Malcolm Pardon
Side Effects
“… just like the distressing notion of your own inevitable passing, it is disquieting, beautiful and final…”
Location: Leeds, UK
Founded: 1995
A label founded by Tony Morley. Featuring artists such as Susumu Yokota, Matthew Bourne, Colleen, Caribou, Julia Kent, Murcof, Roll The Dice, and Vladislav Delay among many others.
“… just like the distressing notion of your own inevitable passing, it is disquieting, beautiful and final…”
Here’s another selection of eight releases that have recently grazed [graced?] my rotations. From the return …
Have you ever walked in the autumn rain? Just like the sunshine warms the breezy beaches, …
“… it starts with sound… experimenting with sound… it truly gets me inspired… it’s what I react to…”
Celebrating Headphone Commute’s many years of content, I am highlighting albums that I covered 15, 10, and 5 years ago.
“… the musical journey [which] weaves us through chaos culminating in some sort of peace…”
“… a wordless dialectic between contentment and nostalgia…”
“… a kind of melodic euphoria is paired with machine-funk elements to create a kaleidoscope of sounds from the future of the past…”
“… I don’t distinguish so much between Techno and Ambient. For me, it’s the same: a soundtrack to special moments…”
In the first instalment of Headphone Commute’s Best of 2021, I gather my favourite selections of …