very beautiful textures and original, i love the bowed guitar

Floating dreams

Another wonderful track from the new Squanto album 'Every Night Draws the Same Crowd ' released through Fluid Audio.

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Squanto - Like The Cold

Get 'Odyssey EP' Here

Ocean (feat Soko)

Latino - Carta De Presentación

Tracklist

01.  Ian Hawgood - I Was Never Really Here
02. Michael Grigoni and Pan•American - Baritone Boderlands
03. Dag Rosenqvist - Somna, sov
04. Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee -  Case Study 7
05. The Birds Companion - A Place Outside of Time
06. Tides - Fragile 
07.  HERE - Sun-Warmed Earth
08.  Katharina Schmidt - The Multiplicities 
09. Tomosla - Rivermouth

418. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

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I don't think I will ever forget the first time I heard m.=addiction. I can also confirm that every time I played out that record, folks waltzed over to me to find out the name. Something mystical and enigmatic brought them over to music, making me feel like I was a snake charmer enchanting a cobra with the sounds of a pungi. The music of Dictaphone often evoked hazy spaces, full of jazzy smoke, lo-fi textures, and noir voices, occupying those distant corners of your memory where you felt glamorous comfort, charming enchantment, and warming delight. Since the 2002 debut, the Berlin-based duo of Oliver Doerell and Roger Döring released five more albums, all of which I think I have covered on Headphone Commute. And, in my humble opinion, their latest upcoming release is the closest to that special aura I felt nearly two decades ago. Unstable is Dictaphone's 6th full-length, where Doerel and Döring are also joined by Alexander Stoze (on violin) to mesmerise us with that special scent of future-retro nostalgia that seems to drift in the air like thick incense in a temple of soporific ghosts.

TRACK PREMIERE : Dictaphone - Desplendor

Stillness in Bloom

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.

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So Finally I Stared at It All, Still and Satisfied

Fluid Audio announces 'Series Of Room', the quietly moving new release from Italian composer Grotta Veterano. Mastered by Ian Hawgood and featuring cover artwork by Danish artist Øjerum, the album offers a deeply introspective journey through sound, memory, and emotional architecture.

Initially recorded as a series of private piano sketches - “written improvisations, controlled sketches” - the tracks were never intended as a cohesive album. Yet when brought together, they began to resemble something whole: a constellation of internal spaces, unresolved and beautifully unrefined.

“They ended up becoming a series of rooms,” writes Grotta Veterano, “each one made of memory, of recurring fragments from the past, reconstructed over time. When I say ‘a series of rooms,’ I mean the ones we carry inside us, not physical spaces.”

Each piece unfolds like an overheard thought, a door left ajar. There’s no grand statement here-only presence, absence, and the trace of something lived. With its unadorned fragility and its refusal to over-explain, Series Of Room speaks in the language of quiet honesty.

The album is presented in a meticulously handcrafted edition of 50 copies, drawing from the same tradition of tactile collage and analogue storytelling that has defined recent Fluid Audio editions. Each set features original Ordnance Survey map segments, cloth-backed and carefully bound, forming a unique shell for each copy. Also included are custom-designed A6 prints on heavyweight uncoated stock, vintage photographic slides, black & white travel photographs, photo negatives, and salvaged book pages from. Fragments of reel-to-reel field recording tape, antique travel stubs, and ephemera gathered from forgotten drawers complete the assembly.

All elements are housed in a hand-waxed, stamped, scented archival bag, individually numbered. No two packages are alike. No repress.

Audio: Grotta Veterano
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Cover artwork: Øjerum
Design: Daniel Crossley

Grotta Veterano - For The Birds

eRecords is a digital record series created by Whitelabrecs, to run alongside our physical releases. These editions aim to transform the digital format into something that can be experienced in a similar way to a listener’s interaction with a real, white label vinyl record. Each edition includes a special PDF scrapbook including polaroids and liner notes.

We do not publish details about the concepts or production methods of a release, so that the liner notes and content in each scrapbook will give you the background of each edition in the series.

catalog: eR040
artist: louis gardner
release title: the lake
runtime: 22:57
location: cheltenham, uk

Louis Gardner - The Lake (excerpt)

Ruth Maine - Nesting

A quick dancey number for the Seed 2 Stage Autumn jam sessions, cos why not?

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Æther #010 by o[rlawren]
Dronarivm Guest Mixes Series

Our latest simultaneous double release comes from the vaults of Scottish sound artist Tui, aka o[rlawren], who was also kind enough to provide a complimentary mixtape. And not a usual one, but a self-contained work of its own – featuring overlapping layers of tracks and modular synthesizer improvisations performed by Tui in the intermissions.

Explore his beautifully organic electronics in these two albums:

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/poiesis
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/the-intimate-overlap

Tracklist:

Bibio - Lynn Peris (0.00 - 04.03)
Oliver Coates - Please Be Normal (02.15 - 05.40)
Ursula Bogner - Pulsation (02.28 - 05.54)
Park Jihah - Faded (03.48 - 05.25)
Oisin Leech - One Hill Further (05.43 - 08.43)
Steve Reich - Tehillim III (08.29 - 10.55)
Ursula Bogner - Testlauf (09.37 - 11.02)
Laurie Spiegel - Appalachian Grove I (10.20 - 17.08)
Big Brave - I Felt A Funeral (13.35 - 16.54)
CH-BB - Mau Mau (16.37 - 17.37)
Big Brave - Vital (17.07 - 19.39)
Peter Gabriel - Lead A Normal Life (19.00 - 23.14)
CH-BB - Nobody Is Perfect (22.20 - 23.40)
Stephan Micus - Midnight Sea (23.17 - 29.25)
Ursula Bogner - Soloresonanzen (30.06)
Soap & Skin - The Mystery Of Love (29.55 - 32.40)
Ursula Bogner - Momentaufnahme (32.14 - 33.33)
Natalia Baylis & Eimer Reidy - Pour Upon The Sky (32.41 - 34.04)
Lucy Sissy Miller - Autopilot (32.43 - 35.10)
Tolerance - Tiez Rekcuz (34.03 - 35.07)
Linda Perhacs - Chimacum Rain (35.09 - 38.28)
Stephan Micus - The Flame (38.14 - 41.51)
Stephan Micus - The Flame - Orla Wren rework (38.34 - 42.32)(44.01 - 44.51)
Ursula Bogner - Für Ulrich (39.26 - 41.20)
Bill Nelson - Portrait Of Jan With Flowers (42.03 - 44.27)
Stars Of The Lid - Requiem For Dying Mothers, Part 1 (44.10 - 50.14))
Mayssa Jallad - Etel (45.51 - 49.27)
Tolerance - Pulse Static (49.07 - 50.57)
Stephan Micus - Nordic Night (49.41 - 52.42)
Stephan Micus - The Veil (51.04 - 52.40)
Julie Byrne - Moonless (52.22 - 56.04)
Arvo Pärt - Pari Intervallo (55.38 - 1.00.00)
Ursula Bogner - Modes (57.14 - 59.07)
Soap & Skin - The End (59.34 - 59.51)

Explore more...

Æther #010 by o[rlawren]

From the EP 'Exodus' out December 4th 2015

Written and produced by Dream Koala
Mixed by Andrea + Dream Koala

Exodus

Dimension Sleeper

I’ve not yet had the pleasure of visiting Tblisi, Georgia, but I’m reliably informed that it is a wonderful city in a beautiful part of Europe. It’s within this context that the musically rich world of our next artist, Tblisi resident Gacha Bakradze comes to life.

Producing under both his first and his second name, the Georgian born artist and I originally connected as I was interested in creating some artwork for his latest release. I quickly found Gacha to be a charming and intelligent personality and somebody capable of making beautiful music on a daily basis - often sending me demos of unreleased material he’s working on - each sounding as beautiful as the next. With releases for R&S records, Space Hardware and Apollo records, as well as through his own imprint, Transfigured Time, already under his belt Gacha is a name to watch out for.

I spoke with him about producing a mixtape for the project and I am thrilled that he accepted the invitation. His production is varied and, from our conversations, I knew his range of influences to be broad. As a DJ playing at events and producing downtempo mixtapes for home listening I was intrigued to see in what direction he would go.

I was delighted to hear what he has produced for us, just over an hour of sonic bliss. The best thing that I can say about the mixtape is that it feels like a beautiful, brooding dream that leaves you feeling refreshed and inspired.

Keep your eyes peeled for Bakradze’s debut LP dropping in 2016.

https://soundcloud.com/gacha
https://www.facebook.com/gachamusic/

For full tracklist please visit www.metroncreativestudios.com/musik

Métron

Métron Mixtape - 011 - Gacha Bakradze

Taken from the upcoming album 'Glade'...

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Hummingbird - Six Points Of Tabligh

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.

Hummingbird - Six Points Of Tabligh

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