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Happy New Year!! Have a amazing 2023!!

This is the 100th Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. These monthly released sessions brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer.

After 99 Ambient Sessions I finally reached session 100 and the first mixtape released in 2023!! 

I did a long and deep digging into the DE and AS archives and came across a set I recieved back in 2014. It was ment to be released as the second Ambient Sessions but with some reason it never been posted. As for now it will be the 100th instead. To give it a proper release!

There is no tracklist available just pure deep ambient music! So enjoy!

here below you will find older sets Michihiro did for the channel:

https://soundcloud.com/deep_electronic/deep-electronics-podcast-10

https://soundcloud.com/deep_electronic/ambient-sessions-28-michihiro-sotomura

Artwork created by Jeroen

Photo taken by Jeroen and used for the 10th chapter of the Deep Electronics serie.

Logo by Subchord.

Ambient Sessions # 100 - Michihiro Sotomura

This morning, I am spending time with Joachim Spieth, who is releasing his new album, Retrace, tomorrow, October 4th, via his own Affin imprint. Spieth's particular flavour of ambient dub should be familiar to those following the annual Pop Ambient series curated by Wolfgang Voigt. A few years ago, I premiered a track off his incredibly textured Ousia album, which I subsequently proclaimed as one of the best of the year in my Music For Being Together Alone list. Since then, I have been truly captivated by his aquatic ebb and flow, heavily layered with introspective, deeply oceanic, slow tidal ambience, which tends to calm the mind by spreading its evolving soundscapes into the distant unknown. Spieth's further explorations, like Terrain (2022) and his collaboration with Markus Guentner on Overlay (2023), continued to appear in my annual celebrations of favourite music. So, it shouldn't be surprising that I'm premiering his latest track for you. On Retrace, his carefully balanced sonic expansions are complimented by hypnotic rhythms and heartbeat-echoing low-rumbling bass. "Like glittering drops of water, the sound elements combine to slowly filter through sonic biotopes until they extend across the spectrum in full frequency." Perfectly curated as a soundtrack for any time of your day, these seven pieces will guide you back into the meaning of this reality if you follow the journey, listen, and breathe.

Read more on Headphone Commute:
https://headphonecommute.com/2024/10/03/joachim-spieth-longing/

Retrace

TRACK PREMIERE : Joachim Spieth - Longing

Fragments is the first joint album by Joachim Spieth and Warmth. It brings together two musical characters with an affinity for expansive, imaginary soundscapes and atmospheric compositions. 
Agustin Mena is a Spanish ambient producer and has been operating under his 2 alter egos ‘Warmth’ and ‘SVLBRD’ on the two labels he founded, Archives and Faint. Joachim Spieth has been running the label Affin for almost 2 decades and is a regular contributor to Wolfgang Voigt's Pop Ambient series on the Kompakt label.
The first musical points of contact between the two were in the form of mutual remix projects. This exchange laid the foundation for Fragments, which now reveals the intersections for a sense of space and timelessness. On seven tracks, the album takes the listener on a walk through organic textures and places of longing.

Artist: Joachim Spieth | Warmth 
Title: Fragments
Format: CD/digital 
Cat.: Affin CD09 
Release date: Friday, January 10. 2025 

Track listing 

1 Spectral
2 Exosphere
3 Obscured
4 Appearance
5 Black Marble
6 Surfaces
7 Dark Tide

All tracks written & produced by Joachim Spieth and Agus Mena
 
design | markus-guentner.de 
mastering | artefactsmastering.com 
website | linktr.ee/AffinLTD

Fragments

Joachim Spieth | Warmth - Fragments

... and here we are, at the end of the Xerrox series. For those who have been all along on the ride, the fifth and final volume concludes an incredible journey which Alva Noto started back in 2007, with the exploration between the original and the copy, the distinction between the two in the analogue and digital world, and the context which each one holds. This was before the concept of non-fungible tokens designed to represent proof of authenticity for the original [digital] art, music, and collectables. Nearly two decades in the making, the five albums capture Carsten Nicolai's evolving philosophy around the method and the system. "The copying process is now less visible through software manipulation; rather, it unfolds as the artist describes melodic and acoustic images that are then manipulated, copied, and transformed into new patterns during composition." I've covered Vol. 2, Vol. 3, and Vol 4 in detail, in the last of which I have predicted that this fifth and final volume will come out in 2025. So, I am delighted and a little sad to feature this exclusive premiere of a track from the final entry as the voyage approached dissolution. This is an emotional experience filled with moments of melancholy and the bittersweet feelings of goodbye, not the least of which are influenced by the connection to the passing of Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was a fan of this series.

Read more on Headphone Commute:
https://headphonecommute.com/2024/11/25/alva-noto-xerrox-nausicaa/

Xerrox Vol. 5

Xerrox Nausicaa

TRACK PREMIERE : Alva Noto - Xerrox Nausicaa

Well, folks, here we are, near the end of this year. I could say a lot about 2024, none of which was highly positive and worth celebrating, so I’m happy to close this chapter and move on anew. If I could try to name one highlight of the last year, it would be the accelerating advancement of artificial intelligence, and even then, I’m not sure if it’s a good thing. I am confident that I’m not alone in this sentiment, having spoken to many musicians and label owners reflecting on the state of the scene, the music “business”, and the world in general. Plenty are struggling to keep going and hopefully persevere. With that said, I did spend a tremendous amount of time highlighting the albums worthy of your attention and money and selected my favourites for the upcoming Best of the Year feature, which I will begin publishing on January 1st. It’s one thing worth looking forward to. The other is this fantastic collaboration between my favourite artists, Joachim Spieth and Agustín Mena, recording as Warmth and SVLBRD. Separately, the two have produced an abundance of heart-warming music on their respective labels, Affin and Archives, which has kept me in comfort, sanity, and peace. Mena’s 2018 release Parallel nursed me out of COVID and remains at the top of my rotations, unparalleled in its charm. Meanwhile, Spieth’s dubbed-out ambience has been a spellbinding companion at home and on my travels, reducing anxiety and focusing the mind. I’ve profiled both artists on these pages in-depth (read the most recent In the studio with Joachim Spieth), and I’m excited to announce their upcoming joint release and share an exclusive premiere of this beautiful track.

Read more about this Track Premiere on Headphone Commute:
https://headphonecommute.com/2024/12/30/joachim-spieth-warmth-spectral/

Spectral

TRACK PREMIERE : Joachim Spieth | Warmth - Spectral

Taken from "Frammenti"

A few copies left:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/frammenti

Edition of 35 handmade CD packages, wallets, stamped, hand numbered.

releases February 8, 2025 

Written and produced by Paco Maddalena 
Mix: Nauta Studio 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 

SHM 327 
Shimmering Moods Records 2025



Paco Maddalena - Perpetuo movimento

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

found dog

5:24am

The Reflection of A Pebble On The River Of The Gargrave Stepping Stones - Side B

ASC - The Waves [SSCD22]

01. Seamounts
02. Nautical Depths
03. Echo Location
04. Kelp Forest
05. Endless Blue
06. Marine Layer
07. Hadal Zone
08. Ocean Shadow *

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Available Winter 2019
Traditional Silent Season CD & Digital Formats
Produced and Mastered by James Clements
Photo by Apertism
Silent Season © 2019 [SSCD22]

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info@silentseason.com
www.silentseason.com

The Waves

Bandcamp

ASC ~ Ocean Shadow [SSCD22]

Here are some original solo piano pieces...  some mixes from my podcast... some exclusive track premieres...  and some tracks from the albums I review on Headphone Commute... Enjoy!