honest words on honest music
Gabríel Ólafs
Nordic House Session
During the torrent of the live streams invading your living room, I feel that we need something different… something very intimate, delicate, and serene…
In the studio with
Atom™
“… too much gear usually leads to boring ideas, while many good ideas reduce the amount of equipment…”
In the studio with
Yann Tiersen
… I like to be submerged in sounds and the inspiration comes from that…
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto
In anticipation of the upcoming new album, we celebrate one of our favourite releases from the duo, in this RECITAL of their 2009 album, featuring Ensemble Modern
Immolate Yourself
A RECITAL for Telefon Tel Aviv’s monumental album from 2009.
… hyper-modern sound design and smoky nocturnal emotion…
Winterdagen
Phase In
“… a serene meditation on sound and space, capturing the quiet noises of the piano, bathing in the warm tones from the analogue machines…”
Hior Chronik
Pay No Attention To The Boundaries
… brooding over the boundaries set forth by the conditioned mind, and reminding us not to heed them…
Rafael Anton Irisarri
Peripeteia (Dais)
“… focusing on the personal in order to tell a wider human story…”
The American master of the darker corners of ambiance is back with his deep smeared textures of noise, mortar and drone.
Atli Örvarsson
Dropar (feat. Gyða Valtýsdóttir)
I always said that there was something in the water, up there, in the Nordic island country of Iceland…
Boards of Canada, Autechre, Push Button Objects
I reach into my archives and pull out three records to revisit and cover…
Ital Tek
Outland (Planet Mu)
… prone to audio hallucinations whilst writing the album, Alan Myson aimed to capture these distortions in his perception of pitch and time…
A brand new entry in Ital Tek’s sound which will take you on a cinesonic trip.
The New Auteurs : BPMoore, Thinnen, Vito Gatto, and J.Wiltshire
Some brand new albums, artists, and labels to add to your forever growing list!
Richard Luke
Silent Story (Rework)
“… a delicate alternate version, with gentle felted piano, deep bass rumble and romantic violin…”
Ricardo Donoso
Crossed Destinies
“… contemporary humanity has lost the ability to engage in a productive solitude…”
An exclusive selection of tracks from the Australia Bushfire Compilation curated by Roel for Touched Music
Atom™
<3 (Raster)
… music made by machines, with machines, for machines…
Uwe Schmidt delivers a collection of material in the genre of “hard code pop”. Download into your single-threaded process today!
… otherworldly sonicnecromancy, where long-dormant spirits are evoked, summoning an extremely heavy presence…
“… the clearer you line out your musical vision in advance, the easier will it be to get to the result…”
“I have a fondness for strange old music from the early years of the shellac… I just love tossing those old records in a pile on the carpet as I play them… it’s a deliciously irresponsible feeling!”
Shortwave Research Group
Coherence
“… towering concrete structures push against the skyline and low-frequency pressure seeps from every crack in the granite…”
“… when there’s a real beating heart behind what’s played with, there’s a form of emotion conveyed and never played the same way twice…”
An exclusive mix by Arandel featuring tracks from his new album which interpret the German composer’s sacred music into modern classical and contemporary electronic sound.
“… I looked at my shelving unit the other day and thought I could hollow out the middle row, be laid to rest in it with the records and they could just nail wood over the top and I could go into the ground with it all…”
Black Swan, 36, and zakè
Four EPs connected by a collaboration of their respective artists
The Ideal Setback
Anchor
“Todd Chappell dives further into cinematic orchestration with a beautifully arranged modern-classical composition…”
Squarepusher
Be Up A Hello (Warp)
… a masterclass in acid breakbeat and leftfield drill’n’bass…
Tom Jenkinson returns with his first LP in the last five years, uploading the most mind-warping trajectories into your placid, fragile brain
Squarepusher, Telefon Tel Aviv, and Erik Satie
Here’s your dose of #DailySpin featuring a set of three records in a fascinating package
Sylvain Chauveau, Vladislav Delay, and Warmth
A trio of three, very different albums, traversing the genres required to explore.
“… a powerful and stunningly executed long-form work that continues to explore ideas of displaced sound…”
HC
And Darkness Came (Rewind)
A rewind of a sampler mix originally broadcast on Headphone Commute in December of 2012 to promote the benefit compilation … and darkness came
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dictaphone, and Black Devil
Since I’m already listening to one vinyl per day and writing about it in this newly born Daily Spin column, I figured that I might as well play and cover something very unique…
We continue to dive into the history of electronic music, covering time-stretching, time-compressing, and pitch-shifting algorithms that all contributed towards the development of breakbeat, jungle, and drum’n’bass.
Slow Reels
Farewell Islands (Morr Music)
… an arresting, fluorescing album that blends full-frequency dronescaping with a slow-burning ambient minimalism…
A new project by Ian Hawgood and James Murray which will leave you aching for more
Morgen Wurde ft. Georges-Emmanuel Schneider
Sah Voraus
“… emanating sounds which let dissolve all conceivable questions of a man about life and death…”
Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini, Arovane, and Ida Toninato
“… an analogy of a hallucination in which real and imaginary space are intertwined into a sonic, visceral trip…”
Visit an incredibly gorgeous studio of this Argentinian-born, Berlin-based composer.
An excerpt on the history of synthesizers from Modulations written by Mike Berk
Dag Rosenqvist
Fields
“Fields is something different. Something less dark. Less fractured. It’s something warmer and perhaps more calm.”
Dag Rosenqvist returns with his self-released album with tracks featuring Benoit Pîoulard for a match made in Sweden
An excerpt on history of synthesizers from Modulations written by Mike Berk
Everybody Loves a 303
An excerpt on history of synthesizers from Modulations written by Mike Berk
Clarice Jensen
Holy Mother
An exclusive premiere from an upcoming album, ‘The experience of repetition as death’
Marcus Fjellström, Actress, and Rrose
The latest from my “one vinyl per day” self-assigned task to stay focused during these anxious times
Rutger Zuydervelt, Jacaszek, Snorri Hallgrímsson
A trio of soundtracks beyond the ‘blockbuster releases’…
Nautilis
Are You An Axolotl (Planet Mu)
“… further deconstruction of the sounds, samples, and the rhythms make this one of the most impressive records from the era of electronic music…”
A flashback to Skyler McGlothlin‘s exciting debut from 2002, full of abstract experimentation, IDM and glitch, for fans of Boards of Canada, Funkstörung and, Skee Mask.
Colin Stetson, Max Richter, Ben Frost
“For those self-isolating in the house, I’ve got three soundtracks to go along these stressful times…”
Richard Skelton, Celer, and Chihei Hatakeyama
A trio of textured ambiance, in space, in warmth, and out of time…