Abandoned places and desolate spaces, covered with rain, snow and ash, wrapped in a blanket of white noise and pulsating bass, somewhat metallic, chilly and wet. These are the images for these sounds for these places of my mind. Something is trembling with the beat of my heart. Tick-tock. Time rewinds to the mid nineties, and I’m back in Berlin, and Moritz Von Oswald is cutting the wax with his Basic Channel imprint. Fast forward, and I’m immersed in the DeepChord sounds of Rod Modell and Mike Schommer. Flip to the present, and I am crawling among the empty streets of Detroit, which is slowly receding into the concrete cobwebs with the collapse of the American auto industry. These events may come and go, in an endless cycle of oceanic waves. But the music stays with us. Always.
Brock Van Wey – White Clouds Drift On And On (echospace [detroit]) [ REVIEW ]
Fluxion – Constant Limber (Resopal Schallware)
Intrusion – The Seduction of Silence (echospace [detroit]) [ REVIEW ] [ INTERVIEW ]
Luke Hess – Light In The Dark (Echocord)
Monolake – Silence (Imbalance Computer Music) [ REVIEW ] [ INTERVIEW ]
Moritz Von Oswald Trio – Vertical Ascent (Honest Jon’s)
Quantec – Cauldron Subsidence (Echocord)
Vladislav Delay – Tummaa (Leaf) [ REVIEW ] [ INTERVIEW ]
worriedaboutsatan – Arrivals (Gizeh)
Yagya – Rigning (Sending Orbs) [ REVIEW ] [ INTERVIEW ]
See more favorite selections on Headphone Commute’s Best of 2009
