Æther #009 by Tim Six
Dronarivm Guest Mixes Series

We recently released a beautiful two-track EP by Paris-based ambient/drone artist Tim Six - https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/alpine-valley - and asked him to share some recordings that he's been enjoying lately, so he came up with this mix.

You can also read about Tim's preferences in music, synthesizers, and hairstyle in a short interview we did with him: https://dronarivm.com/2025/06/28/interview-with-tim-six/

Tracklist:

00:00. Ariel Kalma ~ Water Echoes [Self-released]
03:23. Shine Grooves ~ Ambience 113 [Not Not Fun]
06:27. Lamina ~ Eclipse [Mappa]
09:57. Amkarahoi ~ Arrhythmic Wave [Biardo Records]
14:27. v a n i t a s 命死 ~ 緑のHorizon [Self-released]
17:47. TEGU ~ 2x3 [Not Not Fun]
22:20. Light Blending In ~ Entities [The Tidal Charm]
25:52. Bålsam ~ Dream Particles Forming [Global Pattern]
31:33. Evelyn Greene ~ TOUCH [Dream Journal Institute]
38:38. Mychael Danna & Tim Clément ~ Under August Sun [Chacra Alternative Music]
43:32. Jean-Paul L'Heureux ~ Rilassamento Subliminale [Demetra]
48:09. Tim Six ~ Park in the evening [Aural Canyon]

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Æther #009 by Tim Six

Trenches

Fluid Audio presents Giulio Aldinucci & Matteo Uggeri - The Promise of a Threat coming soon on Fluid Audio...

In The Promise of a Threat, two veteran composers of ambient and electroacoustic music - Giulio Aldinucci and Matteo Uggeri - converge on a collaborative terrain that is at once intimate and immense, reflective and unsteady, beautiful and unsettling.

Created between June 2021 and early 2022, and mastered by Aldinucci in 2025, the album stands as a slow-burning document of digital and emotional correspondence. It reflects the language of ambient music not as static wallpaper, but as a deeply expressive form - one that allows silence and signal, memory and disturbance, to coexist within the same fragile space.

A Digital Dialogue Across Distance...

The entire work emerged through remote exchanges between Aldinucci (based in Siena, Italy) and Uggeri (Milan, Italy), unfolding gradually through shared sessions, sketches, and iterations over time. The process was not unlike the movement of tectonic plates - imperceptible at first, yet with weight and intention. Layers of processed field recordings, abstracted rhythms, and spectral textures accumulate into dense yet transparent forms. Every detail is traceable, yet elusive.

Giulio Aldinucci, known for his deeply spatial drones and sensitive treatment of field material, builds immersive sonic beds that seem to hover just above the surface of the Earth - simultaneously grounded in place and untethered from time. Matteo Uggeri, by contrast, applies a more tactile touch: assembling beats, samples, and environmental recordings into patterns that give pulse and tension to the atmosphere.

Together, their styles intersect in subtle and surprising ways - sometimes bleeding into one another, at other times standing apart in contrast. The balance between order and entropy, harmony and noise, creates a dynamic that speaks to the album’s title: The Promise of a Threat. Beauty does not arrive alone. It is always shadowed by its inverse.

Processes of Presence and Absence...

Across the album’s runtime, the listener is drawn through zones of dissolving melody and shadowy rhythm, passing through spaces that feel neither entirely natural nor entirely artificial. A drum sample on Track 2, provided by Andris Brinkmanis, adds a skeletal percussive element - a quiet agitation beneath the calm. The rhythms are not dominant but suggestive, like distant industrial echoes or memories of forgotten structures.

The artists manipulate the digital medium not as a tool of perfection, but of erosion and transformation. Hiss is preserved. Glitches are welcomed. The human ear remains present in every detail. The processing - granular, filtered, stretched - is not ornamental but fundamental, a way of sculpting emotion out of signal. Field recordings are often submerged, embedded beneath layers of drones and rhythms, yet their presence adds a layer of organic residue - a trace of wind, rust, or breath beneath the circuitry.

A Tactile Offering...

True to the ethos of Fluid Audio, the physical release of The Promise of a Threat will be crafted with great care and material sensitivity. Expect a limited, hand-assembled edition that honours the intimacy and intricacy of the music - an object to be held, as much as heard. Full packaging details and release date will follow.

For now, The Promise of a Threat lingers just at the edge of hearing - like the low hum of an incoming storm, or the quiet reassurance of knowing something is coming, even if its shape remains undefined.

www.fluidaudio.co.uk

So Finally I Stared at It All, Still and Satisfied

Ruth Maine - Nesting

Tracklist

01. Blochemy - Nove
02. Dalton Alexander - Spring Doesn't Remember Me
03. Richard Ginns - Far From Home
04. Norihito Suda -  Mist Valley
05. Twincities - Evenings wait; the morning’s break
06. The Humble Bee - 11 14 jan 2010
07. Sokkyo - Balcones de gracia
08. Federico Durand - La edad del bosque
09. América Analógica - Anochece
10. Ian Hawgood -  And you were gone

435. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

L'amour est toujours là. On reprend son autonomie, on se reconstruit chacun-e de son côté, mais on ne s’éloigne pas. On évolue en parallèle, mais sans se perdre de vue. On s’est débarrassé des entraves, mais pas du lien. La liberté, ce n'est pas juste un mot, c'est un mouvement. La liberté c'est un mouvement.

https://www.radiocampus.be/emissions/melancolie-douce

Illustration: "Robinson Crusoe On His Island" (artiste inconnu)

00:00:00 Les Antonymes - Mélancolie douce jingle
00:00:35 Anja Garbarek - It Seems We Talk
00:04:15 Shlohmo - Remains
00:07:35 Triad God - I Luv U Freestyle + La Dispute - Rose Quartz (intro)
00:08:35 Broadcast - Minus 3
00:09:20 Vincent Gallo - Was
00:12:17 King Midas Sound - Sumtime
00:13:26 Boy & The Echo Choir - A Great Sorrow
00:15:46 Cranes - Diorama
00:17:20 La Dispute - Fulton Street I
00:21:27 Lloyd Miller - Gol-E Gandom
00:25:29 Cranes - Golden
00:29:03 Sami Ateba, Nana Vasconcelos, Tomas Gubitsch - J.S. Bach_ St. John Passion - Ruht Wohl, Ihr Heiligen Gebeine; Bombé, Cérémonie Bouiti ApinDJi
00:32:33 Anja Garbarek - Her Room
00:34:06 Diabologum - Blank Generation
00:37:42 Shlohmo - Beams
00:42:03 Shannon Wright - Seemingly
00:44:45 Cranes - Wonderful Things
00:48:46 La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
00:52:36 Boy & The Echo Choir - Nina Jane
00:56:13 Koreless - Last Remnants
01:00:18 Henryk Mikolaj Górecki - Kleines Requiem Fur Ein Polka - Iv. Adagio - Cantabile
01:04:51 Olafur Arnalds - RGB
01:08:42 Cranes - Collecting Stones
01:11:40 Circuit des yeux - Philo
01:15:57 Olafur Arnalds - Say My Name (Destiny's Child cover)
01:21:23 Anja Garbarek - And Then
01:25:18 Triad God - Hay Wan
01:27:12 Vincent Gallo - Bad

Mélancolie douce V

Stray Theories - Catalyst

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standstill

Runaway with me

Tracklist

01.  Akira Film Script - T 
02. Tides - Softly So
03. The Inventors of Aircraft - Night Cycles
04. Ben McElroy - The Boat
05. Landtitles - Stone Gentle
06. Louis Gardner - New Things
07.  Blochemy -  Adel
08. Luis Miehlich - 時雨 (Shigure)
09. Adrian Lane - Two Seagulls Gliding 
10. David Cordero - Life at Times
11.  Glacis - We Are The Bees Of The Invisible (Adrian Lane)
12. First Snow of The Year - Nokori
13. Simon McCorry & Wodwo - By Snail on its Slick of Light
14. Slow Clinic - Could Have Been 


443. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

A gentle ringtone for nightime, to remind you to turn down the lights.

Remember to turn down the lights

Elm Records is an independent record label specialising in ambient and experimental music.