Ambient Music

“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” — Brian Eno.

Hoshin: Path of Dissolutions

A dark ambient saga from Hoshin on Cryo Chamber.
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ChilledCow on notice: Steve Roach launches 24/7 ambient YouTube channel

Following in the footsteps of the independent YouTube streamers putting up "beats to relax/study to," ambient artist Steve Roach has created a 24/7 ambient streaming channel.
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Roborg: Fsociety

Roborg's Fsociety is full of spacial grandeur and dystopian dirges.
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Warp reissues groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence compilation

30 years of electronic listening music preserved in 1s and 0s.

Wild Hypno-Ambient Breakbeats on Dretraxx’s “Fears To Be Slain”

Amphibian breakbeat? Hypno-Egyptian drum'n'bass? Beats me what you call it, but this music amazes more than it stupefies. But it does stupefy. That is, I am cautiously optimistic, the point, or at least part of it.
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More Ghost Than Man: The Worlds We Made There

Terry Grant didn't break up with club music - they're just taking a break. Inside the More Ghost Than Man project and the new album The Worlds We Made There.
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Yoshinori Hayashi: The Forgetting Curve

In the follow-up to The End of the Edge, Japanese producer Yoshinori Hayashi delivers another masterpiece of abstract, ambient electronica.
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#ListenUp Hear the Opening Track from Andrew Emil’s New Change Request Album

Desolate Diligence leads off the 10 track RiteOnRed from Change Request aka Andrew Emil, out on Dufflebag Recordings July 19.
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Posthuman’s Requiem For A Rave is more than nostalgia for your misspent youth

The Posthuman album Requiem for a Rave could be your life, and if you're reading this it probably was.
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Yoshinori Hayashi: Asylum (Lovers Rock)

Inside the strange world of electronic music producer Yoshinori Hayashi, who makes tracks like no other man or woman born.
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For All Mankind: Electronic Music on the Moon

Brian Eno, Jeff Mills and Michael Kandel offer radically different interpretations of the relationship between humans, the Moon and the Earth.
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Two guys & a room of analog gear: The Analog Session return on Seven...

The new album from the Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky side project.

Hidden Orchestra Debuts New Tracks from Dawn Chorus

"Still" is the first single from Hidden Orchestra's ambitious new album Dawn Chorus, out June 16 2017.

Unplugged: The Magical Sounds of Pato Y Pato

Detroit duo Mark Maynard and John Duffy are capturing the aesthetic of 1970s proto-electronic on the psychedelic analog dream music of Pato Y Pato.

Reissue alert: Gerald Donald reissues Arpanet tracks on “Hydrostatic Equilibrium”

Ranging from ambient to electro, two tracks from James Stinson's Drexciya collaborator are reissued on single-sided vinyl and digital by 30D ExoPlanets.
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Off Land is On Earth

We need another new genre to categorize On Earth, the new album from Tim Dwyer's Off Land project.

The Week Ghostly International Takes Over Chicago

Pop up shops, interviews and talks and two distinct but related shows at Metro and Smartbar to celebrate 20 years of Ghostly International.
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Northworks’ “Repeating Is In Everyone” is a minimal house masterpiece

Massive respect due to anyone that can lead off a one-sheet for a 21st century electronic music EP with a quote from Gertrude Stein.

Samora: The Gift

Where Ambient Lives releases a strange and beautiful six track album from artlab founder Enrico Marani.

#StayHomeDisco – DJs Under Lockdown

5 Mag is launching a new project to help hold our community together and feed our souls with good music. DJ sets every day, several times per day.

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The Sound of Tomorrow: Tom Roberts on the launch of Cyphon...

Freerange and Delusions of Grandeur add a new sibling to the label family. Tom Roberts on the launch of Cyphon Recordings.