Ambient nur Flächen

SoHaSo - Complete Catalogue

Sundaymorning Snooze

Track 1 of Untapped Horizons you can get the full album and support the Label at www.energostatic.com/stasis018.html

Of Other Systems

Track 6 of Untapped Horizons you can get the full album and support the Label at www.energostatic.com/stasis018.html

Worlds Of Possibilities

Basic Tools Mixtape

Urban Snare Cypher

No CPR

Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Bandcamp: https://sohaso.bandcamp.com/album/to-sit-quietly-where-everything-is-moving-fast

For his debut album To Sit Quietly Where Everything is Moving Fast, https://soundcloud.com/love-over-entropy used only one source: a Yamaha DX11 synthesizer. It’s a vintage machine from 1987 that was also used by early IDM and techno producers. “Working with an artificial constraint unleashed a different kind of creativity," says the The Hague-based musician, who normally does not shy away from elaborate productions.

Love over Entropy spent a lot of time working out the correct order of the tracks on the album. "I think it's important that the story also flows well on a higher level. It was a nice puzzle to solve."

Although the Covid pandemic is long behind us, much of the material on this album comes from the days when society was still largely in lockdown. "Which explains the title," says Love over Entropy. "But it also refers to my distancing myself from the hustle and bustle of the dancefloor. Up until then, I was primarily making dance music."

You won't find any kick drums or heavy bass lines on To Sit Quietly Where Everything Is Moving Fast. It is intimate, meditative and often very beautiful ambient music. But not the formless kind that seems to dominate chill-out playlists these days. Tracks like Finnkroken, Tidalene and Rotiriot have a story to tell, with a lot of effort put in to get it just right.

“To me, making music is mostly about the process. So I will spend many hours working on details that probably nobody will ever notice. Above all, the pastoral melodies stand out, undulating back and forth like foam on the surf. The harmonies are reminiscent of Isan, Boards of Canada and Murcof, while the album also pays homage to the Artificial Intelligence period on Warp Records.

According to the Dutch producer, a lot of current ambient music falls short of the original idea, as coined by Brian Eno. "Eno once described ambient as music that should be 'as ignorable as it is interesting', but nowadays it seems to have become 'as unignorable as it is uninteresting'," Love over Entropy says cheekily. "Ambient music really is everywhere, with modern production tools often doing the heavy lifting."

With To Sit Quietly Where Everything is Moving Fast, the producer hopes to make a difference, simply by raising the bar. It's a journey that can be taken both horizontally and vertically, and hopefully offers comfort. Or as the producer describes it: "music that offers a refuge."

Artwork by Spherical Waves (www.sphericalwaves.com)

Love Over Entropy - NLC

Bandcamp: https://sohaso.bandcamp.com/album/herbology

If you are into psychedelic and adventurous electronica, you'll love So Oishi's second EP for the Dutch record label SoHaSo. Herbology is a five-part trip where acoustic and electronic elements merge in slow motion. On his last record, The Lithospere EP, Japanese producer So Oishi showed off his skills in a variety of styles. But this time, Oishi keeps things slow and dreamy for most of the ride. 

The opening track, The Opposite Shore, has a Heart of Darkness-kinda vibe, with strange noises emerging from the river banks somewhere deep in the jungle. On Canopy Rites, we've seem to have reached an African village, judging by the tribal rhythms coming from the shacks ashore. 

Next up is Artemis, the only proper club track on this otherwise intimate EP. With its kick drums and howling bass, it reminds us of early Underworld productions. It’s a surprising center piece on Herbology. With Sinking and Herbology we're back in chill out territories, where acoustic instruments like tablas and flutes float harmonically with electronic soundscapes. 

Japanese producer https://soundcloud.com/sooishi has carved out his little safe space on planet SoHaSo and we rather like it there. We hope you do too. 

Artwork by Bas Dobbelaer

So Oishi - Herbology

So Oishi - Canopy Rites

So Oishi - Sinking

So Oishi - Artemis

So Oishi - The Opposite Shore

The Warmth Of The Sun

The Warmth Of The Sun (Remastered 2007)

A remix for Tobias Hellkvist, included in the digital version of the new edition of 'Vesterhavet' on Home Normal.

Tobias Hellkvist - Vesterhavet (Warmth Remix)

Picture:  http://hubblesite.org/image/4001/wallpaper
Music copyright  by Andreas Stock 2018
Please enjoy also the Video on my You Tube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0A_1_hlmNo&t=104s

Space Meditation - Askprojekt - A Journey Into The Orion Nebula

Purl & Sinius is the new ambient collaboration project between UK artist Daljit Singh Kundi and Ludvig Cimbrelius, based in Sweden.

Purl & Sinius Links:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/purl_sinius
Soundcloud - http://soundcloud.com/purl-sinius
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/purl.sinius

Purl & Sinius - Endless Wonder

unrest

wreck

Buy: https://sohaso.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-iv

Various Artists - SOMEWHERE IV Compilation
+ Cassette

1. Omit Iwik & Dwaalgast - Fucking Oyster 
2. queniv - Hervonden
3. Ranie Ribeiro - Morning Meditations
4. Stijn Sadee - Salpae
5. Love Over Entropy - Discoconnected
6. Kurt Baggaley - Mind Glide
7. Mattheis - t8
8. Machines Of Loving Grace - Sometimes 
9. Villete - Fields
10. Fader From Borneo - Cold Sore Adonis 
11. Kurt Baggaley – Former Self (Nadia Struiwigh Edit) 
12. Vela Uniform - Endure
13. Will Oirson - Minor Figures .1
14. Bas Dobbelaer - Rest
15. Omit Iwik & Dwaalgast - Not Sure Where I Am But It's OK

Something Happening Somewhere  
www.somethinghappeningsomewhere.com/

Artist: Various Artists  
Title: SOMEWHERE IV
Releasedate: 11-12-2020 
   Artwork: Bas Dobbelaer
Distribution: Kompakt

In a time where dancing with others is forbidden, and most clubs in Europe remain closed, we felt it was time to shift gears. The fourth edition of our compilation series SOMEWHERE is best enjoyed lying down.15 tracks that will chill you out, put you at ease and comfort you in this difficult year.

It will not surprise you there is a strong Dutch presence on SOMEWHERE IV. Machine master Mattheis (best known for his stunning work on Nous’ Klaer) showers us with beautiful arpeggio’s that seem to stem straight from his modular. Fader from Borneo (but actually from Rotterdam) takes a much different approach, with long floating chords that move up and down like the surge near the shore after a violent storm. And then there is the sample wizardry by the experienced producer Love Over Entropy, who tackles analogue sounds and lets them run rounds in ever smaller concentric circles. It’s as hypnotic as it is intriguing.

There is something for everyone on SOMEWHERE IV. As long as you’re cool with absent kickdrums or aggressive hi hats. In fact, there is room for a kick. On the wonderful wonky 'Endure', by Utrecht based knob tweaker Vela Uniform. It’s one of the highlights of the album and it reminds us of the heydays of Warp’s Artificial Intelligence Series. Yes, it’s that good.

Another gem is 'Sometimes' by Machines of Loving Grace, an alter ego of the veteran dj & producer Eric de Man. He takes us to a nearly deserted rain forest, where birds and insects seem to go around in slow motion. De Man made this melancholic highlight more than 13 years ago. It clearly stood the test of time.

Ambient music has been around long before Brian Eno gave the genre it’s name. But over the last few years and thanks to a string of strong releases by artists like Huerco S, Kara Lis Coverdale and Kaitlyin Aurelia Smith, the genre is on the rise again. SOMEWHERE IV is the perfect antidote for stressful times and the sorrow of a closed down nightlife.

Omit Iwik & Dwaalgast - Not Sure Where I Am But It's OK

Something Happening Somewhere
OOSSHA / NOWHERE

http://www.sohaso.com
https://sohaso.bandcamp.com/

Something Happening Somewhere (SoHaSo). 
Founded by https://soundcloud.com/nunodossantos, residing in Utrecht, The Netherlands. "The name itself leaves a lot open for your own imagination."