In the studio with The Album Leaf
“… it starts with sound… experimenting with sound… it truly gets me inspired… it’s what I react to…”
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.
“… 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 …
… music of exquisite tension and ecstatic release…
Three absolutely gorgeous albums that you can dive into instead of watching the news…