AUDIO: Doorskip – “Isometric Dreams”
Doorskip has returned with “Isometric Dreams,” a 90’s style drum and bass tape that explores jungle, ambient and more.
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AUDIO: Adam Michael Krause – “Experimental Americana at the End of the American Experiment”
The EP is a folk release that finds the Krause grappling with the fractured state of the nation through a distinctly Midwestern lens.
Read moreAUDIO: Nova Realis – “Eternal Light”
The new album sees the Milwaukee-based artist diving deeper into ethereal territories, crafting immersive sonic environments that feel both expansive and intimate.
Read moreAUDIO: Brandon Buhr – “Atmospheric Voyage”
True to its name, the release makes you feel as though you’re floating off the ground.
Read moreAUDIO: LBN667 – “distantfire (extended)”
There’s serenity, just a touch of dissonance, and progression laid out throughout this piece, and it will put you at ease with it’s soothing tone.
Read moreAUDIO: Def Sonic – “Aesthetically Pleading”
With a mixture of breathy synth layers, filtered vocals, and bright guitars, each composition is thoughtful and comes together as part of the greater whole.
Read moreAUDIO: Saul Dinauer – “Glass Flower”
The three-track release feels like a sunrise on a particularly cold day, with thin atmospheric layers providing the base of these compositions.
Read moreAUDIO: SYS Sister Sounds – “Grounded”
The compilation showcases the talents of Maggie Tra, Cloudy Ku, Leviathe, Runa Mont, Jo Ngo, Chaulichi, Arin, and Wytchings.
Read moreAUDIO: Brandon Buhr – “Blue Skies Over Clear Waters”
Ambient-electronic artist Brandon Buhr’s latest composition paints a placid, undisturbed picture of air and sea. Spanning 25 minutes long, these droning, hypnotic soundscapes patiently weave in and out like gently rippling waves that vary ever so slightly throughout the piece. Creating a perfect sonic accompaniment for meditation or taking a midafternoon nap, Brandon Buhr delivers an ocean of serenity with
Read moreAUDIO: Armageddon Speaking + grant4ore – “In a World Full of Planet Eaters”
Produced by grant4ore, these four songs mash video game music, dance club beats and ambient sounds in one package.
Read moreAUDIO: Psyclopean – “Nostalgiamancer”
Psychedelic-dark ambient project Psyclopean released their 19th album. Get ready to embark on a smoky, introspective, Lovecraftian sonic odyssey that gets variably awestruck, emotive and meditative. The record is self-described as Pink Floyd getting lost in the world of science fiction, which certainly conjures imagery of shadowy fantasies and the other-worldly ethereal. Keep an eye out for more Psyclopean and
Read moreAUDIO: Michael Jantz – “Peace 5”
The fifth ambient piece from the former Black Eagle Star reminds you there is beauty surrounded by ugliness.
Read moreAUDIO: Noctilucant – “In A World Of Human Wreckage”
Dark ambient project Noctilucant has returned with a new album. The story goes like this: you come across a city thinking it’d be utopian only to discover the exact opposite – a tyranny-ruled municipality of cybernetic overlords. You escape, but find that all that’s left of the world is desolation and destruction of what was once our planet. The story
Read moreAUDIO: Dennis Hawk & Dave Schoepke – “Daybreak Star”
Wellness music artist Dennis Hawk teamed up with experimental percussionist Dave Schoepke for a new single that’ll be going straight to your yoga playlist. As the title implies, this piece is warm and bright akin to awakening, with ambient sensibilities accompanying wondrous flute passages. It’s the first of much to come from Dennis Hawk and Dave Schoepke’s collaborative prowess, but
Read moreAUDIO: Docx – “Through The Embers”
Docx captures the calm after an explosive moment on a new track.
Read moreAUDIO: J. McCoy – “All I Have Left to Give”
Experimental ambient artist J. McCoy has a new album out of tracks he made when he returned to Milwaukee two years ago. Mesmerizing layers of modular improvisations stack up like ladders into the sky with “All I Have Left to Give.” Deeply textural like majestic sunsets, these tracks are patiently optimistic yet hellacious in atmospheric texture. J. McCoy has been
Read moreAUDIO: Space Whaler – “Never Knew/A New Day EP”
Experimental-ambient artist Space Whaler has a new EP out. It’s three tracks that feel like we’re watching the sun rise and set in deep introspect; “Never Knew” features a minimalist melody and obfuscated lyrics, “What You Could Do” is something of an interlude that cries out into the sky, and “A New Day” hovers amid droning notes. Space Whaler loses
Read moreAUDIO: Brandon Buhr – “Midnight Sunshine”
Ambient electronic artist Brandon Buhr has a new EP out, following up January’s “Journey Through the Mountains.” Being with the anxious drones of electro-classical nightmares in “Toba,” the EP moves into a desolate space void with “Dryas” and then concludes with the free-floating plane of nothingness prescribed by “Endless Ocean of Dreams.” It’s one of the most bleak soundscape collections
Read moreAUDIO: Xexyz – “I Used to Play Violin”
Ambient synth artist Xexyz has a new single out. It’s a gentle, liquid composition that feels like a quiet stroll through a rainforest. The tune plays with the rich colors of nature against shadows, waters, and peeks of sunlight. The cover art is beautifully geometric depiction of that, looking like the carpet in a classroom. It’s always a joy hearing
Read moreAUDIO: J.McCoy – “The Quarantine Recordings”
Dark ambient artist J. McCoy has a new record out of material he made at the beginning of quarantine while in New Orleans. It’s four modular improvisations, all meant to encapsulate the dark and isolating nature of our current catastrophic world. This is reflected especially in McCoy’s choice of track titles such as “Days That Cast The Longest Shadows” and
Read moreAUDIO: A Crushed Rose – “2017 – 2019”
A Crushed Rose is an experimental ambient project of Alisa Rodriguez’s, who is known both as Apollo Vermouth and for being vocalist/guitarist of Operations. She has a new EP out under ACR, consisting of recordings from the late 2010’s. These five tracks are pensive in mood with cascading sonic layers. “The Right Kind of Dumb” is an ambient techno track
Read moreAUDIO: House of the Maker & Scott Lawlor – “And I fell Into Darkness and Foul Dreams”
House of the Maker is one of Joseph Mlodik’s many ambient wizardry projects; he primarily focuses on nature and field recordings here. His latest album from HotM is a collaboration with Scott Lawlor, and it’s a two-hour escapade through the densest of forests and planes uninhabited by mankind. Featuring samples of birds of rain, some parts are laden with awestruck
Read more‘Merlin and The Cursed Castle’ By Zenyth The Architect Is A Reinvention of Electronic Music
From British Columbia, Zenyth The Architect is a Canadian music producer, DJ, and recording artist. Since 2009, he has been experimenting with different genres. After 10 years of testing, he has finally found the sound he was looking for. Zenyth The Architect’s sound is a mix of psychedelic and ambient sounds with electronic dance music and elements of rap and
Read moreAUDIO: PHatbrane – “Phatbrane’s Bag”
Phatbrane gives you music to decompress to with his latest instrumental project.
Read moreAUDIO: C. Vadi – “The Lyre”
Ambient artist C. Vadi has a new record out featuring pieces all performed using a specific synthesizer. She conjures ethereal, hypnagogic drone-scapes that feel like a sunny stroll through flowering meadows. She keeps everything gentle and delicate, although there’s a pensiveness with each piece, like we’re yearning for nature to reclaim what it once had. C. Vadi encapsulates a sense
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