ambient
the Darkfloor Stalker 005
A nice start to 2012, from brain-flexing modular work-outs right through to crunchy hip-hop.
MIX: oiseaux – January 2012 Ambient/Drone
It’s been ages since we posted up a mix focusing on the ambient and more drone based space. Here’s a recent one from the Budapest based Hungarian producer oiseaux.
DOWNLOAD: Xela – Exorcism LP
The final album under the artist name Xela has been released. Type Records owner John Twells; the man responsible for the Xela project has decided to call it a day.
DOWNLOAD: Noxgenus 09 – Dead TV Society [Noxgenus]
Whilst the Noxgenus netlabel, as indeed many netaudio labels are; is not very widely known, it nonetheless is very worthy of your time. You wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t think we had a good ear for good sound.
DOWNLOAD: Herzog – Waking Up Is Hard To Do EP
Since first hearing Herzog’s work years ago on the German netlabel 12rec together with his releases on Welsh ambient label Serein I’ve been quite taken with the deep, wonderfully lush soundscapes that Herzog’s Bill Bawden composes. There’s exists a beautiful melancholy throughout his work of which this collection is just as guilty.
DOWNLOAD: Alphaxone – Portal [Petcord]
Alphaxone is an Iranian project that focus on dark ambient sounds with careful arrangements and distinct dynamics.
RECOMMENDED: Rykard – Hell Bent [dedpop]
From my first listen I knew I was going to keep coming back to Rykard‘s LP: Hell Bent. I’m fully enraptured by the 8 tracks covering 31 minutes that make up the 25th release for Derby based netlabel dedpop.
DOWNLOAD: The Inventors of Aircraft – Koeln
We’ve not heard any new material from Phil Tomsett aka The Inventors of Aircraft for a little while, indeed it was back in February we last heard from him. Not content with just producing a wonderful mix (Listening Rituals) for the once netlabel turned proper imprint Serein and their Forecast series, he’s self-released the mix [...]
DOWNLOAD: Cachexy – Tacet Sed Loquitur [Enough Records]
With so much music flying around cyberspace you need to sometimes look beyond the new releases and go back a bit. 2006 perhaps. 2006 when the Ukrainian artist Cachexy released his 6 track album Taced Sed Loquitor on popular-round-these-parts netlabel Enough Records.
DOWNLOAD: Blind Summit – The Shadow of Locomotive 1
Here’s a quite tasty little post highlighting you to a track the UK producer Blind Summit has decided to share with you all. The Shadow of Locomotive 1 is a deep dark and whilst industrially finished is very smooth and has a certain ambience about it that I quite relish. Anyways, you can grab the [...]
