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Kalte –“The Lanthanide Series” (Stasisfield)
Glisteing Sculptures of Sound | Kalte is Toronto-based Deane Hughes and Rik MacLean. Both guys are quite active in the field of abstract Ambient music but "Lanthanide Series" is their debut EP as a...
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Sleepmakeswaves –“In Today Already Walks Tomorrow” (Lost Children Netlabel)
Epic Postrock | This is epic! Sleepmakeswaves from Australia create an astonishing soundscape that can not be praised enough. Everyone who likes bands such as Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Isis and...
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Wo0 –“With the Flowered Minds” (Phantom Channel)
Consuming Guitar Drones | Netlabels, promote your releases! UK outfit Phantom Channel got a good start with two compilations. But once these were released, I didn't read about new stuff anywhere. Once...
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Phillip Wilkerson –“Incidents in Spring” (Bypass)
Warm and Minimal Ambient | From Galuszka's survey we can learn that most Netlabels are run by Germans. China, in contrast, is listed with one entry. I guess this is Bypass, the only Chinese label I...
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Various –“Format” (Fällt)
Concept Music | From the mid-90's, Fällt Publishing operated in the field of experimental electronic music and media art. Record releases were always objects of artistic interest. Just recently, Fällt...
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Wixel –“An Empty Canvas”
Epic Ambient | Wixel is the experimental Folk moniker of Wim Maesschalck. In 2009, after his epochal "Somewhere Between the Sun and the Moon" CD album, Wim started a project called "12 Records in 12...
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2% –“Nowcast” (Archaic Horizon)
Lush Ambient, Crunchy Beats | Hot off the heels of mo.'s Para-review last week, I got to let you know about the latest Archaic Horizon releases: "Nowcast" by Trenton McElhinney, more commonly known as...
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Reintroducing Serein Netlabel
Back Like Boom | Welsh Netlabel Serein is one of my top five sources for high quality Ambient, not only in the context of Netaudio. It has been silent at Serein for a quite a while, but after a period...
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Brian Grainger & David Tagg –“Sawdust Aromatics” (Rope Swing Cities)
Twin Peaks Ambient | Boy this one has been sleeping on my HD for a long time! Brian Grainger hooks up with long-time partner David Tagg to delivers an epic four track EP for the US-American Ambient...
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Astrowind –“Fresh Wind in the Valley of Dreams” (Silent Flow)
Where The Wild Synths At | Blame me to be an anachronistic fool. Call me old-fashioned. Still I got to let you know: an analogue synthesizer sounds better than a digital one. It may act like a diva...
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Psychon – “Slow Country for Old Men” (Narrominded)
Ambient Electronic Mixture | Regardless what anyone may think, Psychon has not been asleep for the past five years. After releasing “apocalypse has been dubbed the weekend pill", the band submerged...
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Slow –“Dual Box” (Resting Bell)
August Ambient Bliss | Slow surfaced when Autoplate went down - maybe you remember their exquisite "Love" EP which was released as apl050 on Christmas Day 2008. I'm quite positive unbreakable Resting...
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DJ Mix –“Aqual(o)unge 4” (Machtdose)
Underwater Ambient Mix | Listening to Aqual(o)unge 4 is like swimming through a coral reef. The sunrays falls into the water and enlighten the colourful submarine world. Everything seems to float here...
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Feldmaus –“Spaces” (Passage Netlabel)
Charming Melodic Ambient | In general it's Sven Swift's part to introduce you to the world of creative commons ambient music. But where Sven gets crazy about experimental tunes, I still love the...
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Julian Winter –“Rock Art EP” (Pause + Netlabel)
Game Soundtrack | Julian Winters "Rock Art EP" is the official soundtrack for an online game called "Alchemia". His EP combines songs and field recordings. "I hardly can remember all the 'instruments'...
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Various –“NetAudio Russia Compilation Volume 1 & 2”
Festival Compilation | When I think of electronic music from russia, I always think of minimal music and melodic IDM. And when I listen now to the two beautiful "NetAudio Russia Compilations" I am once...
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Alexandre Bateiras – “Canções da Lua Nova” (Merzbau)
This one is an oldie. In fact, almost three years passed since this was released on Merzbau. Enough time for the netlabel to shut its doors - the website is still on and will be for long, so make sure...
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Maps and Diagrams –“The Giant Woods” (Yuki Yaki)
Soothing Chill | Back on track with a classic Ambient album. "Classic" like GAS, Fennesz, Eno... You know the drill. Behind the Maps and Diagrams moniker is UK-based Tim Martin, who has a quite...
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Geotic –“Hearth”
Warm Drones | Geotic is the Ambient music outfit of Anticon recording artist Baths who is active as Postfoetus, too. While Baths is biased towards Brainfeeder-style Hip Hop and Postfoetus can clearly...
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map~map –“For Friends This Winter”
Minimal Ambient | A tiny EP is stolen from a blog called "Dust Breeding" which I love a lot. These terribly short however mesmerizing sketches of minimal Ambient and musical processing of environmental...
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