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A collection of tracks exclusively premiered on Headphone Commute

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Settle Down / The Here And Now CD / SEM 023 

CD and digital available here: http://semlabel.com/the-here-and-now/

Segue - The Here And Now - 05 Settle Down

BRYAN SENTI COULD BE WELL KNOWN TO LISTENERS OF A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN (DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE WEIRD & WONDERFUL HIPPITY HOPPITY VIOLIN SOLO ON THE UNDIVIDED FIVE'S ADIOS, FLORIDA???? BRYAN APPROACHED ADAM SUMMER OF 2022 FOR A REWORK. I AGREED AS LONG AS I COULD RECORD A SIXTEEN PIECE CHOIR, SO I DID....

released July 7, 2023 
RECORDING & MANIPULATION OF BRYAN SENTI SOUNDS - OXDONK, BELGIUM @ AANTALVIER - 16 PIECE CHOIR RECORDING BUDAPEST, HUNGARY @ MAGYAR RADIO STUDIO 22 ORCHESTRATIONS ADAM WILTZIE - CONDUCTOR PETER PEJSIK ORCHESTRA CONTRACTOR MIKLOS LUKÁS @ EAST CONNECTION MUSIC - MIXED BY FRANCESCO DONADELLO @ SYNECDOCHE MUSIC RESEARCH

ADAM WILTZIE APU REMIX (Apu Minus Seven Plus Sixteen Voices)

Second track off of "1979", released on digital, vinyl, and handheld projector on Friends of Friends Records.

fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/1979 <---- To buy digital/vinyl
http://shop.1979.la <---- To order the projector
www.1979.la <---- To submit a memory for the gallery

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Memory is one of our greatest gifts; it gives us access to time, to identity, to dreams. Guided by the wisdom of Jackson Sonnanfeld-Arden, discoverer of the Nine Pure Tones, I created 1979 as a concept album through which I could share his brilliant theory, and my life-long infatuation with memory.

Before music was such an easily traded commodity, it was often an experience to which people gave their full attention. Let’s bring that experience back. Let’s respect what music is worth.

Yours in the waves,
- Deru

Let The Silence Float

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* Pre-order: https://ctatsu.bandcamp.com/album/pathways

Pathways" is the new album by renowned electronic music artist Brendon Moeller. Known for his innovative fusion of deep techno, dub, and ambient sounds, Moeller once again pushes the boundaries of the genre.

Brendon grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. Throughout his childhood and teenage years, he learned piano and drums, finding particular inspiration in the music of artists such as Fela Kuti, My Bloody Valentine, De La Soul and Kraftwerk. However, it was not until 1993, when Brendon moved to New York City, that his own individual style began to develop. With NYC as his base, he has worked with several prominent labels and collaborated with artists like Mikey Dread, Speedy J, Mutabaruka and MATRiXXMAN.

With dozens of EPs, singles and albums to his name, Brendon’s love for experimenting with sound has created an endless source of inspiration to continuously self-reflect and advance his music. Brendon is consistently striving to reinvent himself and skillfully influence the dub scene in the process.

Pathways

PREMIERE: Brendon Moeller - Movement

Bridges to Sechura

Energieumwandlung

This is the 111th Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. These monthly released sessions brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer. For the last month of 2023 Warmth is back now with his signature ambient music. The first time he created a more deep dubtechno mixtape in the very beginning I started this channel. It was chapter #69. check the playlist on this channel.

Now he has grown into a master of creating natural atmosphere in ambient music. With drony landscapes, field recordings and long paths this set is a result of his interest in sculpting calmness and deep listening. So enjoy.


Bio: 
Warmth is the main project of Agustín Mena, also known for his side project SVLBRD, both mainly focused on ambient music with some popular titles like 'Parallel', 'Essay', 'Inland' or 'The Darkest Place'. He also run the labels Archives and Faint.



Tracklist:

01. Fionnlagh & Warmth - Where Shadows Cross
02. Innesti - Memories of Previous Lives
03. Anthéne & David Cordero - Pleamar
04. Andarctica - Nori (Ritual Edit)
05. Lauge - Fön
06. Russ Young - Taiga
07. Anthéne - Riverbed
08. Stilhed & Norvik - Blis
09. Be Still the Earth - Taiga
10. Human Is Alive - New Beginning
11. Logic Moon - Moonchild
12. Russ Young - Chancel of Living Trees
13. Guentner & Spieth - Apastron
14. Misleading Structures - Plateau Burial
15. SVLBRD - In The Perfect Darkness
16. Warmth - Night Away
17. Akmuo - Audroje
18. Fionnlagh - Syzygy
19. Stilhed & Norvik - Kalas
20. Misleading Structures - Lost Expedition Prints
21. Fionnlagh & Warmth - Parallel Terrain
22. Warmth - Anhelo
23. SVLBRD - As The Waves Crash
24. Norvik - Monsoon
25. Innesti - Apparitions Throughout History
26. Andarctica - Cyan (Ritual Edit)
27. Loscil - Century
28. David Cordero & Rhucle - Beyond the Horizon

Links:
https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/
https://faintmusic.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/w_a_r_m_t_h

Ambient Sessions # 111 - Warmth

If, 20 years ago, you told me that I'd still be writing about ambient music, I think I would have simply laughed. How much could be said, not just with words but also with these sounds? But as the years appear to speed up, I find myself immersed in it much more (even as I see so many other publications slowly disappear), discovering new layers, space and people who have another story to convey, one that I am happy to be a part of. Regular followers of this site will, without a doubt, recognise my personal connection with the present moment, often hoping to convince myself and others that we should focus on what is instead of how it was before and certainly instead of how it could be. How could it possibly be any other way? How could we not be here and now, experiencing all that's happening around us as it could only be? Are there better times ahead of us, or is it only doomsdays? And does it really matter when we get there in the end? Okay, I'll pause here for a time and focus on the music, premiering for you a piece by Austin-based ambient artist TJ Dumser, who releases music under his Six Missing moniker. This piece is titled "Guidance", and it is taken from his upcoming full-length, Here For Now. Across the twelve pieces on the album, soft pads, swirls, and swooshes are echoed in a faint, reverb-drenched ambient calm, sometimes accompanied by the quiet acoustic guitar strums, sometimes allowed to simply expand into infinite indistinct space. It's in this space where I find myself writing these words. Here for now... and hopefully for a little bit more...

Here For Now

Guidance

TRACK PREMIERE : Six Missing - Guidance

Written and Produced by Mark Findlay and Agustín Mena
Special thanks to Richard ‘the captain’ van den Broekand Jachtwerf Staverno
Mastered at Artefacts Mastering
Photography Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com

Fionnlagh & Warmth - Where Shadows Cross

Grenzwellen Zw​ö​lf

Cat.No: GW 13
Release Date: December 1, 2023
Mastering: Thorsten W.D. Berger
Cover: Katrin Rathsfeld

Get the full compilation here : https://grenzwellen.bandcamp.com/album/grenzwellen-zw-lf

Grenzwellen Zwölf

Observing Stillness

For over two decades, the Osnabrück duo of Stephan Otten and Oliver Klemm has inhabited the sacred intersection of Krautrock's motorik pulse, ambient's expansive consciousness, and contemporary electronica's limitless possibility. Their approach to composition mirrors the architectural precision I've celebrated in my previous coverage on HC, where each element serves both structural and emotional purposes. In the liminal hours between consciousness and dream, Sankt Otten crafts sonic territories that feel both ancient and impossibly futuristic. "Die Gute Fee War Schon Da" (The Good Fairy Was Already There) emerges from their forthcoming album Tote Winkel like a meditation on synthetic breath. Long sighs and deep breathing from a machine that carries an undercurrent of foreboding beauty. This particular piece unfolds with the hypnotic inevitability of oncoming headlights—mesmerizing yet tinged with existential unease. Recorded predominantly live with Martin Schmeing spontaneously contributing DX7 textures, the track embodies Sankt Otten's evolution toward more organic creation methods. The fairy tale reference in the title suggests narrative completion. As their fourteenth album approaches on Denovali, Sankt Otten continues to prove that the most profound electronic music emerges not from technological innovation alone, but from the spaces where human vulnerability meets synthetic precision. Fans of synth-based explorations of future-retro sound will agree.

TRACK PREMIERE : Sankt Otten - Die Gute Fee War Schon Da

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

Jason van Wyk is a Cape Town (South Africa) based electronic music producer whose music I often wish could have been my own. From cinematic soundscapes to soft piano keys and mesmerising passages, the elements of his pieces are all the necessary ingredients that I often try to combine in my music. And that is basically the highest sort of praise that I could give. There are many incredible ambient musicians who truly inspire me with their ability to create and transport me to their fantastic sonic worlds. And plenty have contributed to my growth as a musician - I am permanently indebted to many of them, whom I am honoured to call friends. But in my soul, I am a pianist, and the instrument [or its echoes] inevitably make it into my tracks. And this is what I love about Jason's music. His most recent release on the beloved n5MD, Inherent, is a more upbeat, forward-driven progression, combining his skills of crafting dance-oriented grooves with atmospheric soundtracks. For his upcoming EP, Jason reworked three tracks into pure ambient pieces. To truly appreciate the transformation, start by hearing the original track, followed by this alternative version. If you want to dig deeper into the process behind the composition (including the details of the actual effects chain used, like the Space Echo, etc.), you can read up on Headphone Community, where Jason revealed it all when he was a featured artist for the entire month of July [the content is still up there!]. Deep listening and focus are essential to truly appreciate the textures here...

https://www.patreon.com/HeadphoneCommunity







TRACK PREMIERE : Jason van Wyk - Inner (Horizon)

After decades of chasing, accumulating, and then sharing new music with you, I think I've hit some saturation point. I think I'm done spinning in the vortex of the "new", being pulled in all directions, catching up on all the "fresh" and "innovative" tracks. I'm not saying that I will stop covering new music. No. But I think I'll focus the virtual lens of my listening on a very narrow point, investing my time and attention over more extended periods. I think I will turn inwards... towards music and the artists that genuinely make me feel. This is the case with Rafael Anton Irisarri's A Fragile Geography, an album from 2015, which captured my attention then as it does now, triggering memories, triggering thoughts, and emotion. A decade ago, during a move between coasts, Rafael lost his possessions - stolen with the moving truck - along with all his audio archives, forcing him to rebuild his studio and sound from the ground up. The pain of this loss is reflected in almost every single track on the album. This music is slightly dark and melancholic. It's visceral, and it gets under your skin. And there it stays with you for ages. Becoming part of you, becoming part of your existence.

On September 19th, the album will be reissued, beautifully remastered by Stephan Mathieu at his Schwebung studio, along with a limited edition cassette of remixes by the most renowned artists, handpicked by Rafael. "This record has always been about letting go of one life and rebuilding another", says Irisarri, "It feels fitting to return to it now - ten years later, in a different country, a different world." These reworks are worthy of your precious awareness as well. I know that there are more than a few in the pipeline (at least six), which will be revealed one at a time. As of this writing, there is already a gorgeous rework by the one and only William Basinski, with his version of "Secretly Wishing For Rain" with Gary Thomas Wright, which incorporates field recordings of Reseda rain and birds captured by Basinski himself. You can check out a digital stream of that track here. *BUT!* Today, I am premiering for you a second rework by Abul Mogard! This piece bears not only the original elements of "Persistence" but, of course, Guido's extremely personal touch that breathes new life into this sound.

Head over to headphonecommute.com to read more about this release, including a quote from Abul Mogard on the rework.

TRACK PREMIERE : Rafael Anton Irisarri - Persistence (Abul Mogard rework)

I may not trust the intarwebs, but I will surely trust my label. When it comes to discovering new music (to pop me out of my echo chamber and insistent feedback loop), it’s easy to get lost among the new releases. There’s just too much of everything, and it’s only getting harder to discern. Anyone can share their latest content. And anyone can upload with a click. There’s a reason for that. The companies that host it all have made it easy for a reason: to monetize your music. To turn your content into cash. On the flip side, the labels take their time. They are, in turn, investing in the artist. So when you buy into the label, you buy into their world. Past Inside The Present has been curating my journey since 2018, and I have learned to trust Zach’s choice in music. So when he backs North Carolina-based vocalist Angela Winter for her slightly avant-garde solo debut release for the label, I’m all ears. I write “solo” because in 2024, we’ve already heard her voice on a collaboration with the label boss himself, titled Mid Sky. Together, the duo navigated “a realm between the terrestrial and cosmic with organic drones and ethereal vocals“. In August, Angela returns with a full-length titled Forbidden Questions In Space, centered around ambient and drone improvisations, and of course, her voice, for a koan-inspired drift into the endless cosmos. If you’ve been following Headphone Commute, you know that I tend to focus on mostly instrumental music, often with a darker tint of sonic experimentation. Today, I select one of those pieces from her upcoming album to give you a taste.

TRACK PREMIERE : Angela Winter - Saturn, lightly

Taken from the upcoming album 'Transient Accidents' on Fluid Audio...

- All tracks produced, mixed and arranged by Sara Galán and Edu Comelles. 

- Album recorded during the first weeks of August 2015 at Espai Rambleta in Valencia, Eastern Spain.

- Mastered by Jaume Muntsant.

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Cello & Laptop - On The Verge

Taken from 'At The Dam' LP by Mary Lattimore, out March 4, 2016.

Pre-order at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/at-the-dam
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At The Dam

Mary Lattimore - Jimmy V

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Letting Go Variations' by Kirill Nikolai...

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Letting Go Variations

Kirill Nikolai - Reconstructions, For Lack Of Anything Else

Mordançage is a new project from Tobias Hellkvist and Andrew Tasselmyer...  

The new album is a reference to the photography technique that creates  a degraded appearance in photo prints by physically altering film, a close metaphor for the way the album was created; manipulation of source audio and sound design creating a very different result.

Audio: Tobias Hellkvist / Andrew Tasselmyer
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Artwork: Brittany Nelson
Photography: Craig Tattersall
Design: Daniel Crossley

Release date: 
30.09.18.

Mailing list: 
www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list

Mordançage

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Mordançage - Now Before Us

One of the pieces I wrote as part of the score to the 2012 documentary film, "Outliers Vol. 1: Iceland".

More info here: www.outliersiceland.com

Black Beach (Outliers Vol. 1)

Deepchord presents Echospace - Spatialdimension (Phase90 Reduction)

Luminous Spaces

Luminous Spaces (Edit)

Track taken from the stunning new album 'The Man Who Died In His Boat'.

Full review:

"Grouper isn’t just a listening experience; it’s a dive of faith into another dimension..."

www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/01/grouper-the-man-who-died-in-his-boat

Grouper - Being Her Shadow

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Hearts full of sorrow, souls full of hope, we look to the west...'

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Hearts full of sorrow, souls full of hope, we look to the west

infinite blanket

e & i - infinite blanket

hello friends !

This album with love for all people & nature <3
Our ambient electronic sublabel Secret Domain [ @secretdomainlabel ]

Also FREE ep's from Secret Domain for You :
- secretdomainlabel.bandcamp.com/album/save-amazonian-forest-ep-free-dl
- secretdomainlabel.bandcamp.com/album/save-syberian-forests-free-dl
- secretdomainlabel.bandcamp.com/album/save-siberian-rivers-free-dl

mastering - mmcm.ru

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Amanita Phalloides & Heavenchord - Skazka Bil Da Vney Namek

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!