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
Berber Ox - Limiter

http://twicerememberedtwiceremoved.bandcamp.com/album/limiter-2

Three quiet tracks interspersed with two noisy tracks, sounds mostly like processed field recordings with a bit of synth, all very droney, highly atmospheric and with more compositional flair than your usual drone artist. I love all this guy's stuff.

blisters | 9 Feb '13, 06:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
Big, mostly unabrasive, spacey drone from Aeronaut

https://soundcloud.com/aeronaut4/sets/coronal-mass

Giant, very abrasive but beautiful nonetheless drone built mostly out of stretched samples I think by Superstorms

https://soundcloud.com/adhocfm/sets/superstorms-superstorms

www.antigravitybunny.com is great for this sort of thing if noone's mentioned it already.

brainfeedr | 9 Feb '13, 17:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- The Superstorms is great
  
  Nice combination of abrasion and melody. Will pick this up from bandcamp - thanks!
  
  funkycow @brainfeedr | 12 Feb '13, 11:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
3 tape set from Preservation

Pairs an old school synth dude with one a current bright young spark. Kind of like the Rvng Intl Frkwys series but instead of a collaboration, they get a side of the tape each. Artists involved are J.D. Emmanuel & Evan Caminiti; Lorren Conners & Chris Forsyth and Pimmon & Deep Magic

http://www.preservation.com.au/category/contrasts-cassette-series

Whole series is great but the Evan Caminiti and Deep Magic sides are so so good

Dan_S | 10 Feb '13, 13:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
- These look really excellent, thanks!
  
  Deep Magic released one of my favourite albums last year- worth a look too if anybody missed it.
  http://debaclerecords.bandcamp.com/album/closed-eyes
  
  E_H_Gombreak @Dan_S | 11 Feb '13, 19:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Thanks for the Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement shout ^ too
    
    Listening to Black Magic Cannot Cross Water now, and it's properly awesome
    
    Dan_S @E_H_Gombreak | 12 Feb '13, 00:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Wasn't going to fork out for these
  
  Though listening to the three previews I may have to find $36... link: https://soundcloud.com/preservation
  
  wonton @Dan_S | 12 Feb '13, 00:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - If you buy all three, price drops to approx $30 (including postage anywhere)
    
    Not too shabby, all things considered
    
    Dan_S @wonton | 12 Feb '13, 10:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
Hot Swedish action

Super Jam

New tape out on Not Not Fun:

http://www.notnotfun.com/shop-3/

Really cool sounding - like a soundtrack for an '80s Hong Kong film. Also had a tape out last year on the amazing Kosmisk Väg label:

http://www.kosmiskvag.com/

Runs his own label too:

http://ohnomoretapes.blogspot.co.uk/

Fluorescent Heights

Really incredible blissed out drone music. Genuine cut above the average one-man-and-his-synth regulation gear.

Two new tapes out this month, one on Sicsic that's sold out already (distros still have some tho' I think) and one on Constellation Tatsu that's here:

http://www.ctatsu.com/portfolio/tidal-motions/

Can also still pick the amazing 'Tourism' LP on Subsuburban which is massively worth it:

http://subsuburban.bandcamp.com/album/tourism

(can stream here too)

Dan_S | 11 Feb '13, 23:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
listen to every future sequence comp

http://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/

subjective | 12 Feb '13, 03:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
Moon Zero - Tombs

http://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/album/tombs

subjective | 12 Feb '13, 03:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
Hakobune.

"Watching the Prescribed Burn"

Pretty nice ambient. Got it off that Futuresequence thing posted up there; it's brilliant.
http://open.spotify.com/album/7rHrbxqDyW7Ic1f6qYR8fp
http://www.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/WAVE1301/Hakobune_Watching_the_Prescribed_Burn.html

justanothersheeldz | 12 Feb '13, 09:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
- i think i'm going to be on a compilation with him soon :)
  
  Jordan_229_2 @justanothersheeldz | 18 Feb '13, 14:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
- More Hakobune
  
  Collaboration with Celer that came out very recently on the great Chemical Tapes label:
  
  http://chemicaltapeslabel.bandcamp.com/album/vain-shapes-and-intricate-parapets
  
  Is really good too...
  
  Dan_S @justanothersheeldz | 20 Feb '13, 15:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
some fantastic stuff in this thread

Been slowly working my way through it, and have added a few bits to the fifth Music for Office Workers playlist http://open.spotify.com/user/seaninsound/playlist/6PmYxmkpAlX7Zyb1LpVoD1

sean | 18 Feb '13, 14:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
My mate did this, it's good:

http://chroniquotheque.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/im-not-a-heaven-man-basic-house/

DaddyorChips | 18 Feb '13, 16:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
New music from Eluvium (album out in May)

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4146071-dis-premiere--don-t-get-any-closer-by-eluvium

sean | 19 Feb '13, 15:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
This new Eluvium track then

http://drownedinsound.com/news/4146071-dis-premiere--don-t-get-any-closer-by-eluvium

Sounds a bit like Transatlanticism by DCFC without the vocals. Hmm. I'm really not sure about the limp acoustic guitar in the background, and I liked 'Similes'.

badmanreturns | 19 Feb '13, 15:56 | X | ^ This | Reply

bruised_blood this'd this
I did this;

features a few from here and from last year.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2xCw01Q1xGPsx5Epxi7JS5T-jN_Xc_Ip

justanothersheeldz | 19 Feb '13, 16:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
Mount Eerie - the LAST HIT (soundtrack)

Improvised pump organ and electric guitar recorded in late 2005 as a soundtrack to the never-released Canadian short film "the Last Hit". The film probably played at some festivals. It was made by a man from Ontario whose name is Chris. (Last name forgotten, no records of correspondence available, no copy of the film retained.) The movie was black and white. It was about a few people wandering lost in the woods on a failed "hit" job (like, a murder), lost and hungry, occasionally seeing dramatic landscapes. There is an obvious inspiration taken from Dead Man and this soundtrack embraces that. No physical version of this music as been released yet.

Kyle_ | 20 Feb '13, 15:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- oh yeah, the quote thing
  
  anyway, not sure if it fits here, but this a soundtrack by Phil Elverum for a film which never got released. It's cool, I can definitely hear the Dead Man influence in it - love that soundtrack/film.
  
  http://pwelverumandsun.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-hit-soundtrack
  
  Kyle_ @Kyle_ | 20 Feb '13, 15:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
Mountains' newun, 'Centralia', is good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xB3eVOSgBA

_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 20 Feb '13, 15:31 | X | ^ This | Reply

freddiehubbard this'd this
Caroline K's 1987 masterpiece...

Now Wait For Last Year is now officially downloadable (with bonus tracks): http://klanggalerie.bandcamp.com/album/now-wait-for-last-year

myyada | 20 Feb '13, 15:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
This is certainly worth checking out.

https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/sets/michael-price-a-stillness

Ichor | 20 Feb '13, 16:43 | X | ^ This | Reply

imho this'd this
Can't really work out if Raime fit in here

but if this is the same show as they did in September it was one of the best things I've ever experienced:

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=14719

badmanreturns | 21 Feb '13, 16:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
El Kid - Labyrinths EP

was released at the tail ed of last year on the wicked No Corner tapes label. business as usual and then some; unbelievably dense production and truly scary soundscapes. have a listen here: https://soundcloud.com/el-kid

on a side note, Sam was nice enough to use some of my art work for his logo as well as the cover art for the Labyrinths tape.

thekidswhopoptoday | 22 Feb '13, 13:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
Field Rotation - fatalist: the repetition of history

is fantastic, modern classical/ambient - similar styling to black elk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhwtLRCQTBA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpgdU7BUnc

imho | 23 Feb '13, 00:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
i think Apparat - Krieg Und Friedman

deserves mention in this thread as well, all but 2 songs are instrumental only and he's really working the ambient angle. really great stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1orGrZhSI-c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XPs4pa1KMk

imho | 23 Feb '13, 00:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
- *Frieden
  
  imho @imho | 23 Feb '13, 00:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
here a nice little name your price piano led ep.

http://endlessmelancholy.bandcamp.com/

imho | 23 Feb '13, 00:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
Julia Kent - Character streaming here

http://www.dummymag.com/new-music/2013/02/15/premiere-julia-kent-character-album-stream/

imho | 28 Feb '13, 00:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
a new Saaad Ep

http://www.blwbck.com/catalog/2013/02/saaad-solidclouds/

imho | 28 Feb '13, 00:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
Can't wait for Loscil and Pye Corner Audio at Cafe Oto in March...

calumlynn | 28 Feb '13, 00:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
Anyone checked out Lost Trail?

If not, you're in for a treat. Music dug out from the ruins of some total global catastrophe, when all that's left is a couple of half-busted tape recorders and a microphone. Warm and melancholy, bleak and beautiful.

http://losttraildrone.bandcamp.com/

blisters | 28 Feb '13, 02:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Certainly sounds intriguing...
  
  so much stuff though! Didn't know what to get so I got October Mountain, will give it a spin before I go to bed.
  
  wonton @blisters | 2 Mar '13, 00:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
A lot of stuff being added without comment atm...I'm going to spend the weekend investigating

Hopefully (Probably) will find many highlights. Meanwhile, another backtrack, did anyone pick up Bring Me The Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn last year? Any fans of SOTL really should check it out, it's really excellent.

wonton | 2 Mar '13, 00:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Kyle Bobby Dunn in general is really, really good
  
  A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn is great for when you just want sheets of beautiful drone.
  
  brainfeedr @wonton | 24 Mar '13, 22:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  Jordan_229_2 this'd this
any recent releases to add? anything coming up to look out for?

sean | 24 Mar '13, 21:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
Quite like Hivver's new release on Tombed Vision records

melodic ambiance, largely formed from guitars, pedals and effects and features Joseph Quimby of Remember Remember.

http://tombedvisionsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fixing-our-future-nothing-official

wewerewerewolvesonce | 24 Mar '13, 21:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
The first song from the upcoming Lubomyr Melnyk album aired last tuesday.

It's good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9q91

Really looking forward to his concert with Frahm and Gregory Euclide
http://www.abconcerts.be/nl/concerten/p/detail/silence-is-sexy-nils-frahm-lubomyr-melnyk-special-guest-gregory-euclide-19-05-2013

RobbeVP | 24 Mar '13, 21:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
We put on Loscil, Pye Corner Audio and Talvihorros at Cafe Oto last week.

Pye Corner Audio has put a recording of his set from Wednesday night onto Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/pye-corner-audio/live-at-cafe-oto-march-2013

marckee | 24 Mar '13, 22:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I missed Loscil? BALLS.
  
  I thought no 12K artists ever played in London, how wrong was I.
  
  Ichor @marckee | 25 Mar '13, 10:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - For goodness' sake, I mentioned it on here enough.
    
    It sold out three months before the date though, so you'd have been hard-pressed to get a ticket.
    
    marckee @Ichor | 25 Mar '13, 16:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
Hilyard - Between Silence and Solitude

http://hilyard.bandcamp.com/album/between-silence-and-solitude

My current favourite - gorgeous droney ambient.

DriftingSkeleton | 25 Mar '13, 18:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
sorry to jag but...

my label has just released this wonderful ambient album from Sonja Berlin-Jones http://www.restrelaxrecords.co.uk/sonja-berlin-jones---phlegmgemming.html

you can also get most of her stuff for free at http://sonjaberlin-jones.bandcamp.com/

rest_relax_records | 28 Mar '13, 21:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
non-jag

loving Oliwa at the moment http://oliwa.bandcamp.com/album/futura

rest_relax_records | 28 Mar '13, 21:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Been living with Ensemble Pearl for a while now
  
  O'Malley and Kurihara and friends. It's very Earth-y, but even more slower and tarlike. Overall, recommended. Think you might still be able to listen to it here. But you should buy it, support a bunch of good eggs
  
  http://thequietus.com/articles/11430-ensemble-pearl-painting-on-a-corpse-listen
  
  lemonbrickcombo @rest_relax_records | 28 Mar '13, 22:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
And here's Aiden Baker's latest output, Latitudes session with Plurals called Glass Crocodile Medicine

http://brokenspineprods.bandcamp.com/album/glass-crocodile-medicine

I like it enough, but it lacks a bit of bite for me until shit gets really absorbing/oppressive midway through, but it never really reaches that cathartic noise crescendo you wish it would hit

lemonbrickcombo | 28 Mar '13, 23:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
- cathartic noise crescendo
  
  CNC drone factory. That's a band name in waiting right there.
  
  funkycow @lemonbrickcombo | 21 May '13, 12:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
Mary Lattimore - The Withdrawing Room

Amazing layered/affected long-form harp pieces. Delicately beautiful in places and spookily fucked in others. Definitely worth a listen I think (you can stream it here, you just have to scroll down a bit - http://experimediamag.net/).

brainfeedr | 4 Apr '13, 22:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Seriously, listen to this
  
  it's the tits
  
  brainfeedr @brainfeedr | 8 Apr '13, 22:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - here's the direct link
    
    http://experimediamag.net/post/46532399322/marylattimorestreamreview
    
    sean @brainfeedr | 10 Apr '13, 11:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    brainfeedr this'd this
new lubomyr melnyk album streaming on the line of best fit

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/album-stream/lubomyr-melynk-corollaries-122523

I'm looking forward to getting this in the post next week.

imho | 8 Apr '13, 13:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Lovely stuff
  
  I've just gotten into this guy's work through the recent collaboration with James Blackshaw which is also quite beautiful
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYn7WpgLg48
  
  Comaboy @imho | 8 Apr '13, 14:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - yeah another lovely sounding release
    
    blackshaws got some great bits and bobs out there too
    
    imho @Comaboy | 8 Apr '13, 14:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
new A-sun amissa album - you stood up for victory, we stood up for less

feat members of glissando/rustle of the stars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlE5LboqOo

imho | 8 Apr '13, 13:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
lowered - lost seas

first in a new series of vinyl releases from hibernate - members of Isnaj Dui and Karina ESP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypA3__Ys57A

imho | 8 Apr '13, 14:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
nadia sirota - baroque

http://bedroomcommunity.bandcamp.com/album/baroque

imho | 8 Apr '13, 14:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
Mohammad - Som Sakrafis

New out on PAN. Dark drone three-piece, cello vs contrabass vs oscillators. Bone-shakingly good.

http://vimeo.com/59695644

marke | 10 Apr '13, 22:00 | X | ^ This | Reply

afan this'd this
Any of you heading to Digital is Dead in Oxford early May?

Stunning line-up and not badly priced at all:

May 2nd 8pm
Mountains, US // Thrill Jockey
Tim Hecker, CA // Kranky

May 3rd 8pm
Bjarni Gunnarsson, IS // lamadameaveclechien
BJ Nilsen, SE // Touch

May 4th 2pm
Oval lecture & in conversation with Anne Hilde Neset @ Ertegun House

May 4th 8pm
Simon Scott, UK // 12K
Ex-Easter Island Head, UK // Low Point
Oval, DE // Mille Plateaux

http://digitalisdead.org

1_234589 | 13 Apr '13, 13:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
- WHY
  
  have I only just heard about this?!?
  
  benfyffemusic @1_234589 | 13 Apr '13, 16:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  marke this'd this
  - Less than 10 tickets remaining so I'd be quick about it really....
    
    1_234589 @benfyffemusic | 13 Apr '13, 17:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation

Is really fantastic. Prefer it to anything he's thus far released. Mining those Ben Frost ideas in some ways, conceptually speaking.

lemonbrickcombo | 18 Apr '13, 21:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I should get on this
  
  Tri Angle can be really hit and miss but this seems good from the clips I've heard and people going on about it. Where you into the Vessel album from last year? Was the best thing on Tri Angle since Clams Casino EP and the first Balam Acab for me.
  
  jimitheexploder @lemonbrickcombo | 18 Apr '13, 21:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
William Basinski + Richard Chartier - Aurora Liminalis

is excellent.
https://soundcloud.com/richard-chartier/aurora_liminalis_excerpt2

ethricdouble | 18 Apr '13, 21:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
Barn Owl - V

Getting lots of plays this week. Really enjoying it.

sadballadman | 18 Apr '13, 21:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
aside from the mohammad lp...

really like the Felicia Atkinson - Visions/Voices album too...

afan | 20 Apr '13, 18:39 | X | ^ This | Reply

Dan_S this'd this
- That Mohammed LP is the best thing I've heard this year
  
  Dan_S @afan | 7 May '13, 12:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
Skull Mansions - Ossifica

Collaboration between Steven Bishop (Basic House / Opal Tapes) and Mike Vest (Bong). Great Dark Ambient stuff. Tape (50 only) on Dew Crux (think it came out right at the end of 2012, but anyway).

Can also download all of the tracks on the tape (and more besides) at the band's Soundcloud page

https://soundcloud.com/skull-mansions

Dan_S | 7 May '13, 12:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Hello mates
  
  I'm on this ambient/modern-composition/drone (w/electronica,folk,post-rock chucked in) which is out NOW:
  
  http://www.normanrecords.com/records/140474-various---the-silence
  
  it's £3.19 for 16 tracks at about 70 minutes and i reckon it is brill. i'm definitely one of the weakest (if not the weakest) artists on it but i'm very proud to be on it, and if you are a fan of the genres this thread focuses on i think y'll enjoy it :)
  
  [/end jag]
  
  Jordan_229_2 @Dan_S | 9 May '13, 12:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - You persuaded me
    
    Well done
    
    benfyffemusic @Jordan_229_2 | 11 May '13, 15:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
Michael Mantra - Mountain / Stream

http://shop.silentseason.com/album/mountain-stream-ssd09
The Mantra pieces are really deep and mind altering. Stunning. Sonic medicine. Loscil version and bunch of others included as well.

DriftingSkeleton | 9 May '13, 15:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
What is this, 2009?

GayGuevara | 9 May '13, 15:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
- nah, there's not been nearly enough compact cassettes
  
  imho @GayGuevara | 9 May '13, 16:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
ashes of piemonte - winter's fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VUnll3L3XA

imho | 11 May '13, 03:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
lyndsie alguire - after image

http://thefoldseries.bandcamp.com/album/after-image

imho | 11 May '13, 03:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
?

mouna by betacicadae is really gorgeous.
listen to the first track, pahoa. it's just so, so lovely.

http://eleguarecords.bandcamp.com/album/betacicadae-mouna
----
stolen years by anduin
gloomy synths overlaid with improvisational saxophone. pretty amazing, if a bit samey.

https://soundcloud.com/anduin/sets/stolen-years
----
onkalo by petrels.
not as good as haeligewielle (which, if you haven't heard, is just phenomenal) but still a really decent (ambitious?) drone album.

this song is also just so, so lovely:
http://petrels.bandcamp.com/track/kindertransport

supremenothing | 11 May '13, 20:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Cheers for Petrels
  
  Listened to Haeligewille and it's very very good. Going to give Onaklo a listen later.
  
  rich-t @supremenothing | 21 May '13, 09:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Man alive is that Petrels song nice
  
  Thanks for the tip!
  
  brainfeedr @supremenothing | 21 May '13, 09:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
Robedoor - Primal Sphere

It's just been released by a French Label called Hands in the Dark record.

Dystopian sci-fi psychedelic doom drone, perfect soundtrack for driving at night.

https://soundcloud.com/hitd-3/03-flannel-shroud?in=hitd-3/sets/robedoor-primal-sphere

PerfectSoundForever | 20 May '13, 18:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
Hate to jag and all that...

...but there's some more ambienty stuff I recently put out here:

http://soundcloud.com/worrier1/sets/fotograf-1/

worrier1 | 20 May '13, 19:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
put out an album last month

sort of equally inspired by akira yamaoka and the caretaker. so a collection of loops and textures basically

http://talbotfade.bandcamp.com/

(it's a free download)

[/jagjaggityjagjaroo]

veridisjoe | 21 May '13, 12:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
- nice, will check out
  
  love the SH soundtracks
  
  ethricdouble @veridisjoe | 21 May '13, 13:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
ah nice one

there's definitely a few samples from the games in a couple of the tunes. his sounds are too perfect for creating that uneasy, foggy atmosphere

veridisjoe | 21 May '13, 13:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
- just checked this out, loved it
  
  awesome work!
  
  ethricdouble @veridisjoe | 22 May '13, 20:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - ah thank you mate!
    
    appreciate it :)
    
    veridisjoe @ethricdouble | 23 May '13, 14:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
Boatmeal Reality - Harpoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6HG00HF_VM

tulcan | 6 Jun '13, 09:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
new William Basinski 'Nocturnes'

is out there

ethricdouble | 6 Jun '13, 10:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
I've been digging Gilded's 'Terrane' quite a lot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=436it9vJ3CY

It was released towards the back end of last year.

Raanraals | 6 Jun '13, 10:55 | X | ^ This | Reply

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