Slow, ambient, deep techno, intelligent electronic music. Huge soul, embracing, intimate.
MMTOHS – Luneworks
Heathered Pearls – Body Complex
Pumping house and beatless ambient. Calm, quiet, whispering, breeze. Feels nice.
Skee Mask – Shred
Triphop tempo, ambient textures, breakbeats. Night time music, atmospheric, feels home.
Blond:ish – Welcome To The Present
Now this one is suprising and interesting. Debut longplayer with a blend of moods but mostly focusing on slow tempo, although even while keeping the pace below the mid-range still offers quite a palette from field recording style ambient through laid-back downtempo to choking steamy techno. Then halfway through the album we arrive to the mid tempo range and mostly keep the speed steady going forward. I better enjoyed the second half with its techno vibe, but the album as a whole has a well orchestrated journey for sure.
Rival Consoles – Howl
Something large and operating with elemental forces, but then switching back and forth between kind and overwhelming. Something in the crossroads of techno, ambient, power noise and idm, in the world of dreamscapes and wonders. Beatiful record.
Syntax – Island Universe
There is a new offering from Syntax, of whom I haven’t heard of since 2004′s Meccano Mind. There is this retro synth thing going on, now he produced an ambient side of that. Good vibe altogether, and the starting track Andromeda is especially catchy.
Reigns – The House on the Causeway
Listening to this album is always a mood and mind altering experience. The album cover is so eerie, makes me chill with goose bumps all over just by looking at it.
My favorite track is Take It Down by far, it has a very special and personal place in my heart. It will always make me wonder of an exquisite atmosphere where ghosts come to haunt the world but they make friends with people of the night and exchange stories of life and death.
There is this little girl sitting on one side of a seesaw deep inside a forest just among a little clearing in the woods when dawn barely breaks and light dimly illuminates the rising mist, and all she wants is to reconnect with someone from this world who tells her a good night story to be comforted by and leave with.
I love the idea of such a moment. We should connect between these states of being so much more.
Nuage – Prints of You
Half casual background music, half beautiful compositions. Half IDM glitches and soft noizes, half soulful house. Perfect soundtrack for a rainy day.
Kimyan Law – Daimyo Vip / Lavish / Chai
OMG, this. Slow to mid tempo, deep basslines, and Chai is so beautiful. Something to re-listen many times.
KTL, a duo of Peter Rehberg (Mego) and Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O))) ) played almost an hour of massive drone noise in the sophisticated auditorium of Sónar Barcelona 2015. It was rather relaxing although not a breakthrough experience.