nice track guys. This is definitely on repeat. 

Update: 1 song added on 14th/July/2025
Dark, strange, ominous, emotional and melodic. This playlist features over 280 selected tracks, that fall into the genres listed below. Only tracks with vocals. New tracks added regularly. Suggestions, question and feedback are ofc welcome via DM. I'd love to hear from you. 

TripHop
Electronica (AKA "Electronic")
DownTempo
Experimental
Art Pop
Folktronica
 

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🔺"Artsy" Electronic, TripHop, DownTempo, Experimental + #apparat & #moderat (Only Tracks W/ Vocals)

Written and Produced by Agustín Mena
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio (NY)
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
ARCHIVES71 // ARCHIVESCD52
Archives | 2021

Warmth - Everything Burns

Motherland

Twilight

Atmøsphäre & Bålsam - Twilight

PREORDER

Asonat - Before It Was

Blurstem’s 'Remnants and Whispers' is an album of memory-of echoes and fragments, of moments gathered and reshaped, of the past carried gently into the present. Released on Fluid Audio, renowned for its exquisitely crafted physical editions, this collection of soundscapes and textures is imbued with nostalgia, intimacy, and the quiet weight of time.

The album weaves together the delicate and the vast, the small and the sweeping. Tiny, almost imperceptible guitar plucks flicker like candlelight amidst expansive ambient washes. The sonic palette moves seamlessly between lo-fi warmth and pristine clarity, embracing the imperfections of cassette recording and the wobbly, warbled charm of home videos from a lost era. Each track breathes with a human touch-organic instruments processed and reimagined, from tremolo strings pitched and resampled on “Tethered” to layers of sound that feel like old photographs brought to life.

At its heart, 'Remnants and Whispers' explores the idea of remnants-what we carry with us through life, the fragments of friendships, memories, and fleeting moments that shape who we are. Much like the album’s sonic construction-built from past sketches, ideas, and textures revived and given new form-the music mirrors the way we collect and reinterpret our own experiences over time.

This ethos extends beyond the music itself into its physical presentation, with Fluid Audio’s deluxe edition incorporating 1920s sheet music and book fragments as old as the 1890s-historical relics that feel like the perfect visual counterpart to the album’s themes of memory, loss, and renewal. The tactile nature of these artifacts deepens the listening experience, making 'Remnants and Whispers' not just an album, but a tangible connection to the past.

Mastered on Bartels’ late ’60s analog tape machine, the album’s final touch further enhances its warmth and character, adding an unmistakable depth and timeless quality to its sonic palette.

A meditation on change, nostalgia, and the beauty of imperfection, Remnants and Whispers is an invitation to pause, reflect, and listen-not just to the music, but to the quiet echoes of our own stories.

Music: Blurstem
Mastering: Bartels
Design: Crossley

www.fluidaudio.co.uk
www.blurstem.bandcamp.com

Blurstem - Along the Rails

Leave the Lights

Arcadia

Released by X Novo Records worldwide and Humming Records in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

Lyrics:

Are you seeing what i’m seeing now
More than I would
Gave you all I had and now
My body is animal
Are you staying where the devils are
Pouring out warm 
Gave you all I had and now
My body is animal

If you’re balancing her love
Better set some others up
[Knows you’re]
If you’re balancing her love
Never said she knows you
Knows you’re marching in
Knows I’m marching in
Leaving all the sunlight up
Hope I let you in

Are you seeing what i’m seeing now
More than I would
Gave you all I had and now
My body is animal
Are you staying where the devils are
Pouring out warm 
Gave you all I had and now
My body is animal

Marching in
Knows I’m marching in
Leaving all the sunlight up
Hope I let you in

If you’re balancing her love
Better set some others up
[Knows you’re]
If you’re balancing her love
Never said she knows you
Knows you’re marching in
Knows I’m marching in
Leaving all the sunlight up
Hope I let you in



Spotify 

Everything Beta

The music of Purl always emerges between the ephemeral and the eternal and 'Form Is Emptiness', his first work for Archives, is the perfect example. With each sound in its right place, but turning impulsively, as if was alive and conscious. Drawing breathtaking soundscapes with immersive vibes and chilling emerging pad sounds, slowly blossoming into colorful and vibrant sonic vistas.
 
Written and Produced by Ludvig Cimbrelius.
Mastering by Zzzzra.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz www.go70north.com 
Archives27 // ArchivesCD008
Archives / 2016


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Purl - Form Is Emptiness

Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo

Passing Away

also now available, thanks to Tehnofonika Records ... 

https://tehnofonika.bandcamp.com/album/parallelism-hier-matin

new 5 track album of ambient experiments ... 5 reflections on the pacific northwest landscape, the last of which is generated by a windstorm i captured in late 2016

tracklist:

01 - A Glimpse
02 - smmr2
03 - Tapes
04 - Hier Matin
05 - Windsweeper

tracks written & produced & mastered by https://soundcloud.com/sage-taylor

artwork & design by https://soundcloud.com/tehnofonika

Hier Matin

[ 2018 ] Parallelism - smmr2 [ Out now on Tehnofonika Records! ]

Exclusive track taken from the forthcoming album "You Don't Belong" which releases 13.07.2018 on Shimmering Moods Records. Available on a baby blue limited cassette and limited CD in handmade packages.

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"This album was made between August 2015 and March 2017, which was in some way a transition period for me. Some life stages ended, some relationships failed, some changes happened. All the tracks on the album are dedicated to several places from those times, that meant or still mean something very special to me. A house by the lake, an apartment on the first floor, a park in the middle of the city – the places that stuck with me for a long time and don’t let go. 

It’s a tribute to those times, but also some kind of closure. The album was mostly a reminder to myself that when you feel attached to something in one way or another, you need to keep going, to move forward, that you really don’t belong anywhere. It was a reminder that it’s never too late to move on." 

All tracks by Kirill Mazhai 
Mastered by Early Reflections 
Artwork by Antonina Sotnikova 
Shimmering Moods Records 2018

Pre Order: 

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/you-dont-belong

You Don't Belong

N59.957534 E30.323258

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Kirill Mazhai - N59.957534 E30.323258

“A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.”

As with most things in life there is a backstory to how this single came into being. Earlier this year Craig and I invited Kira Kira to contribute an album to our new label Letra Rec, and to our combined delight she agreed! A plan was hatched and we expected to hear results early 2019, and promptly got on with our other activities.

Early December I received and email from Kira Kira with an mp3 and the seed of an idea, to release a single “A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love” in celebration of the winter solstice, the forthcoming holy season and Kira Kira’s birthday. After a few back and forth mails the idea had begun to take root and things were in motion. I would remix the track as an exclusive digital b-side, and in the spirit of the season we would donate all proceeds to UNICEF’s Yemen appeal (https://www.unicef.org.uk/donate/yemen/). 

It has been a mad rush to the finishing line getting all the bits together but with hearts full of hope we are pleased to release into the world “A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love”.  We would also like to send a big hug to our friends at Boomkat for hosting this yuletide release. - Andrew Hargreaves (TLO)

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I came across these words in “A Course in Miracles,” one of the greater canons of contemporary spiritual literature originally published by The Foundation for Inner Peace in 1976. When I read this for the first time: “A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love,” something changed in me. It felt amazing, just reading these words, so I underlined them. And then I wrote them up on a piece of paper and taped it to my wall. Can it be that a bouquet of words has presence? Spirit, even? Being fearful is a pain, it truly is. I’d like to be in love, not fear, so I began to witness these kinds of shifts. To consciously, actively transform fear to love by being present with it and singing is such a primal, effective way to do that.

I’ve practiced Yoga and meditation avidly for about 10 years now and so I am well familiar with the practice of using mantras as medicine for the mind and spirit. But finding words outside the traditional arsenal of healing mantras that resonate with me personally was something else and has taken things to a new level. 

I hope this one can be of service to others as well. - Kira Kira

Purchase: https://boomkat.com/products/a-miracle-is-a-shift-in-perception-from-fear-to-love

A Miracle Is A Shift In Perception From Fear To Love

KIRA KIRA - A Miracle Is A Shift In Perception From Fear To Love (TLO RMX)

Apparat - Komponent (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)

opening track from "Uncoded Winds" the debut album by Gri | Gutman | Mosconi. Release date 13.12.2019

Uncoded Winds

Gri | Gutman | Mosconi - Grecale

From full-length Pearls & Smoke.

Now available as digital and CD Digipak, both currently available to purchase from the bandcamp store:

http://glossata.bandcamp.com/

Swallowed Up in an Unalterable Dream

n5MD is a record label based in Oakland CA that releases emotive styles of contemporary music.

Asonat - Before It Was

n5MD

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