Posts Tagged ‘ambient’

There are stories which like fairy tales find a musical determination. The treasured Ian Simmonds, who currently is performing as singer and poet on tour in Japan with a 18-piece Japanese improvisational orchestra, is responsible under his given name and as Juryman for the most innovative thrust in view of new paths on the electronic [...]


It features new songs, older previously unreleased material from Warp artists and tracks selected as the best of the labels output by Warp fans. It also includes a beautifully produced book showcasing the labels rich design history along with an exclusive hour long mix and locked-groove vinyl set.


The great majority of artists spend their formative years, if not their entire careers, working to shake off the gravitational pull of their predecessors, and the many masters and masterpieces that came before them. Rare indeed is the artist who outgrows their early influences, and instead become one of the markers by which other groups [...]


The Field – aka Sweden’s Axel Willner – is very much the jewel in Kompakt’s crown, with his debut album From Here We Go Sublime ending up the the best-received album of 2007 according to music critic aggregators site Metacritic.


On 15th December, UNKLE will release ‘End Titles… Redux’ as a limited collector’s edition of 3000 CDs that will only be available via UNKLE.com. This will also be available digitally from the 14th of December. The release will feature seven re-interpreted tracks from the album ‘End Titles… Stories for Film.’ two new tracks and ‘Trouble [...]


The collection, as ever, is a sexy aural seduction from the beginning to the end. CD 1 incorporates some of the best chuggy barroom disco cuts from the likes of Bagraiders, Jay Shepard and Bermuda. During the course of the first disc you get the laid-back beginning coutesy of The Alan Parsons Project and Rainer [...]


 
The Orb virtually invented the electronic genre known as ambient house, resurrecting slower, more soulful rhythms and providing a soundtrack for early-morning ravers once the clubs closed their doors. Now they invite you to join them to sit back, relax, and drift into ‘The Dream’.


System 7 is the dancefloor project of Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy. Their style hovers between trance, techno and progressive house – with a unique spacey character that is deeply psychedelic without being typical psy-trance – and the added element of Steve’s highly specialised techno guitar.


After the surprise success of his self-titled, low-key debut on Hyperdub , Burial returns with an eagerly awaited follow up album, ‘Untrue’. The new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch bent until [...]


Industry heavyweight Eelke Kleijn is no stranger to success. He made major waves last year with a string of very well received and highly circulated productions, and remixes. Eelke’s signature of technological mastery with quirky eclecticism is in evidence on this, his debut album: Naturally Artificial.
Made as a labour of love before being quickly snapped [...]