Hecker’s Japanese trip is an elegantly spaced ambient composition. Negative space, Japanese instruments, digital noise, ritual, calm, sacral scents.
Tim Hecker – Anoyo
Elder Island – The Omnitone Collection
Electronic, pop, soul. It’s like the Bristol rework of German nu jazz. Great concept of cover series for the singles and the album.
Various Artists – Furi (Original Game Soundtrack)
This is the best piece of retro futuristic synthwave record I heard in a while. I haven’t played the game yet, but definitely makes me want to.
Snow Ghosts – A Quiet Ritual
Eerie and beautiful. Couldn’t say whether it’s electronic or not, totally not the appropriate attribute to address this music. I feel some resemblence of Björk, Portishead, and Lamb, but not so much because of the musical style but rather that it has depth filled with meaning and weight. It’s almost not about the music specifically but the attention put into creating these songs and the feelings they invoke.
Also: “recorded in a castle in the countryside and two years in the making”. Both I can hear coming through.
PS: I just realized that Houndstooth is one of my favorite labels.
RX-101 - Dopamine
I like that they call this braindance.
John Digweed – Last Night at Output
Pretty good backdrop music for a long afternoon working session. The mixed version is four and a half hour long roll of uncut house.
Red Axes – Sound Test
The tune in Shabak Shalom gets me hooked like when I couldn’t listen to anything but Forget the Timing on repeat. Fantastic tech house.
KOMPROMAT – Traum Und Existenz
KOMPROMAT is Vitalic and Rebeka Warrior. I don’t really know what this is in terms of genre or style, and it uses the two languages that are pretty remote to me. But listening this on repeat made me start to like German as a language. Wonderful music, moods, colors (of grey). Once it’s an electronic thing, then I have a cognitive hyperlink to Heilung. They themselves say dark and neopunk, Discogs writes electroclash and industrial. Hard to say. But it’s a mandatory listen at the moment.
Kincaid feat. Blancmange – Big Fat Head
“You’re going through events from last night in your big fat head.”
Funny house should be a subgenre. Also, the record label is Disco Halal. *smirk
Daniel Thorne – Lines of Sight
Modern composition melting acoustic and electronic. The saxophonist background comes through at certain points. Has the vibe of some power noise but it is still atmospheric ambient.