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Lawrence English
A Young Person’s Guide To Hustling
(In Music and The Arts)
An introduction to the revised three-part series and an updated foreword, One tale of hustling.
The guide is divided into three sections – for the work, for others, for you.
The Alvaret Ensemble, Fean, Offthesky & The Humble Bee
Introducing laaps – a new series by Mathias Van Eecloo which will keep you enchanted and pleading for more
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…
Peter van Cooten and Dave Michuda create a cooperative voyage each taking their turns to conduct and manoeuvre this ship in complex sonic waters.
The updated version of this guide is appearing nine years since its original publication. While you …
Robin Schlochtermeier
Foghorn
“… capturing the experiences the world can produce in our minds when we are open, receptive and boundary-less…”
bvdub, Shortwave Research Group, and Kaboom Karavan
“… turn down the light, put on these albums, and travel to a place within yourself you did not know existed…”
Christine Ott
Chimères (pour ondes Martenot)
“… a cosmic journey with cinematographic colours…”
A unique album, entirely composed for and performed on an early electronic instrument, Ondes Martenot, by one of its renown virtuoso players.
Mercury KX Special
Sophie Hutchings, Luke Howard and Lambert
Three must-have releases from Mercury KX outstanding catalogue of modern classical pianists
Alva Noto
Xerrox Vol.2
A recital on 2008 instalment of the series released on Raster-Noton.
Morgen Wurde
Dominions Of Our Time
An eclectic selection of tunes curated by a German composer, J. Wolfgang Röttger, who records under his moniker Morgen Wurde.
The Flashbulb
Our Simulacra
“… incredibly emotional, while at the same time playful, and most importantly intelligent flavour of electronic music…”
A new album from Benn Jordan to keep your neurons excited and your soul reminded that all of the world is a simulation!
Mathieu Karsenti, Ben Crosland, Hamed Mafakheri
Three sonic discoveries from the past, present and the future…
Exploring Erik Satie’s Système sur-atonal with Rudi Arapahoe
“The Système consists of a series of 4 scales creating seven four-note chords…”
Lawrence English, worriedaboutsatan, and Christopher Bissonnette
“… an acute meditation on wave fluctuations, restraint on dynamics and textural space…”
BOW feat. Aidan Baker
Bryanbaum Variation
“… a tranquil dance between the sound and image…”
“…the freedom of expression and thought within the modular system is very appealing, where it’s very much about the moment, the response in real-time…”
Orangewarrior
Retro 97 Mix
A fun journey down the memory lane of mid-90s electronic music
Bruno Bavota
Apartment Loop #3
“… a suite of celestial, transcendent songs for synthesizer… “
Joshua Van Tassel
Eternal Turtle
“… like the instrument that inspired it […] the music is elegant and expressive, the score to a movie inside your head…”
VA
Gap In Time (Dronarivm)
A benefit compilation raising funds for the World Health Organization to help with the COVID-19 relief
“… I just wanted to come back to hear my own heartbeat. Calm. Quiet…
Nazar, Gábor Lázár, and Grischa Lichtenberger
“… best understood as a crooked ballad…“
Robot Koch, ABADIR, and n-So
A trio of beautiful electronic, modern classical, and ambient music to start off your week…
Join Gavin Miller on his musical journey through his favourite selections.
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…
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
… 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.