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Interesting, innovative, strange, different, beautiful ambient tracks from SoundCloud artists. Suggestions and comments are welcome!

Ambient

I gathered a couple of my fav and underated artists from the field recording, ambient, drone and contemporary classic genres. 
If some listener finds in this playlist a new favorite song or artist, then the playlist has achieved its goal.

Exceptional Electronic Artists

Sound Art/Field Recordings 2

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MAP09
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/aeroplanes-puddles

“This recording is based on a particular geographic area of Sydney: the industrial zone around Sydenham Train station. As with many inner city industrial areas in large cities all over the western world, this place is ripe for redevelopment. However, in this case, due to the zone being directly underneath the flight path to Sydney airport, as well as being flood prone due to environmental factors, unscrupulous property developers are not able to completely gut the place and erect hideous apartments. What is interesting to me, and what this recording aims to capture, is that these factors – the aeroplanes and the puddles – act as a form of resistance to the development.” (MP Hopkins) 

MP Hopkins is a hidden treasure from Australia, a sound artist known for his varied music projects and strange mix of lo-fi urban field recordings and intimate bedroom experiments. Sonic details of empty streets from close neighbourhood, subtle intervention and fragments of lonely voice comments are reminding distinctive forms of sound journalism or a diary for night adventurers. Aeroplanes & Puddles follows the previous Traipse - Marrickville (2015) album which is Hopkins's starting point for his walks along the Sydney suburb. 

Mappa presents the sonic evidence of this opposition; the non-human voices of resistance that the aeroplanes and water speak with in this acoustic environment. The work features field recordings of the area garnished with a text narrated by Hopkins which combines fragments of the 2017 Australian Federal Budget speech and parts of ‘The Powerhouse’ – a radio play by Richard Packer (Gargoyle Poets series, 1972).”Feel free floating in the holy sound voyeurism and thorough collection of evidence from the other world at the same time. 

released February 7, 2018 

recorded, mixed and mastered by MP Hopkins 
artwork and design by Jakub Juhás, Richard Čecho 
photos by Nina Pacherová 
released by mappa as MAP09 in 2018

Aeroplanes & Puddles

part 1

part 2 Soul

Tokyo Phonographer Union at the Fernandes House, Yokohama, Japan
World Listening Day, July 18 2021
Live stream (archive): https://youtu.be/AdL5gNT6jYo

Part 1:
Marcos Fernandes, Hiroshi Shimizu - percussion
Haruo Okada - Real time soundscape

Part 2: (in order of appearance)
 CarlStone, Haruo Okada, Marcos Fernandes, Hiroshi Shimizu - phonography

Technical support: Hideki Giga Oikawa

Live at the Fernandes House, World Listening Day 2021

Pre-order now available for "Farben #1 / A Sunday's Silence"

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/farben-1-a-sundays-silence

The next release in the Handstitched* split-artist series is by Yair Etziony and Oberlin. Handstitched* are pleased to announce the series of evolving limited-edition issues, they are released on both mini CD and C45 cassette and will focus on two artists with a total of 22 minutes per artist, one CD and one-half of a C45 cassette per artist - limited to 50 copies per release. Each of the formats have hand-crafted packaging, unique, hand-printed covers for the CD and hand-made cassette sleeves for the pro-dubbed tapes.

Thanks for listening x

Yair Etziony / Oberlin - S4mpl3r [HS41]

VITI

Violoncello played by: Sara Galán.

+info: http://www.audiotalaia.net/merchandising/

Omnidirectional Microphones (Primo ECM 172) , Violoncello

from the album suikinkutsu no katawara ni released by winds measure.

Lawrence English - Shinjuku Semi

FREE

Lawrence English - Semi Kyushu Japan

SuKhush Live @ O.Z.O.R.A. 2014 

The O.Z.O.R.A. Dome this year was more of an “alternative” stage than a chill zone with lots of techno, dubstep and even tech house. But we stuck to the psychedelic roots as we usually do. even in our cosmic anomaly timeslot of 9am on Wednesday morning ☺ 

There is absolutely nothing in the universe as wonderful as grooving with the global psychedelic family :: big thank you to all you day trippers who joined us in the dome that morning! We love you guys - - & can’t wait to see you all again in Goa this year! 

1)	Master Minded :: Fearless
2)	Psyrius :: Mercury 
1)	Zen Baboon :: Bencalado
2)	Wolfen Technologies :: External Encounters
3)	SeaMoon :: I’ve Got No Philosophy
4)	Bohemian :: Fractals Everywhere
5)	Beatroots :: Bass Chakra
6)	MantisMash :: Pulsating Reality 
7)	Quanta & Eurythmy :: Psywamp
8)	Scopes :: Scrambled Eggs 
9)	Symbolico :: Craziness is Part of Reality
10)	Tipper :: Reverse Dross Maneuver
11)	Yechidah :: Maha Mistis
12)	Kuba :: Unsinkable 
13)	Makyo :: Soma (Jinniyah Remix)
14)	Vibrasphere :: Forest Fuel 

Vish on the electronics, Rachel on live flute. 

Xx BooM xX



LOVE

SuKhush Live @ O.Z.O.R.A. 2014 (Chill Dome)

CD | DL

Jacob Pavek - Seasons

Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWtyAZVBBXI
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Klartraum now on bandcamp : https://klartraum.bandcamp.com/
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How does our Liveset sound like with 60bpm ?
http://www.klartraum-music.com
Using Roland TR8, Roland MX1, Livid CNTRL:R, Korg SV1, Korg Wavedrum, Ableton Push, Touchable, Novation LaunchControlXL, Korg Volca Keys



KLARTRAUM [Lucidflow, Soma, Darkroom Dubs] played live at Fabric London UK, Circoloco @ DC10 Ibiza, Tresor Berlin Germany, Lightning In a Bottle Festival California USA, Kazantip Ukraine, Brown Alley Melbourne Australia, Shanti Goa India…

Silhouetted against the RGB pulse of the club lighting rig you see two figures in the DJ booth – one female, bouncing with effervescent energy and feeding off the buzz from the dancefloor, and one male, working the controls with the subdued calm of a Zen master. From the speakers comes the expected throb, but something is different. Rather than formulaic kick-hat-snare metronome, it is as if a widescreen switch has been flipped, the periphery of your hearing being licked with unknown sound waves that had been criminally absent from your night.
You are listening to Klartraum.

Berlin based duo Nadja Lind and Helmut Ebritsch have been crafting audio under the Klartraum banner since 2006 and co-run the much admired Lucidflow label, notching up admirers such as progressive icon Hernan Catteneo, French techno legend Laurent Garnier, figurehead of deep Seth Troxler, legendary techno outfit Slam and one of the musical directors of Fabric in the shape of Terry Francis. The list of Klartraum EP’s and two studio albums – Evolution and Secret Moon – come hand in hand with wave upon wave of plaudits from the scene’s leading names. klartraum fabric london terry francis nina kravitz nadja lind helmut ebritsch lucidflow
Such recognition does not come without merit. Nadja is a successful solo artist in her own right with an impressive catalogue to her name and a bustling globetrotting DJing schedule. Helmut is a master of production, cutting his teeth in the simple tracker tools that found their way onto the Commodore platforms in the pre-internet era, before lending his accomplished keyboard playing and mastering skills to the Klartraum pairing.

A ying and yang of personalities melts together to create the iconic Klatraum sound, dancing with Nadja’s ceaseless energy and caressing with Helmut’s measured style. The middle ground between the pair comes from a love for Metaphysical Psychology. Often producers may speak of “spirituality” in their work but how often does it translate into their music? Very little. Here, by understanding the deeper levels of psychology, Klartraum’s productions hit deeper than bedrock – the bass velvets you, the kicks push through the ribcage, the melodies lead your mind by the hand in a merry dance through wonderland.

For the unenlightened, this is the time to embark on your first lucid dream with Klartraum as your guides. Get on board.

Klartraum Live - Ultra Slow Sofa Session feat. Dr. Gabor Maté [60 bpm, Ambient, Downtempo]

A recording of the live set I was very honoured to play at the Chillout Gardens of Boom Festival 2016. An experience I will cherish forever :)

Daheen - Boom Festival Live Chill Set

This is the set which was presented @ Psy Fi Festival 2016 , Netherlands , enjoy :)

Johnny Blue @ Psy Fi Festival 2016 

Tracklist
1. Kaya Project - Slide (Ambient Mix)
2. Zen Baboon - Qui Otto
3. Unknown Reality - Free Thoughts
4. Entheogenic - Psychocosmic Parallelism
5. Elea & Bahramji - Dancing Blossoms (Sidereal Remix)
6. Organic Dreamers - Sedatin Sitar
7. Birds Of Paradise - Wingspan (Kaya Project Remix)
8. Phytophile - Namaste
9. Desert Dwellers - More Than Anything (Love and Light)
10. Desert Dwellers - Solar Prayers (Bird Of Prey RMX)
11. Eurythmy - Dragon Fly
12. Mindex vs Spinner - Bermuda Triangle
13. Hello Mellow - Eat Sleep Sit Repeat
14. Tribalicious - Deep Space
15. Nako - UFO
16. Drumspyder - Spyder Step
17. Cloudcycle - Altitude (HoeHLE RMX)
18. Master Minded - Fearless 
19. Avaris - Windgod 
20. Hypnotizer - Invisible Reflection
21. Kaya Project - One Hundred Lights (Grouch Remix) 
22. Gnomes Of Kush - Winter Morning Dub
23. Kukan Dub Lagan - Summer
24. Desert Dwellers - Crossing Beyond (Govinda Remix) 
25. Aligning Minds - A Noble Truth 
26. Side Liner - Deeply Leepy 
27. HuuHaa - Grapevine Drums 
28. Logic Bomb - Summer Snow 
29. Hypnagog - Forever And Ever 
30. Sleepy Koala - Harmonic Junkie 
31. Ajja & Cosmosis - Rhodes To Nowhere

DJ Johnny Blue @ Psy Fi Festival 2016 (Chill Out Stage)

The Noisiest Guys on the Planet

The Noisiest Guys on the Planet, Pt. 1

Solas

A Different Place

TANT QUE LES HEURES PASSENT
COMPOSER SERIES
TZADIK
2008.

Si ce n'est toi from Tant Que Les Heures Passent (Tzadik)

from the organized music from thessaloniki release, 'A Void'. Available as CD or free download: https://thesorg.bandcamp.com/album/a-void

A void is a space to be filled.

Down there (là-bas)

Purchase the album and support my work at https://melissapons.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnal-sounds-of-the-atlantic-forest

Nocturnal Sounds of the Atlantic Forest - dusk

Éliane Radigue - L'Île Re-Sonante

Physical: geographic-north.com/cassette/coyotes/
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/coyotes
Catalog #: GN49
Cassette, limited to 100

Félicia Atkinson is a composer, sculptor, painter, poet, and publisher from Rennes, France. Atkinson has led a fruitfully fantastic run of eerily blissful, serenely euphoric sounds. Whether under her own name or via her defunct recording pseudonym Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier, Atkinson has released work on Umor Rex, Digitalis Limited, Aguirre, and Shelter Press, an imprint co-run with Bartolomé Sanson.

‘Coyotes’ is an EP inspired by Atkinson’s last voyage to New Mexico in February 2017, when she visited and took in the geographic landscapes from Taos to Ghost Ranch. The same vistas also inspired much of Agnes Martin’s and Georgia O’Keefe’s painting, as well as Jerome Rothenberg’s poetry and translation’s works.

Atkinson describes a ‘Coyotes’ as a “Carnet de Voyage,” a tape you could directly play in your car while traveling somewhere, a kind of imaginary map to a sentimental journey. A spontaneous gesture, close to the notion of gift or offering. Or, simply, a postcard to a friend.” But it’s also a praise to the conservation of national and state parks and its human and non-human souls, menaced as we know now by drilling and violent economic speculations.

Here, coyotes act as a kind of metaphor of ambiguity and doubt, a state of mind that Atkinson find interesting to transcribe musically; the ambiguity furthered by Atkinson as a literal “foreigner” in New Mexico. She conveys a sense of visiting these native sacred lands and wondering what you are doing there.

Musically, ‘Coyotes’ is composed of two long tracks, “Abiqiu” and “Lighter Than Aluminium.” Each track features an effervescent froth of piano, midi sounds evokes marimbas, Fender Rhodes, bells, sub-basses, and spoken word poetry written by the musician to display a melancholic landscape made of transparent but deep layers of pale colors and blurry lines.

Félicia Atkinson - "Lighter Than Aluminium"

Album FLOOD out July 2018 on Fabrique Records.
https://janairmert.bandcamp.com/album/flood

FLOOD Pt.1 (standing on breaking ice)

The Listening Body is a new collaborative project by sound artists and musicians Steven Mclnerney and Pascal Savy. Together they seek to investigate alternative ways of presenting their drone work and question the relationship between performer and audience in the context of the space in which sound and music are experienced.

The project stems from their respective practices of performing experimental music in traditional and less traditional concert venues, where the divide between stage and audience enforces the expectation of a spectacle that more often that not fails to materialise. With The Listening Body they seek to dissolve the binary nature of the concert space by asking the audience to lie on the floor and cover their eyes with sleep masks, as their sound work will be diffused throughout the room. In doing so they hope the audience can use the entire bodies as resonant sensors and reclaim the here and now of the performance as a space for direct and felt experience.

Steven McInerney will lead a sonic meditation using ancient and contemporary techniques with gongs, singing bowls and other idiophones. The symphony of sounds will allow a sense of deep relaxation which can be effective in reducing stress levels and tensions within the body. Through the process of entrainment, the phenomenon whereby both physical and biological systems synchronise their rhythm through the interaction of an external stimulus, the gong space will affect the individual on a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level. These meditation instruments will be played intuitively with the highest intent to safely guide the group into the deep states of consciousness.

Pascal Savy will explore the interaction between sound, body and physical space with a new minimal composition at the intersection of drone, ambient and noise music diffused on a large quadraphonic sound system, and will seek to investigate the possibilities of experiencing sound where the entire body can act as an extended listening device triggered by the resonant properties of the room in which the work is presented. He hopes that experiencing sound as a continuum of physical vibrations mediated by the body, rather than the ear alone, will catalyse within participants a sense of physicality that is more perceptual than affective, as a way to make music a fully embodied experience. Ultimately his performance will seek to question why sound more than other experiential mode of investigations can reveal something fundamental about the ephemeral nature of reality.

Buy Ticket

The Listening Body [excerpt] (23 September 2018)

Wind entering in a little piece of forest with a few pines and more firs, and on the other side leafless birches. When a gust comes, the "white noise" from the nearby firs strengthen, then the lower sound (little like a distant jet) from the naked birches joins in.  (Position of the microphones seen in the picture)
Headphones de riguer!

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/200115/

(MKH8020 ab60cm, SD702, 24/48, no eq, flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Firs and Birches - 15/1/2020 - Makholma-Majantie, Finland

Crónica De Un Secuestro

Thousand Drones To Nubla

Performed & Recorded by Matteo Mariano in 2004. http://macrogramma.com
Original cover art by Pietro Puccio (2019). http://www.pietropuccio.it

Terminoid & Risaia in salita / Terminoid & Uphill Paddy

Also Terminoid and Uphill Paddy share the same origin: they are both guitar improvisations with electronics and real-time looping, recorded as they came out of a multi-effect processor by the sound card of an already old Mac G3. In both the sensation is better than the technique. The first darker and looming, the second a continuous luminous crescendo.
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Anche Terminoid e Risaia in Salita condividono la stessa origine: sono entrambe delle improvvisazioni di chitarra con elettronica e looping in tempo reale, registrate così come uscivano da un multi-effetto con la scheda audio di un già allora vecchio Mac G3. In entrambi la sensazione è migliore della tecnica. Il primo più cupo e incombente, il secondo un continuo crescendo luminoso.

from macrogramma volume 2, released September 5, 2019
Performed & Recorded by Matteo Mariano in 2004

macrogramma volume 2

Terminoid

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
348 week Haiku.

https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/09/02/naviarhaiku348-whenever-gazing/

OneAmbient4 - Whenever Gazing... (Naviarhaiku 348)

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Love, Lovers

Experimental Electronic/Electroacoustic/Sound Art/Ambient

FLOOD Pt.1 (standing on breaking ice)

Jana Irmert