This track is fucking phenomenal. Strong Vangelis vibes!

I am really enjoying this track since it came out, well done!

For me "pop ambient" has a name and a face - goosebumps all the way!

https://forum.technoforum.de/ubb/ultimatebb.php

Technoforum

Drumthriver

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/pop_ambient_2023

A contemporary product of relentless capitalism has been a trend called slowness for several years now. In order to counteract the perceived fast pace of the times in which we live with a little deceleration, sustainability and relaxation, phenomena such as Slow Food, Slow Travel, Slow Fashion or even Slow Cruising, the tourist sailing of the world's oceans with somewhat smaller cruise ships "away from the mainstream", have been introduced into the world. 

That slowness is more than the opposite of speed, that elements, things, sounds that move as if in slow motion unfold a special power, precision, aesthetics and beauty, doesn’t need to be explained twice to ambient musicians. The 23rd edition of the Pop Ambient compilation, compiled as always by Wolfgang Voigt, is no exception, but instead provides the proof. Already with the first tracks of Leandro Fresco/Thore Pfeiffer, Gen Pop (Burger, Pfeiffer, Würden), Morgen Wurde feat. Tetsuroh Konishi and Max Würden up to Triola's gloomy and melancholic "Kupferblüte", the feeling of a slowness and calmness not experienced before, of an exceedingly lively standstill, creeps over us. A mental state that resembles dreams, in which we follow strange events as if paralyzed, yet awake and sensory. 

The Cologne-based Sono Kollektiv, an association of experimental artists Annie Bloch, Stefanie Grawe, Joel Jaffe, Alex Linster, Luis Weiß, Moritz Riesenbeck, Lukas Schäfer, Emily Wittbrodt and Max Würden, is represented for the first time with two contributions on Pop Ambient. The two works, the fragile "Bolzano Sessions IV" and the rather light-flooded "Bolzano Sessions V" (only available on CD and in the digital version) nestle perfectly into the musical whole of this year's compilation, not only in terms of their majestic leisureliness. 

In Jens-Uwe Beyer's "Nero", melancholic guitar chords reduced to the bare minimum are carried away by the wind like leaves, the reverberation holding the last note so long that it almost comes to a stop in the ear. If you like it synesthetic, look at the once again ravishing cover artwork by Veronika Unland right at this moment. Colors and shapes in which there is both everything and nothing to discover. Both feel equally right. 

The final third of Pop Ambient 2023 begins with Reich & Würden's herbaceous "Receiver," a track so dignified and carried by pads reminiscent of the sound of bagpipes that it would have perfectly punctuated her majesty the Queen's 8-hour funeral ceremony - a wonderful example, by the way, of the spiritual confluence of deceleration and precision that eventually turns into trance. 

The slowness is joined by togetherness at the end: Pop Ambient veteran Joachim Spieth cooperates with American sound artist zakè on his literally weightless "Air", Thore Pfeiffer co-produced the wonderful "Instinct" with Scottish brother duo Andy and Mike Truscott aka Kinbrae. California duo Patrick Hills and Morgan Fox aka Blank Gloss close out the vinyl version with the yearning "Down At The Heel," while that honor falls to debutant Ümit Han on the Pop Ambient CD. "Sieg über das Ungute" (victory over the unpleasant) in all its beauty brings us painfully back to reality.

Pop Ambient 2023

Morgen Wurde - Ende Sah feat. Tetsuroh Konishi

☆★★ https://bit.ly/GRSCLM079 ★★☆

Mood Series #79 is a Scorcher! Two powerhouses of eastern techno and dub techno producer join forces for a blistering trek into deep techno with 'Back To Essence'. Heavenchord & Shebuzzz are some of the most exciting younger names in the scene paired together works like magic. Part 1 of Back To Essence is an attention grabbing monster of flighty and relentless deep techno. Fans of high tech sci-fi techno and trance are sure to gravitate to this adventurous dancefloor smasher. Part 2 harnesses the melody for a more euphoric trip while still retaining the aggressive beat but just a bit slower with the bpm. It is our guess, that each producer takes on a bigger role with each version. At 12 and 13 minutes respectfully, these epic pieces are standout examples of the goodness going on in techno today. The second part of the EP begins with the banger 'Why Not'. This one delves a bit into more of a 90s Berlin-Detroit inspired style of electronics. 'Corner Dance' ends the release with a catchy cologne-esque dub techno joint. Reminds us of Savvas Ysatis or Studio 1 type material. This one is so much fun. Back To Essence is a strong 4 tracker. Not a sub par moment on here. All killer, no filler.

w&p - Shebuzzz & Heavenchord
mastering - grad_u
artwork - Rima Prusakova
write-up - Tim Humphrey

☆★★ https://bit.ly/GRSCLM079 ★★☆

Back To Essence

Back To Essence (Part 1)

Get It Here

Corner Dance

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Distant Streams

S01E08 Tracklist:

Karolis Urbonas
01. Earth Trax - Bruises
02. Ben Bondy - Gimmie A Call
03. Li Yilei - Chu
04. Priori - Oyl (DJ Python Remix)
05. Susumu Yokota - Deap Sea Diva
06. Korsakow - Deep In Space
07. Amir Alexander - Don’t Go
08. De.Calc - MEC048 Jakes (Shigeto Remix)
09. Zig Gonzalezz - High Jackin
10. Roland Klinkenberg - Circular tours
11. Mattheis Amandra - Manekin
12. Acid Jesus - Interstate
13. Jacques Greene - Relay (Skee Mask Remix)
14. Calibre - Turtle Duv
15. Larry - Latz End
16. Versalife - Perceptual Time Dilation
17. Kasra V - Voice Note To Self
18. Shed - Menschen Und Mauern

Aleksandr L
01. WhyLie - The Stars
02. A2iCE & BO3 - Mother, Why are there so Many Machines in our Place?
03. Scotch Rolex & Shackleton - Love Songs
04. Syz - Unidentified (Daisy Moon Clubform)
05. Immediate Proximity - Star Map
06. Satl - Noodles142
07. Gag Reflex - Ring
08. Jean Redondo - Hypersonic
09. Maara - Rough N’ Ready
10. Slolek - Obsidian
11. E-Unity - Nami ft. Kamohelo
12. DJ LOUI FROM JUPITER4 - Deconstructed America
13. Overland - Paloma ft. Purelink
14. Pedro Vian & Mana - Cascades V
15. RAP - Bright Blue
16. Civilistjävel! - Louhivesi ft. Cucina Povera

https://soundcloud.com/karolisu
https://soundcloud.com/aleksandrl
https://soundcloud.com/radio-vilnius

Drops & Volts w/Karolis Urbonas @ Radio Vilnius / 30 April 2023 [S01E08]

Winter Calm
Artist: Akmuo
Release date: 2023-07-28
Label: Liberty Rhythm
Catalog: LBRTHY110
https://www.beatport.com/release/winter-calm/4180128

Winter Calm

Akmuo - Hypnotic Winter Hike [Liberty Rhythm]

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Taken from "JOIX - Der Krieg soll enden EP  (Sounds of Jericho)". Out January 19th 2024. Buy here : https://joix.bandcamp.com/album/der-krieg-soll-enden

Join JOIX for a free listening party to celebrate "Der Krieg soll enden" (eng: "The war should stop") EP. Come along to listen to the music with the artist and chat about the making of the EP.
It was very early in the morning when JOIX awaked from a dream where the following german words came to his mind together with some unwritten song structures: "Der Krieg soll enden und das möglichst bald. Für den Frieden und dessen Erhalt." (eng: "The war should end as soon as possible. For peace and its preservation.").
It seemed very important at this moment, so he immediately stood up and noticed these two sentences on a piece of paper in his studio. After going to bed again and waking up later, reading these words once more with a rational mind he was not so convinced of its meaning any more and doubts came up if it would be really a good idea to use this for the next music production. At daylight and with sober mind it seems a bit childish and naive.
But finally the power of the dream was stronger and so you can listen here to the result as first track of this EP "Der Krieg soll enden".
Second track "Born after sunset" is a floating Deep Techno track with hypnotic basses and layered melodic chords which culminate in an emotional break and a deep melodic second part of this track.
Third, "Spinnrad am Brunnenrand" (eng: "Spinning wheel at well edge") is an innuendo to the fairy tale "Frau Holle" and comes up with an enraptured atmosphere which lets you fall down to another world at the wells ground.
4th, the Remix of "Spinnrad am Brunnenrand" by new upcoming Deep Techno Producer Felix Kowalski from Heidelberg rounds off this EP with a nice interpretation of the Original. 

Artist social media:

https://www.joix.de
http://www.soundcloud.com/joix
http://www.facebook.com/joix.music
https://www.instagram.com/joixmusic

Label social media:

https://soundcloud.com/sounds-of-jericho
https://www.facebook.com/soundsofjerichomusic
https://www.joix.de/soundsofjericho

Der Krieg soll enden EP

Born After Sunset

PREMIERE : JOIX - Born After Sunset (Sounds Of Jericho)

Original: https://soundcloud.com/phonout/de-f

Phonout - de f (db-Maui Remix)  [Free Download]

Welcome to our premiere of Zweigs remix of Cie & Mar io - "Mindmodulator", from the same-named EP.

Links:
https://www.beatport.com/release/mindmodulator/4639246
https://music.apple.com/us/album/mindmodulator-ep/1755509057
https://www.junodownload.com/products/cie-mar-io-mindmodulator/6689512-02/
formnterra.bandcamp.com/merch
www.formnterra.com

Artists: Cie, Mar io
Remix: Zweig
Title: Mindmodulator (formnterra006dx)
Release Date: 9th August 2024, digital

Cie & Mar io's latest work, "Mindmodulator", plays with the senses and opens doors to new, unexplored dimensions of the mind. The original mix starts furiously right away and brings the synapses to a boil with its intense and hypnotic break, only to burn itself explosively into the head. In the fiery remix of Zweig, the pads dance on groovy 303 basslines and enchant the deep parts of the brain. The suspenseful "Hot Mix", on the other hand, flows deeper and deeper into unimagined areas, heats the temperature inexorably, so that you can no longer escape its powerful pull and the modulations illuminate even the most hidden convolutions of the brain. This high energy level is also reached in a very short time by the "live version", which was recorded uncut as part of a performance on the radio station sonus fm, and immediately makes the neurons dance on all levels. In short, four electrifying variants of "Mindmodulator" that can change reality!

Mindmodulator

Mindmodulator (Zweig Remix)

Modulate your mind

PREMIERE: Cie & Mar io - Mindmodulator (Zweig Remix) [Form & Terra Records]

Quadrant 12/14

There’s a moment at the very beginning of Frolojaz where the track seems unsure whether to reveal itself or remain in reflection. The rhythm stutters gently, as if sound were testing its own balance – not yet settled into groove, but circling it with curiosity.
Organic percussion – tactile, earthy, full of breath and hand – opens the space with a kind of living pulse. A soft yet weighted kick joins, not in insistence but in calm invitation. It doesn’t impose. It suggests.
Then come the strings – quartal, echo-drenched, gently disintegrating across vast imagined halls. They hover, not so much leading the track as dissolving into it. There is no urgency here. Just atmosphere, tone, and time – stretched.
Gradually, without fanfare, the structure coalesces. The four-on-the-floor returns, unobtrusive and patient. A vocal sample loops into earshot – filtered, cycling, shimmering. There’s a sense of French house here, but blurred at the edges. Less homage, more daydream. Labels like Kompakt, All Day I Dream, Sol Selectas or Do Not Sit On The Furniture might come to mind – aesthetics that favor tone over tempo, and repetition as revelation.
Then the tension shifts. A bassline sneaks in – playful, thick, warm. The groove fattens. Just before the break, the drums recede, as if stepping aside. The vocal remains, now fully exposed, soft-spoken yet commanding. A snare build begins – understated, but full of intention.
And when it returns, the track opens wide.
The second movement feels sunlit. Chords rise – smooth, cool, summery. The bass grows bolder, but never brash. This is house music, clearly – but refracted through warmth, ease, and texture. It's not about climax. It's about continuation. A horizon stretched out in rhythm.
Frolojaz doesn’t chase energy – it reveals it slowly. There’s a subtle lineage here, to labels like Lump Records, or Innervisions – imprints that understand dance music as architecture, as emotion in form. But Frolojaz keeps its own posture: steady, self-contained, and quietly generous.
It doesn’t demand to be heard. It waits – and for those who do, it rewards in depth, not volume.


Frolojahz

[Deep Organic House] Westend Ghetto - Frolojahz (122bpm)

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🌌 MEET ME IN ETERNITY 🌌

An odyssey beyond time, crafted by SYNTHTOPIA x QVANTVM

This album is a deep, cinematic journey through the cosmos — a meditation on infinity, light, and the eternal resonance of existence. Built from evolving synth pads, warm analog textures, and ethereal orchestral layers, each piece unfolds like a star-born hymn: expansive, transportive, and timeless.

From the shimmering stillness of THE QUIET BETWEEN THE SUNS to the soaring radiance of FIELDS OF STARLIGHT and the transcendental call of ARC OF INFINITY, this is music designed to dissolve boundaries between the human spirit and the infinite universe.

These soundscapes invite higher consciousness, deep reflection, and a sense of home among the stars. It is not just an album — it is a gateway.

✨ Enter the cosmos. Meet me in eternity. ✨

MEET ME IN ETERNITY

iterations of her

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Demo submission: 
We receive a lot of demos every day. Please understand that we are unable to listen to everything. Send your private soundcloud link to: label@kompakt.fm.

II: composer I producer I human being :II

MARIE WILHELMINE ANDERS is a wanderer in music. Musically and instrumentally trained since her earliest childhood, she received her first technical training as a sound engineer at GDR television. She played keyboards in a punk band in the East Berlin underground music scene, created field recordings and sound installations, studied classical composition at the University Of The Arts Berlin, and graduated as a music teacher at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. In Stuttgart she was an active part of the experimental improvisational scene playing piano as well as a set of electronics. There she founded two ensembles, "Unterton" and "Hammerhaus", both of which brought together groove and free-flowing improvised forms from different perspectives. Additionally, she initiated and directed “momentmusik"—a concert series for experimental and improvised music, visual arts, performance and spoken word, which established the connection between her ensembles and the national and international scenes. 

In 2005 she ended her concert activity and moved back to Berlin. Eager for new forms of expression, Marie learned to play the electric bass, and began producing her music using DAWs and publishing it under the pseudonym Marie Wilhelmine Anders.

Marie's conceptual thinking and her craft as a modern classical composer allow her to congenially translate non-musical concepts into a modern electronic language, influenced by techno, electronica, ambient music and drum & bass. Between 2018 and 2023 she released 6 albums, 2 EP’s, over 10 remixes and more than 20 mixes. As a producer, Marie likes to work alone and independently. She is also increasingly in demand as a remixer.

Her best friend writes: "Marie works her way out of all restrictions and experiments with styles and musical directions.Thereby she adapts formal means and creates something very much her own out of it. As always, I am impressed by her accuracy in everything she does. Marie is the secret Phoenix among my friends, who every time after it has turned to ashes, puts on a new and even more splendid plumage. I have great admiration for her consistency, uncompromising artistry, unconditional honesty, absolute fidelity and loyalty. One speaks of the Phoenix as an eternally youthful bird. And he can fly.”

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