Once again we present a mix album reflecting on the past year (and a bit), celebrating the 4th year of Ambientologist releases! Six unique releases between October 2022 and December 2023.

The year saw the gorgeous Venusia released on vinyl, Fionnlagh's sublime remix album, the first instalment of the Ambient Echoes series in partnership with Echoes Blue, and the stunning forest album from Henrik Meierkord & Ni!, with accompanying wooden photography box.

Download it here on SoundCloud, or head to the Bandcamp page to also grab some of the full tracks for free: https://bit.ly/3S4pbS1

Thank you to all the artists involved, and to those that supported them by listening, sharing and purchasing their music.

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Tracklist:

01 Meierkord Kobak Lucchi Saviano - El Duende [from Venusia]
02 Jupi/ter - Hounds [from Islands, Pt. 3]
03 Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Tides [from Suggestiva]
04 Fionnlagh - To the Villa on the Cliff (Fionnlagh's Ripple Through Time Rework) [from What Came After]
05 Henrik Meierkord & Ni! - болото / Träsk [from Ekosystem]
06 Jupi/ter - Islands [from Islands, Pt. 3]
07 Fionnlagh - This Storm Will Pass (Logic Moon Remix) [from What Came After]
08 Jupi/ter - our final days [from Islands, Pt. 3]
09 anthéne & Clara Engel - Far From Your Fire [from Ambient Echoes, Vol. 1]
10 Henrik Meierkord & Ni! - дуб, наверное / Troligen Ek [from Ekosystem]
11 Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Lectio Magistralis [from Suggestiva]
12 Antarctic Wastelands & IKSRE - Solari [from Ambient Echoes, Vol. 1]
13 Fionnlagh - What Has a Beginning, Has an End (Anwalter Remix) [from What Came After]
14 Meierkord Kobak Lucchi Saviano - Eranthis Hyemalis III [from Venusia]

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Reflections, Vol. 4 - Mixed by Ambientologist

Tracklist

01.  Nobuto Suda - Resonance
02.  Bill Seaman and Monika Bugajny - beginning, introduction, pattern
03.  Hirotaka Shirotsubaki -  Cloudy Sky in November
04.  This Communication + Traveling Light - You Are Now At Peace
05.  Lamasz & Thme -  Spirales
06.  Masaya Ozaki -  Skerpla
07.  James Murray - Ragwort
08.  r beny - echoing pastoral
09.  Mi Cosa de Resistance & Ciro Berenguer - La invención del jardin
10.  Wil Bolton - Skymning

406. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Pre-order now available: https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/vikande-bl-nuages

Handstitched* is thrilled to announce the next split-artist EP in the series by two always consistent artists in their own rights; Old Amica and Aiko Takahashi have both released music which has been well-received on well-respected labels, such as IIKKI and Dronarivm, their contrasts in sound compliment each other with a calmness running throughout both the artists' work.

"Vikande blå” & "Nuages" is issued on dual-format, limited edition tape and mini double CD featuring individually hand-bound and hand-cut collage CD wallets made from vintage materials, washi tape and papers, a special print edition of four unique designs for the [tape] O-cards to house the c45 cassettes. Each CD copy is hand-numbered and packed inside glassine bags, tape copies are packed inside a clear eco bag.

Vikande blå / Nuages - S4mpl3r [HS57]

In the brackish territories where ambient Gothic dissolves into industrial techno's harsh architecture, Richie Culver's Quiet Husband finds its most compelling voice. The track I am premiering for you today, "At Your Worst," operates at this precise intersection—a dankly atmospheric piece that reflects haunted soundscapes while maintaining the raw visceral energy that has defined this multi-disciplinary artist's sonic explorations. Following his mesmerizing Atonal Festival appearance and the brutal Religious Equipment (2024) album—that unflinching portrait of addiction where track titles borrowed the clinical language of opiate blockers—Raging Habits 2 suggests a subtle shift. Here, Chicago house rhythms intermingle with looping ambient elements, creating tension between forward propulsion and suspended animation. I've had my eye and ear on Quiet Husband for a while now, seeking out the perfect piece that would appeal to all my readers, and I think that "At Your Worst" may hit that note. Disintegrating loops, raw noise and dark distortion operate in the foreground of this piece, scratching its nails on the outer walls of the chalkboard. The track's title itself speaks to Culver's unflinching examination of human fragility, that moment when substitution becomes salvation—when "noise becomes a proxy for silence, and intensity replaces numbness." This is music from the peripheral spaces of experience, from that liminal zone where endorphin rushes skim "over the synapse surface." Just days before his upcoming Berghain debut, Culver offers us not merely a composition but a séance, invoking ghosts of past raging habits while simultaneously exorcising them through the catharsis of sound. Not for the lighthearted, but if you're brave you will enjoy.

TRACK PREMIERE : Quiet Husband - At Your Worst

https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/travel-over-the-waves

There Shining in Gold

Blurstem’s 'Remnants and Whispers' is an album of memory-of echoes and fragments, of moments gathered and reshaped, of the past carried gently into the present. Released on Fluid Audio, renowned for its exquisitely crafted physical editions, this collection of soundscapes and textures is imbued with nostalgia, intimacy, and the quiet weight of time.

The album weaves together the delicate and the vast, the small and the sweeping. Tiny, almost imperceptible guitar plucks flicker like candlelight amidst expansive ambient washes. The sonic palette moves seamlessly between lo-fi warmth and pristine clarity, embracing the imperfections of cassette recording and the wobbly, warbled charm of home videos from a lost era. Each track breathes with a human touch-organic instruments processed and reimagined, from tremolo strings pitched and resampled on “Tethered” to layers of sound that feel like old photographs brought to life.

At its heart, 'Remnants and Whispers' explores the idea of remnants-what we carry with us through life, the fragments of friendships, memories, and fleeting moments that shape who we are. Much like the album’s sonic construction-built from past sketches, ideas, and textures revived and given new form-the music mirrors the way we collect and reinterpret our own experiences over time.

This ethos extends beyond the music itself into its physical presentation, with Fluid Audio’s deluxe edition incorporating 1920s sheet music and book fragments as old as the 1890s-historical relics that feel like the perfect visual counterpart to the album’s themes of memory, loss, and renewal. The tactile nature of these artifacts deepens the listening experience, making 'Remnants and Whispers' not just an album, but a tangible connection to the past.

Mastered on Bartels’ late ’60s analog tape machine, the album’s final touch further enhances its warmth and character, adding an unmistakable depth and timeless quality to its sonic palette.

A meditation on change, nostalgia, and the beauty of imperfection, Remnants and Whispers is an invitation to pause, reflect, and listen-not just to the music, but to the quiet echoes of our own stories.

Music: Blurstem
Mastering: Bartels
Design: Crossley

www.fluidaudio.co.uk
www.blurstem.bandcamp.com

Blurstem - Along the Rails

I have been writing about music for nearly two decades now, and it’s time to turn inwards again. Away from being a promotion vehicle and towards a curation platform, supporting music and musicians that resonate within. And when it comes to highlighting one of my favourite electronic musicians, that is certainly the case. Somewhere, in the darkened, quiet and euphonic spaces between synthetic, buzzing pulses and organic, breathing textures, Ben Chatwin has been crafting his sonic language. This voice speaks through modulated frequencies, soaring string arrangements, and the ghostly hum of man-made machinery brought to life. This month, he’s been the featured artist on Headphone Community, where I showcase his music through exclusive track premieres, unreleased alternative mixes, in-depth interviews, and yes, even an 80% OFF discount to his last album, Verdigris. You can join for only $1 a month to get access to all of the above, and invest your precious attention among the many like-minded folks who still believe in the transformative power of deliberate, thoughtful, and visceral music. Today’s track is taken from the forthcoming EP, Klasis, scheduled to be released on May 9th, 2025. This is the second release from a new project Ben calls Tether – a series of EPs and singles rolling out over the year, eventually leading to an album. The first release, The Beginning, is available on his Bandcamp, and you can name your price for that release.

See more on https://www.patreon.com/HeadphoneCommunity

TRACK PREMIERE : Ben Chatwin - Caldera

I’ve been mesmerised with the sound of Deaf Center since the very beginning. I think it’s been more than 20 years now since their Neon City EP was released on Type. This is way before I even knew that behind the project was a Norwegian duo who started making music together as friends. This is before I knew their names to be Erik K Skodvin and Otto A. Totland. Before I listened to, admired, and celebrated their solo works on here. And, before I met each one in person, and of course, before we naturally became friends. This is precisely why, when it came to launching Headphone Community and deciding on who I should profile there from the start, I reached out to Erik and his partner Monique Recknagel (who runs Sonic Pieces imprint) to pitch them this idea (it was actually when I visited their mi-so shop in Berlin). This is why Erik is the currently featured artist for the month of May on Headphone Community (join for just $1 for an intimate journey!), and this is why I am premiering this track for you today. It’s been another long period of silence for Deaf Center, but the two long-form pieces on Reverie clearly show that they have not put their collaboration on hold. If anything, it has only evolved into a hypnotic meditation on Otto’s keys and Erik’s strings, guitar, effects, and atmospherics, designed for a very deep listening session. The recordings actually come from a live performance in October 2024 in Rabih Beaini’s studio, Morphine Raum in Berlin, during the 15th anniversary celebration of Sonic Pieces. This is less of an improvisation and more of a dialogue between the two friends who haven’t spoken in a while. It is truly magical, and I only wish I could be there to experience it live.

In “Rev”, deeply effected piano motifs reverberate and echo in the depths of the room, evolving through looping and electronics into a blissful, mesmerising cloud of (dis)harmony. The sound is reminiscent of the 7inch “Vintage Well” mixed with the basic elements of 2011’s “Owl Splinters”. […] The immediate duality of the two performers has rarely been so strongly felt, Totland’s deep melodic feeling is underscored by Skodvin’s abstract ambience and processing. Dark versus light, loud versus quiet – this has always been at the core of what makes Deaf Center a special project.

TRACK PREMIERE : Deaf Center - Rev (excerpt)

I wanted to capture the peaceful quality of the creature before Man arrives. I wanted the harmonies to be central.

Orangutan Rainforest

tried emulating and exploring and stealing some of burials ambient track techniks, maybe it still passes as an homage or something lol hope my love for his music shines through in a personal way anyways

taaste of rocks and cliffs

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Focusing on experimental genres, we aim to provide a space to share in the creative process and spread the experience of inner exploration through musical expression.

Blurstem - Along the Rails

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