I was in Birmingham International train station, boiling hot after being used to Glasgow's wet sunless summers. I filled up a waterbottle and the electronic advert next to the dispenser was emitting this electronic drone. The music you hear is taken from that 20 second recording. 

It was a boring, uncanny moment, where I was vacantly processing our worsening climate emergency and how amazing it is that things can just keep going on.  

The title comes from Judge Hehir's sentencing of the Whole Truth Five in July 2024 stating that “whether or not we are facing the end of the world is neither here nor there" and that humanity “coming to a fiery end” is irrelevant". A shocking denial of reality and punitive measure in face of very real global catastrophe. And a deeply resonant instance of society's inability to see what's coming.

'facing the end of the world is neither here nor there'

Tender / Wading

Tender of Land (Patrick's Version)

Listen / Buy

Image (1983-1998)

Nisemono No Uta (2025 Remastered)

Widely regarded as one of the most uncompromising works in experimental noise, Kevin Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is once again available on vinyl. First released on CD in 2002 on the original Mego label, the album remains a landmark in extreme electronic sound and is an essential and ferocious document of Drumm at his most inventive.

The history of Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is one of resilience to the twists of underground trends that have come and gone since its initial release. Using guitar, tape manipulation, microphones, pedals, analog synthesizers, and subtle computer processing, Sheer Hellish Miasma is an overwhelming experience: a sonic onslaught of storming feedback, fractured textures and  an unrelenting energy. At once brutal and meticulously composed, the album offers a singular vision at the outermost edges of sound art.

For seasoned noise veterans, Sheer Hellish Miasma offers a bracing soundscape filled with exquisitely abrasive textures and more than enough hidden detail to warrant repeated listening – a distinct voice in the increasingly same-sounding world of abstract electronic noise. For everyone else, Drumm’s journey through the noisy underworld is likely to inspire fear or, in an optimistic case, fearful admiration. 

Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is an abstract noise classic with this 2LP reissue being an artefact of eternal power.

Sheer Hellish Miasma

Cloudy

Kevin Drumm 'Cloudy' (EMEGO053)

Unseen lane toward the deferral breath
Fog unspools, hums like it knows me
Straining to perceive what I have encoded
And they leave anyway
Countless doors to exit

Tracing the edges of each shade
Arise from the entrails of circuitry vain
Withhold in a corridor - ornaments of the dim ache

Patina Lush is an electronic composer from Austin, Texas, rooted in tactile emotion. His music is vivid and hallucinatory — shaped by layered textures, shifting patterns, and a pulse that bends between clarity and dream.

'Mist Unseen' is a sonata of phantoms: somatic grace drifting through vapor. The pieces move like shifting fog — elusive, dissolving, yet leaving traces that return unexpectedly, almost as if hummed back from memory. It unfolds in tension — between what is traced and what has not yet taken form — a work that moves like memory, half-revealed and ever-becoming.

Mist Unseen

Patina Lush - Patchouli Sunrise

#44
- 2020.04.16–2022.12.18 -
by Soloi Sounds @monotone-orchestra

For this mix, I selected some beautiful tracks that were released during the pandemic—(most likely) produced in Japan. While I feel a bit uneasy about drawing a simple connection between COVID-19 and ambient music, I put this together as a way of recalling the many experiments and explorations that were happening at that time.
(The mix title reflects the release period of the tracks featured.)

今回のミックスではコロナ禍にリリースされた（おそらく）日本で制作された素敵な楽曲を選んでみました。コロナとアンビエントっぽいものを安易に結びつけるのもモヤっとしますが、あの時期にいろんな試みが行われていたことを思い出しつつ作成してみました。
（Mixタイトルは使用させていただいた楽曲の発表期間になります）

- Tracklists -
1	Nobuto Suda - Winter Banana	
2	Precipitation & Mirage Area - 星の通信 Star Transmission 	
3	Soloi Sounds - Lights	
4	Shuma Yamakaji - Orogeny	
5	Shota Okubo - Adolescence and Old 	
6	Yosuke Tokunaga - ME ZZOTINTS	
7	Shuta Hiraki - on baluster 	
8	Akito Tabira - Two (Variation) 	
9	Iu Takahashi - Oblivion
10	Yoichi Ichikawa - Sea that has Become Known	
11	For Nina - Untitled	
12	a0n0 - Sounds that ring in the outside world	
13	nzworkdown - Vapor	
14	Betts(JP) - Osafune 01

- Selector -
Soloi Sounds @monotone-orchestra

Based in Tokyo. He has released eight albums on labels in Japan and abroad, including Chitra Records, Dragon’s Eye Recordings, and Ume Records.

東京都在中。Chitra Records、Dragon’s Eye Recordings、梅レコードなど国内外のレーベルから8枚のアルバムをリリース。

- Artwork -
www.instagram.com/loid0001/

#44 - 2020.04.16–2022.12.18 - by Soloi Sounds

David Cordero is an artist based in San Fernando, Cádiz, on the southern coast of Spain. His work has appeared on many of the Ambient scene’s favourite labels including Home Normal, Dronarivm, Archives, Polar Seas, and Past Inside The Present, among others. He also released ‘Restless Nature’ on Whitelabrecs back in 2024. Having made music since his teens, David began releasing solo material in 2016 after years spent performing as part of a Post Rock band. His music draws inspiration from Ambient pioneers such as Brian Eno and Steve Roach, as well as the Japanese school of minimalism led by the likes of Satoshi Ashikawa and Hiroshi Yoshimura. Nature and everyday life play a central role in his compositions, which are crafted through long hours of experimentation in his home studio. A curator of Ambient and experimental music events in Spain, David remains deeply engaged in fostering the scene while continuing to explore new sonic ideas.

Anthéne is the project of Toronto-based musician Brad Deschamps, who has been releasing music since 2015. Known for his hushed, melodic guitar-based soundscapes, Brad has released on respected imprints such as Home Normal, Oscarson, and Past Inside The Present, as well as through his own label, Polar Seas Recordings. His influences span from the spacious, slow-moving worlds of Stars of the Lid to the delicate intimacy of Julie Byrne, with a constant leaning toward minimalism and melody. In addition to his solo work, Brad is an active collaborator, creating music as Rosales (with Ian Hawgood) and Citrine (with Phoebe Dubar), among other projects.

Their second full-length collaboration is called ‘Let One Bird Sing’ and follows 2023’s ‘Lost Under The Sea’ on the Home Normal label. The two artists began by patiently exchanging small musical sketches, allowing each to build upon and reshape the ideas in their own way. Layers of guitar, modular tones and textures were gradually woven together into a seamless whole. It was an unhurried process where space and subtlety were as important as melody. Both artists have a deep respect for detail and restraint, and this shared affinity is evident throughout this album.
Brad was inspired to choose the album’s title based on a line in a poem by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, which speaks to a hope for freedom. This is something Brad connected not only to humanity but also to the natural world. The pieces on ‘Let One Bird Sing’ carry a sense of openness and quiet reverence for nature, reflected in their unforced, drifting structures and gentle interplay of tones. The artist’s intention was to create a space for calm and reflection, inviting either attentive listening or moments of stillness and detachment. 

-credits-

Written and produced by David Cordero and Brad Deschamps
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover photography by April Suen
Additional photography by Brad Deschamps
Art and design by Andrew Heath

wlr193 David Cordero & Anthéne - Let One Bird Sing

Of Silence Revelation Dub

I wanted something ominous and brassy. I originally had the scene from terminator where John Connor is in the future fighting terminators with laser guns in mind.

Synthetic Nightmares

7ascension

A cover with the Poly D
Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uEp4GFDdII

Miles Kvndra - Dune - Behringer Poly D Cover

Monthly ambient show on Resonance Extra.

Submissions bobby.jewell at gmail.com

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'facing the end of the world is neither here nor there'

Bobby Jewell